According to foreign technology media Sammyfans report, Samsung Galaxy S22, Galaxy S22 Plus, Galaxy S22 Ultra in the installation of last December update, there are too fast power consumption, serious heat, performance degradation and many other problems. And after installing the January patch this year, the situation became even worse.
Samsung’s official support community and the Reddit community, and the discussion suggest that the issues may be caused by the chip’s mass production process. Both the Exynos 2200 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip currently used in the series is partially produced by Samsung Foundry.
Users have discussed that Samsung Foundry’s manufacturing process is not up to standard, resulting in the inability to properly dissipate heat from the SoC, and the user experience is subject to these issues. However, the Galaxy S22 sold in some countries such as India has not been affected by this issue, which is mainly found in the Exynos 2200 models.
In order to bring the world’s most powerful GPU, Samsung partnered with AMD and used the Xclipse GPU in the Exynos 2200.
Due to heat issues with the Exynos and production efficiency issues with Foundry, Samsung turned to Qualcomm and decided to drop its own SoCs from the Galaxy S series. this year, the Galaxy S23 series is using the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset made by TSMC worldwide.
The media hopes that Samsung can solve the battery power consumption and heating problems of Galaxy S22 devices through firmware updates as soon as possible. Even if Samsung pushes hundreds of firmware updates, it may not be able to fundamentally solve this hardware problem, but at least it can reduce or optimize this problem by modifying the code.
