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Google Home Preview Program update bricks some devices (Update: Fix is here)
June 07, 2025
Update, June 13, 2025 (03:50 PM ET):It looks like Google is rolling out a fix now to the Google Home Preview Program issue described in the article below. Google gaveAndroid Policethe following statement:
Judging from the statement, anyone with a malfunctioning Google Home product should see the update soon and have no issues going forward. For more information on the problem, continue reading.
Original article, August 03, 2025 (03:00 PM ET):If you own the originalGoogle Homeand you are currently in thePreview Program, you might want to take caution with its most recent update. According to several people onRedditand on theGoogle forums, the latest Preview Program update seems to brick some people’s devices.
The first signs of the issue appear when the Google Home’s LED indicator begins flashing orange, and it becomes unresponsive to the Hey/OK Google voice commands. At this point, users have tried factory resetting the device, but in many cases, this makes the device completely undiscoverable on the network.
Though we don’t know for sure what is going on, it looks like this issue stems from an unidentified error when the Google Home tries to reconnect to the user’s saved Wi-Fi network. For some reason, the device cannot connect to the network, effectively bricking the device.
Asimilar issuehappened to Google Home devices last year, too, but affected units were not limited to Preview Program participants. Unfortunately, there was no fix for that particular error, and Google shipped replacement devices to affected users.
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How to (maybe) fix the issue
We don’t know of any official patch at this time. At this point, the safest route is probably to sit this one out and wait until Google provides an official fix.
But, if you don’t want to wait around and you want to attempt to fix the device yourself, a few people have had luck with the following method:
Be warned, as we said earlier, resetting the device has made the issue more severe in many cases. If you decide to try to fix this issue on your own, you may actually make it worse than before.
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