[ZenFone 2 General] Reeves360:
Instructions Needed

I was following instructions here to try and root my phone so that I can get a new ROM installed that doesn't have all the bloat and so I can flash my radio to enable 4g in the US. I haven't messed around with custom ROM's for a couple of years since my Sprint Evo because I have been on stock vanilla google devices such as the Nexus 4.

I could use a little bit of help please. You can see the steps I'm trying to follow in the link above and I have documented what I have done below. I'm stuck where I have extracted the recovery image to my PC and copied it to the root of my SD card on my Zenfone. I'm getting stuck somewhere around step 5 through 7 on the instructions. I try to right click the recovery image file on my PC and the copy on the SD card of the Zenfone and I dont' see the option to press shift + right click to get Open Command Here. I thought I was just going to be able to boot to recovery once I was unlocked and install the new image for the OS/ROM...

Update: I installed Minimal ADB & Fastboot from another XDA thread and then was able to finish the instructions above. Yay! The only command I couldn't get to work in the instuctions was the last one “fastboot oem reboot - recovery”. Instead I typed: “fastboot continue” to get the device out of fastboot. Then I rebooted to recovery using the volume buttons and power on my phone.

I think where I'm getting confused is on previous phones that I have booted to recovery I have a menu that lets me choose my boot options and install ROM's. It looks like using this method I have to go to fastboot and run commands from my PC to get a ROM installed, is this correct? Also, I guess I need a custom ROM file now such as Cyanogen but if I'm correct so far do I put that on root of my SD card then run/install it from ADB on my PC? Or does the ROM need to be in the root folder of ADB on my PC?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance! If I can't figure this out I will try to walk through the instructions on this thread.

Steps

Installed ADB setup

Installed and ran on PC with Zenfone connected via USB

Installed AZS_Toolkit on PC

Rebooted PC

Installed Official Unlock Bootloader App (UnlockApp.apk)

Installed on Zenfone

Ran, clicked unlock, phone automatically rebooted

Bootloader unlocked?

Extracted TWRP zip to PC

Recovery Disc Image File for WW version of Zenfone

Copied Recovery Disc Image File for WW version of Zenfone to root dir on SD card

I think this step is wrong

Installed Minimal ADB & Fastboot

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2317790

Copied ecoveryZD551KL.img to root folder of ADB install

In CMD window CD to ADB root folder

Typed: “fastboot flash recovery recoveryZD551KL.img”

Ran recovery image (recoveryZD551KL) on C drive from the ADB install folder from CMD

CMD messages: Writing recovery, OK, finished

Typed: “fastboot oem reboot - recovery”

FAILED: Unknown Command

Typed: “fastboot continue” to get the device out of fastboot

Booted to fastboot mode / recovery / TWRP by holding volume buttons and power

Shows Fastboot Mode!!! on the top left of the screen

Asus logo in the middle of the screen

Powered by Android on the bottom

No options to boot to safemode or install a ROM

Download ROM, place in root folder for ADB on PC or SD card on phone, and run from ADB on PC?