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Samsung's latest software update may be bricking older phones

www.engadget.com Samsung confirms a software update wreaked havoc on older Galaxy smartphones

If you have an older Samsung Galaxy smartphone, you may want to hold off on the latest software update.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/43997478

Android @lemdro.id Samsung's latest software update may be bricking older phones

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Not bricked.

Still bad, and you lose your data, but if the phone can get to recovery mode and install an OS again, it isn't bricked.

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Older phones get updates?

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- The primary reason I moved to iPhones was because I got absolutely sick and tired of my android phones being abandoned by the manufacturer after a year. I'm sure it is better these days, but those earlier days of extremely slow Carrier-based updates completely ruined my trust and I know I'm not the only one.
  
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  Yeah it was pretty terrible until recently. It at least seems to be changing now. The Pixel 8 line and up now get 7 years of support, and Samsung followed shortly afterwards by doing the same with the S24 series (but not their lower end devices). There's still plenty of other Android devices that get barely any support though, so it's getting there, slowly.
  
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- Security updates are usually provided for a long time even if in a trickle.
  
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- It depends on what you count as an old phone. It's Galaxy S10 in this case, it'll probably stop receiving updates soon.
  
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  The S10 stopped receiving Android security updates in March 2022. The issue here is with an issue with a SmartThings app update on Android 12. Not sure if there's any Samsung devices that both run that version of Android and are still supported, and that's likely why the issue wasn't caught.
  
  I suppose with an issue this serious, they're probably compelled to fix it regardless of whether or not the affected devices are still supported.
  
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Smasnug....

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- Sumsnag
  
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- Sumsang
  
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Good thing I've rooted my J7 and completely removed all that bloat. And my S5 is running Lineage. Haven't had a new phone in 8 years

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after all those weeks of "testing" even, great

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Didn't they do this recently with another update?

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- Apple did. Some of the M4 iPads were bricked by the initial iPadOS 18 rollout back in September.
  
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