Bricked phone ?

[Nickchapstick]

What do people man when they say "aww I bricked my phone"? And why are people so paranoid about doing it. I was a total noobie about rooting and evidentally I didnt brick my DX. What the eff is bricking your phone and how do you do it?

Sent from Nicks Ultimate Droid X

 

[Fl1f1sh]

Bottom line is that "Bricking" is some form of corrupting the operating system so that phone does not work properly or in some cases, doesn't work at all. I have bricked my DX, but was able to reflash using RSD Lite and all is now well. Did a lot of playing around with root/unroot and ROMs on D1 and never bricked that phone. Flashing the OS is same process that Verizon uses and it is really hard to brick a phone to the point that you can't recover. You just need to understand the flashing process.

 

[epiphone74]

turning your fast running DX into the paperweight only mode.....

 

[antmeyerx]

I have bricked my D2 and used RSD lite as Fl1f1sh said with his DX and got it restored annoying process though if you ask me.

 

[BayouFlyFisher]

"Bricking" a phone means you have turned it into nothing more than a brick. It will do nothing and can not be resurrected. People have recently starting using it to mean a temporary problem. It is not. A brick is a brick.

 

[Nickchapstick]

all great replies thanks. and I had to sbf lile 5 times. kinda fun now if youask me lol

 

[antmeyerx]

"Bricking" a phone means you have turned it into nothing more than a brick. It will do nothing and can not be resurrected. People have recently starting using it to mean a temporary problem. It is not. A brick is a brick.

Point made.... my phone just seemed useless but was not the exact definition of a "bricked" phone, sorry for the poor usage of my vocabulary..