15 Step How to Flashing Your Android Device

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15 Step How to Flashing Your Android Device
Flashing your android phone means loading/installing a custom made ROM on your android device.
What are Custom Made ROM’s?
Custom made ROM’s are developed by individuals or group of individuals. They are not built from scratch but contain major tweaks that could boost your systems performance, battery life and enhance various other capabilities of your android device.



Prerequisites
  1. The android device which you are about to flash must be rooted. If you haven’t rooted your device yet don’t worry, just refer to my previous article Android Rooted.
  2. Create a backup of all your data (contacts/calendar etc.) which is both in the phone memory and on the SD card. As all the data is going to get deleted.
So let’s get started…..
Downloading the ROM
You need to download a ROM which you want to flash onto your device first. XDA developers is the hub where all such developments take place. XDA is a giant community which does this work. Just search and browse through all the available ROM’s and select the best one which suits your device XDA-developers website.
After downloading the ROM store it in the root directory of your phone’s SD Card.
The ROM’s come in zip folders, DO NOT unzip them, store them as it is.
THE FLASHING PROCEDURE…
  1. Download ROM Manager from the Google Play Store and install it on your android device. Grant it the SUPER USER permission when it asks for.
ROM Manager is an android app that helps you manage your Custom ROM installation
  1. Now select “Open in Recovery Mode” from the ROM Manager menu.
When the system reboots in recovery mode, you will get a DOS like black screen.
Note: This screen doesn’t support touch. Generally the volume keys are used for switching between the options and the power key for selecting the option.
  1. Now you may be able to see the ANDROID SYSTEM RECOVERY menu.
  2. On this menu select BACKUP/RESTORE option.
  3. Now select ANDROID BACKUP.
Note: we will create a complete android system backup first so that you may be able to restore your device at any point.
  1. Wait for a while till the system creates a backup.
  2. Now after creating the backup select RETURN and comeback to the main menu.
  3. Now select WIPE .
  4. Now in the WIPE menu select “WIPE DATA/FACTORY RESET”
  5. After completing the 9th step, now select “WIPE DALVIK-CACHE” from the same wipe menu.
  6. Now hit RETURN and return to the main menu.
  7. Select “FLASH ZIP FROM SD CARD”.
  8. Now select the zip folder you want to install.
  9. And the particular ROM will be FLASHED.
  10. Now select “REBOOT SYSTEM NOW”
The system will reboot using the newly installed ROM.
well done..!!

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