I am very new to rooting and adding Rom. Like, I have no knowledge whatsoever about how to do this all but what is told of me in tutorials.
I followed a tutorial that told me to use SuperOneClick and under 'Exploit', use psenuter. It went all the way through and said "yay it's been rooted!"
Okay, cool. Now, I follow this tutorial to put a rom on my phone.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/05/08/complete-guide-how-to-flash-a-custom-rom-to-your-android-phone-with-rom-manager-full-backup-restore/
I download RomManager and do everything it tells me to do. Backing up, etc. I download a rom I chose that was suitable for Sidekick4G and then it tells me to put it on my SD card as the zip file, don't extract it.
The instructions from the tutorial say that it'll take 5-10 minutes installing and then 10-20 minutes during the first boot. I experienced nothing like that, nor did I see the screen that showed anything being loaded. RomManager said it'd reboot.. and it rebooted in a normal time frame as how a phone reboots. Came on and nothing is changed.
I was gonna try to put the phone into Recovery Mode as suggested in the tutorial but when I go into recovery mode, the only options I get are "reboot system, reinstall packages, delete all user data, delete cache data". When I click reinstall packages, it looks like something is loading and then it says something to the effect of "failed to verify whole-file signature. signature verification failed. installation aborted."
I'm so lost. I don't know what I'm doing wrong or what I'm missing so I don't know what to search for via Google search. ANY help would be greatly appreciated because I really want to root this phone and add a rom to it to make it even more awesome than it already is.
I followed a tutorial that told me to use SuperOneClick and under 'Exploit', use psenuter. It went all the way through and said "yay it's been rooted!"
Okay, cool. Now, I follow this tutorial to put a rom on my phone.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/05/08/complete-guide-how-to-flash-a-custom-rom-to-your-android-phone-with-rom-manager-full-backup-restore/
I download RomManager and do everything it tells me to do. Backing up, etc. I download a rom I chose that was suitable for Sidekick4G and then it tells me to put it on my SD card as the zip file, don't extract it.
The instructions from the tutorial say that it'll take 5-10 minutes installing and then 10-20 minutes during the first boot. I experienced nothing like that, nor did I see the screen that showed anything being loaded. RomManager said it'd reboot.. and it rebooted in a normal time frame as how a phone reboots. Came on and nothing is changed.
I was gonna try to put the phone into Recovery Mode as suggested in the tutorial but when I go into recovery mode, the only options I get are "reboot system, reinstall packages, delete all user data, delete cache data". When I click reinstall packages, it looks like something is loading and then it says something to the effect of "failed to verify whole-file signature. signature verification failed. installation aborted."
I'm so lost. I don't know what I'm doing wrong or what I'm missing so I don't know what to search for via Google search. ANY help would be greatly appreciated because I really want to root this phone and add a rom to it to make it even more awesome than it already is.