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Originally Posted by ShadowDrake
You're all over-reacting... seriously.
If he brings it back to 100% stock and it still has a problem then it's definitely an issue with the phone. Edit: THE FACT IS: He hasn't done this yet! There's no need to say his phone is bad till he rules out the software in the first place.
Some of the claims in this thread are just plain RETARDED.
You're changing the software on the "microcontroller" ... wtf?
So you're saying every time I use my PC and load a program into RAM, I'm messing things up.
It's just storage, that's all the ROM is. You're not changing anything. You're not magically changing the architecture of your PPC's processor. Your ARM processor can't become x86-based.
Flashing the SOFTWARE won't cause hardware problems unless it modifies voltages that can actually effect the PHYSICAL parts. Installing a program isn't going to run around and break connections in the processor or on the mainboard... please, get real.
The next thing, 99% of people who are having problems are using custom ROM's.
Do you realize what site you're on? How many people who actually post are really using a stock ROM? Chances are, almost everyone has reflashed... the problem could very well have happened on a stock ROM too.
And when I had this issue, it did the same thing on the stock ROM.
GUESS WHAT? I'm still using the same "oh no, it's broken" phone from when I had this issue, all I did was reformat my storage card and download all my .cab files fresh.
Why are the horribly misguided and uninformed always the most vocal?
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OK.....first off, roms (read only memory), kinda like the bios in your PC, is on a flash based microchip. So it's not just storage. It is in a way a firmware controller. This firmware does happen to control the voltages, amps, and everything in between using software and hardware. If HTC decided to make hardware changes for manufacturing purposes that your not aware of ,then an older rom would and could damage your hardware. It could be like putting jet fuel in a stationwagon. Sure it will run for while but the engine would literally melt at some point. But why would it melt, it's fuel right? Because it wasn't manufactured for a normal combustible engine.
Second....Horribly misguided and uninformed? Are you an electronics engineer? I'll be the first to say that I am not, but if you think software cant ruin a phone, PC, internal components then think again. Try flashing a bios from a DFI M2R MB to a DFI M2RS MB and see what happenes. They have the same components but just a wee bit different. The M2RS has a 6 way phase converter and the M2R has an 8 way phase converter. All controlled by a little chip with firmware (software) AKA a rom...and known as a BIOS and if switched...*poof*...your mobo will be fried like an egg....