How can flashing be made safe?

[Guest kkid106]

What can be done to minimise the chance of bricking an android phone whilst flashing a custom ROM?

Also, what can be done once bricked? can it be recovered or not?

[Guest plegdroid]

depending on your phone, always have a backup that you can always flash back to if anything goes wrong with the new flash, learn how to flash a recovery via fastboot and adb for the times you think you may have bricked your phone, follow the install instructions to flash the rom and the most forgotten thing is to make sure your battery will last until the new rom is installed. there's probably lots more stuff I've not even thought of, but if in doubt ,always read the instructions. :)

[Guest kkid106]

depending on your phone, always have a backup that you can always flash back to if anything goes wrong with the new flash, learn how to flash a recovery via fastboot and adb for the times you think you may have bricked your phone, follow the install instructions to flash the rom and the most forgotten thing is to make sure your battery will last until the new rom is installed. there's probably lots more stuff I've not even thought of, but if in doubt ,always read the instructions. :)

how do you make these backups?

[Guest plegdroid]

how do you make these backups?

what phone you got?:)

[Guest kkid106]

what phone you got?:)

Orange San Francisco / ZTE Blade (Gen1)

OLED, not TFT i think too

Edited October 19, 2011 by kkid106

[Guest plegdroid]

morning, have a read of the following guide on how to install clockworkmod recovery on to your phone http://sanfranciscoandroid.co.uk/android/how-to-install-clockworkmod-recovery-on-the-orange-san-francisco-zte-blade/ :)

[Guest kkid106]

so this makes a backup of my phone which I can recover to if all goes wrong?

[Guest plegdroid]

yes that is correct :)