little help rooting

Contacts and apps are saved to your google account no need to worry about it. Apps should auto-download

 

You want to make a nandroid backup. In SPRecovery use advanced backup. Check off everything and let it make your backup for you.

 

Here is an old link http://www.droidforums.net/forum/ha...-phone-2-1-rom-o-c-mm-boot-animation-etc.html that had an excellent tutorial for rooting. Some is out-of-date but the backup instruction in the 4th post are still current.

Mike

 

Things to check:

Make sure the update. zip is on your SD card and not in a folder
make sure the file reads "update.zip" no spaces and only one ".zip" extension. Often, browsers will add a second ".zip" so the file becomes "update.zip.zip"

Mike

 

Hopefully the new file will load and you'll be on your way.

Since you're installing an update.zip file I assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that you were installing a rom. Is that your intent?

Once you install a rom then you can add a theme. There are, however, roms that already have a theme included. I've not installed the Smoked Glass theme so I'm not sure if the Smoked Glass is already included in any rom

Mike

 

That is doable. Go to the link I included in my earlier post and look at numbers 5 and 9.

The links to download the BB rom and SG theme may not be live but the process is solid.

Mike