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Originally Posted by patrickt
If Kindle was bricking your Kindles it was something personal. None of mine were ever bricked.
"To brick: The word "brick", when used in reference to consumer electronics, describes an electronic device such as a smartphone, game console, router, or tablet computer that, due to severe physical damage, a serious misconfiguration, corrupted firmware, or a hardware problem, can no longer function, hence, is as technologically useful as a brick."
None of my Paperwhites have been 'bricked" and the Voyage I gave to a student wasn't "bricked" and the Oasis 2 I returned quickly to Amazon wasn't bricked so if you're was, it was personal.
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As this thread is under the subforum where we discuss jailbreaking, bricking (often due to corrupted firmware) is one of the expected risks.
I actually just traded in a bricked PW3 (Error Code: 2, factory fw 5.8.9.0.1 install failed) for a PW4. Amazon's trade-in offer of 25% discount even for non-working Kindles is a great deal.
