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Probably a stupid question, but can you damage, or wear out the internal memory by flashing the phone over and over? I think I've flashed over 20-30 times by now, I'm just wondering if I'm running the risk of causing damage by overflashing. Thanks.
Honestly, flashing every possible second of every day for 2 years, you night star to notice some degrade, but the number of write cycles for the nand in the phone, you wont notice anything.
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I was curious about this too..
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The development guys flash daily with no issues. Risk? Maybe. Real life problem, nope....
Ive been flashing like more than 50times found no prob. But wondering if i hv blank folders in my sd, will it affect phone performance? I hav like 30 blank folders dnt kw where they r from..
thanks for the replies guys, I thought that would be the answer but I wasn't sure. Thanks again
I flash at least onece a day. Have been for almost a year now. No problems here.
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Jeeze I sure hope not
I would suspect that the internal memory would have the same typical lifespan of any other form of flash memory. I have heard varying degrees of expected life - but you will probably have another phone before you get to that point.
geoffcorey said:
Honestly, flashing every possible second of every day for 2 years, you night star to notice some degrade, but the number of write cycles for the nand in the phone, you wont notice anything.
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Vibrant doesn't have nand memory, just an internal sd card
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Vibrant doesn't have nand memory, just an internal sd card
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Pretty much all flash storage used in devices right now is nand flash. However, the control of of that nand, or flash memory, differs from application to application. But, it is nand flash storage ;-)
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Vibrant doesn't have nand memory, just an internal sd card
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Probably a stupid question, but can you damage, or wear out the internal memory by flashing the phone over and over? I think I've flashed over 20-30 times by now, I'm just wondering if I'm running the risk of causing damage by overflashing. Thanks.
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It might have an adverse effect on your ability to score with the opposite sex. During your next night of bar-hopping or date night with your significant other, try explaining the purpose and the reason for the need to flash frequently and watch most women disappear. Such technical intricacies about custom ROMS, kernels and mods are like kryptonite to them.
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It might have an adverse effect on your ability to score with the opposite sex. During your next night of bar-hopping or date night with your significant other, try explaining the purpose and the reason for the need to flash frequently and watch most women disappear. Such technical intricacies about custom ROMS, kernels and mods are like kryptonite to them.
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+1. Not doing the bar thing anymore, but my wife would like to flush my phone down the toilet most of the time.
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+1. Not doing the bar thing anymore, but my wife would like to flush my phone down the toilet most of the time.
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Just ask her if she'd rather have you at home working on EDT stuff or getting **** faced at some bar. I bet I know the answer. My wife doesn't understand the whole flashing thing either. But she does understand a flash addiction is much better than a meth addiction.
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Just ask her if she'd rather have you at home working on EDT stuff or getting **** faced at some bar. I bet I know the answer. My wife doesn't understand the whole flashing thing either. But she does understand a flash addiction is much better than a meth addiction.
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hey.... what did meth ever do to you
My girlfriend doesn't understand my flash addiction, but then again she has an iphone...go figure!
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As for the overflashing of a phone, Ive never had any problems. I'm still flashing my loveable relic g1 with no problems and trust me its seen a lot of roms.
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It shouldn't cause any problems.
The devs would have had problems already had it been the case.
1. I'm a newb.
2. I've tried to research a good amount on my own.
I know that much customization will require root as a starting point. I'm not sure I want to run a custom rom or not yet as there doesn't seem to be much of a benefit at this current time. The overclocking interests me a bit.. because, why not? I guess that's my question. With using Dag's root and overclock, are there any stability issues at all? Other issues I might run in to? I just want to be positive of what I'm doing before I mess anything up. Should I run a backup of some sort or are roots relatively harmless?
Thanks in advance.
If you do a backup before you do anything its dam near impossible to brick your phone.
Make sure you understand what your doing before you do it not just do it because someone said it works.
Rooting releases your phone as it should be.
Just learn and enjoy
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If you do a backup before you do anything its dam near impossible to brick your phone.
Make sure you understand what your doing before you do it not just do it because someone said it works.
Rooting releases your phone as it should be.
Just learn and enjoy
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Not only that, ODIN makes it damn near impossible to brick your phone
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Odin is used in dags method, correct? what's the best way to backup?
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edit: everything i'm seeing seems to imply the backup programs can only be installed after root. is there a separate backup i can do before root, or should i needn't worry about backup before rooting?
Overclocking kills battery life. Theres the risk of failing the rooting process too(doubt that will happen...). Flashing also increases flash counter and voiding warranty(go learn how to reset it)
flashing a lot damages internal memory also(you will prolly notice it after 1.5 yrs)
So are we recommending against doing this just for the sake of overclocking? or..
Sorry like you guys said I don't want to do it just to do it, want to be sure I'm doing this for a reason. If nothing else I can remove bloatware after root, right?
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flashing a lot damages internal memory also(you will prolly notice it after 1.5 yrs)
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What is a lot for you?
I ran OC and honestly I can live with out it. Not worth the battery killing any faster. This thing is fast out of box, rooting and removing bloats will make it faster. Using a superscript takes away any other lag issue that I had with keyboard, touch screen responsiveness etc. My advice, don't OC.
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flashing a lot damages internal memory also(you will prolly notice it after 1.5 yrs)
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Who keeps their phone that long? LOL
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Who keeps their phone that long? LOL
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I agree. I would get sick of a phone if i had it that long.
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...Flashing also increases flash counter and voiding warranty(go learn how to reset it)
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Nope. No one to our knowledge has ever actually been denied a warranty claim because of the counter.
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flashing a lot damages internal memory also(you will prolly notice it after 1.5 yrs)
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Definitely nope. This is just silly.
OP: It's great fun and the best way to unlock the potential of your device. Just make sure you do your research first!
Ok I guess I'll just root and remove bloat and see where that gets me
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Who keeps their phone that long? LOL
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LOL Seriously!! Those of us who tweak the phones this much will want something new well before 18 months! I had my Atrix almost exactly a year before I went to the Note.
Rooted. It's amazing how much easier that was than the equivalent process with Wp7 (getting a student dev account free was a pain in the ass). So I'm pretty sure I have Dag's kernel (pda.tar) uploaded. I want to try out holo's (don't see why not). I thought I could've just substituted his for Dag's initially, but couldn't figure out how. There was only one pda.tar file available and I saved both kernels in the same folder. It's really just the boot.img file that you're flashing, isn't it? I might not know what I'm talking about so rather than continuing if someone could just let me know how to update with holo's.
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LOL Seriously!! Those of us who tweak the phones this much will want something new well before 18 months! I had my Atrix almost exactly a year before I went to the Note.
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I had the atrix for like 6 moths and went to the note, and prolly gonna get the galaxy s3 when it comes out
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Definitely nope. This is just silly
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enlighten yourself http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1189544
Yes you can remove bloat
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enlighten yourself http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1189544
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+1. Flashing does degrade non-volatile memory over time. Eeproms can't handle being written to over and over and over. Things like USB drives get around this by writting files non-contiguously to random blocks/sectors (and by using other methods), and keeping a table of blocks that have gone bad. So you can write a 1 mb file over and over and it isn't writing it to the first meg on the drive, it is going in pieces all over the place, randomly each time. If it writes a block and that doesn't pass a checksum test, it will write the block again to another area and mark the block as bad so it never writes to it again.
Of course this isn't great for performance on a USB drive, but that is why this IS a problem on something like the OS partition of a phone. There you can't write randomly, you need contiguous files for performance, so each time you flash a new rom you are writing to the same memory space every time. Eventually you wear it out and there is no "bad block" table to help.
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I agree. I would get sick of a phone if i had it that long.
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LOL, I kept my last phone 4 1/2 years because nothing came close in specs until the Note. It was the first phone with a 5" screen, video out, removable keyboard, 8 gb hard drive (back when a 2 gb SD card was "big").
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LOL, I kept my last phone 4 1/2 years because nothing came close in specs until the Note. It was the first phone with a 5" screen, video out, removable keyboard, 8 gb hard drive (back when a 2 gb SD card was "big").
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Are you referring to the HTC Athena? I loved that device... kept mine a few years, too. That phone was way ahead of its time.
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I finally broke down and unlocked and TWRP'ed my prime. I went to install androwook 2.2 but thread says to put downloaded files on an sdcard. I didn't have one so I stole one out of an old phone (4GB Transcend MicroSD C8). Went to press it into the side slot and it just shoots back out at me. Never clicks like its being held in there. I've pressed it in as hard as I can with my fingernails to no avail.
Am I doing something wrong, or is it broke?
Edit: Just tried it with a sandisk 1GB from another phone and it does the same thing. I'm starting to think I'm screwed...
I just held it in while flashing. Successfully on androwook harrybean 2.2 prime. Hopefully thats the last time i need the sdcard.
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Trh a new sdcard next time lol
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Trh a new sdcard next time lol
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I tried 3 different ones.
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I tried 3 different ones.
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oh well that stinks.. I dont know of a fix... maybe send it in to the manufacturer.
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oh well that stinks.. I dont know of a fix... maybe send it in to the manufacturer.
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Yah, thats the whole thing, I only found out about this problem because I unlocked it and wanted to put a custom ROM on it, heh. So no sending it back I guess.
Like I said, hopefully thats the last time I will ever need the SDCARD.
I went to update to beans build 17 and i might have had a bad download.says unable to open zip.i made a nandroid but some how wiped it out that i can't restore it.So now i have no OS.Iredownloaded another mirror on my laptop but how do i put it on my sd card now that im stuck in twrp?i just need my phone up and running asap as i have to go to work in2hrs!?Any help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!THANKS
i did the same thing you can either do a adb push if you have adb set up or find another phone camera pc or anything really that has a micro sd slot that you can connect to pc drag zip there reboot into twrp and your good if you don't have one then i would say adb push is your only option or see if twrp will mount your sd but it didn't for me
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I went to update to beans build 17 and i might have had a bad download.says unable to open zip.i made a nandroid but some how wiped it out that i can't restore it.So now i have no OS.Iredownloaded another mirror on my laptop but how do i put it on my sd card now that im stuck in twrp?i just need my phone up and running asap as i have to go to work in2hrs!?Any help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!THANKS
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Pull the battery or use thr Power Off button in TWRP. Then put your micro Sd card in your laptop and drag and drop the rom. Then put it back in your card and go.
You are supposed to check the MD5sum EVERY SINGLE TIME! If you arent going to check the MD5sum then you don't need to flash any roms to your phone, you can seriously mess up and hard brick your phone.
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Bfitz26 said:
i did the same thing you can either do a adb push if you have adb set up or find another phone camera pc or anything really that has a micro sd slot that you can connect to pc drag zip there reboot into twrp and your good if you don't have one then i would say adb push is your only option or see if twrp will mount your sd but it didn't for me
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Thanks.Im tryin to find someonethat has a phone to do that now !!thank u.if not i will look to see how to try the push thing!
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Pull the battery or use thr Power Off button in TWRP. Then put your micro Sd card in your laptop and drag and drop the rom. Then put it back in your card and go.
You are supposed to check the MD5sum EVERY SINGLE TIME! If you arent going to check the MD5sum then you don't need to flash any roms to your phone, you can seriously mess up and hard brick your phone.
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Ya i got sloppy this time and paid for it!don't think my laptop has a slot for a memory card that i can see
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Ya i got sloppy this time and paid for it!don't think my laptop has a slot for a memory card that i can see
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do u have a digital camera or a card reader or anything that has a micro sd slot for that matter
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do u have a digital camera or a card reader or anything that has a micro sd slot for that matter
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Not at th emoment.im working on it !lol
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Ya i got sloppy this time and paid for it!don't think my laptop has a slot for a memory card that i can see
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Usually they will have a fake card in them to keep the slot from getting dust in it. If you truly don't have one you can pick up a USB SD card reader from walmart for cheap. If you want dont want to go that route then ADB would probably be the fastest way of doing it.
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shangrila500 said:
Pull the battery or use thr Power Off button in TWRP. Then put your micro Sd card in your laptop and drag and drop the rom. Then put it back in your card and go.
You are supposed to check the MD5sum EVERY SINGLE TIME! If you arent going to check the MD5sum then you don't need to flash any roms to your phone, you can seriously mess up and hard brick your phone.
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I honestly don't remember the last time I checked md5. I only check them on radios. A bad rom file cannot hard brick your phone. But a modem can
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I finally got some time to say thank u all for the ideas and info! I'm happy to say all is good. Used my friends phone with my sd card and redownloaded the room and it worked perfect! What a relief!Thanks again! !
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I honestly don't remember the last time I checked md5. I only check them on radios. A bad rom file cannot hard brick your phone. But a modem can
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A bad rom download hard bricked quite a few VZW S3's when I was using the S3, they may not brick the N2 but they have been known to brick phones.
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I am not sure how that is possible in my experience it says failed. Redownload flash problem solved indoor have force check md5 tho
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I am not sure how that is possible in my experience it says failed. Redownload flash problem solved indoor have force check md5 tho
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Anytime I've tried flashing a bad rom file it will just say failed. No flash occurs. That's just my experience I guess
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Anytime I've tried flashing a bad rom file it will just say failed. No flash occurs. That's just my experience I guess
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Anytime I've tried flashing a bad rom file it will just say failed. No flash occurs. That's just my experience I guess
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That's always been my experience also but recall quite a few help threads that started with someone flashing a rom and then the phone hard bricking upon reboot. Every single time in those threads where all that had been done was a simple rom flash the only thing we could come up with was the MD5 was bad and every time it was checked it was bad. If I recall it was only 2 roms doing that and both were AOSP roms. I dont know why but that was always what it was traced back to with those 2 certain roms and no one could figure out why it wasn't simply failing instead of flashing and hard bricking the phone.
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That's always been my experience also but recall quite a few help threads that started with someone flashing a rom and then the phone hard bricking upon reboot. Every single time in those threads where all that had been done was a simple rom flash the only thing we could come up with was the MD5 was bad and every time it was checked it was bad. If I recall it was only 2 roms doing that and both were AOSP roms. I dont know why but that was always what it was traced back to with those 2 certain roms and no one could figure out why it wasn't simply failing instead of flashing and hard bricking the phone.
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Maybe they flashed on Odin haha
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Pull the battery or use thr Power Off button in TWRP. Then put your micro Sd card in your laptop and drag and drop the rom. Then put it back in your card and go.
You are supposed to check the MD5sum EVERY SINGLE TIME! If you arent going to check the MD5sum then you don't need to flash any roms to your phone, you can seriously mess up and hard brick your phone.
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I haven't checked an MD5 since 2010 - did it once then.
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That's always been my experience also but recall quite a few help threads that started with someone flashing a rom and then the phone hard bricking upon reboot. Every single time in those threads where all that had been done was a simple rom flash the only thing we could come up with was the MD5 was bad and every time it was checked it was bad. If I recall it was only 2 roms doing that and both were AOSP roms. I dont know why but that was always what it was traced back to with those 2 certain roms and no one could figure out why it wasn't simply failing instead of flashing and hard bricking the phone.
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We're also going off what they say in the thread. We can't prove that is what did it. I'm trying to be nice, but most of those "oh shhh" panic threads are due to user error.
I've flashed so many ROMs over the years and I never check MD5. I also religiously dirty-flash. I've bricked phones half-asleep (putting my kid to sleep) and recovered them in the morning. It all boils down to the user. I'm not saying for people to be reckless, but blaming not checking an MD5 on a brick is fear-mongering.
If it doesn't flash the first time? Check to see if your recovery has an update. Redownload ROM. Try again. Fail twice? Wasn't meant to be, this is not the ROM you are looking for.
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Pull the battery or use thr Power Off button in TWRP. Then put your micro Sd card in your laptop and drag and drop the rom. Then put it back in your card and go.
You are supposed to check the MD5sum EVERY SINGLE TIME! If you arent going to check the MD5sum then you don't need to flash any roms to your phone, you can seriously mess up and hard brick your phone.
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Agreed, as that would be the easiest fix. Worst case scenario for this approach is that you may need to buy a usb reader for micro sd cards.
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I haven't checked an MD5 since 2010 - did it once then.
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We're also going off what they say in the thread. We can't prove that is what did it. I'm trying to be nice, but most of those "oh shhh" panic threads are due to user error.
I've flashed so many ROMs over the years and I never check MD5. I also religiously dirty-flash. I've bricked phones half-asleep (putting my kid to sleep) and recovered them in the morning. It all boils down to the user. I'm not saying for people to be reckless, but blaming not checking an MD5 on a brick is fear-mongering.
If it doesn't flash the first time? Check to see if your recovery has an update. Redownload ROM. Try again. Fail twice? Wasn't meant to be, this is not the ROM you are looking for.
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Very true, I was just going off of my experience in the S3 threads and that was my first true experience with a truly bootloader unlocked phone, even though I had been flashing Motorola phones for years but that isn't the same, and from what me and a couple other people could put together on the S3 forums was that 2 AOSP roms were responsible for the hard bricks.
Like you said though it is very hard to tell if they even flashed the rom. Hell it could be that they were just lying because they were embarrassed. Nonetheless it is still for the best for people to check MD5s especially on radios and recoveries and it doesn't hurt to check it on roms. I check the MD5 of every rom that I flash or that I plan on flashing in the future just because of that happening in the S3 forums when I was helping there.
I had never really thought about them lying about it but that is a definite possibility..... It's still funny that it was one of 2 AOSP roms every time someone claimed to get bricked after only flashing a rom......
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Alright, so I've been modding my phone and many others since the early days of the Captivate, so I'm pretty well versed in how all of this works. That being said, here's my problem:
My phone has become a bit of a whiny b*tch when it comes to flashing ROMs. I know every phone is unique and what works for some may not work for others. But ROMs that have always done well for me (for instance, Flappjaxxx's Unofficial has always ran flawlessly on my device) are now buggy as hell. MD5s are always verified, I fully wipe as instructed, I don't overclock... It just doesn't work right anymore. I get kernel panics and random reboots all the time.
Any insight as to just what the hell is going on with my device would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Cheers.
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Alright, so I've been modding my phone and many others since the early days of the Captivate, so I'm pretty well versed in how all of this works. That being said, here's my problem:
My phone has become a bit of a whiny b*tch when it comes to flashing ROMs. I know every phone is unique and what works for some may not work for others. But ROMs that have always done well for me (for instance, Flappjaxxx's Unofficial has always ran flawlessly on my device) are now buggy as hell. MD5s are always verified, I fully wipe as instructed, I don't overclock... It just doesn't work right anymore. I get kernel panics and random reboots all the time.
Any insight as to just what the hell is going on with my device would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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its been a while since I have seen a Flapp's rom on here..............
it may not have anything to do with it, but is that an unofficial 4.1 or 4.2 ?
is that the only rom?
I see your stats and know your experienced, but running a rom from Flapp tells me it may have been a little while. things have progressed quite a bit since then.
lets try this.............when was the last time you went into recovery and wiped you Davlik or Cache? could just be a little constipated.
Flapp is gone, his work only survives on his own site. I keep a copy of his ICS native ROM around because, so far, nothing has come close to being as snappy and stable. It's a sort of safe place that I always come back to. I could go weeks without rebooting and never bog down. I love it.
I still flash new works regularly, always with the necessary wipes. When I start getting buggy, I always try the usual go-to fixes. Wiping the caches, Fix Permissions, all that noise. At first, I just thought it was the rampant instability that comes with a new base. New base, new bugs. But for the last month or so, it makes no difference. ICS or JB, Native or AOSP... It's all unstable for me. Something is wrong somewhere. Something that doesn't change with wipes and a flash.
I'm just hoping that someone with a deep knowledge of Android has dealt with this and reads this post.
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Flapp is gone, his work only survives on his own site. I keep a copy of his ICS native ROM around because, so far, nothing has come close to being as snappy and stable. It's a sort of safe place that I always come back to. I could go weeks without rebooting and never bog down. I love it.
I still flash new works regularly, always with the necessary wipes. When I start getting buggy, I always try the usual go-to fixes. Wiping the caches, Fix Permissions, all that noise. At first, I just thought it was the rampant instability that comes with a new base. New base, new bugs. But for the last month or so, it makes no difference. ICS or JB, Native or AOSP... It's all unstable for me. Something is wrong somewhere. Something that doesn't change with wipes and a flash.
I'm just hoping that someone with a deep knowledge of Android has dealt with this and reads this post.
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for what it is worth, I had some issues when 4.3 came out. was only 1 or 2 that I could run and seemed if I could run it, after about a week it would start going haywire. 2 roms would not run at all. I am not big on running an alternate kernel. the rom should run with the kernel the developer included. I posted a thread and others suggested wiping EMMC. that scared the crap out of me. my internal storage was very full. I was having to delete a file just to install another.
I moved all my music and pics to external and got rid of everything else. anything else was on Google.
I now have no more issues running whatever I want and have maybe had 2 ort 3 reboots in last month or more.
out of habit now, what I do after my multiple wipes is flash rom itself, then flash rom and gapps. let it settle for the 10 and reboot again. then set up. been a pretty solid routine
many out there still have have issues with 4.2, but I have heard of very very few reboot issues on 4.3.
good luck my friend
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for what it is worth, I had some issues when 4.3 came out. was only 1 or 2 that I could run and seemed if I could run it, after about a week it would start going haywire. 2 roms would not run at all. I am not big on running an alternate kernel. the rom should run with the kernel the developer included. I posted a thread and others suggested wiping EMMC. that scared the crap out of me. my internal storage was very full. I was having to delete a file just to install another.
I moved all my music and pics to external and got rid of everything else. anything else was on Google.
I now have no more issues running whatever I want and have maybe had 2 ort 3 reboots in last month or more.
out of habit now, what I do after my multiple wipes is flash rom itself, then flash rom and gapps. let it settle for the 10 and reboot again. then set up. been a pretty solid routine
many out there still have have issues with 4.2, but I have heard of very very few reboot issues on 4.3.
good luck my friend
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Lol dammit! I figured that'd be the suggestion. I was really hoping not to have to wipe my internal storage. Like you said, that is some seriously scary business. I already keep my backups and music on the external, so I guess I'll just backup my pics to my laptop and give it a good wipe.
Thanks for the advice.
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Yup momma always said wipe really good
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Lol indeed she did. However, she didn't say jack**** about formatting my internal memory.
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Lol indeed she did. However, she didn't say jack**** about formatting my internal memory.
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No but she said use your Brain dumb*** .. Just put everything you want on a pc and wipe the hell out of it
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Boraltis said:
Lol indeed she did. However, she didn't say jack**** about formatting my internal memory.
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cant you go blind from doing that?
don't worry, it's only natural for a young man to explore his partitions
Lol. Effin clowns. Turns out I'm far too lazy to sift through the folders. I dragged the DCIM onto my desktop and wiped that S.O.B. clean. I haven't seen 11 GB free since I bought this bastard lol. Hopefully it works out.
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It will..... Yeah we like to have a little fun around here.:beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer:
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