Brick (electronics)

Non-functioning electronic device A soft bricked Fire TV Stick, booting in emergency recovery and telling the user that the /data partition got corrupted, and requiring a factory reset in order to make it usable again A soft bricked iPod Touch, displaying only file system related messages, most likely due to a failed jailbreak A soft bricked Windows 10 flight-signed build, displaying error messages from the boot manager A brick (or bricked device) is an electronic device, specially consumer electronics (such as a mobile device, game console, computer, etc.) that is no longer functional. It could be due to corrupted firmware, failed operating system, a hardware problem, or other damage. The term is an analogy to a construction brick and its lack of modern technological usefulness. "Brick" is also used as a verb to describe a device entering such a state. Cause and prevention Bricking a device is most often a result of interrupting an attempt to update the device. Many devices have an update procedure which must not be interrupted before completion; if interrupted by a power failure, user intervention, or any other reason, the existing firmware may be partially overwritten and unusab