Google will reportedly replace Google Home and Google Home Mini devices that have stopped working as the result of a recent firmware update.<\/p>\n
This is after several users reported that their devices had been acting up over the course of the year.<\/p>\n
In some cases, the devices had become completely unresponsive, with all four LEDs lighting up. While a reboot or factory reset fixed the issue on a couple of the devices, many were still unusable.<\/p>\n
Following a flurry of reports since September,\u00a0Google investigated and confirmed the cause of the problem was a faulty automatic firmware update.<\/p>\n
In a statement sent to 9to5Google<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0yesterday, the company said that it would introduce an update for the issue soon.<\/p>\n It will also provide replacements of all bricked devices, including those that are no longer under warranty.<\/p>\n “We are aware that a small number of Google Home and Google Home Mini devices are affected by an issue that causes the device to stop working. We have a fix that will prevent the issue from happening and will be rolling it out soon. We are replacing affected devices,\u201d Google said.<\/p>\n Google will reportedly replace Google Home and Google Home Mini devices that have stopped working as the result of a recent firmware update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":165542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[37262,46475,46495],"class_list":["post-324755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-google-home","tag-google-home-mini","tag-smart-speakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324785,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324755\/revisions\/324785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: Spotify users can get a free Google Home Mini \u2013 But there is bad news for South Africans<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"