Brick?

My 80 gig iPod classic has worked perfectly for the most part (froze once, reset it).
I was listening to it today, then I turned it off. I turned it back on and I nothing appeared on the screen. When I pressed a button I could hear it make noise through the iPod earphones. Like 3 seconds later, no sound was made when I pressed any buttons.
My iPod is not recognized by any computers and it was fully charged when I used it. It does not charge when I use one of those charger-dealies.
My iPod is in perfect condition. Never dropped, I never even put it in my pocket. Please answer. I am very worried.

strange. but I think you can't do anything except getting a new one from where you bought it or send it to apple to get a replacement. If it doesn't do anything when you press any of the buttons, I don't think there's anything you can do. Sorry.

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Will Apple cover me if updating to iOS5 on ipod Touch 3rd gen ruins/bricks it?

I have heard stories of some people's apple products not working/bricked after attempting to upgrade to iOS5.
I have a 1.5 year old ipod Touch 3rd gen. No warranty on it from Apple (tho I do have one from Square Trade for ADH, but I called them and they said if it is a software issue, they don't cover it.)
I am very concerned about d/ling the ios5 upgrade and it ruining my ipod touch. In effect, I will take a device that could fetch almost $200 on ebay (which I could then use to upgrade to a Touch 5gen), and turn it into a worthless piece of junk if I upgrade and it ruins it.
Also, I know that they have released 5.0.1 (beta I believe?) for update. I still read stories on here from people waiting until now (Nov, a month after it was first released when so many people tried to d/l it and had terrible problems), but now are still getting network timed out error msgs, etc.
So is there ANY protection from Apple if their update should screw my ipod touch??
Should I just wait longer for a final, stable version of ios 5? (like v5.1) Or just totally skip the iOS 5 upgrade and stay safe with iOS 4? I don't know that it is really worth the $200 loss risk to upgrade to iOS5. (i.e. 3rd gen doesn't have the ability to find and lock/wipe my lost touch, etc.)
I do know that I should:
1) install itunes 10.5 anew on my laptop (itunes and syncing WAS done on my tower, until I just got it back from being serviced for some Major problems/virues/malware/etc. I'm not comfortable using it, as the problems on it included not being able to start Local Services, connect to the internet, no audio services, etc. The guy says it is booting up and services are working now, but you never know....But i digress...)
2) be on AC and not battery on my laptop
3) be hardwired (ethernet) to the internet and not use my wireless connection
4) turn off Windows 7 Firewall, and disable my PC Tools Spyware Docter with Antivirus.
So, what do you all think? should I wait until later to upgrade to say os 5.1? Should I even RISK upgrading to iOS5 on a touch 3gen and lose almost $200 cash? And will Apple give me ANY protection should it ruin my touch? (I seriously doubt it.)
Thanks for input.
Dave
Kentucky

Before proceeding with the update, it wouldn't hurt to manually back up the iPod in iTunes by right->clicking on it from under the Devices section and choosing Backup. See this article for more information on what is stored in the backup.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946
Also make sure that any content you may have synced to the device from iTunes, such as Music, movies, TV Shows, podcasts, etc. are all stored on your computer and in iTunes before updating the iPod's version of iOS.
Otherwise, I would go ahead with the upgrade. I didn't have any issues with it on my iPhone.
B-rock

Iphone 6 touch ID did not working , then restored and it bricked

I'm very depressed now. My iphone 6 is not working. Touch ID didn't work so I restored and updated to 8.1.3 and it stuck at 50% and showed the error 53 then bricked . I bought it in New Zealand and I'm working in another country. What should I do now ?

Hey David,
The troubleshooting suggestions in this article will resolve most issues like the one that you’ve described, where you saw the alert message when attempting to restore your iPhone 6.
Resolve iOS update and restore errors in iTunes - Apple Support
Cheers,
-Jason

My mid-2011 MacBook Air bricks itself after 10.7.2 update

I have a new MacBook Air (11") that was working just great, until today. Today, I used Software Update to install the updates, which included 10.7.2 as well as the recue partition update.
I did everything you're supposed to do, and when it rebooted, the gray screen comes up, and it shows the spinny doohickey on the bottom showing that it's working. Then, suddenly, up pops a big "no" icon (the circle with the slash through it) after about 60 seconds.
It simply doesn't do anything after that.
Hard-power-off, wait, power-on, repeat, same thing.
So I reboot with cmd-R to get the rescue partition. It works fine; I ask it to re-install Mac OS X, which then takes about 45 minutes (argh). Finally, Mac OS X is back, the machine is nicely booted up, all my files are there, everything is good.. But of course, the reinstall took me back to 10.7.1.
All I want to do is upgrade my fricking iPhone to IOS 5.0, but I can't do that without knowing I can sync which requires iCloud which of course requires 10.7.2. So I *have* to re-do the upgrade.
Back to Software Update, back to installing 10.7.2. And .. 20 minutes later .. back to bricked MacBook Air.
What a waste of my time. What a failure, Apple. I'm very very very very very unhappy that I've wasted so much time just to update my damned iPhone to IOS 5. I'm still without an update. Now I'm trying to figure out how to move my iTunes to another machine -- not nearly as obvious as it should be. ARGH. I'm going to throw this MacBook Air off the balcony in about 10 minutes. :-(
Thanks for listening.
Steve

Wow, you're right -- I can't believe it. I just really can't believe they would screw up so badly, yet when I search for "10.7.2 filevault" I don't find more than a couple of articles about it on the web (including this thread). Why on earth wouldn't Apple have put up some kind of warning about this? I can't believe it, really. It's insane.
On my newly-functional 10.7.2 MBA, I wanted to test your theory and so I turned on filevault 2 and encrypted the main disk again. It of course wanted me to reboot. So I rebooted. And *blammy* -- same error / boot failure. Wow. Also, interestingly, even on a working 10.7.2 system, you can't mount a USB drive that was encrypted using Filevault 2 encryption (in Disk Utility, e.g., as a "Mac OS X, journalled, encrypted" volume that was encrypted with DiskUtility on Lion 10.7.1). I still have a 10.7.1 machine that I will not upgrade until I can at least decrypt the disk -- but right now, Disk Utility tells me it fails decrypting the external USB disk so I'm hosed!!! ARGH.
Now, going back to the booting problem after upgrade -- for anyone's reference who's still keeping score -- you can easily recover from the booting problem with upgrading a Filevault 2 root drive: Power-cycle the machine and then hold down cmd-r to bring up the Lion Recovery application. Within Lion Recovery, choose "Disk Utility", and then click on the (as yet unmounted, still encrypted) root hard drive to select it. Then go to the File menu, and choose "Turn off encryption" for this disk. It then prompts you for the password, and if you enter it, *blammy* you're back up and running again.
In my case, the disk had only just begun encrypting so the action was instant, and then once it confirmed the disk was now decrypted, I simply chose "Restart" from the Apple menu, and I was back in business (no hairy re-installs to deal with). If this is an already-encrypted volume, presumably it'll take you a bit longer (the normal 45-minutes to 2 hours) to decrypt it. But at least no more installing software -- it'll "just work".
Maybe I'll go post a simpler version of these instructinos on the other threads, but this is the simplest fix -- just turn off filevault 2 from within Lion Recovery, basically, and that fixes the boot problems.
Apple, if you're listening, you really really really need to say something to your users so they know. Many many many MBA users are likely to have still not upgraded. You can prevent them from hating you and your products by making sure they don't screw the pooch here. Short version: Mid-2011 MacBook Airs running Filevault 2 WILL NOT BOOT after 10.7.2 update; so users should turn off Filevault2 before upgrading.
Steve

3GS freezes on upgrade ipHone 4.0.2 - it's a brick now!

Hi,
I Have a 3GS on contract from O2 in the UK. Last night I got the note in iTunes to say that 4.0.2 is ready for installing. I was on 4.0.1 and have the lastest iTunes in Win 7 / 32-bit. So I did a sync, and started the upgrade. Unfortunately it stalled at some point and just froze.
So I removed the USB plug and got to the "restore iPhone" point, and clicked on "Restore" in iTunes. That unpacked the already downloaded software, verified with Apple, and started the restore. Unfortunately that gets about 3/4 along the progress bar in iTunes and 1/4 on the iPhone - and stalls.
So I tried a few things:
- reinstalled iTunes
- restarted Windows and tried again
- downloaded jpsw files for 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 (iPhone2,14.0.1_8A306Restore and iPhone2,14.0.2_8A400Restore) and pointed to these when I Shift-Clicked on the restore button. With the 4.0.2 it starts up, but freezes at the same point. With 4.0.1 it says something about being an incorrect version and doesn't attempt an installation.
I can't see anything else to try and my iPhone is a brick - please help!!

Hi again. Panic over. I deleted the ipsw file in %AppData% and started agai - and it seems to have gone well. The phone seems to work again.

Did I just brick my board? MSI P67A-GD55

So I decided to flash my BIOS to the newest version. I downloaded the newest BIOS and proceeded to flash the BIOS with the MSI utility. After the computer restarted it beeped a couple of times like usual, but it did not continue to windows after that and the screen went black. I saw that the USB stick was being used(light on the USB stick was flashing) so I didn't do anything.
But even after about 45 minutes nothing at happened, the screen was still black. I was reading around online and some people said to clear the CMOS if this happens. After I cleared CMOS and restarted the computer, I got no beeps and no video signal at all. And now nothing happens at all. It does not even beep like usual.
I removed all the ram and restarted the computer and that time I got 3 long beeps. When I put them back in nothing happened like before. So did I brick my board? Is there any way to bring this board back to life? This board was advertised as having a Bios recovery feature(M flash) anyone know how I can use that?
Thanks for your help.
BTW, I am already going to get a new board, but I won't have it until at least the end of this month. Anyone know how long MSI RMAs take? Will they even RMA the board?
Not related, but I was also having a problem with fan control on this motherboard. No matter what the CPU fan would run at max speed.
Specs of my build:
i7 2700K
MSI P67A GD 55 Rev B
16GB Team 1600Mhz RAM
MSI 660Ti PE OC
520W Antec Neo Eco PSU
1 TB Seagate Barracuda

Quote from: xmad on 10-March-13, 10:25:51
If you sent it to MSI in the USA, that is odd as they usually turn things around in 7 working days. If it is a re-seller or outside of the USA it is hard to say how long it will take.
In the usa to check for status, email [email protected] Place the RMA# in your subject and ask for an update.
Yeah this is in the US, the place I sent the motherboard to is only like 3 hours from my house actually.
I'll send them a email. Their online tracker doesn't seem to be updated that often and I can't even go to the tracking page right now for some reason.

ZR will not update - Phone is a brick

My 2 month old Xperia ZR (purchased unlocked from Amazon at $549 US) is now a brick. I bought this phone for its ability to survive underwater, dust resistance and drop test. It seems just the rugged phone that I needed for 24x7x365 support duty.
Well, I should have asked if the phone would survive an upgrade. Apparently, it does not.
Performing the 10.3.1.A.2.67 system upgrade failed as I used PC Companion on Win7. I was warned it would take 30 minutes for the upgrade by PC Companion. At 26 minutes, I received an error message. The retry also failed. Then, the driver would not load and Win7 kept telling me the ZR was an unknown USB dev ice.
BUT, by this time, my phone was a brick. It would turn on, show the SONY logo and, then, turn off.
So, I call Sony Mobile Tech Support (1-866-766-9374 or 1-877-7XPERIA). Mayelin sent my a procedure to try in recovering my phone. No go. So, I call back and talk to Jamie. She doesn't even want to read my case notes (1-840176438). She goes to read the notes and transfers me to Mr. Dialtone. I call back and take to Natasha and ask for a Supervisor. Apparently, Sony does not staff their Call Centers with Supervisors. So, she asks for my number in order to have someone in Escalations call me back. No, she did not know when the callback would take place nor any timeframe like that there.
After 25 years of technical support experience in data networks, I know bull**bleep** when I hear it. There really ought to be a law that mandates Supervisors be present and available at all times a support call center is operating. The support bull**bleep** performed by companies such as Sony, and/or its outsource support vendors, is just criminal considering how much their products cost. Very unprofessional and user hostile.
I have included the procedure sent to me by Mayelin. It may be of help to some other poor and unfortunate person who might have also bought this Hercules of a phone.
I will wait until Monday when I might be able to get a Supervisor. I will then discuss how useless it is for me to undergo their 7-10 business days "evaluation" return-to-factory service when their system upgrade killed my phone. I would expect and advance replacement on the next business day at the very least. BUT, apparently, $549 does not get you this when you buy one of these indestructible phones.
How sad. Has Sony quality really come to this? I own a lot of Sony A/V and some professional products. I just bought one of their new VAIO laptops at top dollar from a Sony Store (Stanford Shopping Center).
If this experience has taught me anything is that I should probably stick to Sony Ericsson or not buy Sony Mobile products at all. My old Sony-Ericsson T515 never gave me any hiccups as big as this Xperia ZR is giving me.
ZRSUCKS
Dear ZRSUCKS,
Thank you for contacting Sony Xperia™ Online Support.
We have an extended guide that should help you fix the issue on your phone, please follow the instructions carefully:
Visit this link:
http://www.sonymobile.com/us/tools/pc-companion/
Click on Download PC Companion
Run the software and install it
Turn the phone off and disconnect it from the computer
1. No matter what the program says do not connect the phone until you complete step 9
2. In the welcome screen you will see the different modules available for you including the "Support Zone" option. Click on "Start" below it.
3. On the next page Click on "Start" under "Phone Software Update"
At this point if you get an error stating that "Unable to install update components" or "Server is busy" , then please proceed to step 12
4. The program will say that there is no phone connected. Click on the option below that reads: "Repair my phone" the program will issue you a warning about the content that you will lose during the update
5. Choose the option to continue.
6. The program will issue a final message warning you of possible data lost during the update. Click on the checkmark and then on "Next".
7. After that, the program will download the necessary information (5 to 6 minutes) and it will present you with a list of phones.
8. Choose your phones model from the list then click on "Next" then you will see a new section telling you how to connect the phone. (don't connect it yet)
At this point the phone must be off and disconnected from the PC.
9. Connect the cable to the PC not to the phone, then while pressing and holding the indicated button (in the steps on screen an specific button will be shown for you to press on the phone) connect the cable to the phone and keep holding the indicated button until the program says "the update of your phone has started..." (in some cases a message of "Installing drivers" will appear before the message of "the update of your phone has started..." is shown.)
10. If you failed to follow the steps correctly the phone will turn on and it will request that you "Proceed with the following steps, slide down the notification bar", If this happens disconnect the phone from the cable, turn it off and repeat from step 9).
11. If the phone is connected properly, PC Companion will proceed with the update ( It will tell you to let go of the back key) then wait for the update to finish and follow instructions on screen to disconnect the unit.
Dear Customer,
12. If "Unable to install update components"
1. Close PC Companion
2. Install Java from: http://www.java.com
3. Start PC Companion again and try to do the software unlock process once more.
Note: If you wish only to update the unit wait for the program to open and then select the quick link on the upper left corner that says "Update Phone/Tablet" and follow the instructions to perform the update. (the PC may request for the phone to be placed in Mass Storage mode. Do this by going into Settings>Xperia>Connectivity>USB connection mode)
As part of Sony Mobile's commitment to excellent customer service, we offer a wide variety of mobile products to suit your lifestyle. If you require more information, or have any other questions, please visit www.sonymobile.com or call us at 1-866-766-9374 .
Kind Regards,
Mayelin
Sony Xperia US Customer Services

Use SUS instead
Update Service (SUS)
http://www.sonymobile.com/gb/tools/update-service/
http://www-support-downloads.sonymobile.com/Software%20Downloads/Update_Service_Setup-2.11.12.5.exe
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MacBook Pro 8,2 bricked radeon/i915 even outside linux

My hardware:
MacBook Pro 8,2
core i7, 8GB Ram, Radeon HD 6400M Series GPU, 1680x1050 non-glare screen
After having done a lot of reading, I tried to install Arch Linux onto my MacBook Pro. I re-installed MacOS, did all updates, and followed the wiki instructions. After a couple of failed attempts to get GRUB to EFI-boot from the Apple bootloader (carefully avoiding the usage of efibootmgr), I finally managed to EFI-boot the base system via reFind and EFISTUB. I quickly was able to set up everything I need, only X would work only with the radeon driver. But since I went through all the trouble to EFI-boot the machine solely for the purpose of being able to use the i915 graphics, I tried all the kernel paramters (radeon.modeset=0 and all the i915 parameters that are mentioned all over the places in all sorts of recommended/mentioned combinations). But no luck, startx would always exit with a "no screens found" message when configuring xorg.conf to use the "intel" driver. Needless to say, both xf86-video-radeon and xf86-video-intel were installed. Using the module acpi_call and doing "sudo turn_off_gpu.sh" ends up with "failed" messages only. Doing "lspci | grep VGA" returns both intel and AMD graphics adapter, so I should actually have successfully booted in EFI mode. I started blacklisting the radeon module, but lspci -k still shows the radeon module for the gpu. The only thing I did not try is adding the "outb" lines to GRUB as I'm not using GRUB and was very reluctant to change anything about my working EFI boot setup. Finally, I decided to try vgaswitcheroo. I read that I need to enable debugfs in the fstab before, so I added the line "debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs 0 0" to fstab. Careful as I am, I rebooted before installing vgaswitcheroo.
And from then on, arch linux boots into a black screen. I can log in if I switch to tty1 or another and type blind, and I can reboot that way. Just as a routine, I try to boot up MacOS, and it also boots into a black screen. This has always worked so far, I tried that regularly. I totally panick and grab an Ubuntu 12.04 CD that happens to lie around and boot it via the apple bootloader in bios compatibility mode (which worked, before, too). It also boots into black screen. Even the darn MacOS Install DVD boots into a black scren now!
But I'm not the one that gives up easily. Since Arch displays all the boot messages until it loads the virtual console (I think), I messed around with the kernel parameters again and it turns out I can get to console login if I use radeon.modeset=0. I configured X to use the fbdev driver again, and there you go, I get graphical login and whatnot with radeon.modeset=0. Still, even though fbdev is used, the temperature is around 70 to 80 degrees Celsius. I decide to finally install vgaswitcheroo (systemd-vgaswitcheroo-units), since the whole thing is bricked anyway, and enable it via systemd. Radeon module is blacklisted. I still am only able to reach graphical or console target when radeon.modeset=0 is set, but now I got a X running with desktop effects on fbdev driver and around 50 degrees Ceslius temperature. Still, every other OS boots into black screen.
I seem to have completely messed up everything. Strangely enough, the arch system seems to be completely usable (except that it wakes up from suspend with that black screen now), but it seems to be the only system that can be run on that machine now. I would greatly appreciate any help on what might have gone wrong or what I could try to enable the gpu for other systems again.
Edit: I seem to have managed to brick reFind now, too. While trying to boot the MacOS Installation medium it seems to have magically "fixed" the EFI partition leaving me with no reFind at all now. There's no way I can access that stupid thing anymore. Gotta send it in, probably (
Last edited by halogene (2013-05-29 15:57:58)

I'm still reluctant to give up on that bricked machine... Since it is able to display part of the boot up messages of the arch install cd and the previously working installation showed everything until loading of the virtual console (at least that's what I believe it did when the screen went black), it looks to me that the problem lies in initializing a different graphical output. That would also explain why I was able to initialize X only with the fbdev driver... and the screen didn't flicker during boot-up when I did radeon.modeset=0 so I assume it stayed on framebuffer mode all along.
Does anyone know of a boot medium that boots into framebuffer video mode even though a GPU is present? All I'd need is a bash or similar shell. I can load into the UEFI shell with arch install CD, but I'm not familiar with that shell and it follows a different syntax than I am used to, as it is designed for an entirely different purpose. If anyone knows a boot medium that does not try to pipe the graphical output through the gpu (or the integrated i915 graphics). Must be something like this around?
Last edited by halogene (2013-05-31 08:16:13)

HT1414 I just got a new iPhone 4 and I tried to download some songs from my itunes account and it bricked my phone so now my new phone is locked and I can't use it. What can I do to resolve this?

I just got a new iPhone 4 and i tried to download some songs from my itunes account onto my phone and it bricked my phone! So I can't use my phone, it's locked. It shows a plug going into an adaptor frozen on my phone. How can I resolve this problem? I got my phone at Verizon yesterday so I went back to see if they could help me today and they didn't know anything about it at the Verizon store. Theyy said to try IMac store here in town...

Ask the Verizon store to exchange your iPhone for a different iPhone 4.
UPDATE - Sure, try ckuan's solution first. Then use mine if that fails.
Message was edited by: sberman

How can I stop my iPhone from becoming a brick because it loses service.

Hello,
I have an iPhone 5, currently with iOS 8 GM, and the problem with my iPhone is after maybe 5 minutes of being locked, if you turn it on, it loses service, or drops down to 1 bar (circle) says "Searching..." Then after 30 seconds, I will get service again. It does this 9 out of 10 times I want to use my phone. But that part isn't the issue, the issue I'm having is, with iOS 8, if it loses service for a while, I get a "Activation Required" and I can't use my phone at all until I reactivate it. Not a problem if I'm around Wifi, it takes 4 seconds to activate it. BUT, I'm not always around wifi and I can't use Cellular Data to activate it. I get a "Could not reach activation servers" or something. So my question is, what can I do about this? Besides getting a new phone, I already preordered the iPhone 6, and that could take 2-6 weeks to replace this phone. Is there some setting that is blocking it from activating on Cellulor Data? Can I permittatly keep it activated? Anything that will stop the phone from becoming a brick 2-4 times a day.
Thanks in advance,
Ryan.

I agree that it is a hardware issue and I would have replaced, but losing service was something I just delt with over the years, but now with iOS 8, its becoming a problem. Plus with the release of the iPhone 6...
I just thought I missed a software setting that would block activating on Cellular Data or something similar to that.

My iPhone 4S went into lock-up with a screen display image of USB connector pointing to iTunes logo. I took it to a Verizon store and they said I have a brick lock and that only an Apple retail store 50 miles away could clear it

My iPhone 4S went into lockup with a screen displaying an image of the USB connector pointing to the iTunes logo. I was traveling and took the phone to the closest Verizon store. The store informed me that I had a brick lock and that only an Apple retail store could unlock the phone. The Verizon store explained that they have seen this problem with SEVERAL other 4S users who had upgraded to the new iOS7 operating system and that to their knowledge it is too demanding to work on pre-iPhone 5S phones having a far less capable processor. The closest Apple store was 50 miles away in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. I went to that store three days later (today) to reset the phone before flying out of Philadelphia Intl. Airport. The Apple store personnel were overloaded and not sensitive to my plight. They told me that I would have to make a reservation for a time 2 hours later for tech support. I couldn't do that without missing my flight - out of luck until I get back to Los Angeles. If the Verizon store explanation is true, Apple needs to accommodate 4S and earlier generation users and not force them to upgrade to a $459 iPhone 5S!

villebard wrote:
The Verizon store explained that they have seen this problem with SEVERAL other 4S users who had upgraded to the new iOS7 operating system and that to their knowledge it is too demanding to work on pre-iPhone 5S phones having a far less capable processor. !
The salesperson at Verizon has no clue what their saying.
My 4S and many of my friends works perfectly fine on IOS 7.3, no issue as all.

I just upgraded my iphone 4 to ios 6 using Itunes. After 1.5 hours all I have is an itunes graphic on my phone. It does nothing else and nothing seems to be happening anymore in itunes. Please help. I think I bricked my own phone and should have known bet

Please help. I think I just bricked my own phone. Despite worries after reading all of the rpoblems people have had upgrading their iphone to Ios 6, I used iteunes to do this to my iPhone 4. (I upgraded to the latest itunes.) Now after 1.5 hours of everything seeming to work OK, all I have is an Itunes graphic on my phone and nothing going on any more in Itunes. The phone doesn't shut down normally or anything. Suggestions? Should I just do a restore operation? I did back up my apps and pics.

Thank you. I ended up performing the Restore after I did an Update, and performing the restore solved the problem----I now have a functioning iPhone with all of my data, pics, and apps on it. Fortunately I made sure that I backed up my iPhone before I tried to update to iOS6. Man, what a headache though, and it sounds like I had it easy compared to some other horror stories I've read. I won't update my iOS on my iPhone again; i've learned my lesson. It remains to be seen whether iOS6 will be worth it :-)

IPod touch 4,1 bricked after upgrading to iOS 6.0 and then 6.0.1.

Hi all
I have an iPod touch 4th generation, 8GB. The other week I installed the new iOS 6.0 software update, from 5.1.1. after installing and rebooting the iPod just when black, I have assumed that it's been bricked, but how? It just stays black, sometimes it'll reboot, but then go black again, sometimes it'll do the infinite loop of death! Then I force it into Recovery mode, clicked Restore and after iTunes extracing the IPSW, it came back with error -1 ????? So I put it into DFU mode, then iTunes showed that iOS 6.0.1 was released. iTunes downloaded it, i put it into DFU mode and then restore to the new 6.0.1, and then everything goes well, untill it does the same as before, when I upgraded to 6.0?
I know I can't downgrade back to 5.1.1, Apple had stopped signing old ipsws, but I do however have my previously saved SHSH blobs, I can patch them onto my 5.1.1 ipsw, but I don't know weather that's illegal or not. SO, basically, my iPod is unusable.
Troubleshooting - what I've done:
-I've deleted the 6.0 and 6.0.1 and being promted to download them again in iTunes, still didn't work
-I've tried reinstalling iTunes, current version 10.7, I run weekly Apple Software updates to get the lastest
-I've tried using different USB cords, Apple 30-pin connector cords, don't know if that was necessary
What Haven't done:
-Never Jailbroken this iPod
-Never moderated, read, write or execute any iPod software or any of the Raw system files
My iPod was just fine before all this crap happened, I depend on it for everything, although the Capacity isin't great, and the RAM is just ****, please someone help :'(

Error 1 or -1
This may indicate a hardware issue with your device. Follow Troubleshooting security software issues, and restore your device on a different known-good computer. If the errors persist on another computer, the device may need service.
- If still not successful that indicates a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order. Note the article includes :"the device may need service".:
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

My iPod touch is.....bricked? dead? (??) PLEASE HELP!

Hi. before you read this, know a few things: I am not computer-stupid. I am not one of those confused people who screams at their computer when it doesn't work. I'm impatiant, but this time I didn't know I screwed up until it was too late. Okay? let's move on.
I have had my iPod touch 4th generation since my birthday last August. I use it for everything. Texting, emailing, working on stuff, digital art, listening to music, taking photos, watching TV....I use it more than most everything else. I jailbroke it last year, but restored and updated it to iOS 5 in late June. I lost most everything due to it being jailbroken and it couldn't truly sync, but that didn't matter to me. The jailbreak made my device slower anyway.
Last night, I was syncing my iPod, and thinking it was done, I pulled it out of the cord. My mom was looking over my shoulder, and she said, "Hey--that wasn't done loading or whatever." I brushed it off, being in a bad anyway, and went to take a shower. After that, I went back on the computer to put a picture on my iPod from the desktop.
It said it was in recovery mode and it would need to restore. I wasn't worried, since I'd thought I had synced it minutes earlier. No such luck, it was blank. Kept trying to restore and back up, over and over--nothing. My mom was like, "yeah I told you it wasn't done! Now its all screwed up!' and my dad had owned an iPod Classic that got the "red X of death" (look it up; its basically if you're iPod is "corrupted"), so he's kinda ticked but saw it coming, too.
I decided to settle for having a blank iPod touch and just starting over, but that wouldn't work either: it won't put in music, apps, anything. It's just blank. I can't figure out the problem: is this what happens when iPOd touches are bricked? Or corrupted? It won't say.
Beyond that, I'm going to go to the Apple store, but I'm worried they won't help me because my iPod used to be jailbroken. Is this a problem, or just an annoying irrealavent factor? I don't know.
I use my iPod everyday and don't really want to buy a new one and start from scratch, but is that what I'm reduced to, options-wise? any help? Any suggestions? PLEASE AND THANK YOU!

Try putting the iPod into DFU mode and restoring again:
http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=1034
If that still doesn't work, then the jailbreak may have cause a corruption which is now fatal; that's not uncommon with jailbroken devices. If that is indeed the case, your iPod may be irrecoverable and you'll be shopping for a new one.
Good luck.

Help please - Bricked Phone - Now no email setup or app installation possible!

Hello,
I'm new here and I've searched your posts looking for a solution to my problem but nothing seems to work.
My phone (curve 8520) was bricked/nuked and I fixed it following these instructions http://crackberry.com/blackberry-101-lecture-12-how-reload-operating-system-nuked-blackberry.
All went well except for the fact that I lost the email setup icon on my phone.
I tried using this link http://www.mobileemail.vodafone.pt/ but they tell me I have to use my phone to do it. When I try it using my phone it won't let me and I receive a message telling me that I need to contact my network provider.
After this I tried a security wipe. Nothing.
Today I tried installing facebook and got this message "Download Failed 907 Invalid COD"
After that I tried following these steps http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/BlackBerry-Bold/Done-a-Security-Wipe-and-now-can-t-set-up-my-... but I dont get any message after registering HRT (http://btsc.webapps.blackberry.com/btsc/viewdocument.do?externalId=KB00510&sliceId=2&cmd=displayKC&d...
Does anyone know what's wrong with my phone? Can it be fixed?
I need email on my phone for work...
Thanks!

Hi and Welcome to the Community!
MissTangerine wrote:
After that I tried following these steps http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/BlackBerry-Bold/Done-a-Security-Wipe-and-now-can-t-set-up-my-... but I dont get any message after registering HRT
Given that, you need to talk to your mobile service provider...it is their network that your BB must attach to, and for some reason it is not doing so. But, since it is their network, you need their formal support to resolve this.
Good luck and let us know!
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ITunes had an error while trying to update my iPhone 6+ and now the phone is bricked (and iTunes is not detecting it)

So I tried Installing iOS 8.3 onto my iPhone 6+, updated iTunes to the latest version, 12.1.2, downloaded the update for the phone, connected my phone - it detected fine like it always does. When I tried installing, it went to about halfway or so and then iTunes said there was a problem updating the phone.
The phone icon disappeared from iTunes and when I checked the phone it was giving the blank screen. I tried turning it off and on again... It showed the apple logo, and then the connect to itunes icon, but iTunes is not detecting it.
Even if I take it out and put it back in again, even with the hard reset holding the home and power buttons. I'm running Windows 8.1. So far I've tried the hard reset, cleaning the connector pins, switching to a a different USB port, reinstalling iTunes, checking to see if the Apple Mobile Device software is up to date, even using a previous restore point in windows.
The device makes a noise when it gets plugged in, indicating that it's being detected by the computer, but iTunes... nothing. And my phone is stuck on showing the connect to iTunes picture and it's bricked and unusable and I'm wondering why I even bothered with this stupid update.

Most of the recent updates showed the connect to iTunes screen for a short time. But if the update was done with the iOS device connected to the computer running iTunes, the Connect to iTunes screen appeared only briefly then the update completed. If your iPhone didn't complete the update you will have to put the iPhone into Recovery Mode. Follow the steps very carefully in the link below. You might have to try several times to get your phone into Recovery Mode.
If you can't update or restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

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