500 dollar brick
March 28, 2008 Posted by Al Castle
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Categories: Castle, OSX, Puter Stuff, gnash-teeth, iPhone
so i ended up bricking the iphone tonight. like bad bad.
[bricking is a term to describe where your iphone becomes so useless it has reached the level of a paperweight, or brick.]
first it was in this endless cycle of restarting, unusable from the touch screen, but it still had ssh access. to you none techies this means that i was able to access the files on the phone via a DOS like interface from my laptop over the wireless connection in my home.
this led me to start deleting some files that might have caused the problem… well in my panic i deleted the ssh loader, the part of the phone that lets me access it remotely. then i rebooted the phone from the remote connection.
now it just showed the boot loader silver apple logo. wasn’t even completely starting anymore. itunes didn’t detect it, other apps i have also were not able to see it.
the standard reset technique of holding down the power button and home button simultaneously had no effect.
a dozen searches were simultaneously happening for people who’ve done the same and recovery options. everyone i found either could still use their iphone in some crippled fashion and restore it with itunes. or they had admitted defeat - returning it to apple for repairs.
at this point i had transcended all senses of panic and loss.
i had accepted the brick.
i would not send it away to apple.
i began looking for papers to weigh down with it.
then as i was about to close my browser i found one of my keyword searches pulled up something new to try.
1 iphone connected to my computer
2 itunes running
3 hold down both buttons as you normally do when resetting, for approx 10 seconds.
4 then let go of the power button and hold the home button until itunes says an iphone in recovery mode is detected.
5 restore from backup.
6 happiness.
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