Just a comment on the one who said "I don't want to flash".

Some of us NEED to flash. You might be able to AVOID flashing for awhile, and as a benefit of having avoided it, you may get other problems that you wouldn't have if you had flashed earlier.

In my opinion, in these early days, having experimented a bit and having uncertain situations on our phones because of having installed things of uncertain stablity, we need to be willing and ready to flash.

Flash gets you back to the basics, especially when also flashing eMMC. Not wanting to flash is almost like saying, "I don't want to reboot". Sometimes getting back to a simple setup is the right thing to do. You avoid it at your peril.