Re:‘Known Software Bug’ Disrupts Brain-Tumor Zapping
by jrockway on Saturday October 17, 2009 @05:15PM
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An emergency switch should be independent of software anyway
Good advice. Essential for things that cut you or shoot radiation at you.
It would also be nice if consumer electronics devices did this. I remember badly reflashing my iPod once; the reflash locked up and the iPod was stuck displaying a message without the backlight on. There was no way to reboot it without waiting for the battery to drain itself (or to open the device up). This took a few days, but I did get it working again.
A simple hardware reset switch would have saved me a lot of time. I don't buy Apple products anymore.
Re:‘Known Software Bug’ Disrupts Brain-Tumor Zapping
by jrockway on Sunday October 18, 2009 @01:06AM
(#888001)
This apparently does not work when a firmware flash has gone south. I tried the various combinations a million times while waiting for the battery to go flat :)
Good advice. Essential for things that cut you or shoot radiation at you.
It would also be nice if consumer electronics devices did this. I remember badly reflashing my iPod once; the reflash locked up and the iPod was stuck displaying a message without the backlight on. There was no way to reboot it without waiting for the battery to drain itself (or to open the device up). This took a few days, but I did get it working again.
A simple hardware reset switch would have saved me a lot of time. I don't buy Apple products anymore.