Could this rom be killing my phones? Now I'm not some uninformed consumer complaining about the free service that has been given to me by the fine people working hard to provide a working service on a phone who's service has otherwise flopped but I have had three triumphs and all of them died of the same cause: I held down the power menu, booted the device off, and it then refused to boot up ever again.
Im not new to rooting android devices. I had a g1 and the process of running new roms on the thing was a bit more complicated than this device. You had to jump through hoops to run an exploit that rooted the thing, and you then had to install new radios in order to allow modern roms to run. It was a pain in the ass, but the device was a tank. Despite physical abuse, overclocking, and running tons of different roms of different stages of completion the thing never failed to run like clockwork for me.
Then after about a year of struggling with the pitiful hardware I switched to this phone with it's nice looking specs and it's attractive plan I couldn't go wrong with it. Well about 2 months after installing a rom for this thing my phone decided to just die. I held down the power button, hit reboot, and the phone refused to turn on. I figured this was faulty hardware, called virgin, and got a new phone mailed to me. The very next day I noticed my cell phone reception for my home was oddly weak so I decided to reboot to see if that would improve things, well that phone had the same problem. Booted off, and it refused to turn on in spite of batteries or charging or etc. So I figure " gee I must be really unlucky!" and then I have another phone shipped to me.
This phone takes a little longer to get to me thanks to the holiday season but I get it today, and it seems to run fine. So I root it, install clockwork recovery manager, flash this rom and it's gapps, and install various apps I like. Well I see an attractive kernel on this site that would allow me to run a swap partition and increase this phone's multitasking capability(I know it degrades sd cards and all that but after you drop $300 big ones on a phone who cares if you might lose $25 for a year of multitasking goodness when you need it?) . So I move the kernel zip onto my freshly booted phone and it's sd card and I hit shutdown(paranoid that something about hitting "reboot" might have been what killed the other two despite such a belief seeming a bit techno-superstitious) and it shuts down. When I go to hit the power button again I find that my phone is once again unable to power on. Removing the battery and waiting a bit does not help.
So longwinided rant cut short(or tl;dr if you prefer) I must ask if there is the remote possibility that this could be something wrong with the rom? After a third phone(which I rebooted multiple times on stock without issues at all) I have to wonder if perhaps there might be something that is killing phones out there. Maybe it's something hardwired into my two refurbished devices to punish rooting(though it seems counter productive since I wind up just sending them back for another one) or maybe after hitting the jackpot with my unkillable(albeit severely underpowered) g1 I managed to get very unlucky and gotten three devices that died the same way, I'm not sure what the issue is and I hardly have the education to figure it out myself, but I'd just like to bring to light the remote possibility that the one thing my three triumphs had in common(being rooted and running this rom) may have something to do with this because if there is something causing this on the software side I would hope that it gets taken care of before it winds up happening to anyone else.
