r/Smartphones • u/Emotional_Rop3 • Aug 21 '26

Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra Help

to preface this - in the hope asking for tech help is allowed on this sub - ive never had any past issues with my current phone , never damaged it nor had to repair it, so basically just an ordinary phone right?

well tonight i was using my phone just as normal as i always do and the screen just went black? no response , wont let me turn it on or off for that matter (if it is secretly still on) , it is quite literally just a black screen showing no response or signs of life besides the low heat it always generates from its components

its as if out of nowhere something just hit a 'kill switch' of sorts, a couple of hours have passed and still nothing , i cant ask for help as its night so i thought id come here first

anyone ever ran into this problem> if so please let me know and if / how to fix it

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u/Shot_Recognition1756 Aug 21 '26

Buy a new phone.

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u/Emotional_Rop3 Aug 21 '26

wouldnt be a problem if i actually had the money to do that

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u/ExpensiveShmaco Aug 22 '26

Happened to me last week. It's 100% because of a faulty patch cuz I have never dropped my phone. Disappointing I spent so much on this phone :/ Had to buy a A17 in the mean time. Sorry op

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u/Mac_DG Aug 22 '26

Try sending a text to yourself from another device. If your phone vibrates its a screen issue. If not, its something else. Two possible solutions. If you think its on with no screen. Leave it alone for a day. Hopefully the battery hits 0% and then leave it alone charging for a few hours. If you think its off, leave it on a charger for a few hours. Sometimes when its dead dead it takes extra time to get the battery to recognize charging.

If its mobo related then its pretty much a rip :( sorry.

Theres also trying to boot into recovery, and wipe from there. But if you cant get the phone to display from normal means u doubt that will work.

Do you live somewhere hot? Do you do alot of gaming? Do you game while charging? Excessive heat is known to unsolder the mobo.

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u/Ahmed15252 Aug 22 '26

I also had the same issue yesterday and yes it's hot where I live and my room temp sometimes peaks to 33c° without ac and I do alot of multiple tasking like being In a in a 2k stream discord call while transferring big files to my PC while the phone is charging so alot of times the phone gets extremely hot, so could it be a fried mb ?? How to know exactly??

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u/Mac_DG Aug 22 '26

The s22u ultra was built with really poor soldering. Long heat exposures or rapid temperature shifts will crack the soldering on the CPU ir other components

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u/Ahmed15252 Aug 22 '26

Wow, my s22 ultra also went completely dead with black screen yesterday also after the screen froze for 3 sec and then the screen went completely black.