FLASHING TO STOCK JUST TO FLASH CUSTOM ROM's

Originally Posted by Paragon

I have not seen one single speck of evidence, ever, that supports flashing to stock first. Yes, I have read plenty of posts from people saying they had a problem after flashing and they then flashed to stock, then back to the custom ROM, andthe problem was solved. It is much more likely the problematic ROM was corrupted in some way, and by reflashing they fixed the problem. Going to the stock had nothing to do with it....IT IS MYTH that has gained some legs in this forum. Remeber...ROM flashing completely overwrites the chip. The ability to flash at the file level is possible, but not done.

Dave

I'm one such case where flash dancing solved my problem.

I ran the stock ROM for several months... finally caved in and built myself a ROM using calk's kitchen. All was well.

He released a new version of the kitchen and my phone crapped out. tmail.exe would lock up every 20 minutes or so and any texts after that point were lost, I'd have no way to know. The alarm would randomly not work. I had quite a few random problems. It happened with every build I made, no matter what options I chose.

I gave up fighting it after he had two more beta releases of the kitchen with no change. I was still having the same problems which no one else was having.

I flashed malatesta's ROM and didn't have those issues (built with SSK kitchen)... and it worked well for a while till it started locking up about a week later. The lockups got worse till it got stuck at launching Sense, then at the loading windows screen, then finally at the Touch Pro 2 screen. A hard reset brought it back for a day but it wasn't long before it acted up again.

I went back to Calkulin's kitchen because he had a new release. Built a ROM with a brand new sys/xip... Same problems as before!

Got frustrated and flash danced... poof, problems gone. I never used any other ROMs between having problems. It's been 4-5 days without major problems... which is a record since I started having issues almost a month ago. I'm about to make a week without a hard reset, FINALLY