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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by Arnt on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @06:57AM (#34079495)
What's your opinion about the Samsung Galaxy Note 7? That's the one whose battery tended to explode, maybe ten years ago. Samsung offered to replace them, and eventually bricked the remaining devices.
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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by grishka on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @07:17AM (#34079674)
It's still Android though, you can still downgrade the system and/or root it. Android, unlike iOS, is not tied to any servers whatsoever.
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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by Arnt on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @09:51AM (#34081410)
As I heard the story, Samsung bricked them. No downgrade possible, no root, no use, no explosion.
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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by kaba0 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @06:18PM (#34087680)
Let’s add for completeness’s sake that most Androids will literally wipe their proprietary firmware for e.g. their cameras, giving you a very expensive device that takes much shittier photos then it is capable of. They are not at all like laptops where you can freely change the OS, the only devices like that are Pixels.
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