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What is your proudest accomplishment that you never get a chance to talk about? (fanaticus.social)

submitted 1 year ago by noahcal11@fanaticus.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Anti_Weeb_Penguin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I flashed ROMs every week for 5 years and never hardbricked a phone

[–] ShanJezi@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you explain what this means?

[–] aMalayali@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Android phones have the Android OS from Google(or a modified version by the manufacturer of the phone).
We can install other unofficial versions of Android(modified by other people).

Thid link maybe useful for understanding the term Flashing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmware#Flashing

But it is risky, as there is a chance that it can go wrong 'brick' your phone. It's named so, because on failure, your phone may become unresponsive and would only be as useful as a brick or paper-weight.
There's hard-bricking and soft-bricking, where the latter is used when the bricking can be fixed/reversed.

This link maybe better at explaining than I am:
https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/6028/what-is-the-meaning-of-flashing-a-custom-rom

[–] mcc@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So how did you recover your hardbricked phone 5 years ago when you flashed for the first time?

[–] Anti_Weeb_Penguin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I never hard bricked a device, only soft brick