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Tell HN: Samsung Galaxy S22 become faster after upgrade to oneui 6.1

1 points by nancyp ↗ HN
It's surprising that the 3yr old phone feels faster, almost new like after June patch and upgrade to oneui 6.1 when under optimized speed settings. Not only that, the battery also lasts a bit longer under similar use full day. It's only been a day, hope it stays like that. Anything changed in android 14 recently that made it possible?

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ohmyiv
I dont have an answer for you. But since you say the s22 is faster after the update, I'm bummed I didn't wait for it. My s22u was pretty beat, but still, I could've held off for a while longer before getting the s24u. Oh well. Learned my lesson.
nancyp
My bad my s22 is an ultra too. Works great still.
ohmyiv
I'm not surprised it works great. All models of the s22 are great phones. I really should have waited. It's awesome yours works great!

What do you think of the new AI additions? (I haven't really messed with mine yet.)

nancyp
I have tourn off the AI features, as I have no need for those and have no interest in reading the privacy fine prints.
jauntywundrkind
My battery life has been utterly wrecked. I just checked & I lost 25% in 4 hours doing basically nothing.

I'm trying to disable as many of these new AI systems as I can. It feels like when Apple secretly artificially slowed down old phones to incentivize upgrades, except Samsung is speeding them up to make it seem like the batteries are all going.

I'd been very happy with my S22 but now I am suffering chronic battery anxiety. I slow charge most of the time & use battery care to 80% and almost never used to go below 20%. This thing has been well cared for. Yet things very suddenly got real bad. Android sint fingering any apps as responsible for the massively faster draw. I don't know how to get better data, but it sure seemed to have corresponded with the upgrade, and I can only assume it's AI stuff.

nancyp
You can easily turn off Ai under settings. I have deep slept most unused apps. And set thr processing speed to optimized. Battery is going pretty solid, lasts a full day at 85% charge.

Also try resetting app settings. if something is draining in the background, that could help.

jauntywundrkind
I've found like three things to turn off. Finding one was easy. But to root around looking for things to turn off is not hard but time consuming & elaborate.

Here's the eight step process to turn off Voice assistant and that seems like just one measure. https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-stop-your-android-ph...

Battery drain hasnt been night & day different since starting to disable stuff. It's just unclear what is and isn't actually disabled.