Root Question before rooting

The rom comes after rooting. The effin manual will only help you on the rooting process. After that you're on your own.

What to do:
Go to market, install titanium backup & root. Other backups work too, titanium is just the most preferred. It also has many features.

hit menu, then batch. If it's not in the menu, then go to the top right corner, you should find a thing that looks like a piece of paper with the corner folded down. hit then, then go to backup. the backup should take 5-10 minutes, depending on SD card speed and amount of apps (if you're using the stock SD card, then 60 apps should take around 5 minutes)

Make sure you do have the SD space too (500mb should be enough, I have 400 apps backed up from multiple roms, and it takes only 1 gig)

Then while in titanium, hit menu, reboot, recovery.

From there you should reboot, and you'll see your white HTC splash screen. From there you'll boot into recovery, rather than your ROM. use your volume keys to change the highlighted text, and press the power down button to select. go and backup your rom (you'll need 1-1.5gb of free SD space). this should take around 10 minutes tops with the stock SD card, assuming it's still working well.

Then go to wipe, and format all partitions except SD card (IMPORTANT if you wipe your microSD, then I hope you've got a way to mount that on your computer without your phone.). If you can't find wipe all partitions, then wipe boot partition, system partition, dalvik cache, cache, factory reset, battery stats, pretty much everything other than the SD card. Failure to do so will get you a lot of bugs, and at worst (pretty much impossible) will brick you.

go to flash (install update from sd card) and navigate to where you saved the .zip in your sd card. select that, and flash it.

It should take 20-30 seconds.

Then reboot, and have fun. It'll be like opening your phone the first time- you'll have to reset everything. However, since you're rooted you can use titanium to restore all your applications and data.

Search youtube, you'll find a lot of tutorials. Pretty much every phone works this way (clockworkmod recovery).

Finally, I recommend installing, Clockworkmod Touch, 4ext recovery touch or TWRP as soon as possible. TWRP is on XDA forums, and 4ext can be found in the market. You can use the touchscreen to navigate, instead of the stupid volume keys. Certain ROMs also require a touch recovery as well to install. I prefer 4ext (as do many others).

Also, keep calm and carry on rooting, if you don't mess up, will do next to nothing for your phone. It just lets you access more features on the lower levels of your phone. If you don't immediately figure it out, then you'll have as long as you want really.

hardrock2401 said:

So the actuall rooting process has nothing to do with installing the rom? I have never done this before.

And about the rom itself, for the aospx..your saying i download that to my phone and back it up with the restore app you had listed? Is there any other addidional thiung i need to download along wih the rom?

Thanks

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Nope, rooting just gives you the capability to install a rom. So even if you don't get it now, you can first root your phone and get it out of the way (rooting your phone is probably the biggest hurdle to ROMs. After that things get much easier)

Yes, you take the ROM you want and download it. put it on your phone's SD card.

Then go and backup (menu>batch>backup>apps+data) your apps with titanium.

Enter recovery (using titanium, hit menu>reboot>recovery), from there go to backup. backup your current ROM. this backs up your current phone setup, apps, data, accounts, operating system, etc. Everything. If something goes bonkers and you need to get back, simply restore that backup and you'll be good.

Finally, wipe, then flash.

Once again, go and check youtube, it's a great source for information. All ROMs and phones flash the same, so long as the recovery is similar. Pretty much any tutorial using "clockworkmod" will work.