General Help?

[OkieJoles]

Okay so I was going to post this in the thread made for questions but nobody goes there anymore.....

I've always wondered about rooting but never understood the basics. Its probably over my head but I still want to learn, just in case maybe I can root. What is flashing? Where do you flash ROMS and themes?

 

[igotsanevo4g]

Flashing, is nerd speak for installing through recovery. Recovery is a menu accesed without normally booting up your phone so you can load things into the OS that cant be loaded (or hard to load) while the OS is booted up.

ROM means read only memory, but its basically a customized operating system that replaces the stock rom that the manufacturer/carrier put on. A theme is just XML and other edits that change the look of your rom.

ROM's and themes are flashed through recovery.