![\"Fairphone](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Fairphone-4-scaled.jpg\"\/ "\\"Fairphone")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
TL;DR<\/p>\n
Some Fairphone 4 owners have reported that their devices were bricked after a newly released update.
\nFairphone has since pulled the update and confirmed that it had \u201cunexpected issues.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fairphone<\/a> 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<\/a> update due to reports of bricked devices.<\/p>\n Some Fairphone 4 owners received the software update<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t want to miss the best from Android Authority?<\/p>\n \u201cMy phone appears to be bricked now! I\u2019ve downloaded yesterday before going to bed, this morning I\u2019ve rebooted it and it looks completely dead now,\u201d user dcaravana explained on the Fairphone forum.<\/p>\n \u201cI am in the same boat at dcaravana and I\u2019m afraid the phone is just a brick at the minute, it doesn\u2019t react to being plugged in to charge so this reboot option isn\u2019t an option,\u201d added user hamletdothrock.<\/p>\n Fairphone has confirmed<\/a> that it discovered \u201cunexpected issues\u201d with the update and has paused the rollout:<\/p>\n We wanted to share a quick update regarding the Fairphone 4 software rollout that began yesterday.<\/p>\n After the initial release, we identified some unexpected issues. To ensure the best experience for all our users, we have currently paused the roll-out and our team is looking into it.<\/p>\n We are checking the issues reported and will share the full release notes as usual once the official update is ready to resume.<\/p>\n The smartphone maker also encouraged users affected by this issue to log the problem via its repair portal<\/a> or to contact customer service.\u00a0In any event, it seems like this issue doesn\u2019t affect every Fairphone 4 owner who installed the update.<\/p>\n![\"google](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png\"\/ "\\"google"){kind=icon}
![\"google](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png\"\/ "\\"google"){kind=icon}
<\/a><\/p>\n