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iOS is pretty stringent on power capacity coming through the wires. You'd have to make your own jailbreak tweak (or modify a current one) to fry your device with a cable



"Don't brick" doesn't have the same rhyme to it.

For example: Since there's a process for altering on-connector data, exercising that process could break a device in a way that disqualifies it for warranty repair.


I think to myself that DFU mode actually stands for "Don't F Up" rather than "Device Firmware Upgrade".


When I supported them I referred to it as “done f’d” instead, since it was typically used to recover from something gone wrong.




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