Owners of Samsung smartphones showing their recovery screens on Chinese social media. (Picture: 燥热BANG/-xxCaffe1ne via Weibo)Owners of Samsung smartphones showing their recovery screens on Chinese social media. (Picture: 燥热BANG/-xxCaffe1ne via Weibo)
Owners of Samsung smartphones showing their recovery screens on Chinese social media. (Picture: 燥热BANG/-xxCaffe1ne via Weibo)
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Why did some Samsung smartphones crash in China on May 23?

Users failed to update their phones to before the lunar calendar’s leap month kicked in

Topic |   Samsung
Karen Chiu
Karen Chiu

Updated: 4:21pm, 26 May, 2020

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Owners of Samsung smartphones showing their recovery screens on Chinese social media. (Picture: 燥热BANG/-xxCaffe1ne via Weibo)Owners of Samsung smartphones showing their recovery screens on Chinese social media. (Picture: 燥热BANG/-xxCaffe1ne via Weibo)
Owners of Samsung smartphones showing their recovery screens on Chinese social media. (Picture: 燥热BANG/-xxCaffe1ne via Weibo)
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