How many times can we flash??

[mikhe69]

Hi all,

After discovered this forum I've started to flash my trinity like a mad man, with every ROM's I could find!

But know some doubt occur to me, how many times can we flash this thing, 100, 1000, 10000?? :confused: :confused:

Anyone can answer to this, because I don't want to be awarded with a brick :D

[Svenitos]

Only 7 times :p

I think you can flash the rom as much as you want. I don't think your rom chip will burn or explode..

[eXcape]

hi

for me i lost count of how many ROM's i flashed

Only 7 times :p

I think you can flash the rom as much as you want. I don't think your rom chip will burn or explode..


right bro looool

[Benzin]

Only 7 times :p
:eek: Like a cat ... I'm more than dead! ;)

[grega_slo]

Only 7 times :p

I think you can flash the rom as much as you want. I don't think your rom chip will burn or explode..

No guys!

If you flash more than 5 times you WILL permanently BRICK your trinity!

Geez what questions some have...

[firiel]

There is some truth in that question as a flash memory's life is counted on how many times u delete and rewrite it but I dunno what the number is and think is over 1000

[helten2]

A few years ago I examined how times flash memory could be rewritten. A few variants could handle 100,000+ times and most 1,000,000. I believe current flash memory will be even better...

[mikhe69]

There is some truth in that question as a flash memory's life is counted on how many times u delete and rewrite it but I dunno what the number is and think is over 1000

Well I did some searching and found this quote in some web site:

"Another limitation is that flash memory has a finite number of erase-write cycles (most commercially available flash products are guaranteed to withstand 1000 write-erase-cycles for block 0, and no guarantees for other blocks"


Geez what questions some have...

Geez you are wright...

[Rudegar]

the flash of the rom like all flash have a limited nr of writes

but your storage memory is also flash it suffers the same illness

one have to be a pretty wild flasher to wear out the rom flash

before the storage flash it's being written to all the time

everytime you get data which is persistent
like call log
changes to calender , contacts changes or new ones

you write to the storage / to the flash

2 things save you

1 you can write pretty many times to flash before it goes belly up
your batt is likely to die a few time before and your device is likely to
get absolute before the flash dies
unless your device is partly defect that is

2 balanced writes
newer flash have an intelligent writing style which mean flash is only changed if need be and the same sector is not use too many times if it can be avoided that inc the lifespan by 10000 or something i have a prog which
can calculate the lifespan with balanced writes somewhere