what is bricking?(or whatever it is?)

what does it do to systems?

 

It makes them as useful as a brick.

 

It messes up your system, it "kills" it

 

Corrupts the firmware and renders the system unuseable.

 

Bricking means to take a brick (the rectangular hard thing) and smash it at your systems >

 

...As said.

Basically the damage, software wise, renders it as useful as a brick.

Usually the damage is done via software changes.

 

damages psp system, but can be reversaval depending on your psp model....

 

remember it doesnt just happen on the psp, it can happen on any electronic device, usually the ones that require some firmware. In my experience, bricking happens usually when updating firmware, or some custom firmware. something goes wrong, corrupting it, and making the device unusable (not that ive bricked many devices, just one, an ipod classic, but ive read around and kinda know the topic)

 

HEY! BRICKS ARE USEFUL. I've killed many people using bricks.

Anyways.
You do NOT want a brick.

 

would it be possible to brick my psp while updating official firmware?

 

yes, it is possible, have you seen those, dont turn off system or take battery out warnings? its to avoid the bricking, it can still happen even if you dont do this, if the firmware is corrupted, or gets corrupted somehow during the update process.

 

then should i stop updating or be careful not to remove charger/battery/etc while updating?

 

its good to update, if you have your psp hacked, dont update it with the official firmware, but with the custom firmware. But updating is good since it has fixes and removes bugs from previous versions of firmware. there has always been this chance of bricking devices with updates, but its not too high. But always be careful in doing it.

 

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Take a look at the Wii, you can change IOS'.

If you do one or two things wrong, the system cannot load the IOS anymore and the system, well yeah, stops loading.

Then you can throw it at someone ;D
Or build a house with it (cool, a build-in Wii, always wanted that ).


That's why some people advice not to update through via Nintendo. Nintendo's IOS' do hate the custom IOS', and conflict and then BAM and then POW and then BRICK.

 

makes for interesting bookends.

 

Also, if you really wanna brick your Wii, just use get ahold of a wad file of any IOS under 200 and uninstall it. If you don't have BootMii as boot2, you're screwed.

PSPs are even easier to brick. Just shut if off during an update.
You can do that with a PS3 as well perhaps.

 

you can do that with any device, it happened to me with my ipod classic

 

Yes, but I've only done it to a PSP. I don't wanna risk my other consoles.

 

I don't want either

It happened with my older Wii