When can an embedded device be truly bricked?

[el es]

Hi,

 

I installed the wrong image on a Rockchip RK3288 (Hannspree) Android 5.1 TV box.

 

Now it won't boot from internal memory or sd-card, power on, light up or anything. Like it was hit by lightning.

Is this expected? What has happened?

 

(This very comprehensive and helpful post says that "If the internal flash does not contain a bootable system, they will always boot from the sdcard.")

 

Thank you good people

 

(The tag on this post is wrong... I could not find a RK3288 tag)

[SteeMan]

moved to TV Box forums

[MaxT]

As stated in the post you referred to, technically Rockchip devices cannot be bricked.

Since you flashed a wrong image, it probably not right to say internal flash doesn't contain bootable system. Rather that system is wrong and cannot compete boot hanging somewhere, eg ddr init.

So I guess you have to go by the mask room path to recover (flash correct image or erase internal flash to enable SD card boot, which might be easier to experiment with).