EDIT: Added soft- to the title, since it was pissing people off. Maybe I’m still wrong. Idk, it’s just a meme.

  • Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    If you didn’t need to buy a new phone you didn’t brick it. The name comes from the device becoming as useful as a brick. IE filling physical space.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah, bricking something makes it completely unusable anymore: ie. turned into nothing more than a brick. If you can access it and restore functionality then it wasn’t bricked.

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      3 months ago

      There is hard and soft bricking. Soft bricking means the phone is unusable, but fixable. Hard bricking means the phone is permanently unusable.

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        3 months ago

        would you build a house out of soft bricks? no… they don’t exist.
        bricking is permanently fucking it up. as useful as a phone as a brick. aka a paper weight

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          3 months ago

          The term exists, and has been used in rooting circles since at least 2012 that I know of, since that was when I rooted my first device and ran across the term.

          While it certainly doesn’t make much sense as a term, that’s different from the term not existing.

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          3 months ago

          Would you build a house out of a metaphorical term? It’s not literal. If a phone doesn’t boot it’s as useful as a brick until you fix it.

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          Soft Brick => You can build the house with a lot of them, but when the wolf huffs and puffs, it will fall.

          Hard Brick => The house you build, will not be breakable by the wolf’s huffing and puffing.

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