Yet another wrong use of the word bricked. Bricked means bricked and you can’t ever come back from that.
For example, if I pull out my EPROM writer, de-solder the chips, and update them almost no device is truly "bricked" by this definition. The only exceptions would be burned update fuses or similar physical damage. Making the definition itself extremely niche, to the point of being synonymous with "physically damaged/destroyed."
I myself stick to the broader "technologically as useful as a brick" definition. Which a boot-looping iPhone absolutely fits. The fact there are ways to recover it is neither here nor there.
I generally call what you're describing a "Hard Brick." But even those are sometimes recoverable via as I said chip re-programming.
Physically replacing every single component, one by one, will lead to a recovery.
>I stand by words mean things.
They are an abstraction of thought to enable communication and external storage. A very leaky abstraction.
At the end of the day language is (for all pragmatic purposes) finite but possible states of the universe are not, so you can't have a perfect definition of that catches all possible states you want while excluding all others with perfect accuracy.
There are some implicit limits to what "bricked" means and those limits vary by individual.
One could argue that every single component on a device could be replaced to bring it back from the dead, but I would argue it isn't the same device at that point.
Bricked is a term that is, and always has been, defined as hardware that is rendered useless by bad software. Replacing hardware components to get a device working is not un-bricking it.
This is entering the realms of philosophy. If you get your screen replaced is it any longer your phone? If someone replaced every part of your phone one piece at a time, at teh pace of one piece a week did they suddenly steal it the moment the last piece was switched out? After all, they have "your" phone - if the concept of "your" phone ever made any sense in the first place.
Rendering useless by bad software - so if you take my linux device and install windows I now have something with objectively worse software than before, and where all my software no longer runs, and which is incapable of reading my ext4 formatting external hard drive. So...you've bricked it?
Obviously not because you can always put Linux back on it. A bricked device, you have no way of doing this. It's useless.
I can't believe all of this discussion simply because people want reuse a word that already means something. It's like the FE devs hijacking "real time". Good grief already.