[Vibrant Android Development] swedenyc:
Fellow rookie to rookie step by step guide

This is my first Android phone and really my first experience with “programming.” I am using a Windows 7 PC, a rooted phone and a 16GB class 2 external SD card. I have also installed the ClockworkMod, Root Explorer, ROM Manager premium and Titanium Backup all of which are great tools. Here is my step by step guide to apply this great ROM (the difference in speed is amazing and I would highly recommend it even though it is scary):

1.	First you need to partition your external SD card. That is the one that has/had Avatar on it

2.	Download and install the ISO recorder from alex fineman. Just Google “alex fineman iso recorder.” If you don’t have his program you will not be able to burn ”gparted live” as an image to a CD which is the next step

3.	Google “gparted live” and select the sourceforge site. Next select “To install GParted Live on CD, download the .iso file and burn it as an image to a CD.”

4.	I tried the most recent stable version but it would not load so I ended up using the most recent “Testing release” which worked on my Windows 7 PC

5.	Download the gparted-live-0.6.2-2.zip which will now have an ISO extension since you downloaded and installed the ISO recorder in step 2

6.	Open the gparted-live and follow instructions to burn a disc image

7.	Connect you phone and enable USB mass storage (I used my work BB rather than the Vibrant in case I messed things up. Others have recommended an old phone)

8.	Start your PC with the gparted-live disc in and get ready to hit the “esc” key to get into boot up. Select “boot from cd”, “gparted live default setting”, “don’t touch keymap”, 33 (for English), and “0”. You should now get the gparted-live interface and there should be two devices connected. Your PC and the phone with its external SD card

9.	Delete the existing SD card partitions but make double sure you are on the phone and not your PC before you do this. Next, create the primary, fat 32 partition and leave no more than 2 GB of space for the next partition. Create a primary, ext3 partition and select accept to create the new partitions. That is it. Exit gparted and reboot your computer without the disc

10.	Install the newly partitioned SD card to your Vibrant and hook up to your PC with USB debugging enabled

11.	Download the zip file from anomalous3 to your PC and paste it to your internal SD card as he explained and follow his instructions

I did not wipe (delete apps and data) my phone as anomalous3 suggested but I kept getting stuck with forced closure errors (“FC”) from the ADW home replacement app which was set as my default launcher. I would recommend either putting touchwiz back as your default or uninstall ADW before trying to install this ROM. I had to get back to recovery (hold down power and both volume buttons and release as soon as you see the first Samsung screen) and select the “wipe data/factory reset” option and after the wipe reinstall the zip file from anomalous3 to get it to work. As I said, I am a 100% rookie and I had to use the facilities a few times during this process when the phone “died” but the phone is now blazing fast (over 1,400 from low 800 on Quadrant). Best of luck to my fellow rookies/noobs/nbs/newbies