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Got a nespresso Machine last year...worked great....hooked up to Wifi and the phone app and had it firmware update and it turned it into a brick. They sent me
by Damogran6 4y ago
Got a nespresso Machine last year...worked great....hooked up to Wifi and the phone app and had it firmware update and it turned it into a brick.
They sent me a replacement that works great and is entirely ignorant of the outside world (and will stay that way.)
- eternityforest 4y agoAre you on a network with some kind of firewalling or tracker blocking? I wonder if they are programmed to stop working if they can't phone home after exiting dumb mode? Or if there's an activation step they never planned to need recovery from failure of?
- Damogran6 4y agoI don’t think it was intentional, talking to their tech support, there was no way to restore it to function. I suspect a bricked firmware update.
- bombela 4y agoWhat's so sad is that usually bricking is a pure software bug. That overwrites whatever code boots the device far enough so thatnl it can update itself. If you have the hardware programmer you can most often update the flash directly. I don't expect everybody to have all the hardware programmers on hand. But I would gladly go to a repair shop to get a quick firmware flash to unbrik some device. Of course this is probably not worth it for manufacturers. It's so infuriating because most device even have a relatively standard programming port already (though you need to open open the device to access it)
- eternityforest 4y agoThis is a case where Arduino is so far beyond any professional solution it's just insane. USB update, no problem. If products would all just use a Wemos D1 or something on their board, none of this would be an issue. But sadly software defined products need(or think they need) proprietary firmware and Arduino isn't set up for strong DRM.