Bricked iPhone 16 Can Be Restored Wirelessly Using Another iPhone

Post by Retr0id » Mon, Sep 23, 2024, 12:52 AM UTC

stepupmakeup wrote: post #58

brianpan wrote: post #10

As a former hardware engineer, if it can be restored wirelessly or otherwise, it's not a brick yet. Keep trying, you'll get there! ;)

I don't think I've ever truly "bricked" a iPhone, or got one to the point it CAN'T be put DFU mode and restored. Cydia tweaks made it sound like one wrong move could render your device permanently unusable, at most it was a inconvenience.

Post by aspenmayer » Mon, Sep 23, 2024, 12:57 AM UTC

whartung wrote: post #61

devilbunny wrote: post #44

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It isn’t for most people here. But the most valuable tool for fixing a broken computer is a working one, and a lot of people don’t have more than one anymore. Some don’t even have that. My wife texted me on Friday as she was visiting her mother six hours’ drive away. She needed her laptop. They do not own a desktop, and her dad was at our house on a business trip with his laptop in tow. Do not underestimate the utili…

> I bought an AppleTV for their house just to have a Tailscale endpoint. How the heck does that work?

Post by wmf » Mon, Sep 23, 2024, 1:02 AM UTC

alliao wrote: post #15

this is the sort of functionality that only appears when the pain in the retail is felt by the corp. though can't say I think it's a good idea though.. feels like a free rein for state level adversaries...

Post by BonoboIO » Mon, Sep 23, 2024, 1:22 AM UTC

wmf wrote: post #65

circularfoyers wrote: post #63

I still don't understand why Apple haven't changed their update model to A/B partitions, so if an update can't boot, it boots the previous partition. Android has been doing this for a while and Fedora Silverblue/IoT does the same thing, both of which I've found really useful in the past. If communicated well, it would elviate the update anxiety many people I know have with their iPhones.

How much space should they reserve for iOS 24?

Post by HKH2 » Mon, Sep 23, 2024, 1:27 AM UTC

freedomben wrote: post #45

fragmede wrote: post #30

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Keep trying to de-dramaticize language, you'll get there! Seriously though, the last time I truely bricked something was because I overwrote the bootloader on a chip that had no other way to flash, and it was an all-in-one, so I couldn't solder to the chip and reprogram it directly. Now that was a brick. A board that I can still solder to a chip and bus pirate my way to victory, isn't a brick. Being able to do so wir…

> I wanted to flash the firmware so I could have capslock be left Ctrl in hardware You're a person after my own heart. If there is a God, you're doing his/her/their work. What was the hardware and firmware you were flashing?