How a Single Line Of Code Could Brick Your iPhone

Re:How a Single Line Of Code Could Brick Your iPhone by Andrew6rant on Monday April 28, 2025 @01:44PM (#43824029)

> There's physically no way to permanently "brick" an iPhone.

There definitely are (If you count jailbroken iPhones). I've managed to brick one by removing all thermal throttling limits and subsequently damaging the motherboard with the world's shittiest watercooling setup.

Can't use DFU to restore if you've got damaged hardware

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Re:How a Single Line Of Code Could Brick Your iPhone by butlike on Monday April 28, 2025 @05:32PM (#43826362)

im sure they meant "within reason."

no amount of monkeying around with the software will brick the iphone (botched updates, etc.). Once we get to hardware failures the vectors are innumerable. Lightning strikes. Device drops from height. Botched water cooling. Magnifying glass lasers. Children's vomit...

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Re:How a Single Line Of Code Could Brick Your iPhone by mystified5016 on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @03:23PM (#43836902)

"Bricking" is typically used to describe software failures specifically. Physical damage isn't "bricking" in the traditional sense, it's just broken.

Besides, physical damage is the obvious exception to GP's statement. Nobody is reading this and thinking that a ROM DFU will recover a phone that is physically destroyed.

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