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2010-03-31 , 15:55
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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
3. "Bricking" originally meant turning your phone into a brick. That did not mean going into a reboot loop. It meant, time to send the device back to Nokia. So 95% of the talk you hear about a phone being "bricked" is just untrue -- it can be flashed and fixed and is not truly bricked.
Reboot loop is a brick equivalent for 90% of the world's population.

I can't blame them, in a reboot loop state the device doesn't give instructions how to download and operate the flasher. They paid for it, they expect it to work, if it doesn't, it goes back to the shop.