Poll: Does your pulse race when you ROM a phone?

[The_Chief]

Okay folks, this poll is intended for seasoned Android enthusiasts who have been rooting and ROMming their devices for at least a year.

The question posed is whether your pulse races, your heart beats harder, your adrenaline starts rushing when you go into Recovery and start wiping and installing ROMs.

Which applies most closely to you?

 

[breadnatty08]

I'd put myself in the middle.
I've had to start from scratch with my G2 and a couple years ago with my Bionic (flash to stock firmware) because of a screw up. But, generally speaking, as long as I have a backup and recovery is working fine, I'm not terribly concerned since I have a safety net.

 

[EarlyMon]

Walk in the park - definitely.

 

[halon]

I hold a gun up to my phone. If it screws up...I'm pulling that trigger.

 

[lunatic59]

I'm finding it hard to choose one of those options. I get a kind of Zen calmness at the sight of a text menu and the scroll of a terminal window. It's like I've been away in some exotic land and have finally returned home.

 

[EarlyMon]

I'm finding it hard to choose one of those options. I get a kind of Zen calmness at the sight of a text menu and the scroll of a terminal window. It's like I've been away in some exotic land and have finally returned home.

^ This!

 

[argedion]

Its like installing an os on a computer just do it!

 

[ndex477]

I try to be careful not to miss any steps in the process. So, I guess i'm in the still get a little nervous category even though i've been rooting and loading ROMs for over two years. Think the nerves keep me in check.

 

[mikedt]

If the phone is an Oppo or a Xiaomi, it's a walk in the park. And no need to worry about voiding warranties either. :thumbup: ...and in this country we're not dealing with Verizon or Droids with locked bootloaders.

 

[Unforgiven]

Being that I've always had an unlockable (or unlocked completely in the case of my OG Droid) I have mild trepidation but I have the experience to know how to have my ducks in a row if something goes wrong.

 

[Hadron]

Definitely in the "walk in the park" club for ROM flashes.

Mildly more tense if flashing new firmware, as that's writing to critical partitions, but even then I've checked the md5 sum, know what to look for in the flash log, and have files which I know work on standby if anything looks fishy.

Flashing a custom hboot which I'd edited myself did raise the pulse a little though (on the old phone - the Desire's limited storage required some serious optimisation).

 

[EarlyMon]

Definitely in the "walk in the park" club for ROM flashes.

Mildly more tense if flashing new firmware, as that's writing to critical partitions, but even then I've checked the md5 sum, know what to look for in the flash log, and have files which I know work on standby if anything looks fishy.

Flashing a custom hboot which I'd edited myself did raise the pulse a little though (on the old phone - the Desire's limited storage required some serious optimisation).

Were you a beginner or veteran when you did the Desire?

 

[Hadron]

Beginner when I started. Far from by the end

 

[CafeKampuchia]

On Samsung devices, I'm more afraid of death by TouchWiz than borking a phone. My HTC Wildfire S taught me that most borks can be unborked, so no fear since then.

 

[funkylogik]

Walk in the park once I'm rooted with custom recovery. On a new device my heart races while I'm doing that though :thumbup:

 

[LilBit]

I only get nervous during the boot up process, is she gonna boot up, or boot loop

 

[El Presidente]

I've done it that many times on numerous devices, I'm pretty confident I can deal with most problems.

In saying that, flashing stuff to my current Sony is a little more complicated and one of the older software versions randomly caused bricks so I was a little nervous when rebooting it after that particular flash.

 

[Davdi]

I get a bit nervous when flashing Sony, but not with HTC or anything Chinese.

 

[codesplice]

Once, perhaps. Now my pulse only races when I haven't flashed something in a while.

 

[Revenant Ghost]

I've been rooting and ROMming Android phones for over 4 years now without a single brick. As long as you do your homework with proper research about your device and have a nandroid backup, you won't have much to worry about.

 

[Digital Controller]

I know the first time I rooted my device (HTC Incredible) it took me hours because I kept messing up one simple thing and couldn't get the ROM to work correctly, I was sweatin' bullets that time.

There have been a few other close calls, but it's pretty easy for me now.

 

[funkylogik]

Yeah I think once you understand the basics you remain pretty calm but I've been watching people having problems with some of the new LGs etc and it makes me glad I'm still messing around with my 2yr old Samsung and nexus

 

[mikedt]

I get a bit nervous when flashing Sony, but not with HTC or anything Chinese.

Anything Chinese? There's a lot of different devices. When I first flashed the Oppo Find, that set my pulse racing, because I'd only just got it and the ROMs were still alpha, sometimes things would not work or get stuck in a boot-loop. Now it's a walk in the park and I know that things are going to work.