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by gedekran 5527 days ago
More apt would have been that it disables your iphone temporarily until a factory reset or restore is performed. Saying it bricks it causes me to think back to messing up the flashing of firmware on a device and the device never working again.
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Yeah, I know. Its to bad though because all the discussions are turning into discussions about the proper use of "bricking".
Well, I'm pretty sure that getting "fscked" is not that bad. I mean, running file-system checks is probably a good idea to do periodically.