Summary: Rooting a phone can be a rewarding project, but it also has several dangers attached with it. When considering phone hacking, you need to know what to do if something goes wrong. Read these 3 quick steps to find out what to do if something goes wrong when rooting your phone.
Tweaking a rooted smartphone is mostly a simple process so long as you follow the instructions to the letter. But if something goes wrong it can leave you unable to boot your phon, can you say “brick”?
Thankfully it can be recovered with the helpful ROM Manager app.
Rooting your Android phone is a term that you are bound to across at some point or another while searching on how to optimize your Android device. If you you would like to know more, Wikipedia has a decent entry on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooting_(Android_OS)
1. ClockworkMod Recovery
Before you start playing with custom ROMs on your phone or tablet, be sure to flash ClockworkMod Recovery from within the ROM Manager app. This will enable you to restore a ROM should an installation give you serious problems.
2. Backing up your current ROM
You must also backup you current ROM before installing a new one. Do this via ROM Manager, and keep the backup on your memory card in case you ever need it. If you can’t boot your phone you will be able to restore this.
3. Recover and restore
To restore a ROM, hold the volume-down and power keys. From the menu, select RECOVERY, then ‘backup and restore’. A list of ROMs on your card will be displayed, including your backup. Choose that to restore.
