What makes iPhone bricked,How to brick an iPhone?
Setting the time and date to 01-01-1970 00:00 local time would make the system to brick. This will actually kill and destroy your iPhone, The iPhone that i have seen suffering from this bug are iPhone 4, iPhone 5, iPhone 6, 6S and i iPhone 6 plus. i Think this will be coming to the iPhone 7 as well if apple wont fix this as early as possible before the release of their next flagship. I bet there will be people who will still want to change and reset the date, but please please.! DON'T DO IT WITH YOUR iPhone unless you want to kill it!!
Bricked iPhone is the state reached by an iPhone inherited in form of programming. it’s a reflection of the limitations of computer-based algorithms. It has nothing to do with Apple. Remember the Millennium bug? The one that could cause computers or software to misinterpret the first two digits of the year 2000 as 19? This happens due to the coding of dates using only the last two digits of the year.
It’s always good to know that bugs like these are present and SHOULD be addressed, even if practically speaking no one would actually do this in a normal situation, it stands that there are some pranksters out there who will maliciously trick people in to doing it because the latter don’t understand how computing works. So, better not fall into this pranks and don't try to do it with your iPhone.
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This was done on a newish phone because this hack only works on phones that have a 64 bit processor. That means any phone with the A7 chip and above. Nevertheless, he could have gone older than the phone he used. You are correct about the jail-breaking tool that can bring a phone out of many states that are otherwise irreparable, but it hasn’t been tested with this type of brick yet. If I had an extra phone with a 64 bit processor I would run a test on it to see if I can figure any way out of it.
I live in Australia, so no nearby Apple Store to go. My son bricked the phone “thanks” to this stupid bug.The solution was simple, though it voided the warranty. Remove two outer screws, gently remove the display, remove to screws and unplug the battery cable for, say, half a minute. Reverse the process. Turn on the phone and presto! It is alive again.
Phone was an iPhone 6. IF you take your phone to an authorized Apple repairer or Apple Store, have them remove the battery and reset it, and the phone will then restore! You won't be asked to pay any amount of dollar if your iPhone or iPad is under the warranty.
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This seems plausible, by removing the battery from the iPhone (or iPad) it resets the clock and NVRAM on the device, so it would be back to a normal compatible time again and no longer beginning of UNIX epoch. Too bad iPhone are so hard to get into by average user, basically impossible.
Thats exactly why it works: resets the SMC/NVRAM on the phone,
Apple Store or authorized service will do it for FREE. If you have a 5S,6 or 6S DO NOT take it to an unauthorized service center or then you fall foul of the dreaded Error -53 (touch ID mismatch). At least authorized Apple Stores and legit repairers can rematch your touch ID.Put your device in recovery mode. Then shift+update (alt+update for mac) to 9.2.1. Then put in dfu mode and restore your device. Eject your simcard. It’ll take 30-45 mins to boot after restore process
Phone was an iPhone 6. IF you take your phone to an authorized Apple repairer or Apple Store, have them remove the battery and reset it, and the phone will then restore! You won't be asked to pay any amount of dollar if your iPhone or iPad is under the warranty.
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Thats exactly why it works: resets the SMC/NVRAM on the phone,
Apple Store or authorized service will do it for FREE. If you have a 5S,6 or 6S DO NOT take it to an unauthorized service center or then you fall foul of the dreaded Error -53 (touch ID mismatch). At least authorized Apple Stores and legit repairers can rematch your touch ID.Put your device in recovery mode. Then shift+update (alt+update for mac) to 9.2.1. Then put in dfu mode and restore your device. Eject your simcard. It’ll take 30-45 mins to boot after restore process
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Read more about bricking iPhoneSetting the time to 01-01-1970 00:00 local time would make the system’s Unix time (an integer count of seconds since 01-01-1970 00:00 UTC) a negative number, in any timezone with a negative offset from UTC. Obviously, being unable to deal with that would be a bug; I’ve seen enough bad time-related code to make me believe it’s a plausible bug.
There is a good chance that waiting enough hours to let the internal hardware clock tick over to a time that would once again translate to a positive Unix time, then force-rebooting it, would unbrick it.
I would expect the 01-01-1970 00:00 trick not to work in timezones with a positive offset from UTC. If you’re in such a timezone, and you have a disposable iDevice to hand, perhaps try it with 12-31-1969 00:00 and report back.
Read more about bricking iPhoneSetting the time to 01-01-1970 00:00 local time would make the system’s Unix time (an integer count of seconds since 01-01-1970 00:00 UTC) a negative number, in any timezone with a negative offset from UTC. Obviously, being unable to deal with that would be a bug; I’ve seen enough bad time-related code to make me believe it’s a plausible bug.
There is a good chance that waiting enough hours to let the internal hardware clock tick over to a time that would once again translate to a positive Unix time, then force-rebooting it, would unbrick it.
I would expect the 01-01-1970 00:00 trick not to work in timezones with a positive offset from UTC. If you’re in such a timezone, and you have a disposable iDevice to hand, perhaps try it with 12-31-1969 00:00 and report back.
It’s time to fire Tim Cook or technical director of Apple!!Never seen so many bugs!!Its a shame!
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