GOod point
I got confused when the phone wasnt rooted after running through the whole thing. (but it wasnt actually the whole thing, read ahead) I had ZVJ, but it was not rooted.
My phone had just downloaded but not installed the Sprint ZVJ release, so I was worried about it auto updating and bricking the phone. ( I have never had an update as this is my first smart phone 2 months in with Ting wireless.and since I am rooted with everything link2sd linked I was worried)
I got through first section "A" of ZVJ root procedure skipping wipe data, and thought that the<Repeat Step blah blah....>portion of "B's" instructions meant to only proceed with B if reboot into recovery didnt work in step A
Having done it correctly now I get what that means, but my confusion was pretty dumb. I hadn't realized that I have to actually type "b" and hit enter on the keyboard. I never saw any instruction on the phone that are in the recovery menu because I didnt type "B". I figured I did it right because it went through in A and I didnt see any of the activity listed after B. I checked the phone for success, but found I had failed.
This is what get for doing this when I am sleepy. I could have justtyped B at this point and been fine, but instead....
I returned to ZVD which made me think I had nearly bricked my phone when it never left the Android screen because I had so many things frozen in Titanium backup, perhaps. After wiping the drive, and reinstalling ZVD, rooting and following the instructions by typing in "B", then "C", it went fine.
So, maybe for us sleepy noobs, you could instruct us to
Type "A"
"KEEP GOING YOUR NOT DONE YET!"
Type "B"
"KEEP GOING YOUR NOT DONE YET!"
Type "C"
Kinda ridiculous, but that is what confused me.
Thanks for all your work