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How do I enter command when in fastboot mode (Desire)?

Hello.
I'm pretty sure i bricked my HTC desire yesterday when trying to flash LeeDroids Mod. My phone hangs at the three green HTC letters and it has been like this the whole night. I've tried taking out the battery and things like that but it still hangs. Even when triyng to do a recovery. So i searched the forum to find out how to unbrick the phone and i found a nice thread that explains how to get acces to the SD again and then how to unbrick the USB connection. But I havent been able to try this out yet since i cannot find out how to enter commands when in fastboot. I know I need to be connected with a USB-cable to the PC, but what else do I have to do?
Hope someone can help 'cause I would really love to have my HTC Desire working again so that i can try out more cool FroYo mods from this lovely forum.
- Czepluch

czepluch said:
Hello.
I'm pretty sure i bricked my HTC desire yesterday when trying to flash LeeDroids Mod. My phone hangs at the three green HTC letters and it has been like this the whole night. I've tried taking out the battery and things like that but it still hangs. Even when triyng to do a recovery. So i searched the forum to find out how to unbrick the phone and i found a nice thread that explains how to get acces to the SD again and then how to unbrick the USB connection. But I havent been able to try this out yet since i cannot find out how to enter commands when in fastboot. I know I need to be connected with a USB-cable to the PC, but what else do I have to do?
Hope someone can help 'cause I would really love to have my HTC Desire working again so that i can try out more cool FroYo mods from this lovely forum.
- Czepluch
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you have to use adb, google the android sdk and start there

All you need to do is boot into FASTBOOT, plug in your USB and run an RUU to get back to stock (assumg one is available for your phone) and then root again, had to do it myself the other day

you do not have to do ANY of this
if you are using clockworkmod or any custom recovery then there is the option to mount USB storage in which you can put on a backup or any other rom onto your sd card, unmount usb storage, and flash it, all in one.

cgrec92 said:
you do not have to do ANY of this
if you are using clockworkmod or any custom recovery then there is the option to mount USB storage in which you can put on a backup or any other rom onto your sd card, unmount usb storage, and flash it, all in one.
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How do I do that when my phone doesnt boot? As i wrote in the first post it is stock at the 3 green HTC letters. I was using clockworkmod to flash, but as I wrote i cannot boot into andoid atm.
@AndroHero: Can you please give me a link or something? I have tried a lot of things, but i doesnt seem to work, so I would like to be certain that the link and guide im using is right.

czepluch said:
How do I do that when my phone doesnt boot? As i wrote in the first post it is stock at the 3 green HTC letters. I was using clockworkmod to flash, but as I wrote i cannot boot into andoid atm.
@AndroHero: Can you please give me a link or something? I have tried a lot of things, but i doesnt seem to work, so I would like to be certain that the link and guide im using is right.
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Do you have the fake-flash zip file renamed as update.zip and at the root of your SDCard?

dnlgee said:
Do you have the fake-flash zip file renamed as update.zip and at the root of your SDCard?
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yes i do

czepluch said:
yes i do
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Have you booted the phone while holding the volume down and then selecting recovery, then when recovery boots, press volume up and power then select "apply update.zip" ?

The problem is that when i choose recovery it freezes aswell. The screen with the phone and the little red triangle freezes, so i cannot choose recovery.

EddyOS said:
All you need to do is boot into FASTBOOT, plug in your USB and run an RUU to get back to stock (assumg one is available for your phone) and then root again, had to do it myself the other day
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So do what I said here...to get into FASTBOOT hold back and power it on

What is RUU?
Edit: Maybe I need someone to make a step by step noob guide? Im totally lost. Ive flashed my Desire lots of times before and ive never had a single problem, but right now i really dont know what to do and how to do?

If you're asking questions about RUU's then maybe rooting wasn't for you. It's basic stuff. You need a grasp of the basics before trying something advanced!
Basically it's the official ROM file from HTC/your phone vendor...

Okay. Thanks. I thought that RUU was something like that but I just couldnt see how i should be able to acces any files right now. As i wrote before the phone freezes at the picture of a phone with the red triangle, and i am not able to get any further that that. I would really appreciate if anyone could tell me how and what to do next?

I had the same problem a few days ago. For me it worked to just go through the rooting process again, you can find the steps on modaco (just step 1 of r6), I can't link them at the moment I'm at work and it seems I can't open modaco from here.
Anyways if you follow step 1 you can access the recovery again and the phone will boot past the HTC logo screen.
Also these steps are well documented on modaco.
Try this first since it will save you the step of running the RUU, which I wasn't able to (somehow the software complained my battery was below 30%, which it wasn't)
Good luck hope this solves it for you.

czepluch said:
Okay. Thanks. I thought that RUU was something like that but I just couldnt see how i should be able to acces any files right now. As i wrote before the phone freezes at the picture of a phone with the red triangle, and i am not able to get any further that that. I would really appreciate if anyone could tell me how and what to do next?
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You don't need to go into recovery! boot into FASTBOOT and then leave it at that. Plug the phone in and it will then say FASTBOOT USB. Then run the RUU your phone came with originally. You don't need to go anywhere near Recovery

I am pretty certain that ive found a solution now. I deserve a fist in the nuts for being so stupid not to press volume up + power when trying to get into recovery mode. But fortunately dnlgee asked if i had remembered this. Now that ive gotten this far i should be able to solve the rest. I will however return if im still unable to solve it.

czepluch said:
I am pretty certain that ive found a solution now. I deserve a fist in the nuts for being so stupid not to press volume up + power when trying to get into recovery mode. But fortunately dnlgee asked if i had remembered this. Now that ive gotten this far i should be able to solve the rest. I will however return if im still unable to solve it.
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Ah I missed that part, I couldn't access recovery either. Only thing left working was fastboot for me. All other options would hang on the HTC logo screen.

Please Help - Bricked Phone?

I downloaded an and flashed an Incredible Rom and I have an HTC Evo.
It is now stuck at the HTC screen, and when I boot into recovery mode, and go to "recovery" it just takes me to Fastboot USB."
Usually it would take me to I believe Clockwork recovery?
Is there any chance you guys can help me or point me in the right direction =/
I really hope I didn't brick me phone. I've been searching online for hours and can't find anything that works. Even downloading the android-usb-driver.zip
I figure as long as I can get into Clockwork recovery or somehow read my SD card from my Phone I can just flash something else to fix it? I can't seem to find a way to do that though =/
Thank you for helping this moron in advance

First off you are not bricked ( take a deep breath) now since you can go into the bootloader you are going to flash clockworkmod from the bootloader look for his thread and download it
evo on cm7

Thank you for your prompt reply.
The thing is, I don't know how to Flash clockword mod from Bootloader. I know I have all the files on my SD card, since I've been rooted for a while and have flashed other roms, I just don't know how to access and flash it. Even if I did not have the file (which I believe I do,) I wouldn't know how to get it onto the SD card and flash it.
Thanks for all your help

PS, it has S -OFF.

Please someone help i'm freaking out here.

Calm down, are you holding volume down and power when you turn the phone on?
Sent from my PC36100 using Tapatalk

pull your card, if you have a card reader, put the pc36img for Amon Ra on the root of yo sdcard, put it in the phone, boot up by holding power and vol down at the same time, you'll go to bootloader. it'll scan, find the pc36img (which must be named PC36IMG.ZIP) and ask if you want to update, select yes, then it'll install recovery.
You can do a search for dougjamal. he has a link to the Amon Ra file in his signature, so find one of his posts

Thanks HipKat!
My friend is coming with his Galaxy S. I'll just put my USB in his phone, download the file to the SD card, pop it back into mine, and it should work, right?
THank you so much.
Can I message you for further help?
LMK how I can use the "Thanks" button. Still somewhat new to this.

I'm at work, so I can't stay on here. That dougjamal guy is really good and has links in his sig for a lot of important files.
IF the AR ps36img file doesn't work, you may have to run the RUU and start over fro mstock, and he has a link to the RUU files in his signature, too. just make sure you use the one for your device in the same way as I described the Amon Ra file, then you'll have to re-root.
ALSO, if you used unrEVOked to root your phone, go to their site and get the s-off tool and run that from recovery, if you're able to get to recovery before you run RUU (I doubt you have to run RUU though. I'm thinking recovery should work for you)

If you still need help you can pm me for it.
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All good now. Thanks so much guys!!

[Q] OMG! Accidentally Formatted system data!

Alright. For starters, xda has been VERY VERY helpful to me over the past few months and I thank everyone who has ever contributed to a question or a discussion I have read. That being said, this is my first post. I watched the newb video, read many forums (both xda and others), google searched, read some more threads, kept reading threads, tried some methods described in some threads, bookmarked some interesting threads for if my phone ever works again, and read some more threads.
I am not saying the answer is not already out there, I am saying I have reached my resourcefulness cap.
Anyway, to the root of the problem: I'm not entirely new to rooting, and am comfortable using recovery and hboot to flash roms. I also had a nandroid backup! for SOME SILLY reason, while in my clockworkmod recovery this morning (maybe slightly due to being half asleep which is why I now recommend being fully awake before entering hboot or recovery or rom manager....etc) I formatted the system on my phone. I THINK.
My phone will now load up to display the bootloader, and go into recovery mode, and flash roms, but when I flash a rom, nothing changes. If I boot my phone up, it will show a notification bar at the top like usual, a stock wallpaper, and that is IT! it will show a message notification and missed call icon since I have them, but the touch screen will not work. The rosie buttons at the bottom do not show up (i.e. phone button or all aps button) no apps appear, no clocks except for in the notification bar... hardkeys have no effect (home button search button menu or back) and volume keys will not work. The lock button will only lock and unlock the screen, not power off or reboot or anything. If plugged in at this point, it is charger only.
So, I can take the micro sd card out and put files on it from my PC via a microsd-usb converter thing...
I have tried putting new roms on the sd and flashing them from recovery, no effect. Tried the RUU_Supersonic_1.32.651.1_Radio_1.39.00.04.26_release_171253.exe program, it always says that my phone has below 30% battery and will not continue (this is not the case as I have two batteries both have been fully charged because the phone will still charge them...)
And I have tried putting PC36IMG.zip files on my sd card to no avail.
I am thinking that the system was wiped because it seems like there is no boot image on the phones internal memory itself. I am currently looking for a way to place a boot image on the sd card to possibly flash it or some sort of update.zip so that my bootloader will ask me to update upon reading it.
Sorry for the long post, and ask any questions I will answer as best I can.
I am posting preemptively to the boot image adventure so that if it does not work, maybe I can have some help finding a solution by then.
I was going to take my evo to the sprint store since it is under warranty but if they go into recovery they will see clockworkmod recovery.
Thanks to all for any form of guidance!
I did just notice in my Bootloader menu (HBOOT-2.10.0001) that it says Supersonice evt2-3 **** S-ON
I don't know how because I thought it was a requirement that it says S-OFF to be rooted and flash roms, but I have definitely flashed roms before and gained su access to applications and such. BUT since it says S-ON would it then be covered by the warranty if it is not rooted?
Thanks again.

I you want to flash a boot image, you can take the boot.img from an RUU for the firmware you are, place it in your adb tools folder, then flash it using the commands:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot reboot

I'm not sure how to identify what firmware I am. Unless your talking about the Hboot version? and also, I can't place anything in any folder except onto my sd card. I have no access other than that to the phone. On the sd card there are no files except for what I put on there.
...aaand not to mention I don't know what adb is exactly...

Does your phone still go to clockwork when you go to recovery?

Am going to try it right now, but will that work if I cannot tell my phone to allow usb debugging? i remember something about unrevoked needing that to root the phone in the first place. will update as soon as I try it. May not have time right now as I have to leave in about 15 mins. If no reply by 9:45, then I will be back online tomorrow morning. and thanks!

Timeconsumer10 said:
Am going to try it right now, but will that work if I cannot tell my phone to allow usb debugging? i remember something about unrevoked needing that to root the phone in the first place. will update as soon as I try it. May not have time right now as I have to leave in about 15 mins. If no reply by 9:45, then I will be back online tomorrow morning. and thanks!
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Welcome, but yes, you do need to have had usb debugging enabled, so we'll see how that goes.

SUPER THANKS! S-OFF tool worked perfectly just flashed a rom and now so far so good. Will post tomorrow to let you know if everything works well. So much appreciated =) I would thanks a million times if i could don't know what to do without my evo.

Timeconsumer10 said:
SUPER THANKS! S-OFF tool worked perfectly just flashed a rom and now so far so good. Will post tomorrow to let you know if everything works well. So much appreciated =) I would thanks a million times if i could don't know what to do without my evo.
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Lol, it'd take you 200,000 days since you can only thank 5 times a day Though glad you're rooted now.

shortydoggg said:
Does your phone still go to clockwork when you go to recovery?
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Yes it still goes to clockwork because its rooted.. now my screen legitimately does not work in certain areas of the screen (not responding to touch) so I'm going to try and get it stock stock stock unrooted and go for warranty replacement. Any ideas please let me know. Currently trying RUU Supersonic...

So, I got an ERROR [110] message from the RUU package its a file open error... :/ now i dont know what is up. Says I need a complete RUU package. Looking for another one or another option now.
If i boot phone normally now it just goes to a black screen with "htc" in the middle and "!" in a triangle in all four corners. Can't do anything from that screen.
If I boot into bootloader once where it says SHIP S-OFF at the top and instead of recovery and all those options it just says RUU but you cant do anything there... :/ I now, however cannot even get to the bootloader screen.
Could they tell it is rooted?
Maybe I could say I finally decided to do sprints OTA update that I've been denying for a while and this is the result.
Anyone agree disagree?

COCLUSION!
So. Since it has just the HTC logo and four error icons one in each corner... I took it into a sprint repair store. It would not boot into bootloader as a hard reset, so the guys at the store were stumped. They had actually never seen this before =). They asked me if I rooted it and all so I just played dumb. I told em I didn't know what that really was. They kinna explained it and I told em I didn't even have a computer (not a lie actually I sold mine and now use my dads or gfs lol). The logo on the screen was an oooold htc logo from like hero or so. So they just put it in the system as a wont even turn on type of thing and gave me a new phone since I was under warranty =) gonna see if I can live without root juuust for a little bit because work and school are gonna keep me busy for a while. I am certain to return though!
Can't wait to see what the devs can do by then!
Thanks to all for the help!

[Q] Stuck ( Need Help Badly)

ive searched the forums and google for the past 45minutes. couldnt find a thing .
This is my problem. I was trying to install Darkside's SGSII rom for tmobile agin because i was experiening glitches and lag. i downloaded all the files except radio ( because i flashed that a month ago the first time ) i backed up every , used super wipe. then i thought if i wiped everything, the radio would too. so i took out my SD card. downloaded a radio . and put it on my SD card. tried to mount the SD card back and couldnt. Took me 20 mins untill i finally just reboot . Now i cant get back into CWM at all. the galaxy s ii boots right into the loading darkside screen. and just stalls . im not sure how to hard reset it into CWM. i tried to hold volume up , down menu while putting in the USB . it goes to odin but stalls at " downloading " .
edit : i tried using Odin from this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1566613 . Nothing still
so my question is how do i get into CWM?

first, install android sdk, then plug the phone in and let it boot to wherever it gets stuck, open command prompt or terminal or whatever you use and type ddms - see if the debug manager recognizes your phone - if it does, type adb reboot recovery
if that doesnt work, pull the battery out -unplug it - put battery in, hold volume up+down and press power - keep holding down vol up+down and hopefully you will be in recovery. let me know if you still cant get in and we can try something else.

You have to flash a gb radio because you currently have an ics radio. nAndroid doesn't back up the boot loader.
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i was getting confused with the android SDK a little. So i used this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513359 to flash back to stuck using Odin. After it was back to stock.
I followed this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1650908 flash CWM and root it. did a back up. and flashed Darksides super wipe , radio and ics rom. My phone back.
Thanks guys for your help. Really appreciate it. Thought i lost a $400 phone lol

Very nice!
RagingKruz said:
i was getting confused with the android SDK a little. So i used this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513359 to flash back to stuck using Odin. After it was back to stock.
I followed this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1650908 flash CWM and root it. did a back up. and flashed Darksides super wipe , radio and ics rom. My phone back.
Thanks guys for your help. Really appreciate it. Thought i lost a $400 phone lol
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I like hearing stories like this. It shows that you are also digging around while asking questions and not afraid to try out different ways to fix. That's how you'd learn right? Excellent work and I am glad you learned it the hard way (without bricking your phone). This is not to sound harsh but, you know, the first thing you should be doing is to READ everything completely BEFORE you start experimenting. Your case may be different but many people just jump and start doing things. Even experienced (I'd say I am not that experienced) people would and could make mistakes and may not know all the bugs/issues with particular roms and / or hardware. So, read first and execute later.

[Q] Can't boot into recovery

Firstly I did look for similar threads but I couldn't find my problem with entering recovery mode.
So I get to the bootloader and I hit "recovery" to go into recovery mode to back up before I start flashing roms. All that happens for me is it loads into a black screen with a phone in the middle and a green arrow pointing down into the phone with two green arrows circling the downard arrow, then it flashes black, then comes up with the same screen except it's now a red triangle over the phone with an exclamation mark in the middle. I'm assuming this is to represent an error occuring.
The phone won't do anything after this and I have to restart the phone by holding the power button for long enough (7 seconds?). This brings me back into my phone as if I hadn't done anything. I don't want to start flashing things if I can't backup my phone, I don't know how to get around this. Oh and I have installed ROM Toolbox and the same thing occurs when trying to enter recovery mode through this app. Any help will be amazing!
P.S: My phone is rooted, and I left the bootloader unlocked, would not locking it after rooting be a problem? I'm new to all of this :/

did you flashed the correct recovery?

Incase u didnt . Head here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2372372
sent from my katana

JAClifford said:
Firstly I did look for similar threads but I couldn't find my problem with entering recovery mode.
So I get to the bootloader and I hit "recovery" to go into recovery mode to back up before I start flashing roms. All that happens for me is it loads into a black screen with a phone in the middle and a green arrow pointing down into the phone with two green arrows circling the downard arrow, then it flashes black, then comes up with the same screen except it's now a red triangle over the phone with an exclamation mark in the middle. I'm assuming this is to represent an error occuring.
The phone won't do anything after this and I have to restart the phone by holding the power button for long enough (7 seconds?). This brings me back into my phone as if I hadn't done anything. I don't want to start flashing things if I can't backup my phone, I don't know how to get around this. Oh and I have installed ROM Toolbox and the same thing occurs when trying to enter recovery mode through this app. Any help will be amazing!
P.S: My phone is rooted, and I left the bootloader unlocked, would not locking it after rooting be a problem? I'm new to all of this :/
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most probably, you didnt flash a custom recovery...try flashing that... u can find the steps to flash in the original android development section..

gulsher said:
did you flashed the correct recovery?
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How do I know which is the correct recovery to flash?

Pranav Sharma (PS) said:
most probably, you didnt flash a custom recovery...try flashing that... u can find the steps to flash in the original android development section..
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I tried flashing CWR v 5.8.4.5 but that wouldn't install through ROM Toolbox so I tried TWRP v 2.5.0.0 (and the previous versions), none of them brought me any further than the red triangle :/
So I decided to try ROM Manager, I then flashed CWR 5.8.4.5 (successfully) and rebooted into recovery, it brought me to the circling arrows with a loading bar that got not even 1/4 through then it changed to a question mark over the phone and restarted itself within 5 seconds. This is the most progress I've made. Any ideas on what to try next?

JAClifford said:
How do I know which is the correct recovery to flash?
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download it from here http://projectsmyrna.com/PRIMOU/RECOVERY/cwmrecovery6.0.3.3touch.img
try from beginning, take a cwm recovery into fast boot folder
place it there, restart your htc one v and goto bootloader then fastboot option
open command prompt there in the folder by holding shift key and type "fastboot flash recovery cwmrecovery6.0.3.3touch.img"

JAClifford said:
I tried flashing CWR v 5.8.4.5 but that wouldn't install through ROM Toolbox so I tried TWRP v 2.5.0.0 (and the previous versions), none of them brought me any further than the red triangle :/
So I decided to try ROM Manager, I then flashed CWR 5.8.4.5 (successfully) and rebooted into recovery, it brought me to the circling arrows with a loading bar that got not even 1/4 through then it changed to a question mark over the phone and restarted itself within 5 seconds. This is the most progress I've made. Any ideas on what to try next?
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i dont know what the rom toolbox or rom manager does because i dont use much of these apps and rom manager had a great reputation on xda forums that it bricks the device....
try the manual way..
download revovery (appropriate) [would recommend cwm but twrp is also good]
boot into bootloader mode (I'm sure you know this)
connect device to the computer via usb cable
then paste the recovery image in th fastboot folder located on your computer (if u have a rooted device I'm sure u must know what a fastboot folder is..)
then rename recovery to recovery.img
then open command prompt
type cd C:\fastboot (C:\fastboot is the location of your fastboot folder on your pc.. it can be any other location also)
then type--- "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" (but without the quotes)
your recovery wil be flashed..
there are other recovery flashing guides also u can refer to them in case u understand/are not familiar with all these things...
hope it helps..
good luck..:good:

Pranav Sharma (PS) said:
i dont know what the rom toolbox or rom manager does because i dont use much of these apps and rom manager had a great reputation on xda forums that it bricks the device....
try the manual way..
download revovery (appropriate) [would recommend cwm but twrp is also good]
boot into bootloader mode (I'm sure you know this)
connect device to the computer via usb cable
then paste the recovery image in th fastboot folder located on your computer (if u have a rooted device I'm sure u must know what a fastboot folder is..)
then rename recovery to recovery.img
then open command prompt
type cd C:\fastboot (C:\fastboot is the location of your fastboot folder on your pc.. it can be any other location also)
then type--- "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" (but without the quotes)
your recovery wil be flashed..
there are other recovery flashing guides also u can refer to them in case u understand/are not familiar with all these things...
hope it helps..
good luck..:good:
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Thanks Heaps! I did hear about how Rom Manager is infamous for bricking phones so I thought it would be safe enough to flash a recovery (it's not phone bricking stuff is it?) But Rom Toolbox is kind of a lot of different apps in one that seems pretty legit. To be honest I was just trying to be lazy and not bother learning all of this the manual way but it sounds like I might have to just do it the manual way haha, manual is often the best way with a lot of things anyway.
Thanks also for the little tutorial, you're quite right, even though I'm new I'm a fast learner and I've had plenty to do with computers so I know what all of the commands are doing and the terminology but thanks for covering the bases It's nice to see a noob friendly community around, not too common these days.
So yeah, flashed CWR touch, and got into it with no problem, created my nandroid with no problem. Now I'll set to flashing roms (the manual way) Thanks to everyone here for helping me you're all great

JAClifford said:
Thanks Heaps! I did hear about how Rom Manager is infamous for bricking phones so I thought it would be safe enough to flash a recovery (it's not phone bricking stuff is it?) But Rom Toolbox is kind of a lot of different apps in one that seems pretty legit. To be honest I was just trying to be lazy and not bother learning all of this the manual way but it sounds like I might have to just do it the manual way haha, manual is often the best way with a lot of things anyway.
Thanks also for the little tutorial, you're quite right, even though I'm new I'm a fast learner and I've had plenty to do with computers so I know what all of the commands are doing and the terminology but thanks for covering the bases It's nice to see a noob friendly community around, not too common these days.
So yeah, flashed CWR touch, and got into it with no problem, created my nandroid with no problem. Now I'll set to flashing roms (the manual way) Thanks to everyone here for helping me you're all great
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your welcome buddy..
i also remember the days when i was new to this stuff..but now i am quite used to such terms and feel comfortable with them,...althought to reach this stage it took some time..