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Welcome to CrackBerry!
First off, all any program can do is provide shortcuts to loader commands, so they can't do anything magical loader doesn't. 507 is the error code you'll see on your screen, when your OS and personal data has been removed, aka a full wipe. A security wipe would remove only your personal data, and can include your 3rd party apps also. I do have a trick, that will wipe everything but your 3rd party apps, and show a 507, but we won't get into that here.
The drawbacks to wiping are as follows, in no particular order:
Groups seldom restore properly, so you have to go through the process of reloading them.
3rd party app permissions don't restore well, so those have to be reset.
3rd party app registrations that are part of the database don't happen, so all 3rd party apps have to be re-registered.
Sometimes a database will double up on you.
It takes more time to upgrade/downgrade, and who's time isn't valuable?
Benefits - zip, zero,nada. Some will say their OS didn't run right, and they had to wipe, then it worked great. Usually what happened is one or more OS files either didn't load, or loaded corrupt, and rerunning loader.exe would have caught that without wiping. Other reason would be a lot of themes installed, which sometimes can load in conflict, and cause a huge battery drain.
There is only one good rreason to wipe first in my book. Something goes terribly wrong, and you can't get loader.exe to run again without wiping first.05-17-11 06:33 PM - Great explanation. Best I've read, for that matter. Thanks!!Welcome to CrackBerry!
The drawbacks to wiping are as follows, in no particular order:
Groups seldom restore properly, so you have to go through the process of reloading them.
3rd party app permissions don't restore well, so those have to be reset.
3rd party app registrations that are part of the database don't happen, so all 3rd party apps have to be re-registered.
Sometimes a database will double up on you.
It takes more time to upgrade/downgrade, and who's time isn't valuable?
I must admit, though, that I've had problems reloading 3rd party apps using loader in Windows and even using the latest Mac DM, both without wiping first. Many if not most seem to require re-registration, and some don't get reloaded at all. I do save the cod files from all 3rd party apps using BBSAK in Windows before upgrading an OS so that I don't lose any of them, and quite a few have to be reloaded manually. I understand about the apps from BB World, but am talking about other 3rd party apps.05-17-11 10:13 PM - I'm getting this all the time too. I did a fresh install after a wipe and am still getting it. Very frustrating.
....with this build i get the small clock too frequently....plus i dont run many apps just yim, ubersocial and facebook......really getting frustrated and tempted to switch back to .534...05-19-11 10:13 AM - It's interesting that you did not have this problem with .534. My troubles started with .526 and occurred with .534. Look at Options>Device>Application Management and scroll right to the CPU screen. Wait for a few cycles of this screen (it updates every five seconds). If your Phone module goes to nearly 100% of CPU usage, you have the problem I had. It stalls the phone periodically and consumes the battery too fast. It really kills the performance of voice dialing. ....with this build i get the small clock too frequently....plus i dont run many apps just yim, ubersocial and facebook......really getting frustrated and tempted to switch back to .534...
No one that I know of has been able to pinpoint it, but it appears to be caused by something that gets pushed to the phone on BES activation. However, it doesn't happen to everyone. The only solution I found is to drop back to .480. However, I'd LOVE to hear from anyone who has pinpointed and fixed this problem.05-23-11 03:06 PM
