Brick is the slang term for an electronic device which cannot function (or has been rendered useless by damaged firmware). This comes from the fact that the device in question can be considered only as useful as a brick, and little else. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick...
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Not all. What you are referring to is a soft brick. A hard brick has no coming back.
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Still not true. On my device's forums (HTC One S), hard bricks are being fixed by JIG boxes and J-Tagging the device. So it is still possible.
Still not true.
Not all devices haves JTAG. And don't argue semantics. On the general, hard bricks, by very nature of the name, have no recovery. And soft bricks do.Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2
I just stumbled upon this, hah! I can't believe this debate about the correct usage of "bricked" was going on even back then (2013 apparently). To me it is obvious that a bricked device is, and will always be, non-functioning. The term "paperweight" has also been around for a *long* time.Still not true.
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If it is "bricked" it is dead, period. There is no such thing "soft-bricked". It's like saying someone is kinda' dead. They either are dead or are they not dead.
Hmm, do zombie-esque terms apply here? [emoji4]
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I think everyone in android has it easy. WinMo and before, Motorola and Nokia devices, if you messed up, you were ****ed. You had a brick.
I also think bd needs to be added to the definition of a brick.
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Soft brick: can fix, bootloader, download mode or recovery are still accessible....
Hard brick: device is kill.... No power on.... You're screwed, enjoy your new paperweight...
My definition of a brick and arguably the most important
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Comas are the definition of kinda dead..
While you're sleeping, so you wont even know it's coming.
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Soft brick: can fix, bootloader, download mode or recovery are still accessible....
Hard brick: device is kill.... No power on.... You're screwed, enjoy your new paperweight...
My definition of a brick and arguably the most important32
I just stumbled upon this, hah! I can't believe this debate about the correct usage of "bricked" was going on even back then (2013 apparently). To me it is obvious that a bricked device is, and will always be, non-functioning. The term "paperweight" has also been around for a *long* time.Still not true. Not all devices haves JTAG. And don't argue semantics. On the general, hard bricks, by very nature of the name, have no recovery. And soft bricks do.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2
If it is "bricked" it is dead, period. There is no such thing "soft-bricked". It's like saying someone is kinda' dead. They either are dead or are they not dead.
Hmm, do zombie-esque terms apply here? [emoji4]
......TiTiB (tweak it 'til it breaks)......
Galaxy Tab S | SMT-T700 | klimtwifi2
