Apple Pulls Apple TV 6.0 Update Following Reports of Bricking

[MagnusVonMagnum]

Just a thought..I updated 4 AppleTV's 2-720, 2-1080p, all with no glitch at all. Having AppleTV's since the original I know the updates take very long to go through the process for some reason. The updates do at times seem to be "Frozen" when they are in fact not. I have had 2 friends complain that it bricked their AppleTV, but upon asking a few questions..both admitted after a while that they tried to reboot or pull the plug to reboot thinking the update was stuck which more than likely caused the bricking. I'm not suggesting that is the case with all, but it might be more common than people will admit to.

I was thinking the same thing myself. I set my ATV2 to update while I was exercising and something close to 40 minutes to an hour later, it was still updating. 10 minutes later it finished and all was fine, but I can imagine there were probably some LOOOOONG points that seemed like it was dead. I'm glad I wasn't watching all that time.

 

[roadbloc]

Oh Apple... whatever happened to your software? Despite thinking it impossible, it seems to continue to get worse.

 

[MacSince'85]

An illustrated primer:

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I get the humor, however...a brick is in the eye of the beholder

If you do not have access to a computer that can restore the device and you live an hour from the nearest Apple Store, for all intents and purposes it is a brick as it is useful for nothing but a blinking light on your entertainment center.

 

[imola.zhp]

This may be a silly question, but when you mount them like that (to the back of the TV) how does the remote still work? Doesn't the TV block the IR light?

Be sure to point them up, the remote will easily bounce off of the ceiling/wall. Been that way in my house for years now on 4 different ATV's (two ATV2's, then I sold them for hefty profits on ebay and bought three ATV 3's, but one is not mounted to the back of a TV).

 

[grahamperrin]

ZEVO ZFS for Mavericks (link)

… Mavericks. It will not be compatible with my ZEVO ZFS drives which I have turned to because Apple has not provided an updated file system to protect my data. I feel like Apple is working against me rather than for me at every turn. I will not put up with this forever.

No timescale (sorry) but please see https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=18363552#post18363552

 

[paulgarb]

I'm not about to read all the posts but WTF do the latter ones have to do with Apple TV?