[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CrazyOGuy:
All right... I'm going to give this

one more try

. I'm going to be as complete as I can. If this gets missed too...so be it. Apologies in advance to those of you where English is not your main language, get your conversion dictionaries out now. I also apologize for being so wordy, so wearisomely verbose. It's just how I speak... please bare with me. I require help. My know how is in the digital arts, like Photoshop. I have always wanted to learn hard programming like C++ and so forth but so far I just have had the worst experiences with it every single time. So all I really know in the creation process is the front end - the part that is seen. Coding constantly eludes my grasp...perhaps is due to my ill ability for anything but the basics of mathematics. Who knows.

So with that said, I am very much a noob. Not just a noob but stupid too as far as these things go. The only thing we both share (Programmers and Artists) is that we both love making things. That is why I am even here, you all have the ability and knowhow I currently lack. When I first joined up here I hoped I could at the very least through the process of Rooting my Note and Adding a Rom (which alone was an arduous task) I would learn a little bit about the culture of programming. If I can't speak the language at the very least I can try and understand the why- But even that was difficult.

SO MANY ACRONYMS!!!!! Even in how you speak its code. Its...absolutely fascinating how an expertise effects how individuals are.

So with that we have Part 1 of my struggle. The Context.

Last time I was really here everyone was warned NOT to upgrade to ICS due to a Brick bug. So... I did not. Even though I was seeing Custom ROMs labeled "ICS 4.0.4" I choose to stay away from them completely. I am aware of the

latest update

, but with that said... Is it safe to upgrade to ICS? I look at the update and I think no...but I see nothing but ICS and even some JB Roms.

I don't understand.

Also I have been trying for

quite

some

time

to get PDroid to work. I couldn't get it to work on a GB Rom, but I have

seen

some

work around

that apparently will let me use it on an ICS Rom. Again my lack of understanding inhibits me from being able to surmise what to do.

Then there is my current rom... CheckROMv6. It runs...so that's good. After a few days from first putting it on my device (which I have since forgotten how to do and will have to re-look up) I opened the App that came with the Rom called "Kitchen Pro". I saw Boot (which I knew was Animation based), Modem(??), Kernels(?? I know it's a big something. Pity the Noob), Themes ( I know what those are, particularly since I'm making a custom one with Launcher Pro and some other little apps to assist my customizations), and Mods. So I nonchalantly click on one of each and two mods and click apply. Rom Manager opens...does its thing and things seem to work. I have a different boot animation at least. I don't like the Boot animation I randomly selected so I click another one and click Install.

Screen goes Dark.

Clockwork Mod Opens and Reads:

ClockworkMod Recovery v5.8.1.5

Waiting for SD Card to mount(20s)

SD Card mounted...

Verifying SD Card marker...

SD Card marker not found...

Checking Internal SD Card marker...

Error processing ROM Manager script. Please verify th

at you are performing the backup, restore, or ROM ins

tallation from ROM Manager v4.4.0.0 or higher.

/tmp/recovery.log. was copied to /sdcard/clockworkmod/

recovery.log. Please open the ROM Manager to report the i

ssue.​

I click reboot. It's been like this since. I have a CheckRom that I can't customize.

Somehow

...

the noob broke the ROM that was DESIGNED to be customized

. It doesn't really matter though since I really want to try to upgrade to at least an ICS Rom so that I can (at the very least) try to merge Pdroid on it.

And that's Part 2. My Concerns that need some educated assistance.

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Thoughts? Suggestions?