What was your first brick?

[DjoeN]

First brick:
PS2, tried modding it myself
Worsed part, it wasn't mine, so i bought him a XboX that was easier to mod

Second brick:
N3DSXL when trying to get it's OTP (there was no easy guide around then)

Third brick:
2DS, tried safea9lhinstaller, did only update instead of full install

That's it

 

[RetroBitMig]

My first brick was my Pikachu 3DS XL; I wanted to perform my own hardmod but had no prior experience with soldering (it seemed pretty simple to do, and it is) and I also had no flux so I soldered my wires and it would turn on and immediately turn off. I didn't think that it could be just something soldered incorrectly so I decided to put solder everywhere on the board. I replaced the motherboard shortly after, but I still have that motherboard as a reminder of my first brick and first soldering experience.

(i'm much better at soldering now, btw, and i have opened up systems before to tinker w/ their boards)

 

[gamesquest1]

so I decided to put solder everywhere on the board

what?

sounds like it was probably just a loose ribbon cable

 

[RetroBitMig]

what?

sounds like it was probably just a loose ribbon cable

oh, no, I had worked with ribbon cables way more than with soldering. This was in 2013, by the way lmao

 

[9fiftyfive]

The only device I've ever bricked was an iPhone 5s. I had a bunch of tweaks on there, and all of a sudden... Boom. Apple logo. Got a free replacement courtesy of AppleCare, though.


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[Shadow#1]

Xbox I was doing a hdd unlock swap and killed the pc known as a ground backflow

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[Touko White]

 

[BurningDesire]

My first brick was a Kindle Fire I got it from somehow deleting the TWL recovery and the OS. I can't deal with this shit. I'm sticking to IOS and anything that can't be hacked xD

 

[emmanu888]

The only "brick" that i had was when i tried to hack a friend Wii, he brings it to me and i plug it in and nothing on screen. It was as if the Wii had bricked itself when i plugged it in, he got it replaced by Nintendo and i then hacked that Wii

 

[ElyosOfTheAbyss]

I've only bricked once and that was my Wii about 4 years ago when I tried to install a custom home menu theme.

 

[Deleted User]

I have yet to brick a console :-)

 

[Jayro]

I bricked my 40GB FAT PS3 by accident, and used a PSP USB hack to revive it back to 3.55 OFW. One Sony console reviving another. XD

 

[Kawaii]

Bricked on hard modding RGH x360. Successfully completed 3 x360 console hard mod. The forth console got unlucky with soldering. Burned up solder point. Fixing requires accessing alternative solder point which requires disassembly x-plate above cpu. Got too lazy coz of exams n stuff. Console happily ends up in the dump.

Still happy though, just learned soldering via youtube. Ahh the excitement after successfully boot up RGHed console with my own hands.

 

[Froster]

May sound strange,but I bricked my Lumia 540 and I don't even know how

 

[Lucar]

I've never bricked anything.

I have a laptop that the hard drive died on, but that doesn't count.

 

[TheGreek Boy]

I brick my 2ds about 1 month ago.

 

[ars25]

my first wii trying to downgrade it it was a sad day indeed

 

[Deleted User]

i never bricked, but i managed to unbrick a friends psp

 

[Margen67]

Well, technically, it was already broken, but I made it completely unable to turn on.
It was a Fat PS3, and it randomly turned off.
If I tried to boot a PS2 game the graphics corrupted.
I took it apart to reapply the thermal paste or whatever and the RSX heatsink just randomly came off.
After that I tried to get the CPU heatsink off, but failed.
I probably lost a bunch of screws since it took so long to finally put it back together.
My brother put it back together for me, and it wouldn't turn on.
I think I fucked up the CPU.

Oh, and there was lots of extra screws.
I had no idea what the hell I was doing.

I want to sell it, but I've been procrastinating.

And I actually wanted to put CFW on it, too.

rip my dreams


But the other consoles I've got for free were mostly good.
A PS2 Slim I got just needed the lens to be cleaned.
It was later model, though, so I couldn't mod it.
And two Wiis (not sure if both) overheated, but I think they just needed to be cleaned, as well.

 

[hobbledehoy899]

My dad's first brick was when he drunkenly pissed on his phone and stepped on it.