bricking

Meanings

1. The act of pelting with bricks.
2. The state of an electronic device being rendered completely unusable by a failed or corrupted firmware or software change.
3. A type of return fraud in which a working electronic item is purchased, then deliberately damaged or stripped of valuable components in order to render it unusable, and then returned to the merchant for a refund as a profit.

1. present participle and gerund of brick