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8 hours ago by Sarmad Sameer
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Samsung’s latest Oreo update is bricking Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge devices. The new update can brick your phone and cause data loss.
- online forums, devices get stuck in a bootloop while the update is being installed.
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Due to the broken state of the Oreo update, the company has stopped the update roll out for no.
Following a limited number of cases where Galaxy S7 devices have rebooted unexpectedly with the Android 8.0 Oreo, we have temporarily stopped the rollout of the update. We are investigating the issue internally to ensure that the impact to the affected devices is minimized and the rollout of the update can resume as quickly as possible.
While Samsung suggests that it’s causing the devices to reboot “unexpectedly”, people are claiming that the only solution is to manually factory reset the data.
A device gets bricked when its OS gets corrupted or has not been installed properly. When an update package starts extracting itself into the system, it firstly wipes the system data folders to make space and install itself in its place. If, for any reason, it is not able to fully extract itself then the system data folders remain empty. In turn, your device has no OS to boot into so it gets stuck in a bootloop showing you the bootloader again and again.
While the company has stopped the update, it is possible that your phone might have downloaded the update automatically in the background. Just in case, avoid installing the update until a new OS update is sent out by the company.
This is not the first time that the company has had to pause its Oreo updates. Previously, the updates to Galaxy S8, S8+, A series and Note FE also had to be halted due to multiple issues.
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