[General Questions and Answers] Kirby2049:
*Sorry for long post in advance, some might thank me for info*

Hey everyone I decided to throw this on here so that guy who's trying to root and do hacking type stuff with their Samsung Galaxy Stellar (yes you guy lol) can have some recent data to go off of. NOTE and WARNING: at this point this is all in one go and idk if it will be the same for you, after I went back to stock my version was 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwitch. Doing these things to your phone will void your warranty (there are ways to get it back total stock though), and may cause your phone to infinite boot loop or total brick. Do your research thoroughly with recent data for best results. You have been warned so if something happens don't come complaining cuz I am not responsible for what you do and I will laugh at you if you say I am.

I've been playing around with root stuff for about a week now, here's a list of things I've done. Used towelroot to root phone, Downloaded SuperSU, got ROM Installer and accidentally flashed latest TWRP and got the Triangle in Boot Recovery (so don't do that), downloaded Odin3 v3.10.6, found and used CI200_I200VRALH2_I200VZWLH2_ODIN-OC.exe (a one click Odin program) to get back to stock (4.0.4 ics) allowing me to use Boot Recovery again, downloaded Flashify and used it to backup current stock kernel and stock recovery (Use that, goomanager is dead right now so i had to find and alternate method to get TWRP), used

Flashify

to flash download TWRP (reboot to recovery caused a static image so do next step), used restore in Flashify for stock recovery, rebooted to recovery and it glitched Samsung logo on bottom of screen before loading into TWRP (it now does this 100% of the time when I reboot recovery), Created Stock Root Nandroid with TWRP (this is your first goal after rooting your phone, don't do anything else until you make a backup).

--From here it's extras that I have messed with-- Got ES File Explorer to access any file on phone (and External SD), got Root Uninstall to delete bloatware, got SD-Booster and Greenify, got Link2SD created a partition on my 8GB SD for extra space (using TWRP for 2nd partition because its required for Link2SD), Got Samba Fileshare allowing me to send anything from my computer to my Android over my wireless WIFI network (password protected too), got N64oid emulator + Snes9x EX+ emulator (because reasons), Clash of Clans (its just a game I play), messed around with some Wireless Network hack apps (so I can make sure my network is secured of course) but I don't think they worked (or my network has good defense idk), and finally installed ROM Toolbox witch is awesome but I can't use things like boot animations with stock ROM.

---So here I am encouraging anyone who knows details on what I went through and why it all happened like that and if I should do things a different way, and to ask what to do for my next steps. I'm up for (safe) testing given that

it is my primary phone

lol. what my options are for ROM customization for cool things like the boot animations :) . I'm not trying to update to JB (or mess with the ROM in general) until I'm like 95% sure it'll work.

---I think that because this is one of the cheaper Smartphones it makes it so much cooler to be able to access all this and for people to work on Developing things. I have learned it's a hard egg to crack though just a warning lol. I wouldn't consider my self a pro but I have gotten my hands dirty in the world of computers heh. Don't be afraid to message me, if I don't reply chances are it's because I'm out at sea and will get back to you when I can.

#Custom Time Stamp for date accuracy: 5:26pm (Pacific, -8GMT), 23 Feb 2015