What was your first brick?

[CIAwesome526]

Oh, if dropping a screwdriver into the PSU of my XBOX which I was softmodding with the HDD-swap method counts, then yeah, that too.

howd that turn out?

 

[Insidious611]

Pop, sparks, dead XBOX. About how you'd expect.

 

[DarkFlare69]

Pop, sparks, dead XBOX. About how you'd expect.

isn't that just breaking it? a brick is fucking up the nand or something else

 

[gamesquest1]

idk the term "brick" is a hard one as it really would just be anything that renders it useless, it could be a software brick or a axe, although i think we could rule out intentionally destroying something, i think to be valid here it has to have been a undesired situation

 

[Luglige]

Bricked my moms computer, well 2 of them. One with a magnet the other one I dropped. I killed an iPhone and bricked an iPad mini.

 

[Insidious611]

idk the term "brick" is a hard one as it really would just be anything that renders it useless, it could be a software brick or a axe, although i think we could rule out intentionally destroying something, i think to be valid here it has to have been a undesired situation

It definitely wasn't intentional. And re: brick being a software thing as opposed to a hardware modding messup like that, that's why I said "If it counts"

 

[pokemoner2500]

I accidentally bricked @AHP_person's vWii at one point due to installing a Wii only theme wad and it bricked. Then it magically unbricked a few years later, still dunno how that happened.

 

[yoshinatsu]

Been hacking my systems since the PSP days. My first brick was last month, when I bricked my 3DS XL.
But I managed to revive it through hard modding, so that's OK I guess. Lesson learned.

 

[astrangeone]

Never bricked yet. I always reread until I know what I'm doing, and I usually make a NAND backup (known good) before tampering with the thing.

I've physically broken a DS Lite because it dropped out of my bag, and hit the floor, and ended up cracking the power switch. Luckily, I had an extended warranty with EB Games, and I brought that system in. I ended up selling it on the second hand market because I had an extra DS Lite - and the unit that replaced it was pink (yuck).

 

[The Real Jdbye]

I never bricked anything but I've had many a bootloop on various Android devices which were resolved using either of Odin, a Nandroid backup, or flashing a .zip from recovery. I don't count that though, since it was easily recoverable.

 

[Deleted User]

I bricked my wii when i was 9 years old
Heres what happened
I had the homebrew launcher using hackmii and i wanted to update my console (idk why LOL) anyways I said to my self
Bitch umma be a hacker I'll do something awesome) suddenly an error appeared I was like OMFG WTF JUST HAPPENED BITCH GODDAMMIT...CHANGED THE ENTIER MOTHER BOARD FOR 132 FUCKING DOLLARS LOL I WAS SOOOOO STUPID

 

[CloudCocopuffs]

Kindle Fire HD6
I tried and install cyanogenmod in the early releases of cm10 for that.
I installed TWRP wrong and bricked my bootloader xD

 

[Dayfid]

If I'm remembering correctly, it was my Wii that I tried installing a theme on which soft bricked it. I was able to unbrick it a few months later somehow but rebricked it 5 minutes later trying to downgrade it. No clue what I was trying to do to be honest.

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[LinkFan16]

Back in the early Wii hacking days and with be being an unknowing fool (some may also call it a noob XD), I wanted to install some custom IOS and ended up deleting the system menu instead. After I finished "installing" said custom IOS the console returned me to the homebrew channel, I called it a day and powered the thing off... Upon switching the Wii on again I of course was greeted by the "the system files are corrupted" message... End of story: I sold the console as defect and got a new Wii and never made that mistake again. I still continued playing with the system's files, but only after I read tons of tutorials and posts here on GBATemp. Since this incident I'm being super careful when modding devices. So far several other wiis from friends, my 3ds and my android phones are all working well after softmodding them. Reading the guides and then reading them again (and sometimes again) seem to be the key to my success. If it get's a bit more complicated I usually make a checklist with all the things I need. I also look for and download all the files I need to store and organize them in some secure place on my PC.

 

[JaapDaniels]

my first wii set of two, luckely the second time it worked, just needed cooldown.
i used first twillight hack, hbc and then all the wad for ios36 rebug with waninkoko's wad manager, hermes cios 202,222,223 installer and waninincoco's cios 249 (and 250)first edition, neogamma and DVDx. but on one of the wii's the powerled spontanious went yellow, and wouldn't start anymore. never found the cause bet net day it worked again, and reinstalled it all. really must've been first possible hack for wii since it wasn't that long after dutch after the release in the netherlands. don't remember the real date so could be around a year after release date? this wii still works today though it needed an redo when accidental updated to 4.3 firmware, but luckely the redo was made a lot less stresfull since there were complete autoinstall toolslike modmii.

 

[DinohScene]

Unintentionally destroyed one old xbox.
Was so tired that I accidentally flashed a 1.4 EEPROM to a 1.6 Xbox.
It turned off and booted with christmas lights.

Scrapped the Xbox for parts after that.


Out of the hundreds and hundreds of consoles I fixed/hacked, having had only one "brick", I must say I'm pleased.

 

[Abcdfv]

My ex spilled coffee on my DSlite if that counts.

 

[DinohScene]

I must say that I've started hacking back with the old xbox around '03 and accidentally bricked one in '14

 

[Davidosky99]

well my first brick was either my first Wii or my first android smartphone

 

[MajinCubyan]

Only have had one, PSP-1000. Can't remember what happened but I was not pleased.