[Optimus One, P500, V General] MoonQuake:
EDIT: simplified and updated with more questions. Over 100 views and so many unanswered questions! :)

UPDATE:

1- What is it that you backup when you backup your phone? Is it the content of the internal and SD card in one file? Or multiple files? Is this what's called a ROM?

Because last time I checked ROM means Read Only Memory, and my internal and Sd card are read and write.... ssssooooooooooo confusing.

1.1 Where's the OS (Android) installed? On the internal memory and on another partition?

2- I got my phone over at Koodo mobile. It's got their company name on the home screen. To avoid warranty problems:

2.1 Is this going to be copied over if I make a backup of the phone?

2.2 So many people suggest to just download a ROM of the stock version I got in my phone... would I have to find a Koodo ROM for the Optimus One or will any android 2.2 ROM do the trick.

2.3 Does putting a custom ROM or android 2.3 leave traces somewhere on the phone, even of you put back the original backup ROM?

3- How do you know if you made a proper backup and the size it should be?

Many thanks.

22vin:

- yes, the backup will store all your data, including apps, settings, everything

From the internal and SD card? All into one file?

- yes, you can restore everything, including unroot (if you want to be very sure you can flash the rom via kdz and the phone will be just like out-of-the-box)

Does KDZ make backups images of the phones, or is it only used to update?

- the "bios" is called custom recovery and it will void your warranty but you can go back to the stock recovery by flashing an image of a stock recovery or by flashing a whole rom via kdz (wich will erase everything as I said earlier)

So.... Custom recovery is ran from the phone and used for flashing KDZ is ran from Windows and used for flashing too?

- you will overclock the CPU, gpu tweaking means hw acceleration and other things wich can be disabled.

I take that as a GPU overclocking YES. :)

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Hi everyone,

I recently bought a wonderful Optimus One and I love it!

I spent the last hour reading all over the internet, and especially here, about how to root and use custom roms... (faqs, guides, the dictionary...)and some things are still not clear. I just like it when I want to get into doing touchy operations like updating firmwares and such and I get my facts straight.

(FYI, total android and smartphone noob, advanced windows user)

- I know my phone has internal memory and SD memory, and apps I download go on the internal or SD memory, but what about the OS itself? What is stored and where?

- I read a lot about using custom ROMs, but I couldn't find a reliable, confirmed answer to the following question: can I make a 100% image/backup of my phone before starting anything and if so, how?

Also, can I use this backup to revert the phone back to its original state and make my phone carrier believe nothing ever happened to it in case I need to? Is this image going to include stuff from the internal and SD and refer to question #1 everything stored in memory on the phone?

I know I can run some sort of bios to do so, but I feel like just installing the bios program and running it might put my phone at risk for a warranty void

- Last but not least: can you overclock the CPU only? Or both the CPU and GPU?

I've had difficulties reading about all these things because almost all posts and articles seem to be written by advanced android users for advanced android users.

Thanks in advance. :)

MQ