In the Android custom software users community, someone who is addicted to installing (flashing) new ROMs (customised, unofficial Android versions) or mods every few days.
User: 'Dude, when are you releasing the next version?'
Developer: 'Sorry, flashoholics, haven't got time until next week.'
A typical flashaholic might have dozens of them; hardcore flashaholics might have hundreds or (in one documented case) close to 1,500 of the bright little suckers!!!
The word was coined a number of years ago on a BBS about flashlights.
Hey Josh!
Did you hear that Craig is a true flashaholic, with 1,497 flashlights, lasers, and other assorted things that flash, blink, or otherwise emit EM radiation in the range of 380nm to 780nm?
What a kick in the head!!!
I've always been the guy who, like, you know, like, you know they never give me pocket money, they always buy me stuff. You know my dads a Fashaholic, yeah?
Yeh..
My dad always tries to buy me really expensive clothes. And I'm always like nah dad I don't want it, it's too expensive.
A user of the Android mobile operating system that cannot resist "flashing" (installing something to the system partition, usually a different OS entirely) anything flashable they see; someone addicted to flashing.
It started with a simple fix for a sensor glitch, but now, poor Jim is a full-blown flashaholic.