Flashing a rom

A stock ROM is the version of the phone's operating system that comes with your phone when you buy it.

A custom ROM is a fully standalone version of the OS, including the kernel (which makes everything run), apps, services, etc - everything you need to operate the device, except it's customized by someone in some way.

First you will need a rooted phone. 

Download ROM manager from the play store

install clockworkmod VIDEO

Create a backup

Its a good note to clear factory wipe (data /cache/ dalvik) before installing a new rom

Rebooting Android into recovery

After you install SDK you can reboot in recovery via terminal.
To do this go to terminal.
You will need to know the location of your sdk
Mine is c:\Developer\adt\sdk
We need to find the abd which mine is in c:\Developer\adt\sdk\platform-tools

To access in terminal type cd c:\Developer\adt\sdk\platform-tools
You are now in that folder

To reboot into recovery type adb reboot recovery.
Thats it!

If you get an error through any of this, check and make sure you have sdk installed, your drivers for your phone, usb debug is on, and have it plugged in.

It starts here #Android

I've had my nexus for quite awhile now. Didn't do much just rooted. 

With iOS7 out and beta tried I was very disappointed. 

Seems Apple wants to do away with Jaibreaking all together.

Which brings me here.

After many hours tonight/this morning, I have learned quite a bit. 

Would like to share some of that with you.

Android is well quite different than iOS (duh). Things are achieved much differently.

To start off one thing you will have to do before rooting, or installing roms is.

Installing Device Drivers - This is very simple to do, but is a must!

If you plug your android device in, open my computer right click and go to device manager.

You will see an error sign next to your Android. It has installed a driver. 

We are going to use our device for a bit more. So we need to install some rock solid drivers.

Android Dev is the resource you want for drivers. Even includes a step by step;)

Alright we now have a great recognized device.

Things we will need to develop on Android.

Android SDK You will install this on your windows system. 

Also comes with eclipse. 

To install do not click the exe. It does not work. Instead open the eclipse folder. Inside is eclipse.exe

You can click this to install.

Once installed lets just make sure you have Java. To do this open command prompt.

You can go to run and type cmd, or search for command prompt.

When open type java -version

This will display java's version if you have it installed. If not install here.

Java

That should be all we need to install on our system to get where we can use terminal to send codes to Android as well as make Android apps.

Until next time;)