"Soft bricked" - bricked from a functional perspective, but recoverable using software methods and common household interfaces.
"Hard bricked" - toast. replacement of parts, offboard programming of EEPROM devices or use of JTAG ports required to recover.
The FTDI driver issue was a soft brick.
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Jim MacKenzie jim@photojim.ca wrote:
In my computer hobby, "bricked" has typically meant that the device has been rendered in a non-functional state. This term is used even if the device might be salvageable, but typically it will take expert knowledge or significant bother to get it working again. That is indeed the case here.
Jim VE5EIS
-----Original Message----- From: chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com [mailto:chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com] On Behalf Of Jim Unroe Sent: October-24-14 1:34 PM To: Discussion of CHIRP Subject: Re: [chirp_users] FTDI Chipset driver bricking fake FTDI chips
No chips were "bricked". "Bricked" implies that the chip will no longer function, period. They can be restored and there are videos appearing that show how to do it.
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