[Verizon Droid Charge] hogowner:
this are the exact steps I am going to follow tomorrow......(c/p from the other post)

If I follow this...I should be good to go?

Installing CWM using Odin

1.Shut down your phone and make sure it is unplugged from your computer.

2.Pull the battery out of your phone.

3.Make sure all applications are shut down and Antivirus is disabled, and run Odin on your computer.

4.Plug your phone in to your computer.

5.Hold the Down volume button until the large yellow triangle downloading screen appears. The first thin rectangle in the upper left of the ODIN applicate should also turn yellow and identify a com port. You can now release the volume key.

6.Uncheck the box in Odin that says "Auto Reboot".

7.*For this next part, make sure you are using the PDA button, NOT the Phone button, or you'll hurt your phone* Check the box next to PDA in Odin, and click the PDA button.

8.Navigate to the .tar.md5 file for CWM you downloaded (probably something like New_CWM_Recovery.tar.md5) and Open it.

9.Now you should be showing your phone connected to a Com port, Auto Reboot is unchecked, and you have selected the CWM file you want to load, so click the Start button.

10.In Odin, it should show the download progress, briefly flash a blue "Restart", then show a green "Pass". If it doesn't, try again, and if it repeatedly fails, try the following:

•Mine was seeming to lose power and shut off halfway through, and here's how I fixed it. After Odin was loaded on the PC and the phone was in download mode, but before I started the flash, I inserted the battery. This kept the phone on through the process and it succeeded.

•Try a different USB port (some people claim the back USB port works better for them, but that's very computer dependent).

•If you're on a laptop, make sure it is plugged in. Try a desktop if it continues to fail.

•Try a different USB cable.

•Make sure Odin is the only software running, and antivirus is disabled!

•Redownload the Odin package, it may be corrupt.

•Redownload the ROM/kernel/recovery, it may be corrupt.

11.Shutdown your phone by disconnecting it (and removing the battery if you had to install it for troubleshooting).

If you need visual instructions for running Odin, there are excellent ones here, just make sure to uncheck the auto-reboot box.

At this point, you should have CWM installed, so now let's install your rooted kernel.

Installing kernel through CWM

1.Boot in to recovery by holding down the Home key, the Up volume key, and the power button. After you see "SAMSUNG" you can let go of the power button, but continue to hold the home key and up volume until you are in recovery.

In CWM, navigate up and down using the volume keys, select using the power key, and go back a menu using the back key.

2.Select "install zip from sdcard".

3.Select "choose zip from sdcard".

4.Find and select your kernel's .zip file

5.Repeat the above steps, but this time choose the SD Card fix file you downloaded.

Install your ROM

If you decided to install a new ROM as well, you have a couple of extra steps.

1.Select "wipe data/factory reset".

2.Select "Yes -- delete all user data".

3.Go back using the back key.

4.Select "install zip from sdcard".

5.Select "choose zip from sdcard".

6.Find and select your ROM's .zip file.

7.If needed, install any other fixes the ROM author posted (for instance, Gummy comes with an Exchange Email fix you need to load)