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Root can you screw up your phone?

sinkist77

sinkist77

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i was just wondering if you could screw up your phone if you flash different roms alot? im a flash junky and just dont want to kill my phone by over flashing.
 
Granted you flash roms for your phone it shouldn't mess it up but you could wear it out (over YEARS and YEARS and YEARS). the way i explain this is get a piece of paper and a pencil. write something on the paper. erase it. now write something else in the same spot. now erase it. now do that over and over, X amount of times. can you still see the words you previously erased? pretty soon the word you just wrote becomes illegible right?

with that being said to ruin (if you even can) the system memory by flashing so many roms would take A LOT of time. way more time than you will ever be spending with that phone.
 
I would think you could simply write an updater-script that formats everything. If that works, that'd probably be the simplest way to do it.
 
"Theoretically" you can flash your phone to "death" lol. It was highly discussed topic in the beginning with the G1 then the Hero etc. But I've been flashing nightlies like a rom whore on my nexus S and 4 and no issues on those or any previous devices.
 
My flash memory died on my Mot Triumph. Not sure if it was from over flashing - or just one of those things..
 
I've been playing with his Elite a lot and its not a bad device. NFC, lots of storage (loads of memory in the system partition which I find nice.) Other than a front facing camera and a hdpi + resolution its comparable to a lot of far more expensive devices.
 
starkraving said:
I've been playing with his Elite a lot and its not a bad device. NFC, lots of storage (loads of memory in the system partition which I find nice.) Other than a front facing camera and a hdpi + resolution its comparable to a lot of far more expensive devices.
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I agree, the elite is actually a really good device, especially for the price but the data issues kill it
 
Flashing roms doesn't pose any more threat for wearing out your internal storage than just using the phone normally. The core android system, and a few of the apps in the store are written without much care for abusing your emmc. Yesterday, I sent myself a text message and then deleted it. That text message shows up over 70 times in my emmc. Really. 70 times for one single sms. If they are writing that many writes for a sms, think about all the useless writes they do for all the other hundreds of things you do with your phone.

If anything, booting into recovery and flashing a rom would be a welcome vacation for your poor emmc, as all those poorly written android apps are not running, and cant abuse it in recovery.
 
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