Bricked PBP after writing image to eMMC?

[danielt]

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PS Soft bricking through bad images in either eMMC or SPI are pretty obvious... the power LED doesn't come on.

I'm sorry but I don't see this is a positive at all.
It gives no information to the user about a failure. If anything it misdirects them into thinking it's a hardware failure because the machine doesn't visibly power on and is entirely unresponsive.

Agreed. I didn't mean to imply that it's positive! As it happens I can usually tell power comes on by the high frequency noises the board makes... but I'm getting older and don't expect to be able to hear that for much longer .

It's more that if the light does come on then the board probably *isn't* soft bricked. In other words, whether it is a great user experience or not, it is good to know what we learn from watching the lights.