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Originally Posted by jestexman
After re-boot phone went in to a boot-loop... This was a first for me. So after pulling battery and holding down x , i used the restore from the clockwork recovery. Now i am back at droidmod 1.0 like i was when i started.
Long story short it seems really hard to mess anything up. These guys tell you to back it up every other post. I now understand i can go from rom to rom theme to theme and if i dont like it just restore it. Just my .02 cents.
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Okay, so this is EXACTLY what I mean when I say that people should learn what is going on behind the scenes when they root their phones via DM Updater. If you understand how recovery works, how to use simple adb commands, etc., you will backup your phone before making a change to your system, and you will be able to explore options that are available to you with your rooted phone.
You switched back to DroidMod and that's cool. If that's the ROM for you, great. But you really can't screw your phone up if you understand enough to take simple, preventative measures. That means you can try virtually ANYTHING and if it throws you in a boot loop, just won't load, is unstable, or you just don't like it...you have only wasted a little time...no data is lost, no harm is done. Today you are on DroidMod...tomorrow, you could jump to the new version coming out
of the CyanogenMod ROM and if you don't like it...no problem.
Tip: Get Titanium Backup!!! Even the free version will capture things that you can't keep when moving to a new rom (anytime you have to format data). Things like POP/IMAP email settings, call logs, SMS/MMS messages, etc. are easily restored and in some cases (like when switching to a new ROM with the same "Home or Launcher", you can restore all of your icons and widgets as well. BIG TIME SAVER!!! I wouldn't be able to flash so many different ROMs without this!