{"id":28720,"date":"2025-07-28T06:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/28720\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T06:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:12:09","slug":"urgent-update-over-smartphone-fire-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/28720\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent update over smartphone \u2018fire risk\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An urgent update has been pushed to a range of Google phones due to the risk they could overheat and even cause fires.<\/p>\n<p>Product Safety Australia (PSA) said incidents involving Google Pixel 6a devices have resulted in \u201cserious burn injuries\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A mandatory update has been pushed to a number of phones to reduce the risk, and devices only need to be updated rather than returned.<\/p>\n<p>Owners of a Chalk, Sage or Charcoal coloured Pixel 6a device sold between June 16, 2022 and April 10, 2025 is likely to observe the fault, which PSA said can \u201cpose a risk of fire and\/or burns to a user\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caas-img caas-lazy has-preview\" alt=\"A range of Google Pixel smartphones have received urgent system updates over risks they could catch fire and burn users. Picture: Supplied\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/c171f66eec1ffb42def7127acbde8749.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A range of Google Pixel smartphones have received urgent system updates over risks they could catch fire and burn users. Picture: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>The firmware update was released on 8 July, which included battery management features which mitigate the risk.<\/p>\n<p>Not all Pixel 6a devices are affected by the issue, and the new battery management system will be activated once affected devices reach 400 battery cycles.<\/p>\n<p>One battery cycle is the length taken for a mobile device to charge up to 100 per cent and then use that full charge.<\/p>\n<p>People whose phones are affected may be eligible for compensation from Google, and can check online to see if they can get a repair, cash payment or discount credit.<\/p>\n<p>The phones have been sold at major retailers across the country, including Telstra, Optus, JB Hi-Fi, Officeworks and Harvey Norman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An urgent update has been pushed to a range of Google phones due to the risk they could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[49,48,22555,192,1123,190,61],"class_list":["post-28720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-firmware-update","tag-google","tag-google-pixel","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}