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Can you be more specific about that bricking? Although I'm in Europe, so no Verizon over here, it still concerns me that a carrier can render a communication d
by squarefoot 8y ago
Can you be more specific about that bricking? Although I'm in
Europe, so no Verizon over here, it still concerns me that a carrier can render a communication device inoperable.
- naraic0o 8y agoI imagine he means they blacklist the IMEI, rendering the device useless in the country (if there’s only one carrier that supports the device’s band).
- squarefoot 8y agoAh ok, I thought they would mess remotely with the cards FTDI style [1], turning them into paperweights. [1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/ftdi-admits-to-bricking-innocent-users-chips-in-silent-update/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/ftdi-admits-to-bricking-innoce...
- StudentStuff 8y agoVerizon picks up that the IMEI of the device on the line is different than the one that is on file for your line, attempts to update it, and in the process of doing so breaks service on your line. You can swap over to a working Verizon supported device and swap back, but it could be hours to weeks later when you get this issue occurring again.
- blackflame7000 8y agoAT&T completely bricked SM-T337A trying to root. I should have read more carefully but every other version of that tablet is rootable except AT&Ts. Attempting to root with my version results in an endless bootloop with no way to restore because they havent released a signed version of their kernel to restore to. Obviously this is outside the ToS but my point is to elucidate that they protect their devices from modification to the low level baseband aggressively