What was your first brick?

[pbanj]

Bricked my G3 a few months ago on the advice of someone on reddit who told me it would be okay to flash a specific rom for a different variant on my device. Needless to say, it was not.

in that guys defense it can be ok to do. i have a rom for the international ver of my phone on my phone.

 

[HaloEffect17]

Double posted something by accident...

 

[Deleted User]

when I messed with the wrong files in flash0 on my PSP 2000 (I tried to install prx themes that weren't available as ctf or ptf), since then I try to stay away as much as possible to system files.

It's also the only actual brick i've ever had.

Second brick was my copy of pokemon red, I missingno'ed so much that the rom got corrupted

 

[endoverend]

Well D855 and D852 Roms can work on both devices.

Well I have a D851 and I flashed the D855 variant, someone said it would only caused minor issues, but it bricked the entire baseband and the phone gave absolutely no response to anything. Even shorting some pins on the board to try to flash the emmc did nothing. Luckily, my carrier replaced it on warranty as a random hardware failure.

 

[Thomas83Lin]

First brick - was a original Xbox, I had unlocked the Hard drive during a softmod when I shouldn't have (I guess). I later had someone install a modchip and fix it.

Second brick, was a Wii, I bricked it by installing a stubbed system menu ios by mistake. This was done prior to bootmii being released. Just recently I bought it back to life by doing a hardware nand chip swap, with one that had bootmii installed. I made a thread about it.

lessons learned.

 

[CIAwesome526]

so what do we gather from this thread?

• dont drop your ds in the ocean
• dont listen to reditors
• dont be stupid
• dont be stupid
• dont flash the wrong thing
• be careful with missingno
• dont be stupid
• 3ds's make good bricks
• dont be stupid
• downgrading is dangerous
• and of course... dont be stupid.

i think i summed it up pretty good.

 

[VinsCool]

Oh well, if brick means useless, I actually have another one.

I dropped my older Wii while I was moving it upstairs. It fell on the stairs, one by one.
It never worked again, so I trashed it, and got a newer one a few days later lol

 

[urherenow]

bricked my first N3DS trying to figure out the hard-mod. Was using a bad ground point (near the power connector) and was getting frustrated trying to figure out why it wasn't working. Got impatient while desoldering and acidentally pulled a solder pad (for CLK) off of the MB. Permabrick. Must be a microvia from that pad to the MMC chip...

 

[CIAwesome526]

im not sure how but i found out my jxd s7300 that i bought off a guy here now has a broken touch screen and lcd.

 

[Zerousen]

Softbricked a lot of Android phones, the only hardbrick that I had was when I flashed the wrong region for my mom's Moto G. It was the Brazilian version of Lollipop, I believe, onto a US region device, which had not received the update yet at the time.

 

[Deleted member 333767]

I've been soft-modding consoles since all the way back in the NDS days starting with FLASHME and I've never ever bricked a console to this very day.

Thats because when I am following tutorials, I read it once, and then I read it again, and then I read it a third time and if I cant remember all the steps without looking at the tutorial, I will read it a fourth time.

It's worked pretty good for me so far!

 

[CIAwesome526]

I've been soft-modding consoles since all the way back in the NDS days starting with FLASHME and I've never ever bricked a console to this very day.

Thats because when I am following tutorials, I read it once, and then I read it again, and then I read it a third time and if I cant remember all the steps without looking at the tutorial, I will read it a fourth time.

It's worked pretty good for me so far!

This is called 'intelligence'. People can learn from you.

 

[flame1234]

I bricked a WRT54G router because I flashed a FW that wasn't designed for it.
Destroyed 2 PSPs trying to replace the screen after I broke the screen.
Never broke a game console via software only, though.

 

[CitizenSnips]

The one and only brick I had was I got a bootloop on a crappy $30 android tablet because I installed Google Play store lol

 

[CIAwesome526]

The one and only brick I had was I got a bootloop on a crappy $30 android tablet because I installed Google Play store lol

Ive fixed bootloops before. Cant they almost always be fixed through recovery?

 

[Seriel]

iPod Touch 4, about 2013?
I was a kid (I still am o.0) and I kinda got a bit carried away with jailbreak and kinda... fucked it all up.
And that's all i'm saying

 

[CitizenSnips]

Ive fixed bootloops before. Cant they almost always be fixed through recovery?

Yeah I tried to fix it in recovery mode but it just wouldn't work so I gave up, wasn't a terrible loss
EDIT:actually the tablet did not have a recovery feature from what I remember

 

[pbanj]

Ive fixed bootloops before. Cant they almost always be fixed through recovery?

It depends if you can get into recovery and what option said recovery has. Some stock ones just have options for wiping data.

 

[Bubsy Bobcat]

I've been hacking stuff since i was 8 and never bricked anything or even came close to bricking

liar

 

[CIAwesome526]

iPod Touch 4, about 2013?
I was a kid (I still am o.0) and I kinda got a bit carried away with jailbreak and kinda... fucked it all up.
And that's all i'm saying

Oh yeah, ive also messed up jailbreaks, but the wordt its been was a safe mode loop, so itvwasnt really a brick.
The closest thing to a softbrick that i caused myself was with my gaming pc. Im very bold with my electonics in the ways of modifications. Aside from windows 8 spontaneously corrupting many times (since that was windows not me), i have installed the windows 10 dev preview and then not turned on my pc in months. When i did turn it on the preview had expired. Microsoft was of no help untilbi got a non indian rep who helped me realize that ms had completely ruined my pc since my win 8 key was for windows 8 beta so yodating via iso wasnt an option, and downgrading wasnt an option since i couldnt get to win 8 via a beta key etc. So i had to use alienwares alien respawn to fix it.