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Samsung's latest software update may be bricking older phones

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

If you have an older Samsung Galaxy smartphone, you may want to hold off on the latest software update. After downloading the update, the devices get stuck in a bootloop and never fully turn back on. Impacted devices can perform a factory reset to recover functionality, but that's not a perfect fix.

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