From the article:
> It won’t get past the Snapdragon boot logo before rebooting or powering off… again, seemingly at random.
Random freezing at different points of the boot process suggests a hardware failure, not something broken in the software boot chain.
Power issues all day long. It'll be fine until the SoC enables enough peripherals for one of the rails to sag down.
That being said, it's a hell of a coincidence that it failed exactly when a software update failed.
Remember the very early Raspberry Pis that had the polyfuses that dropped a little too much voltage from the "5V" supply, so a combination of shitty phone charger, shitty charging cable, and everything just being a little too warm/cold/wrong kind of moonlight would just make them not boot at all?
They were losing usb once in a while if ran 24/7. Had to make them self reboot every couple hours. Fortunately it didn't matter for what we were doing with them.
Exactly. Did you notice the one comment on his blog? It's a Linux zealot saying "Linux".