Report: Multiple PS4 Consoles Frozen by Receiving Messages

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PS4 users are advising others to set their messages to private after they received a message that their console. When viewed, the message freezes the consoles and forces players to factory reset their PS4 to get it working again.

According to numerous Reddit users, the message can’t even be deleted from the mobile app, but some did say it worked for them. Others stated that just receiving the message was enough to force a reset of their console.

Reddit user “Huntstarck” stated:

“Even deleting the message from the mobile app doesn’t work. It happened to me during Rainbow Six: Siege. A player from the other team used a dummy account to send the message and crashed my entire team. We all have had to factory reset. Only one of our guys wasn’t affected and he has his messages private. Do this ASAP to prevent this from happening to you.”


Reddit User “ThatPissedOffDude” stated:

“This just happened to me during Rocket League. Got a message then after a minute my controller stopped working and everything went silent. Now I can’t access the home menu. It just goes to the ‘Report Problem’ screen every time.”


Just in case, it is probably best to go and set your messages option to private, if you haven’t been affected yet, in order to be safe.

There has not been an official word from Sony Interactive Entertainment yet. However, it always better to be safe than sorry. I would set your messages to private as soon as possible.

In other PS4 news, Sony Interactive Entertainment is about to enable the ability to change your PSN username, with a test phase this month. The service will officially roll out at the beginning of next year.

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Source: https://www.dualshockers.com/multiple-ps4-consoles-bricked-messages/

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DissPosted:

Damn thats scary! i wonder how long itll take to fix

JastyPosted:

That is a scary exploit and hope they can fix this soon, I hope it doesn't brick peoples consoles forever and if it does, they better be getting that free replacement.

LinxPosted:

Decy This is actually hilarious? How the hell does a message basically break one's console tho.


it's kinda like the iphone text from 2015 i think were you could crash a iphone with a text

RareparrotPosted:

xbox suck ps4 for the win anyday anytime no matter what the bug is we good

DecyPosted:

This is actually hilarious? How the hell does a message basically break one's console tho.

lbreadsticklPosted:

I remember a couple years back there was some iOS bug that if you sent a certain text that was in Arabic, as soon as the receiver opened it it would shut off their phone. Weird how messages can do this, almost like the receiving device will read it like code and then act on it

FamousPosted:

This shit is to damn funny though lmfso

XboxPosted:

Damn they always coming up with some brilliant shit to **** people over. Remember when Xbox had all them weird messages a couple years back I believe. Nothing like this though wtf.