EDIT: Added soft- to the title, since it was pissing people off. Maybe I’m still wrong. Idk, it’s just a meme.
How? LOS is installed via sideload. It’s hard to mess it up.
Really depends on your phone, different models present different levels of difficulties from very easy to literally impossible.
Makes sense but I always thought that LOS install guides were so detailed you couldn’t miss anything
Haha you expect people to read? I just copy and paste the commands in terminal and yolo it.
/s of course lol
There are loads of people out there that want stuff like this but dont have computer-related hobbies.
It makes perfect sense if you understand what you’re doing at each step, but if you’ve never used a command line before, each instruction would look like arcane gibberish.
I remember a time when MicroG didn’t exist, we has to walk barefoot 50 miles uphill both ways in a snowstorm just to get the privilege of bicking my device twice a day
I have two spare old phones…but the screens are both broken…😞
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.
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.
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.
@hellfire103 As long as the bootloader needs to stay unlocked for using the phone, LOS will never be an option for me.
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.
