That's not fair: Fairphone 4 owners report new update bricks their phone

https://www.androidauthority.com/fairphone-4-bricked-update-3627690/

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Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 53 pts · 259d (2 replies)

To be fair: Constantly happens even to the big players like Samsung and their Galaxys:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/samsung-update-bricks-phones-giving-harsh-reminder-of-data-backup-importance/

u_u@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 258d

Fair enough, now I see that this problem happens fairly often.

Obamakitten@lemdro.id · 2 pts · 256d

Large bro was too busy putting ads in his keyboard

mesamunefire@piefed.social · 20 pts · 259d (2 replies)

Heres the forum for anyone interested: https://forum.fairphone.com/t/software-update-fp4-qrel-15-15-2/128554/65

I updated recently so keeping an eye out. No issues just yet, but I dont use that many SIM cards like others do.

schizoidman@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 258d (1 reply)

spacelord@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 258d

That's not fair.

yessikg@fedia.io · 1 pts · 257d (2 replies)

Good thing it's compatible with a lot of Custom Roms

limerod@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 256d (1 reply)

Having custom ROM compatibility is good. But, this is not acceptable for a device you daily drive. You do not expect a software update to brick the phone, or erase the data.

yessikg@fedia.io · 2 pts · 256d

Yeah, that's why I'm recommending people to get on a custom rom instead, clearly Fairphone is not testing as thoroughly as the LineageOS people