[EVO 4G General] turboxsloth:
* Creating and Restoring Nandroid back-ups*

Boot your phone into recovery. In case you don’t know how to do that, you can do it by simply launching ‘ROM Manager’ if you have it installed, and tapping ‘Reboot into Recovery’. In case you don’t have ‘ROM Manager’ installed, you can hold down the (volume down button and hold the power button until recovery pops up) (Please make sure fast boot is turned off by clicking menu->settings->applications->uncheck fast boot.*make sure phone is off when trying to boot into recovery*)

1.Scroll down to ‘nandroid’ or ‘backup and restore’ and enter it (by pressing the trackball or optical track pad button on most phones; could be the power button on some phones that lack a trackball or an optical track pad.)

2.Select ‘backup’, and wait patiently for the backup process to complete.

Reboot your phone, and you’re done. You now have a complete backup of EVERYTHING on your phone memory taken on your SD card.

To recover a previously taken NANDROID backup:

Follow steps 1 and 2 of the backup process.

Select ‘restore’. You will now see a list of previously taken backups.

Select the backup that you want to restore, confirming any prompts that you may see.

Wait patiently while the restore process finishes, and reboot your phone once its done. You have now restored EVERYTHING on your phone’s memory to the way it was when that backup was taken.

*HOW TO WIPE DATA FULLY*

wipe data/cache/dalvik cache

*note that in some select cases,when updating a rom with a newer version of that same rom,the developer may tell you "a full wipe is not needed" in wich case you can eliminate the data wipe. most of the time,however,its a good idea to wipe all 3 of these things

*using the volume rocker and home softkey,in the main menu in clockwork recovery:

-select "wipe data/factory reset".scroll past all the NOs and select "yes-- delete all user data"

-wait for it to say "data wipe complete". youll be back at the main menu

-select "wipe cache partition". scroll past the NOs and select "yes-- wipe cache"

-wait for it to say "cache wipe complete". youre now at the main menu again

-select "advanced"

-select "wipe dalvik cache". scroll past the NOs to "yes- wipe dalvik cache"

-wait for it to say "dalvik cache wiped". youll still be in the advanced menu,so go back

*FLASHING A ROM*

1.Download the installation package for whichever ROM you want to install. These are available on a variety of third-party enthusiast ROM development websites, but the actual ROM will always be enclosed in a ZIP file. Refer to XDA Developer's EVO 4G development forum as a starting point for some user-developed EVO 4G ROMs.

2

Use the USB cable to connect your phone and computer. Select "Disk Mode" and, through "My Computer," drag the ROM installation ZIP file onto your EVO's SD card.

3

Turn off your phone. Hold down the "Volume down" and "Power" buttons to reboot the EVO into HBOOT mode. Use the volume rocker to scroll to "RECOVERY." Press down on your EVO's physical scroll button to enter recovery mode. Here, a text menu with multiple options will be displayed in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.

4

Use the volume rocker to scroll down to "Install zip from sdcard." Press the scroll button.

5

Highlight "Choose zip from sdcard" and press the scroll button. Here, your SD card's contents will be displayed, including your ROM's ZIP file.

6

Highlight the ROM's ZIP file and press the scroll button. The EVO will ask for you to confirm the installation---press the scroll button again to begin the ROM-flashing process. This will cue up an onscreen progress bar; once it disappears, reboot the EVO to finish the ROM flashing process.