It was discovered that about 10,000 types of apps such as YouTube, Netflix, Instagram, Uma Musume, Genshin, etc. are intentionally restricted in performance on Samsung smartphones.
Performance limits for multiple apps have been identified on multiple devices such as Samsung's Galaxy S22. Speaking of fraud that changes the performance of smartphones, there are cases where the performance is improved only when using the benchmark application, but this time, the performance of the smartphone is constantly suppressed.
Samsung created an app called GOS and used the app to limit game performance, making the gaming experience worse. However, according to what the Korean community found out today, Samsung confirmed that it has put performance limits on more than 10,000 apps ...
pic .twitter.com/U58AreZZoo — 한가련 (@GaryeonHan) March 2, 2022
Samsung might be throttling the performance of 10,000 apps (Updated)
https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-gos-throttling-apps-3125885/
Samsung addresses throttling reports, says an update is on the way --The Verge
Samsung caught throttling 10,000 phone apps—and its own home screen | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/samsung-caught-throttling-10000-phone-apps-and-its-own-home-screen/
갤럭시 S10 ~ S22 에 대한 GOS 유무 긱벤치 결과 등장.: 클리 앙
https://www.clien.net/service/board/news/17020910
According to a survey and indication by Twitter user 한가련 (@GaryeonHan) and others, Samsung is suppressing the performance of the application by a system called 'Game Optimizing Service (GOS)'. The target application is 10,000, and it is said that only benchmark applications such as Geekbench, 3D Mark, PCMark, GFXBench, Antutu, CPDT, Androbench are not included, which means that the terminal will demonstrate its original performance. Is only when using the benchmark app.
The purpose is to try to extend the battery life as much as possible.
On the other hand, GOS seems to just refer to the package name, and if you change the benchmark app to the package name of the game app and then run it, it will be affected by GOS. The following is the score of Geekbench on Galaxy S22, when the left is executed as 'Geekbench' as it is, the right is when 'Genshin Impact' is set. Single-core scores are down 45% and multi-core scores are down 39%.
Geekbench developer John Poole himself tweeted, 'I thought it was true.'
I didn't expect this, but I was able to reproduce this on a Samsung Galaxy S22 (Snapdragon) as well. The differences are even larger on Snapdragon:
https://t.co/d6mYDKR4v7 — John Poole (@jfpoole) March 3, 2022
Geekbench verified and confirmed that all models of Galaxy S22, S21, S20, S10 use GOS. We have revealed that we have removed the benchmark results for these devices from the list in the Geekbench Browser.
Earlier this week, we were made aware of Samsung's Game Optimizing Service (GOS) and how it throttles the performance of games and applications. GOS decides to throttle (or not to throttle) applications using application identifiers and not application behavior.
— Geekbench (@geekbench) March 4, 2022
Today we delisted these handsets from the Android Benchmark chart on the Geekbench Browser.
— Geekbench (@geekbench) March 4, 2022
This time Samsung did something similar to the performance limits for some apps that OnePlus did in 2021. At this time, Geekbench is taking steps to delete the data of 'OnePlus 9' and 'OnePlus 9 Pro'.
Suspected that 'OnePlus 9' and 'OnePlus 9 Pro' had performance restrictions on some apps, OnePlus explained as 'optimization' --GIGAZINE
In addition, Samsung has commented that it will conduct an internal investigation on this matter and will update the software so that users can control performance.
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