If you are a total noob, I do not recommend this for your first project!
Hi, I'm a total newbie, never used android before. But for what it's worth I've been building & installing PC's since Windows 3.1, written a few Access databases in my time, & once wrote a spreadhseet that reduced a job from 80 hours to 4 hours per week.
I'm ok up to & including step 3, unlocking the bootloader
I was getting confused at 4. Install ClockworkMod Recovery
What is this? Is it a program? If it is, where do I install it, on my phone or PC?
Anyway, I eventually worked it out that I just needed to put the image file in the same place on my PC as the flashboot.exe (instead of trying to install a program anywhere)
Regarding the SDK Tools for Android, I let it put itself where it wanted to, but then when using CMD I couldnt find the correct place...
I got the message something along the lines of "fastboot is not a command"
where you say "
c:android-sdk-windows or
c:Android", I had to go to
\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools
(full path for me on Vista c:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools)
Step 4.4) Reboot the phone back into bootloader using the following command: Code:
fastboot reboot recovery
This didnt appear to work for me, the phone did nothing, & CMD came up with
usage: fastboot [ <option> ] <command>
commands:
update <filename> reflash device from update.zip
flashall flash boot + recovery + system
flash <partition> [ <filename> ] write a file to a flash partition
erase <partition> erase a flash partition
format <partition> format a flash partition
getvar <variable> display a bootloader variable
boot <kernel> [ <ramdisk> ] download and boot kernel
flash:raw boot <kernel> [ <ramdisk> ] create bootimage and flash it
devices list all connected devices
continue continue with autoboot
reboot reboot device normally
reboot-bootloader reboot device into bootloader
help show this help message
options:
-w erase userdata and cache
-s <serial number> specify device serial number
-p <product> specify product name
-c <cmdline> override kernel commandline
-i <vendor id> specify a custom USB vendor id
-b <base_addr> specify a custom kernel base address
-n <page size> specify the nand page size. default:
2048
Anyway I rebooted the phone by doing power & volume down instead.
1 final thing, where you say to get the file CWM-SuperSU-v0.92.zip
it was actually CWM-SuperSU-v0.9
3.zip - I guess it's been updated since you wrote this guide.
Anyway with all that ^^ said, it did actually work for me after all... So,
Boot loader - UNLOCKED
Phone - ROOTED
Backup - I got the message "Could not mount sd-ext... skipping backup of sd-ext"
does this ^^ mean it didnt back up my SD card? If so not a problem as its backed up on my PC anyway, or is it more serious?
Thanks