iPad bricked by iOS 9.3? Don't worry, we'll get through this together Earlier this week, word broke of a bug in Apple's iOS 9.3 update that was leaving some iPad 2 tablets unable to function. We asked Reg readers if they had experienced this problem, and the responses came pouring in, along with tips for workarounds that at least let you use your iPad until Apple can come up with a fix. So, we' …
Surely, it is never truly bricked?
Usually, one plugs in to a computer, and then a restart while plugged in with an app on the PC specifically designed to send an interrupt code at a very early stage and hand control over to the app, which then flashes the device.
Usually, that bit of flash is never changed, and thus can't be broken by an upgrade, boot-flash basically.
I re-flashed a WP10 Lumia 1020 to WP8.1 just yesterday to give it to someone - WP10 is no good for regular use on a 1020 (yet at least). I think it is the same recovery tool (it is called a recovery tool after all).
From five phones over 3 years and about 40 upgrades, I had one that got stuck. I left it all night and finally took it to a shop. They had several goes but did recover it - I guess the timing was a bit tight.
The iPod I have to use for work is offering the upgrade, I presume it is OK for iPods but I see no benefit in doing the upgrade so it will sit waiting for as long as I can delay it.
Does it really matter what they call it?
Some Appleista on the other thread actually PULLED ME UP for repeating the word "bricked" used in that article - apparently it's "borked", not "bricked".
FFS.
Call it what you like - a lot of folk are royally stuffed right now.
Arguing over the name we use to describe this stuffedness just stinks of defensive "special pleading".
Mine took a few hours. I left it alone and it got there in the end.
However, when I tried to update some apps it told me there wasn't space for them - even though there was. I had to sync them one by one instead of doing Update All.
A bit pants really, but not a surprise considering the downward trend in the quality of Apple software.
Why can't a company with so many billions in the bank manage a basic QA program?
My wife's iPad 2 WiFi & 3G "bricked". I eventually managed to get it back to 9.2.1 by the "Hold the buttons down while chanting" routing and, third time lucky, the restore actually worked.
Extra points to Apple for sending out this borked update with the "Emergency security fixes!!! Install this or the World will end!!!" banner...
Gee, I only agreed to let great and glorious Apple install an update! Silly me, and now the company iPad wants me to enter information that nobody seems to know. What apps are on it? Test Flight and our beta software. No, the Mac Mini that I was given wasn't the one where the iPad was originally activated.
Really, wasn't the iPad "activated" before the update? Will it download something automagically that will fix it? I have no idea.
From one of the quotes in the article:
" The only thing I can think of was the iPad had been stone cold dead for about a week before I performed a fresh download and restore"
Considering the update came out Monday night/Tuesday morning UK time, I have to ask how that person managed to do the update, try the fixes, and then leave it for a week, and its only Friday now.
Time-Travelling iPad?
I have told everyone i ever met, at least a million times, to stop exaggerating
One of my users approached me with this or a similar problem before I knew about it. They had allowed it to Update, and it was stuck on "cannot access the server" message. They had tried over the phone's data, and at least one WiFi point.
I fired up my (Galaxy S5, Verizon) hotspot, got it connected there, and Voila! It finally contacted the CrApple servers and the user could access their phone again.
This might or might not be relevant or useful, but when so many are so screwed, any possible option is worth sharing. Luck to ya.
Iphone Wave.
Cue fried iDevices by id10Ts because they actually were stupid enough to try this.
I had to restrain someone from putting their iPhone in the work microwave to "fast charge"...
In other news, if you are unlucky enough to own a completely dead iPad Mini its possible to get it working again even if its beeping and/or deader than mutton even after being plugged in overnight.
You will need: a soldering iron, two thin wires, spudgers, an external battery charger PCB good to about 150mA max and be skilled in the art of kludge-fu (tm)
So far so good, managed to do a full cycle and so far the charge is holding, before it "full charged" in about 20 minutes from 2 lights up to 5.
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