Mods, feel free to close this thread down. 20 posts later, I still have yet to get a working answer from those here who claim to "help"
I've been called a "kid", have been accused of trying to get "mommy and daddy to buy me a new ipod", and now the most recent poster has already deemed himself judge and jury and has determined that my intentions are misguided and has taken the authority upon himself to ask others to not help with a legitimate issue. Thanks, pal
Thank you to the one or two of you who actually tried to be constructive. But I won't be back
One of the things apple tells you not to do is this... when you are updating the firmware let it finish. Do not turn the power off or remove the cable from the iPod before it has finished with updating the firmware. What would happen if you were to pull out the cable half way through... I don't know. It would be an easy thing to try to see if you could brick it this way.
It is not possible to brick an iPod Touch without causing physical damage to it. Nothing you can do to your Touch will prevent it from being put into DFU mode and restored.
It is officially bricked. If you search the internet for "stuck at 'Waiting for iPhone", you can read that in almost every case of this occurring, the only solution was a warranty replacement (if applicable).
I'd love to get my hands on one of these so-called bricked phones, just to see if this is true/I can manage to do a successful restore. There's got to be a logical explanation for what people are experiencing, and a way around it that doesn't require that the phone be replaced.
There's really no reason why a phone can be completely "bricked." You CAN brick the baseband if you're not careful, but the phone should still boot and be usable (although not as a phone) if that happens. For the main OS itself, DFU exists for the express purpose of preventing a state of permanent brick-ness.
-- Nathan
i'm going to go against the grain here and sympathize with the threadstarter. it has to be incredibly frustrating to spend a couple of hours in a forum on a saturday afternoon and get no little to no help from everybody
i, too, went to law school and can admit that his situation could be fully legitimate. getting a subpoena isn't as easy as law and order makes it look. and apple might not want to get involved in the case and might be putting up a small fight to keep their names from showing up in insignificant court docs
People in these forums have gotten more and more pretentious every day. If you have nothing to contribute, then don't bother posting on the thread.
Who cares why he's doing it?
If you see a drunken homeless guy begging for change, do you go out of your way to berate him for it, or do you go on about your business and leave him be?
I'd love to get my hands on one of these so-called bricked phones, just to see if this is true/I can manage to do a successful restore. There's got to be a logical explanation for what people are experiencing...
Of course it "could" be legitimate, but this is the internet. What are the odds? On the internet everyone's a lawyer/engineer/insider who "knows" what the real deal is and why everyone should give what they're saying more weight than anyone else. There's no way to authenticate the veracity of anyone's statements.
So what would everyone had done/said if he had asked:
"I have a legal case that requires me to present information in court on what actions might "brick" an iPod Touch without causing physical harm to it. Is there truly a sequence of steps that would cause this?
If you aren't comfortable outlining them here, please feel free to contact me at freeemailaddy at yourchoice dot com.
Thank you for any help in this matter from myself and my client."
Would the approach have made a difference??
I'm not a lawyer.... just paying one in a nasty divorce, and the other side has some wonky ideas on technology.