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Unlocked/rooted my phone but new to custom ROMs, have some questions

Hey guys, I recently bought an HTC One V to replace my old Android phone. Last weekend I unlocked the bootloader and rooted it so I could enable wifi tethering, now I’m thinking about trying on some new ROMs but since I never flashed to one before on any phone I had some general questions about what I can/can’t do and what to expect along the way.
1. It’s important for me to make sure I have a backup of the stock ROM I’m currently on in case none of the custom ones suit me or don’t work as well. Last weekend when I flashed TWRP to recovery and believe I made a backup of stock before rooting, I know I was following a tutorial and they said it was optional but I should do it just in case for the same reasons I listed above. Is this considered doing a “Nandroid backup”, and with these backups is the ROM and all installed apps backed up as well, so when flashing back to it it restores the ROM and whatever was installed at the time so apps don’t need to be re-downloaded?
2. When on a custom ROM and wanting to revert back to stock is the procedure the same as going to a custom? I thought I saw something about having to relock the bootloader if wanting to go back to stock.
3. When looking around for custom ROMS to try out do I need to make sure that it’s compatible specifically with my phone model or generally speaking do all custom Android-based ROMs work on any Android OS phone or tablet?
4. Are there some ROMS built around doing a specific task? Like for me I want to concentrate on making sure my phone’s mobile hotspot runs as smoothly as possible for tethering and having a functional bluetooth profile is important as well. Without asking “What ROM is best” can someone recommend a ROM that best fits my criteria that I should try out?
5. Will I need to re-root my phone whenever I flash to a new ROM? And when doing a Nandroid backup while rooted is the root access backed up as well?
6. Is there an app available that keeps track of the ROMs I download and allows for flashing to them easily?
7. Does GApps need to be flashed to the phone after going to a new custom ROM everytime, or do some ROMs include the GApps in them already?
Any other tips, tricks, or explanation on something you don’t think I’m “getting” would be great. Thanks a bunch for any help.

brokenvisage said:
Hey guys, I recently bought an HTC One V to replace my old Android phone. Last weekend I unlocked the bootloader and rooted it so I could enable wifi tethering, now I’m thinking about trying on some new ROMs but since I never flashed to one before on any phone I had some general questions about what I can/can’t do and what to expect along the way.
1. It’s important for me to make sure I have a backup of the stock ROM I’m currently on in case none of the custom ones suit me or don’t work as well. Last weekend when I flashed TWRP to recovery and believe I made a backup of stock before rooting, I know I was following a tutorial and they said it was optional but I should do it just in case for the same reasons I listed above. Is this considered doing a “Nandroid backup”, and with these backups is the ROM and all installed apps backed up as well, so when flashing back to it it restores the ROM and whatever was installed at the time so apps don’t need to be re-downloaded?
2. When on a custom ROM and wanting to revert back to stock is the procedure the same as going to a custom? I thought I saw something about having to relock the bootloader if wanting to go back to stock.
3. When looking around for custom ROMS to try out do I need to make sure that it’s compatible specifically with my phone model or generally speaking do all custom Android-based ROMs work on any Android OS phone or tablet?
4. Are there some ROMS built around doing a specific task? Like for me I want to concentrate on making sure my phone’s mobile hotspot runs as smoothly as possible for tethering and having a functional bluetooth profile is important as well. Without asking “What ROM is best” can someone recommend a ROM that best fits my criteria that I should try out?
5. Will I need to re-root my phone whenever I flash to a new ROM? And when doing a Nandroid backup while rooted is the root access backed up as well?
6. Is there an app available that keeps track of the ROMs I download and allows for flashing to them easily?
7. Does GApps need to be flashed to the phone after going to a new custom ROM everytime, or do some ROMs include the GApps in them already?
Any other tips, tricks, or explanation on something you don’t think I’m “getting” would be great. Thanks a bunch for any help.
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Well, I have only had motorola with android, but maybe i can help you with some of your questions
3) No, each custom rom is made for a specific model, so you have to search the roms that are made for your phone/tablet, flashing a wrong rom may be an easy way for killing your device
5) Most roms are pre-rooted, at least all of the roms i used on my motorolas were pre-rooted, i guess that with htc things must be simillar.
6) It depends, some roms (like cyanogenmod) does not include GApps, so you have to flash them after you install the rom, others have GApps included, so you must see if the rom you're installing has GApps included.
Well, hope this may help
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Great questions...still a noob but learning fast. These are some of the questions I was wondering about myself. (If I ever find a way to root my phone) Good luck and I will bm this page for future use.

Thanks guys, bump to try and get the other ones answered.

1) Use Titanium Backup for the apps' backup .
2) You should flash the stock rom of that phone and then relock the bootloader.
6) I don't know any app to do this, but it can exist, idk.

I've just bricked my phone and recovered it. Now I need to get back on track...

Hi everyone!
I'm new in the Android development community and after 1 1/2 years of using my stock openline Sony Xperia S, I decided to root it and install custom ROM on it. I've succeeded on unlocking its bootloader and rooting it. And then I thought, "ok time to choose a custom ROM, install it, and do a happy dance!" However, I couldn't make the recovery work at first, tried everything but it just reboots and does nothing. I installed a dual recovery from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2634382
I finally was able to make TWRP recovery work, but when I tried to install the custom ROM, I forgot to wipe all data - soft bricking my phone.
Now I tried to find here solutions on how to recover my bricked phone and stumbled upon this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849170
I followed instructions carefully, and installed 6.2.B.0.200. Now when I checked my phone, SuperSU is gone... Hmm, ok I'll just download it again from Play Store I thought. It's not working when I tried to open it, says it's missing some binaries. Could it be possible that I unrooted my phone trying to recover it?
I tried unlocking phones in the past, the old Nokia models (N70, N73, etc) but man, modding Android phone is just too complex! With all the overwhelming information that I've been reading in the past 12 hours (and imagine the stress that I've felt when I bricked my phone), I just want to ask how I can get back on track to what I'm doing. Should I root it again? I've rooted my phone earlier from following these instructions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2417672
If you'd ask what custom ROM I was trying to install earlier, it's here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2140734
Thank you in advance,
SA

Download the root checker app from play store. It will show you if you're rooted or not.
Sent from my Xperia S using xda app-developers app

Soul Annihilator said:
Hi everyone!
I'm new in the Android development community and after 1 1/2 years of using my stock openline Sony Xperia S, I decided to root it and install custom ROM on it. I've succeeded on unlocking its bootloader and rooting it. And then I thought, "ok time to choose a custom ROM, install it, and do a happy dance!" However, I couldn't make the recovery work at first, tried everything but it just reboots and does nothing. I installed a dual recovery from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2634382
I finally was able to make TWRP recovery work, but when I tried to install the custom ROM, I forgot to wipe all data - soft bricking my phone.
Now I tried to find here solutions on how to recover my bricked phone and stumbled upon this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849170
I followed instructions carefully, and installed 6.2.B.0.200. Now when I checked my phone, SuperSU is gone... Hmm, ok I'll just download it again from Play Store I thought. It's not working when I tried to open it, says it's missing some binaries. Could it be possible that I unrooted my phone trying to recover it?
I tried unlocking phones in the past, the old Nokia models (N70, N73, etc) but man, modding Android phone is just too complex! With all the overwhelming information that I've been reading in the past 12 hours (and imagine the stress that I've felt when I bricked my phone), I just want to ask how I can get back on track to what I'm doing. Should I root it again? I've rooted my phone earlier from following these instructions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2417672
If you'd ask what custom ROM I was trying to install earlier, it's here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2140734
Thank you in advance,
SA
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Your bootloader has been unlocked, that means you can flash custom kernel. I recommended you to flash doomlord's kernel as it already included cwm and twrp recovery. Here is the link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2305591 and this kernel is also based on latest .96 firmware and you should not worry about compatibility issue

Thank you for the replies here so far. So yeah I had to re-root my phone. And I ditched TWRP too and used CWM to install a custom ROM. However, the custom ROM that I installed (Unlimited Xperia) is not as smooth as I had hoped. One of my games (Brave Frontier) is constantly crashing or hanging and the lack of WCDMA only option is a huge deal breaker for me (the creator probably doesn't have stable 3G in his area, I can't think of a reason why he would completely omit that option).
So my next question is, what custom ROM can you recommend that is mostly optimized for gaming and is pretty close to SE stock ROM?
Thanks in advance,
SA

Soul Annihilator said:
Thank you for the replies here so far. So yeah I had to re-root my phone. And I ditched TWRP too and used CWM to install a custom ROM. However, the custom ROM that I installed (Unlimited Xperia) is not as smooth as I had hoped. One of my games (Brave Frontier) is constantly crashing or hanging and the lack of WCDMA only option is a huge deal breaker for me (the creator probably doesn't have stable 3G in his area, I can't think of a reason why he would completely omit that option).
So my next question is, what custom ROM can you recommend that is mostly optimized for gaming and is pretty close to SE stock ROM?
Thanks in advance,
SA
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4.4 is a no-go. Stock is best or fxp's cm 10.
Sent from my Xperia S using xda app-developers app

entermetallica said:
4.4 is a no-go. Stock is best or fxp's cm 10.
Sent from my Xperia S using xda app-developers app
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Thanks! I'll try FXP's CM10 then.

[Q] Where to start? Update a Root stock 4.1.1 with Stock recovery to something fresh?

I rooted this phone way back when Chainfire first posted this thread. I used "Option 2" , so I just did a quick root, with no Custom recovery or flashing a rom.
Since then, I've been relying mostly on Xposed for tweaking, hibernating and locking it down with Xprivacy. My Note 2 actually works pretty good, and I got it all set up perfectly, but I'm bored
I just recently flashed the latest 4.4.4 Cyanogen on my old SGS4G and was really impressed with the new life my old phone has. I was also impressed with how easy it was to flash a new rom with CWM( I previously had Barebones rom on it, using Heimdall)
Anyways, I kind of want to update this Note 2, but where to start? What's the latest way to install CWM, or should I go with TWRP? Are there any good kit kat roms available for our Note 2? Or should I stay at stock 4.1.1?
It's been a long time since I've been on XDA, and I'm trying to whack through all the threads for info regarding my specific situation. Most everything seems to start at rooting 4.3, or flashing via Custom recovery.

Help! Installing custom rom, kernel and rooting

Hi
I was wondering if some one would help me and answer some questions about rooting, installing custom roms and kernels on my LG G3 - D855. I am a complete novice when it comes to installing any 3rd party software on phones.
I wish to install a custom rom (Cyanengine mod 12 Android L 5.0.2) onto my phone and possibly a custom kernel to improve the battery life. I believe I have to root to do this as well?
One of my worries is that I could brick my phone. If I do this , is it fixable? What order should I go about installing the modifications? Root, rom , kernel? Root, kernel , rom? Also what is TWRP? Sorry for the amount of questions, but I would be really grateful if some one could explain the process, and any thing I should avoid.
Thanks Again
regards
Tom

tomsmith64 said:
Hi
I was wondering if some one would help me and answer some questions about rooting, installing custom roms and kernels on my LG G3 - D855. I am a complete novice when it comes to installing any 3rd party software on phones.
I wish to install a custom rom (Cyanengine mod 12 Android L 5.0.2) onto my phone and possibly a custom kernel to improve the battery life. I believe I have to root to do this as well?
One of my worries is that I could brick my phone. If I do this , is it fixable? What order should I go about installing the modifications? Root, rom , kernel? Root, kernel , rom? Also what is TWRP? Sorry for the amount of questions, but I would be really grateful if some one could explain the process, and any thing I should avoid.
Thanks Again
regards
Tom
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First you must root. Then you should install TWRP. TWRP is just an option you give your phone to do many things like flashing (placing) programs to your phone, backing up everything (Including your current ROM, data, apps, etc.), and deleting everything and wiping your device.
Bricking is possible, but if you follow a guide step-by-step you shouldn't. TWRP should be a major priority. You must root first, then you can do that. This custom recovery will allow you to backup everything. If you brick your phone, TWRP is your only way out BUT YOU WOULD HAVE TO HAVE A BACKUP TO UNDO IT.
I wouldn't worry about a custom kernel because with root you will have access to so many options that you can customize your phone to use less battery.
Therefore, you should root, install TWRP, then install Cyanogenmod 12. There are so so so many guides for doing these and a quick google search will get you right into it.
Send me a message if you have specific questions -- I'd be glad to help you out. I was in your shoes not too long ago as well.
Hope this helps!

New Nexus 7 (2013) - How to Unlock, Root, What ROM, etc?

Looking to unlock, root and flash this device. There seems to be a lot of guides but not many of them are very recent. What's the simplest and cleanest way to do this? Is there any Android 7 ROMs that are completely stable and as vanilla as possible? Sorry if there is already a post out there answering these questions but I couldn't find any concentrated up-to-date guide on the procedures to follow. I plan to use this device for work and school so I need the ROM to be fully functional, reliable, and secure. (A lot of posts seemed to mention Youtube and camera issues but they seemed super old). I haven't done any rooting or flashing since the OG Droid so I'm a bit out of touch but not totally oblivious to the process. If you just hook me up with some recommended links, I can probably take it from there!
Thanks for any help!

The simplest, cleanest, safest, and fastest way to unlock the bootloader and root is to use the Nexus root toolkit. Sadly 6.0.1 is the newest official system update so you would probably be best off installing one of the custom ROMs that are available. I recently installed the latest version of SLIM 6. After installing that you can re root using the same technique. Slim 6 is really minimal and you can install GAPPS after performing the other tasks I mentioned