How often do you reinstall your phone OS?


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Wen`t through a 'phase' of installing custom ROM`s and even tweaking them a bit before install (allways had a couple of nandroids to fall back on) but finally found one that i really like so have stuck with it for ages now. Can`t be arrised anymore, for what you get (depending on the blower) half the time it`s not worth it...

Can be enjoyable though, sat there looking at the screen hoping it goes to the next stage :)

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With every new release or general system update (like 8.1). It's just too common for bugs and/or general instability to be introduced in desktops with them.

Then, I ghost it at several different stages: clean install, configured, non-development apps installed and configured, again after interoperations with VMs and other servers have been installed and configured, and then again after my development environment and apps are installed and configured.

I'll revert back to a ghost several times a year for various reasons.

 

I don't know how I missed "phone" in the title and body, but obviously I did :rolleyes:

 

Ya, never.

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Never. My phone is like my gateway to the world socially most of the time, I need it to always be there. I don't want to be messing around installing different systems and whatnot. It just has to be on and stay on.

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This year twice, i guess i average about 2-3 times a year at a rough guess.

I went from stock Android to Cyanogenmod at the start of the year. I've upgraded through various RC and stable Cyanogenmod builds using the OTA updater, however i wouldn't class that as re installing my phone as i wiped nothing.

At the start of this month i totally wiped my phone and installed Cyanogenmod 11.

I do like to mess with my phone a bit, however i'm not one to be flashing new roms / kernels every other day. I like to be on the latest version of Android, have a stable set-up and keep it that way.

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I've only did it once. After I got my phone I played with a bunch of ROMs and when I finished and put stock back on there I re-installed. It's been smooth sailing every since.

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  • 2 weeks later...

When I'm on Cyanogenmod, every time there was a new nightly.

 

Really? For the Nexus 5, there was a new nightly almost every other day. I believe there was a 28th, 29, 30th, 1st Jan, updates.

 

It's pretty safe to update through CM.

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how often should it be done? like, would there be any benefit to it

 

I usually do mine at least a few weeks after a new version to get an idea of whether or not there are issues. One of my roommates still has his iPhone 3GS on iOS 3.1.3

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