This may be an unpopular opinion, but if Samsung does ANYTHING more when it comes to software, please let it be bug fixes and stability improvements.
Anecdotal Bug Encounters:
Most bugs I encounter only happen occasionally, or given some unknown specific conditions, which make them hard to report to Samsung, as the (rightfully so) need more information than “this is buggy, but I don’t know how to reproduce it.”
1. Lock Screen/AOD Bugs
- I regularly, yet irreproducably, encounter bugs with the clock on the lock screen. I use the new clock style introduced in OneUI 8 that reacts to your wallpaper, but I noticed that sometimes when you turn the device off, it will get stuck in the ‘reactive’ state on the AOD. I feel like the typical way it is supposed to work is stay in the ‘idle’ state until the screen is turned on, but this is not the behavior I have observed on occasion.
- I regularly, yet once again irreproducably, encounter jitteriness when unlocking the phone. Eight times out of ten, the device will turn on and unlock without stuttering, but two times out of ten it will have noticeable hesitation and large jitters. I wonder if this could be caused by the fact that I have two biometric authentication methods enabled: fingerprint and face unlock, and have my device set to not stay on the lock screen after unlocking, so this may be a mono poly hijabi amputee type situation, but I still feel like this is something worth addressing if I’m airing out all my complaints.
- This isn’t so much a bug as it is a feature I don’t like. When using any custom icon pack set from Goodlock, if you use the Camera quick action shortcut on the lock screen, it will be set as that icon, and not the default semi-transparent opaque icon. This wouldn’t be an issue for me, if I didn’t have the other quick action set as toggle Do Not Disturb, which can not be changed to any custom icon. I wish there were an option in Goodlock where you can toggle the use of custom quick action icons or the default icons. **bleep**, maybe even expand it to all the quick actions in the quick action menu! That would be really cool to have your own icons for each quick action.
2. System Stability
- Every day, I notice that at LEAST one app crashes. I would say that 1/4 of this is up to the app developer to write non-buggy code, 2/4 up to the bugs within code of Android itself, and 1/4 up to Samsung to make sure that they have no bugs on their end. I have used a Google Pixel 9 Pro before, and I will say that I noticed SIGNIFICANTLY fewer crashes than on my S24 Ultra. In fact, the first time I drafted this discussion post, my Samsung Members app crashed and I lost all my progress (see screenshot). Talk about comedic timing. The second draft, I decided not to risk it and had to draft it up on my laptop.
- DeX/Multi-Windowing is buggy as **bleep**. It’s 2025, the processor and memory in my tablet/phone rivals the one in my Steam Deck AND laptop, but I can’t have more than 4 windows open lest the whole device crashes. I use Multi-Windowing all the time on my phone; it is especially useful when referencing my password manager for quick reference of 2FA TOTP codes to paste into whatever I’m trying to sign in to. DeX/Multi-Windowing is also incredibly useful for school, allowing me to have Canvas, Lecture Notes, the Slideshow, and so on open on the screen all at once. But I noticed that if I have more than 3 or 4 apps running, the device tends to completely crash. That is regardless of whether I am using it on my phone with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 with 12gb of memory, or my tablet with an Exynos Chipset with 8gb or memory. I find that straight up strange behavior, as most other OS’s with multiple window support have some sort of memory unloading techniques that unload the oldest open window(s), or at least closes them, to the bare minimum of not entirely crashing the device to the lock screen.
- On my tablet running OneUI 7, using the separate notification/quick setting panels are buggy, and clunky. I won’t harp on this too much, because it seems like Samsung have overhauled the look of the Quick Settings and Notification Panels in OneUI 8 for tablets, but I would at least like an option to completely turn off the notification panel on my tablet. I just don’t need or want notifications on my tablet, so it would be nice to have the option, even if it is buried in Goodlock somewhere.
In Summary
I adore the customization options in OneUI; there is not one corner of my phone that doesn’t have a touch of brat green in some way. But I have noticed that the more modules/customizations you have active, the more bugs you encounter. This is intuitive, but I feel like with how mature Goodlock is as an app, most of this should have been resolved already.
If you have encountered any niche, or hard to replicate bugs, feel free to comment them! I hope this issue gets brought to Samsung’s attention, and they focus on it in the coming updates… but one can dream.
