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Originally Posted by eschwartz
I just thought it was ironic that of my several friends who have iPhones, the one who jailbroke is doing fine and two of the ones who didn't jailbreak got bricked on an official Apple update. 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ata-wiped.html
Course, they're wrong -- iTunes wouldn't fix their phones, and both had to go to an Apple store. |
iTunes doesn't ever "fix" a phone. I have found when bricked that a little app called Tiny Umbrella (often used in conjunction with jailbreaking) is a useful tool for kicking a phone out of recovery. A restore can happen after that. I notice in the article people were whining about having to restore, and *lose* all their stuff. Well here's the thing... if they backed up regularly, that would not happen. I've never lost anything after getting bricked. You just have to be sensible. I have a friend who has not backed up since about a year ago. More fool her, she's been warned. One day she will lose everything, and blame the phone. Boring!