Bricked iPhone 16 Can Be Restored Wirelessly Using Another iPhone

Post by cdchn » Mon, Sep 23, 2024, 8:55 PM UTC

dwaite wrote: post #108

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They didn't switch normal iPads until 2022. I really don't understand the argument that it was inevitable when they spent more than five years shipping lightning on phones and most iPads and USB-C on laptops. Maybe they would have switched on their own, maybe not. But they were clearly not just moving USB-C through their product line piece by piece, or everything would have had it many years earlier.

Apple started shipping exclusively USB-C cables/chargers with iPhones with the 11 in 2019. There's certainly a case to be made that they should have done that earlier (iPhone X or even back with the iPhone 7). It is perhaps worth noting that the USB-IF and Apple had a "complex" relationship for many years, and to this day Apple still doesn't sell a single 1st party device or cable which is USB certified.

Post by RulerOf » Mon, Sep 23, 2024, 10:26 PM UTC

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Internet tethering is actually one that's gone backwards, with "unlimited" cellphone plans that are limited when tethering. Or plans that disable tethering even though all the software is there. The other thing from a jailbreak would be for it to become self hosting, that is, give the ability to make full blown iPhone ipa on an iOS device without needing a macOS device anywhere at all.

As someone who does a ton of networking/routing at the link layer for a day job, I can definitely see why they’re taking measures to reduce bandwidth hogs - to the extent I might actually prefer to be on a network that has taken measures to reduce hogging vs one that has not. When it really truly matters, like when I have a business need to download huge items in remote areas, the $10/GB+ justifies itself.

Post by fragmede » Wed, Sep 25, 2024, 6:45 AM UTC

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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?

Post by Dylan16807 » Sat, Sep 28, 2024, 5:05 AM UTC

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Well they're not going to switch just for the sake of switching. USB-C has no capabilities that they care about compared to lightning (for phones), that's why they didn't change for so many years. It's just more compatible, and they didn't care about being compatible. I think your argument against 1 is flawed, because I can say the same thing about USB-C, that they won't use it forever . Or in other words, I pick (1b…

> USB-C has no capabilities that they care about compared to lightning (for phones) On the new Pro phones they have been heavily marketing the capability to record ProRes Log video to external USB C 3.1 drives (something not supported recording to internal storage and that Lightning was too slow for) When they replaced 30-pin with Lightning, they announced it with "this is our connector for the next 10 years". Now it…