Brick (electronics)

A soft bricked Fire TV Stick, booting in emergency recovery and telling the user that the /data partition got corrupted, and requiring a factory reset in order to make it usable again
A soft bricked iPod Touch, displaying only file system related messages, most likely due to a failed jailbreak
A soft bricked Windows 10 flight-signed build, displaying error messages from the boot manager

A brick (or bricked device) is an electronic device, specially consumer electronics (such as a mobile device, game console, computer, etc.) that is no longer functional. It could be due to corrupted firmware, failed operating system, a hardware problem, or other damage. The term is an analogy to a construction brick and its lack of modern technological usefulness. "Brick" is also used as a verb to describe a device entering such a state.

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