23 Jun
2015
23 Jun
'15
1:21 p.m.
On 06/23/2015 03:13 PM, geneb wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Should he stick a fork in it?
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On 2015-06-23 18:41, Alexandre Souza wrote:
Yes. The software refuses to run, and just displays a message that you
are running on fake hardware.
Does that prevent you from loading some other software on said device?
How did you get the "broken" software on the device?
There is a difference between refusing to run, and trying to destroy
the hardware.
He's mentioned more than once that this software BRICKS the device.
When something is bricked, that means you might as well treat it like
the stone kind for all the use you're going to get out of it from then on.
It's dead, pushing up daisies, it's run down the curtain to the Choir
Invisible. IT'S BRICKED.
g.
But
unless I misunderstood things, the software merely does a check if
the hardware looks sane, and if not it displays a message saying that
this is the wrong hardware, and it refuses to continue running.
No Johnny. As I said, it bricks (renders inoperable) your hardware
if it isn't original.