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Ok, so I forgot a few items.
That's actually where I learned the term "brick". Had a DroidX2 in which I dabbled a little in unlocking it. Had a program to do so. Never heard of soft or hard brick, though, which makes sense. Some around here use the term "brick" rather flippantly instead of what I term borked. Borked would be your term "soft brick".As for coding, if you code it incorrectly, you could damage it when trying to use it. The fastest (although not really best, but give me time) analogy I can come up with is this:
Try using a 120V appliance on a 240V line. You've just used that appliance in a way that will (probably) kill it. And rather permanently.
If the coding is wrong, and it, say, draws the wrong amount of power (because all these silicon parts need electricity to do their silicon parts things that they do) - poof! fried. And once fried, you cannot recode (for lack of a better word - reload the appropriate firmware that it needed to make it accessible to be able to reload the ROM) them for anything - they are damaged goods.
That why, in the Android phone world, I was known for attempting (more than once!) to brick one particular phone that I had, he Motorola DROID BIONIC - to prove a point. There is what we started calling a soft brick, which is the scenario that you're referring to - the coding got it all wrong, and nothing worked - and Motorola said "Oops, sorry, send it to us and we'll fix it for you" to which I said "Pooof - watch this - and 'recoded' it to make ti work again (again, more than once!), and then there is hard brick - where you cannot even access the device to try to recode it because it is damaged goods - which is what I described above.
So, sometimes you can - if it just broke the booting process. But sometimes , you can't - because it broke something in the component itself.
LOL. There was a huge building project that the sparkies mistakenly wired a temporary hanging power line with 220V instead of 120. The first guy plugged a power drill in in which it ran real fast for about 5 seconds, then poof! Up in smoke. Melted the windings in the motor. A fairly new Bosch hammer drill, too.
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