[Discuss] Will OTA's brick a rooted Play?

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I notice a guy with a rooted Play now has a brick after running an OTA.

There was an OTA available, which I did, before I rooted.

If I had rooted 1st, then initialized the OTA, would this have bricked my device?

Is this something that we should be aware of and should we be disabling auto search for OTA's as a precaution?

Mine bricked before i rooted. but after i unlocked the bootloader.

Offtopic: I think the term brick gets thrown around too much, it's still possible to recover from these kinds of errors, the phone still attempts to boot and you can get to the recovery or bootloader, so "semi-brick" might be more appropriate.

I've had actual "bricks" in the past, like no power, no led, no charge, no way to recover unless you jtag/serial connection the phone... those aren't fun expecially when you know it's you are the one that did it

don't mean to derail thread...

If gingerbreak was used couldn't one just unroot, then update and root again afterwards?

Would this be a safe way to go around it, if OTA 'semi-bricks' a rooted play?

Regards Dousan...

It's very hard to _really_ brick an xperia device

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Unlocking, rooting, flashing custom firmware.. none of these messes with your bootloader.
Rule of thumb: If you get the USB flash device on your computer when connecting a USB cable to the device and holding the back key you can ALWAYS recover it. Your best bet would be using Flashtool by Bin4ry and finding a suitable ftf-file for your phone.

hi
my phone are bricked an detected with my pc in semc flash with green led but i flash it with flashtool flashing ok but no boot i test with 3 differents .tft but same problem flash ok no boot
just green led and quick vibrate
thank you

Id like to root my phone but with so many updates possible atm, im holding off... ive seen that post about some guy with the brick/semi brick phone from an ota update and i can do without that hassle.. my phones fast enough and has enough space for now but i will mod it when theres good reason too... if i was u i would turn off auto update just incase and check the forums for others advice when needed.