r/S22Ultra

Hi All,

So the last February patch has wrecked my phone. Constant bootloops, black screen and a laggy UI that can't maintain it self for just 30 secs. Yesterday, I thought that it was the final nail in the coffin. The phone won't turn on, even after trying all the methods that I read through all of your posts. Didn't seem to work.

In fact, I went to the Samsung Customer service and yet, they had no clue. They refused to give me any tips by saying that its an International version and they can't help me. It might be a motherboard issue and it's not worth changing that as it would be costly.

Now, I am not sure what to do with this. I am not even able to take the backup. Smart switch isn't even working.

Though, one thing came to my mind. Samsung is giving a trade-in deal for this phone. So if I go for a s26 ultra. i might be able to get off $900 dollars off the new phone.

So I was wondering, should I go with this ? Would they reduce the value of the phone once they found out about the state of the phone ?

I would appreciate your responses.

Have an S22 Ultra, thought about buying an iPhone hoping for better UX. No dice.

For the past few years I've only used my phone for the same few things, reading the news/blogs on substack, querying AI for basic stuff and messenger. Phone calls to ignore spammers, and deleting emails on Gmail.

Issue with all phone UI design there's so much wasted white space, even if I adjusted minimum width and font size, plus the dark mode black background with white text isn't as good as bright background with black text for reading.

On reading, there's too much visual clutter through the apps and websites. Inoreader RSS widget the text renders small (min width 480).

Eye comfort shield doesn't bring down white text.

Current design:

Went through numerous designs about intentionality, vs showing a lot on screen to reduce friction for launching apps.

Colour palettes change depending on time of day and ambient brightness using sensor.

Main page shows frequent apps, swipe up for app menu shows apps categorised, system apps and bloat hidden, but can be found through search.

RSS feed pulls from numerous URLs, built in reader using system webview and Samsung on device TTS (on par with TikTok voice), full screen notes app on right screen which saves to gallery.

Separately, had a go at having Gemini get sent all the sources and headlines, and summarise the news, it works OK. In the screenshot there's an error because I ran out of credit on my api key.

(Considering releasing this open source if its useful to anyone, but i know theres some negative sentiment about vibe coded apps, this was made using Antigravity, Gemini, Claude).

S22 Ultra - International Version - Almost dead

Made a calm design launcher to reduce eye glare and make reading easier for myself