Neowin News Feed for: Brick

Like HP and Canon, Brother now under fire over alleged third-party printer ink manipulation

Sayan Sen — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 10:04:01 +0000

Brother has denied the recent accusations and allegations that it is manipulating firmware to harm printers using third-party ink. Read more...

A new Samsung update is reportedly bricking Galaxy S10, Note 10 and other devices

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 17:16:01 +0000

Multiple users report that a new Samsung update is bricking the Galaxy S10, Galaxy Note10 series, and other models. Read more...

Apple pulls iPadOS 18 update as it's bricking healthy M4 iPad Pros

Sayan Sen — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:14:02 +0000

The iPadOS 18 that was released a couple of nights ago has been pulled by Apple as it's bricking iPad Pros. Read more...

Ubuntu systems also having boot-up issues due to Meltdown and Spectre patches

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 19:50:01 +0000

Users of the Ubuntu are also reporting issues with the patches aimed at mitigating the Meltdown and Spectre CPU exploits, with some systems having boot-up issues after installation. Read more...

Microsoft's Spectre fix is apparently causing boot-up issues in some AMD PCs [Update]

Usama Jawad — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 09:14:04 +0000

It appears that Microsoft's Spectre fix is bricking some AMD PCs, making them freeze on the Windows logo animation during boot-up. Microsoft is yet to comment on the issue affecting numerous PCs. Read more...

You can brick recent iOS devices just by setting them to a specific date

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 12:42:01 +0000

A new flaw in iOS can easily break almost any Apple device including the iPhone 6s Plus and the most recent iPads. And triggering it is as simple as manually setting your device to a specific date. Read more...

New technology will shrink laptop power bricks to a quarter of current size

James Walker — Thu, 29 May 2014 17:36:45 +0000

A team from the MIT university has created a new power adapter for use with laptops that is a quarter of the size and a sixth of the weight of current power 'brick' charging units. Read more...

Retro phone - the "Brick" straight outta time - gives up to six months standby

Steven Parker — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:24:01 +0000

If you ever owned a mobile phone in the early eighties, you'll remember that they were big and bulky, but offered days of standby due to the size of the battery. Want one? Read more...

Nexus 4 owners frustrated over Android 4.3 update which threatens to “brick” phones

Phi Ha — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 10:07:40 +0000

Signal loss, continuous reboot loops, application bugs and battery life issues are just a few of the problems reported hours after the latest Android firmware 4.3, was released earlier this week. Read more...

Some HTC devices getting bricked after GDR2 update

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 08:46:52 +0000

The GDR2 update has only just begun shipping but already some folks are reporting serious issues with updated devices. It seems like some HTC devices are getting bricked because of a specific bug. Read more...

Microsoft to release fix for WP7 update issues in three days?

Tzvi Friedman — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:36:05 +0000

After a slew of Windows Phone 7 devices became bricked after applying the latest update, speculation says that Microsoft is releasing a patch to fix the phones affected, according to WPcentral. The problem seems to... Read more...