EDIT: Added soft- to the title, since it was pissing people off. Maybe I’m still wrong. Idk, it’s just a meme.
If you didn’t need to buy a new phone you didn’t brick it. The name comes from the device becoming as useful as a brick. IE filling physical space.
There is hard and soft bricking. Soft bricking means the phone is unusable, but fixable. Hard bricking means the phone is permanently unusable.
would you build a house out of soft bricks? no… they don’t exist.
bricking is permanently fucking it up. as useful as a phone as a brick. aka a paper weight
Soft Brick => You can build the house with a lot of them, but when the wolf huffs and puffs, it will fall.
Hard Brick => The house you build, will not be breakable by the wolf’s huffing and puffing.
soft bricking
You mean like, shutting down your laptop? 😅
Stop trying to hijack terms to excuse your ignorance of them. “Soft bricking” isn’t a thing.
Soft bricking always meant the os failed but you still have a bootloader. A fully bricked phone has no bootloader and is the typical definition.
This was an incredibly common issue back in the day. Some times you could even have the appearance of no bootloader but still be able to get it back to a usable state. You thanked the gods if that happened.
I bricked my wireless mouse the other day. Accidentally pulled the USB dongle receiver out of my computer when I thought I was pulling out my micro thumbdrive, they’re about the same size and same color.
Long story short, the mouse stopped working. Completely bricked until I realized my mistake and plugged the receiver back in.
Then it’s not a brick, it’s just turned off.
Bricked is permanently broken, will never work again, kaput, paper weighted, pet-rocked, like a brick. You can’t get a brick to POST.
The whole point of the term bricked is to denote permanence.
Yeah like if it even partially functions as intended, it is not a brick. I once attempted flashing firmware to a motherboard, only for my power to go out midway through. Kaput, $200 down the drain, I no longer had an electronic device, I had the world’s most expensive paperweight.
I was astonished that I installed lineage with microg on my xiaomi last year and without bricking it not even once.
it usually is pretty painless if you don’t buy a brand new device or a very popular one. but idiot me always gets a 2 month old extremely obscure device.
Any Pixel or Fairphone will work even if brand new usually. With Pixels you dont even need a bootloader unlock code, but they are honestly kinda trash devices in terms of repairabilty and features. Get yourself a Fairphone fellas, best decision i ever made (If you can live with a bit of thicc boi of a phone). Slap CalyxOS on dat thang and enjoy life.
Xiaomi is pretty complicated though isn’t it?. You need to register with xiaomi to get permission if i am not wrong?
no but seriously we need better instructions and community.
trying to find telegram channels to get support from teenagers isnt the best. they will have to learn that lesson all over again wont they?
Misuse of bricking aside—I’ve never had an issue with installing GrapheneOS. Never actually used another degoogled AOSP-based OS, so can’t compare it, but I’d definitely say GrapheneOS is at least very “normie”-friendly in terms of being easy and intuitive to use, and simple enough to install so long as you know how to read and are capable of following instructions (which I’m aware many users are not…)
Well, GrapheneOs is a bit easier. GOS uses a WebUSB installer, which does a lot of the work for you.
LineageOS requires things like ADB and Fastboot. In my case, however, it was a Samsung device, so I had to install Windows and then mess around with Odin.
I also ended up soft-bricking the device by trying to sideload the OS before it had finished downloading.