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Originally Posted by appzattak
Why do you flash to stock ROM before you flash a custom ROM? That makes no sense unless you want to troubleshoot a specific issue, be it hardware or weirdness. But Everytime you flash a custom ROM you flash to stock first then the custom, seems strange. And your statement that "some files get left behind during the flash process" makes no sense either since it "flashes it" it complete earses it. If you hold true to that statement then when you flash from a customer to Stock the same should apply.
I just flash the custom, do a wipe device and then am golden.....
I don't think anyone has figured this out. If you do thought you would be a God
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I do this because I have had my phone act crazy and I have had it go nuts after a custom flash and hard reset. White lines, jacked up clock and other things.
My only guess is that flashing to a stock rom and then hard reseting before a custom rom is sometimes needed to clear out left over prior custom rom settings or files.
We all know MS is not perfect and a simple custom flash over a custom flash will not always clean the device. We also know a hard reset on a custom rom doesn't completely clean the device back to clean custom rom status.
If that was true then we would never have issues after a custom hard reset.
A clean stock flash and hard reset installs all files and settings that any custom rom may have changed. A custom rom over custom rom may not change some important files/setting back.
Just a guess on my part.
Best bet is to flash a stock rom and hard reset to erase any custom settings and then flash to new custom rom for best device compatibility.
If you are one of the people that never have any issues after a custom rom flash then by all means don't stock flash.
As for me personally, I have seen too many problems left over by not doing this extra added step.
I will save bug reports for actual real bug reports and not complain about something that a good clean flash could have easily fixed.
