[Q] Limitation of X10 flashing rom

blisslove · 27th January 2011, 10:40 AM

[Q] Limitation of X10 flashing rom

I was wondering that how many times we can flash rom on x10? Is there any limitation of formating? Because we have to format the data partation, cache partation, etc.. whenever we flash.

Cebees · 27th January 2011, 11:17 AM

I don't think you should worry about it.

What we are playing with is not an actual ROM at all.

I never get myself in-depth with Android but it should be in the same manner everywhere.

1) The actual ROM (even before something you called bootloader) hard-coded to the hardware (power-on?)
2) ROM, in case of manufacturer don't want you to play much with it; those are Kernel, Bootloader,Radio,Baseband,Blah blah blah la la la, which you need a flasher to play with. I don't think you have already flash 10,000 time of this stuff.
>> It's usually locked by allowing only 'signed' image file to flash. That should be about our cracking bootloader.

3) Internal memory, imagine this one as another internal SD Card, it is easier to understand. All the android,cache,data,sys, blah blah blah goes here. That's why you can have xRecovery doing a custom OS (NOT ROM!) And I think it's just a normal filesystem copy, not a flashing at all.
>> It's locked by ROOT.

Correct me if I'm wrong, it's general method which could be customized anyway.

blisslove · 27th January 2011, 11:34 AM

Thank you for your reply.

Actually I don't know anything about mobile phone technical terms. I just used to change my phone firmware and I saw formatting .....
I've just known that it's not good for computer hard drive and memory flash drive if u r formatting alot.

Sent from my X10i using XDA App

Cebees · 27th January 2011, 12:02 PM

Even with the old-school harddisk drive. This is how formating work.

There are commonly 2 type of format, full format and quick format (not counting low-level format which you might have heard of)

Imaging you have a book (a really big book

)

What you do when you quick-format the harddisk, you erase only 'the index'. That's mean every note in the rest of the book is still there. The papers remain good of use, not dirty or scratched from being rubbered.

But the full format did that, and generally it's using a eraser to clean every page. That's no good in long-run (well... real loooooooooooong-run) With in modern storage, full formatting is changed to the term of 'wiping' through those disk management software. It's only a case when you got a lot of porno personal clips and want to completely eliminate it :P

Generally people believe formatting is bad, yes for 1.44" drive which in that time there hadn't had a quickformat yet.. which I don't think it remains on your table ATM.