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I saw this image on 9gag, followed the instructions, and now my iPhone's is blank for a few seconds before turning off?
Did I do something wrong? Does it need to be charged?
>>52924167
this is such bait.
We literally barely started posting this here.
Anyone there? Please help. I just tried it on my mom's iPhone to see if it was just a coincidence and now her's won't turn on too.
How fucked am I?
>>52924268
B8 is too obvious
>>52924167
HAHAHAHAHA, people are already intentionally bricking their phones. Seriously though, apple's been fucking up so bad lately that they can't even keep a simple epoch fail from breaking the OS.
>>52924167
>>52924268
Try harder m8, 0/10
Sage
That would be a fucking brilliant theme though.
>>52924295
>>52924327
Not b8ing, looks like I got fooled.
What's the fix?
>>52924370
Turn on the phone and let it discharge completely in the bootloop.
The date will reset.
>>52924370
You bricked it, say thanks to Apple for being incompetent tards that can't keep the unix epoch from breaking a OS
Same here but saw it on FB
How the absolute heck do I fix this my mom will kill me I'd I break her iPad
"not b8ing looks like I got fooled" haha that was good
Fixed it, might not have a back cover anymore but at least it's turning on.
>>52924167
bait is 14 days old
too weak
i never felt sorry for anyone that fell for the bend, waterproof, and microwave ones. i dont feel sorry for people that fall for phishing scams, etc. cause the truth is right there in the web address, and things are so much easier to verify. neither for people that get viruses, etc.
but this? i genuinely feel sorry for people that fall for this one.
>>52925135
i understand its something to do with the unix epoch, but i dont understand why it actually breaks the OS.
>>52924398
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgHNtzxO0y8
>>52925247
if you live in a timezone that is behind UTC you get a negative time or something and shit just breaks. that why the prank doesn't work in europe for example
THIS IS NOW A RAID THREAD
>>52925913
>>52924167
SPREAD THIS TO ALL NON-TECH PEOPLE
>>52925935
>>52925961
>>52924167
I like this hoax because it seens legit, also who would think changing the date on the settings menu would do any harm and brick your phone?
Even I would try this shit if I didn't come to /g/ today.
Does anyone know of an icon pack/theme/launcher that looks like this for Android? Not gonna lie it'd be fun to have for a little bit.
>>52924167
>following instructions from Apple in the first place
>>52925983
>changing the date on the settings menu would do any harm and brick your phone
no bait here
turning the device off or changing the date bricks an iPhone? for real? why?
>>52926286
Yes, something related to how the apple coders are fucking monkeys
Seriously tho, does setting the date back cause the phone to not boot?
That's kinda funny.
I just did this and now waiting for it to just die like >>52924387
said.
>>52926216
good point.
There are people on /g/ right now that are so autistic that they cannot handle seeing other people buying products they don't like and will go to such lengths that they will try to destroy said person's product.
This is contrary to the values of /g/. While poor purchasing decisions are rightfully used for entertainment, at the end of the day it is the buyer's freedom to choose whatever they want. Attempting to deny that freedom is infantile, unprofessional and does not correspond with the freedoms granted by living in the United States of America or any other first world nation where citizens have god given rights.
>>52927060
5 poos have been directly deposited into your street shitting hands apple genius Pajeet.
>>52927202
Your vane shitposting is disregarded but your status as an enemy of freedom is noted as contemporary evidence supporting the original post.
>>52924167
>I saw this image on 9gag
There is no watermark so you are baiting
>>52924167
let its battery drain till its dead then it should work again.
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2016/02/11/do-not-set-your-iphone-date-to-jan-1-1970/
>SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — An image floating around the Internet that purports to enable a retro mode on iPhones is actually a prank designed to brick your device.
Posted this on my snapchat story, worst mistake of my life.
Afraid to going to college tomorrow, the niggers in the basketball team are going to fuck me up.
>>52927403
did you already get any angry comments? post them here
>>52927424
It's snapchat, the niggers are already mad at me and I heard they get a notification if I screenshot it.
>>52927442
How would they reply without a working phone?
I prefer this one
>>52927265
this
/thread
>>52927499
They can log in their snapchat with the reserve phone like the two guys who texted me after fucking their shit up did..
Snapchat is not phone exclusive, you can even check online your snapchat nowadays.
OMG it worked guise!
The /fa/ thread was pretty good.
>>>/fa/10944169
>>52926286
>turning the device off or changing the date bricks an iPhone?
Setting the date to 1st January 1970 in that bastardized variant of Unix that is iOS causes some functions on boot to point to null values because Apple employs monkeys for coders.
>>52927628
LEL
>>52927622
nice, finally a working OS on iDevices.
>>52925913
>>52925935
>>52925961
>>52925976
>>52927533
/g/ can design Apple ads and make logos but can't start a real programming project.
>>52927696
That's because we're so fucking good at logos.
>>52927696
or maybe we just dont wanna
because we're idiots and we like that
>>52925936
>NON-TECH PEOPLE
Normie detected
>>52927696
upvoted
>>52927411
>>52924167
THE ABSOLUTE MADMEN
This can't be right, that shit really breaks the phone?
Youd think apple would be smarter than that.
Oh well, at least we won't have to deal with a resurgence of "rich blacks" jokes
>>52927533
surely fake?
>>52928369
Steve Jobs is dead. Tim Cook secretly wants to destroy the company. He doesnt really give a flying fuck.
>>52927377
I've been posting the picture on yik yak all day in Sacramento. Wonder if I did it lol.
>>52927691
except it's an android tablet. And bait.
>>52927060
are you retarded, do you even realize where you are posting this?
it's fucking 4chan
no one give a shit about retards that follow the directions; they deserve it
go back to. reddit, because the way you are posting you belong there
How do I roll back? I can't even set my background in this shit.
>>52925310
so you're saying that the date somehow ties in with iOS's boot process?
>>52927696
shooping doesn't equal coding m80
>>52931390
What about the "programming is easy" meme?
There's no way this bricks the phone, right? This has to be a joke, I've never had a single issue with my iPhone. Hold my beer, "I'll be back..."
>>52932058
Yo but don't actually do it though, don't be an absolute madman
Why would setting the clock on your phone fuck it up?
>>52928369
>Youd think apple would be smarter than that.
hahahahahahaha
>>52927060
>>This is contrary to the values of /g/
hahahahahahaha
/g/ is fucking great to create ads and logos.
No wonder why this board is spammed with consumerism shit now.
>>52927696
/g/ stands for /g/raphical design
>>52927060
>bricked iPud detected
>>52928390
Are you seriously questioning the stupidity of some people? wake up faggit
>>52927060
>freedoms granted by living in the United States of America
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha oh wow
>>52927060
>schadenfreude
>bad
>>52927060
>vir/g/ins actually thinking this anything other than bait.
Gr8 B8 M8 I R8 it an 8/8.
Are you guys entertained by the idea that someone actually bricked his iphone?
>>52925310
>doesn't work in europe for example
I'm in Germany and my iPhone 6 isnt't booting because of this.
>>52927060
>Attempting to deny that freedom is infantile, unprofessional and does not correspond with the freedoms granted by living in the United States of America or any other first world nation where citizens have god given rights.
GOD DAMN NIGGER YOU SRS
>>52934867
And you aren't?
>>52934867
Hell yeah. This is called natural selection.
>>52935110
Im not a troll. Im one of the good honest guys.
>>52935206
Someday something like that will happen to someone. Because what goes around comes around.
>>52935287
>What goes around comes around
Fuck off back to tumblr
>>52935287
Of course something like this might happen to me.
But much more unlikely since I both hate proprietary software and I'm not a gullible idiot.
>>52935287
>>>/tumblr/ newfag
>>52935287
/GIF/Sissy
Would be a good place for you whiteknighting newfag
>>52935480
>/gif/sissy
That's an insult to sissies everywhere douchebag. We don't take to the likes of him.
>>52934867
why wouldnt we be?
