This happened to me.

I had a Oneplus 7 Pro. I turned 3G off before the shutdown and it was fine.

Then Optus decided to brick my device because my phone wasn’t on their list of compatible devices.

Fucking assholes.

I then put a friends Telstra sim in the phone to see if it would work, and it was bricked on the Telstra network too.

Apparently I could roll the phone back two android versions to make it work, but I shouldn’t fucking have to.

There should be a class action lawsuit for this shit. My phone was only five years old and worked fine.

Thanks for turning what I assume is tens of thousands of phones into e-waste so some dickhead with the latest 5G iPhone can take up an extra kilobit of bandwidth.

Happened two months ago, but I’m still mad.