"ext Thomas Leavitt" <thomas at thomasleavitt.org> writes: > The device functioned just fine while it was in this "broken" state, > and just fine afterwards, so I doubt that doing updates in > "red-pill" mode, alone, is enough to brick the device... I suspect > there must be something else involved. Red-pill mode just makes more packages visible, it doesn't give any additional capabilities to packages. Thus, saying that "Red-pill mode will likely brick your device" really means "It is highly likely that the same repositories that contain desirable applications also contain packages that will brick your device, you just don't see them unless you are in red-pill mode."
