drummer said:
incorrect
xda is for developers, and newbies.
There is a q&a and general forum for each phone, where you can find questions as stupid as "where is my power button"?
developers keep themselves in the developer subforums of each phone
Yeah, I think the dev thread is protected for devs only. You do have to post in one of the general threads for a bit before you can post in any of the ROM threads.
I've flashed so many ROM's for my GS3 that it would make a n00bs head spin. I've grown tired of doing it after a hard brick (which was due to I trying to do a hardware thing, not because of a ROM). Now I'm back on pure stock, un-rooted. I hardly touch the device now as far as customization, apps, etc. I guess you can say I'm burned out, lol.
But those ROMs got the full value of my device and the some. Once I buy a new phone later this year, I'm gonna root and ROM the GS3 and use it for a media device only.
Ha. Since I'm gonna be getting a newer phone soon I've decided to play around with my S3 a bit and put a KitKat ROM on it just for craps and giggles. Having trouble deciding on which one.What's the easiest/least painful way to backup my phone before I flash a ROM? Do i really need to back up my apps since most were downloaded from the Play Store? Seems it would be pretty easy to just reinstall them from that. Its been almost 2 years since I've flashed a ROM and I'm sure there are better apps for backing up now than there was then. Ive got the latest version of TWRP recovery installed, can I just use that for backup? Ive also got Titanium Backup but I think I remember reading that there are better options out there now.
Oh, and please speak slowly and in layman's terms. I know the basics but am not up on most of the tech terms. Lol
Thanks man
TWRP should be all you need for a full backup - just run a back-up in recovery mode and save it to an sd card. I'm not sure about backing up apps and then running them on a new ROM. However, most of your key apps (but definitely not all) will automatically reinstall via the play store once you log in with your previous gmail account.
Flashing custom ROMS these days is much easier with Android 4.x than it was in the past. You really only need Odin now for rooting some of the phones or flashing back to stock. To install a ROM, just root, install TWRP, boot in recovery, then factory reset, clear data, clear cache, and clear davlik cash, install zip, and install gapps, and you are good to go.