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Originally, "the device is bricked" meant that the device was about as useful as a brick, i.e. it had no useful functionality left couldn't be recovered at all.
by __init 6y ago
Originally, "the device is bricked" meant that the device was about as useful as a brick, i.e. it had no useful functionality left couldn't be recovered at all. However, as the parent points out, it's been increasingly misused.
- copperx 6y agoI wonder what the replacement term will be. Probably "hard bricked"?
- K0SM0S 6y agoHard / soft bricked is already conventional for phones and consoles (most mainstream products, unsurprisingly). I kinda like "cold bricked" personally. - soft: need some sysadmin mojo, USB adb etc. - hard: can be fixed with soldering, physical repair of sorts. - cold: will never again work even if you're Louis Rossman (maybe as a ship of theseus). Think CPU fried.