Don't reset your Iphone date

pappa_golf

Brickology about to happen


setting your iPhone date to jan 1st 1970 bricks it


http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/35595474/dont-set-your-iphone-to-1-january-1970-or-youll-break-it

d123

pappa_golf wrote: »

Brickology about to happen


setting your iPhone date to jan 1st 1970 bricks it


http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/35595474/dont-set-your-iphone-to-1-january-1970-or-youll-break-it

Fairly simple to repair, luckily.

http://youtu.be/ofnq37dqGyY

Kim_13

How many more ways are there going to be to brick an iPhone? Not that I knew you could even change the date anyway.

The upcoming Lumia 650 looks more and more tempting, despite the reduced app store.

d123

Kim_13 wrote: »

How many more ways are there going to be to brick an iPhone?

Actually a lot less than for a lot of Androids, and it's still a lot easier to permenantly kill an Android device simply by flashing the firmware.

Any phone can ultimately be killed if you do things you shouldn't or that you don't understand (or just have bad luck, if it's a Samsung that was afflicted by the eMMC superbrick bug).

20aday

And quite why you'd want to set your iPhone to January 1st 1970 is beyond me.

Then again some would argue why people like me buy iPhones anyway ;-).