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 build 9833 to 14964, displaying error messages from the boot manager

A brick (or bricked device) is a mobile device, game console, router, computer or other electronic device that is no longer functional due to corrupted firmware, a hardware problem, or other damage.[1] The term analogizes the device to a brick's modern technological usefulness.[2]

  1. ^ "brick". www.catb.org.
  2. ^ "The Big Android Dictionary: A Glossary of Terms You Should Know". WonderHowTo. Retrieved 2017-05-06.