Re: Is it now a standard procedure to flash when upgrading firmware? Discuss
 

You know it's technically impossible to ensure that the upgrade would work flawlessly with every possible user mod and devel application?

Yeah, the application manager UI could handle conflict situations better (at least give more informative error messages) but they still can be resolved without reflashing with some basic Linux knowledge.

If you mod/hack/install devel stuff you have three options:
1) Learn how the system works and become knowledgeable enough to solve your problems
2) Ignore the warnings, then reflash and/or whine on the forums when the system stops working
3) Stop messing with stuff you don't understand

I'd suggest either 1 or 3 :)

Re: Is it now a standard procedure to flash when upgrading firmware? Discuss
 

You can always use the NSU to upgrade your firmware and provide a "clean upgrade" rather than doing it OTA.

I doubt a clean upgrade OTA would be possible as it requires reflashing rather than just upgrading packages.

Re: Is it now a standard procedure to flash when upgrading firmware? Discuss
 

I agree. The possible conflicts are total mystery within black box called "application manager".

a notify "cannot install update because of broken dependencies, conflicting packages: ______" would solve the whole problem for me.

Re: Is it now a standard procedure to flash when upgrading firmware? Discuss
 

Most of the problems I've seen here have been related to NSU. I've upgraded three times OTA and no problems whatsoever. I have evil stuff installed and did only uninstall packages to gain enough rootfs. I rather spend some time to clean up / than mess with NSU.