Avoid this update on Galaxy Watch 4, it breaks the watch

Available for sale for a year already, Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 connected watch obviously continues to benefit from various updates. A watch under WearOS, equipped with a 1.4″ Super AMOLED screen, which obviously aims to become the ideal companion for all your activities, sports or not. For the past few hours, a new firmware update has been being deployed, but the latter should be avoided, since it would immediately make the watch totally obsolete…

Galaxy Watch 4: a problematic update

Indeed, some owners of a Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 watch may be able to download the new R8xxXXU1GVI3 update for their connected watch. In all likelihood, the latter must bring various new features, or at least optimize the current performance of the watch. In reality, it would be quite the opposite!

So, around the world, many Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 users are reporting that the latest update has caused their precious watch to be completely out of order. Once the update is installed, the system asks to restart the watch, but the latter is then unable to turn on again.

Of course, given the bug in question, the problem cannot be solved by another firmware update, as the watch is no longer able to turn on. Difficult for the moment to know if all the users who have applied the new update are affected by the concern, but many are those to express their dissatisfaction, in particular on the forums of the Korean manufacturer.

According to some users, it’s a no-brainer, this is a voluntary maneuver on the part of the company to force them to switch to the new Galaxy Watch 5. It remains to be seen now what Samsung’s response will be. of this umpteenth controversy, and if the manufacturer will manage to offer a solution to all those whose watch now refuses to turn on again. Obviously, while waiting for a possible fix from Samsung, it is more than ever recommended to update your Galaxy Watch 4 to avoid any form of problem.

Let us recall in passing that according to the latest Forbes ranking, Samsung is at the top of the companies in which “it’s good to work“. The South Korean company employs more than 266,000 people worldwide, and is therefore ahead of Microsoft and IBM according to Forbes, the first French company arriving in fifteenth position.