Comment by brianpan
Comment by brianpan 10 months ago
As a former hardware engineer, if it can be restored wirelessly or otherwise, it's not a brick yet. Keep trying, you'll get there! ;)
Comment by brianpan 10 months ago
As a former hardware engineer, if it can be restored wirelessly or otherwise, it's not a brick yet. Keep trying, you'll get there! ;)
Depends on where this process is well-documented: if it is available on iFixit or somewhere super obvious but if I've got to go to xda or some Russian hacking forum, download a bunch of files strictly internal to the company and hope someone made a video about it, then it doesn't matter how "well-documented" it is.
Also it's basically the core of the highly-paid tech expert meme "not paid for turning the screw but to know which screw to turn".
If the issue is not easily troubleshootable and searchable then the keyword for it if the device doesn't reach stage X of boot will always be "bricked".
I don't think I've ever truly "bricked" a iPhone, or got one to the point it CAN'T be put DFU mode and restored. Cydia tweaks made it sound like one wrong move could render your device permanently unusable, at most it was a inconvenience.
Keep trying to de-dramaticize language, you'll get there!
Seriously though, the last time I truely bricked something was because I overwrote the bootloader on a chip that had no other way to flash, and it was an all-in-one, so I couldn't solder to the chip and reprogram it directly. Now that was a brick. A board that I can still solder to a chip and bus pirate my way to victory, isn't a brick. Being able to do so wirelessly? psh.
Edit: I'm remembering now, that hardware was an Apple keyboard. I wanted to flash the firmware so I could have capslock be left Ctrl in hardware, but I flashed the wrong thing and then could not flash an updated image to it.
> I wanted to flash the firmware so I could have capslock be left Ctrl in hardware
You're a person after my own heart. If there is a God, you're doing his/her/their work.
What was the hardware and firmware you were flashing?
> Why have three Ctrl keys?
You could just swap caps with one.
> Why not use an empty modifier and have your own shortcut keys that you can guarantee no other program uses?
Because that would require messy tinkering with multiple layers of software.
Everything is a brick until you figure a way to fix it.
I thought I bricked my old phone but it turns out I just needed to open the phone, short a couple of pins 5-10 times and trying to quickly boot into flashboot, repeat if it didn't work.
It turns out I was a fool thinking that it was bricked after all.