In the recent past, a few Samsung users have had their smartphones completely bricked. These occurrences happened suddenly and people have already started going on Weibo, a Chinese microblogging website, to share their incidents.
Earlier this week, a Weibo user shared his experience with his Galaxy smartphone bricking while he was just using it. The device apparently crashed suddenly with a black screen that sometimes also led to gibberish and garbled characters being displayed. The bricked smartphones also get stuck on infinite restart animations and are locked in the reboot sequence.
Images shared by Samsung users that are suffering from this issue have also revealed that people can occasionally get stuck in a mode similar to a PC’s Bios mode. Once this screen is displayed, the handset no longer responds and cannot be used anymore, essentially bricking them. From the various online reports, the affected handsets include, Galaxy S8, Galaxy S9, Galaxy S10, Galaxy A60, and even the latest flagship Galaxy S20 series.
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Notably, an image depicted a Samsung demo smartphone in a physical store also being bricked. Thus, it seems that the entire Samsung lineup in China may be affected by this unusual bug. Chinese Samsung users have also theorized that it could’ve been caused by a server hack in the region, but that is still unconfirmed. As of right now, no official solution has been provided by the South Korean tech giant. Although a few interesting rumors are being circulated online.
According to one user, the issue may have been caused by the smartphone’s lock screens. Apparently, the lunar calendar for April hadn’t been calculated correctly by Samsung’s inbuilt systems, causing the devices to brick at certain moments. The timing of the malfunction is still random. Third party calendar applications are not affected by the bug and do not cause the crash. As of right now, Samsung has yet to give an official solution for the bricked phones.
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