The saga of Samsung’s Game Optimising Service (GOS) has been a quick and nasty one. First, it was found that GOS was artificially limiting app performance for more than 10,000 apps. Then, Samsung came along and said it wasn’t supposed to do that.
Now the South Korean company has taken speedy action. Speedy action in South Korea, and just for its Galaxy S22 devices, to be fair, but it’s fast all the same. XDA Developers reports that Samsung has launched an update for the S22 that fixes GOS’ behaviour.
Samsung kills the golden GOS
The outlet reports that South Korean Samsung users are getting a new firmware update. Among other improvements, there’s a new “Game Performance Management Mode” being introduced. By the sound of things, it’ll do just what the company said it would — put the option to turn GOS off or on into the user’s hands.
The speedy turnaround might be a matter of pride for the company. Benchmarking app Geekbench yanked four years of Galaxy S results down following the GOS news. Possible benchmark manipulation was the reason given for that. Having the Galaxy S22, the brand’s newest baby, back on the list of top performers is obviously important to Samsung.
It remains to be seen if Geekbench feels the same way. In the meantime, it’s likely that Galaxy S22 users in places other than South Korea will see a new firmware update shortly. There’s no official timeline, and Samsung is being quiet at the moment. The company is probably too busy writing code to do unimportant things like respond to emails.
Source: XDA Developers