FLASHING TO STOCK JUST TO FLASH CUSTOM ROM's

[meatgel]

I think I've flashed my phone 60-80 times since the unlocker came out and I've flashed back to stock twice. Most times after a flash I am fine, but every once in a while I will get random locks or I will soft reset and it will be a hard reset. I just flash to stock and then put the custom ROM back on and everything is fine. But I don't flash to stock every time.

[willysp]

Originally Posted by swurvv

Why is it that we have to flash back to a stock ROM just to flash to a custom ROM and how do we go around doing this every time PLEASE!=D>

You shouldn't have to do that. There were some corruption issues with early visual kitchens that made it necessary to sometimes flash stock first, but those issues are long gone.

[PropagandaX]

Its all in your heads.........not neccessary.

[willysp]

Originally Posted by rushco

Wirelessly posted (Opera/9.5 (Microsoft Windows; PPC; Opera Mobi/17992; U; en))

You flash back to stock to make every setting stock.

Say you flashed mighty. He changed setting X from stock to something else.

Say you flash to Juicy next. Juicy never changed setting X so it is still stock.

Since you were on mighty before, setting X is changed still and then you complain that Juicy ROM sucks because it doesn't work right. That is because setting X isn't suppose to be changed but it is since mighty changed it.

So if you flash mighty then stock then juicy then setting X is right and Juicy ROM is not broken.

That is how I understand it.

No - that's not the way it works. A ROM, when flashed, totally overwrites and replaces the contents of the prior ROM. Just like restoring an image to a hard drive.

(Again, there were issues with early VKs where that didn't always happen properly, but those were fixed last fall, and I've tried several ROMs and kitchens on my TP2, and have never flashed to stock)

[austin420]

OMG WITH ALL THE CAPITAL LETTER IN THE TITLE OF THIS THREAD I THOUGHT SOMETHING IMPORTANT WAS GOING ON LIKE THE SITE BURNED DOWN OR THERE WAS A CRAZY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT OR SOMETHING, i guess i should turn off my capslock.

[AlexAuran]

Originally Posted by PropagandaX

Its all in your heads.........not neccessary.

Apparently there is mass delusion then...http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=96190

[austin420]

Originally Posted by AlexAuran

Apparently there is mass delusion then...http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=96190

i still dont think its nessecary either. this thread you linked to is trouble shooting for random hard resets, not telling every one to do this just because. ive never experienced them and i flash about twice a week. ive only flashed back to stock when a rouge cab jankifies my phone. also, i used the elite team rom when they first dropped the hspl, and it changed my splash screen and it wouldnt change back. then i had to flash back to stock. the flash dance is bs.

[willysp]

Originally Posted by AlexAuran

Apparently there is mass delusion then...http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=96190

I thinking you're confusing apples and oranges here.

The OP asks "Why is it that we have to flash back to a stock ROM just to flash to a custom ROM" - the answer is, you don't have to.

The thread you quote discusses a different issue - random hard resets, apparently caused by an hspl issue that can be fixed by unlocking the phone again.

[austin420]

lets throw a poll up on this.

[austin420]

Originally Posted by AlexAuran

Apparently there is mass delusion then...http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=96190

whats up with you editing your comments then removing your edits. youve edited this post about 3 times now. how about just continuing the discussion new posts if you have something to say. we dont all wanna go rereading your every post.