<div dir="ltr">"Soft bricked" - bricked from a functional perspective, but recoverable using software methods and common household interfaces.<br><br>"Hard bricked" - toast. replacement of parts, offboard programming of EEPROM devices or use of JTAG ports required to recover.<br><br>The FTDI driver issue was a soft brick.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Jim MacKenzie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@photojim.ca" target="_blank">jim@photojim.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In my computer hobby, "bricked" has typically meant that the device has been<br>
rendered in a non-functional state. This term is used even if the device<br>
might be salvageable, but typically it will take expert knowledge or<br>
significant bother to get it working again. That is indeed the case here.<br>
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Jim VE5EIS<br>
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Subject: Re: [chirp_users] FTDI Chipset driver bricking fake FTDI chips<br>
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No chips were "bricked". "Bricked" implies that the chip will no longer<br>
function, period. They can be restored and there are videos appearing that<br>
show how to do it.<br>
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