TL;DR
- Some Fairphone 4 owners have reported that their devices were bricked after a newly released update.
- Fairphone has since pulled the update and confirmed that it had “unexpected issues.”
Fairphone offers the longest update policy on the market, although the release cadence has been a point of contention. Now, the company has had to pull a Fairphone 4 update due to reports of bricked devices.
Some Fairphone 4 owners received the software update yesterday (December 23), which has the version number FP4.QREL.15.15.2. However, a few users quickly reported that the new software bricked their phones.