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Comment by jlokier

7 months ago

Wikipedia has a section about this. They call it soft bricked vs hard bricked, according to the difficulty of restoring device function and how the broken state presents. Even hard bricked is usually recoverable with appropriate tools, so it is a spectrum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_(electronics)#Soft_brick

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