For the third time my iPhone bricked. I figured enough is enough and I went to get a new unit. Fortunately, I live in a city with an Apple Store so I thought this would be easy. No, not so much. You need to make an appointment with the genius bar to get support apparently. I asked what my other options were. None. Really, so if I lived, say, 400 miles away from an Apple store, that means I have to drive all that way to swap it out? Really?

apple.com/support wasn't any help. I found the online support repair thingy but it was apparenltly only for replacing your sync cable, dock, headphones and TTY adapter.

What made me really nervous this time was that my phone just happened to brick while running 1.1.3, but now there's 1.1.4. I mentioned in a past post that you cannot travel without your laptop when you are an iPhone user. Well, you also must have access to a high-speed Internet connection as well. I could not get the restore operation to work until I was connected and downloading a 162MB file. How well is this restore operation going to work on a backup from 1.1.3? Well, it seems okay so far. We'll see.

I mentioned before that it bricked twice under very specific conditions. This time it bricked while I was sending a text message at low battery (20%). My theory is that when the battery is low, flash writes are failing.