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When a phone's system is unusable or not bootable at all, but you can access the recovery or download mode, you can call it a soft brick/it gets soft-bricked. After downloading the original software, it should return to the usable state. It often happens after flashing a custom system. A hard brick is similar, yet the very opposite. - A hard brick is a literal brick, because the firmware is well fucked up and you cannot even access the download mode. "flashing" -> Copying/downloading a (custom) system onto an Android phone "ROM" -> system "Fastboot/Download mode" -> a mode on an Android phone that allows you to flash files directly into a phone's filesystem
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