FLASHING TO STOCK JUST TO FLASH CUSTOM ROM's

[Paragon]

Originally Posted by Nagrom Nniuq

A stock ROM will reset everything (radio, startup, settings, etc) to stock (i.e., not someone's custom versions). If you just move to another custom ROM, you can have the radio from the old ROM (or old radio if you flashed one seperate), the old startup animations, or other things residual from the previous ROM. A new ROM does NOT change these things by default, ONLY if the chef explicitly puts them in.

That makes a lot of sense in support of flashing to stock.

Dave

[junkmale53]

I'm going to risk the wrath of the mods and post this EVERYWHERE! I've been (lurking) here for almost two years and i just NOW found this and it wasn't easy to find!

HTC Touch Pro (not the Pro2 btw)... flashed many roms and i'm not sure which rom did it but for the last 2 month my phone has been sheet! Resetting almost daily, like full reset to fresh load! Luckly all my data is on Google and it comes back but still....

Reflashed the stock Telus rom then back to the custom rom on the weekend and it's been ROCK SOLID! It's not even a fresh download, it's the same rom i've been reflashing for the last 2 months.

Reflash to stock... i'm a believer!

[austin420]

Originally Posted by junkmale53

I'm going to risk the wrath of the mods and post this EVERYWHERE! I've been (lurking) here for almost two years and i just NOW found this and it wasn't easy to find!

HTC Touch Pro (not the Pro2 btw)... flashed many roms and i'm not sure which rom did it but for the last 2 month my phone has been sheet! Resetting almost daily, like full reset to fresh load! Luckly all my data is on Google and it comes back but still....

Reflashed the stock Telus rom then back to the custom rom on the weekend and it's been ROCK SOLID! It's not even a fresh download, it's the same rom i've been reflashing for the last 2 months.

Reflash to stock... i'm a believer!

awesome, i guess?

[tobeychris]

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.

That is not how it works at all. The idea of flashing to stock is ridiculous.

The only possibility of any error would be random data left over in the extra space that is not taken up on the Read Only Memory, but if you have something trying to access that data, you have bigger problems.

There is no need to flash to stock.