New to rooting and ROMming. Couple questions.

[blue duck butter]

I have been reading the forums, in depth for the past few months and am pretty much ready to go.

I think I will flash the Axi0m Crossbreed ROM with Patient Zero kernel.

I would like to overclock my CPU. Is Patient Zero capable?

How do I make a full backup of everything on my phone? Is this what Nandroid is for? I also heard about Titanium backup. Are these different and if so, which is better?

I downloaded Rom Manager from the Play Store. Will I be able to install the ROM and kernel all on device through that without having to plug the phone into my computer?

On the computer side, which app can I use to flash the ROM and kernels. I have the Galaxy Nexus Root Toolkit and the ASWM.

Any and all help is very appreciated. I came from several years of hacking and homebrewing on webOS and it was much easier to do on that platform, so I'm kinda lost here but am looking forward to turning this phone up to 11 and beyond!

 

[zero neck]

I have been reading the forums, in depth for the past few months and am pretty much ready to go.

I think I will flash the Axi0m Crossbreed ROM with Patient Zero kernel.

I would like to overclock my CPU. Is Patient Zero capable?

How do I make a full backup of everything on my phone? Is this what Nandroid is for? I also heard about Titanium backup. Are these different and if so, which is better?

I downloaded Rom Manager from the Play Store. Will I be able to install the ROM and kernel all on device through that without having to plug the phone into my computer?

On the computer side, which app can I use to flash the ROM and kernels. I have the Galaxy Nexus Root Toolkit and the ASWM.

Any and all help is very appreciated. I came from several years of hacking and homebrewing on webOS and it was much easier to do on that platform, so I'm kinda lost here but am looking forward to turning this phone up to 11 and beyond!

When you unlock your bootloader you will erase everything on your phone, including the sd card. You should backup any pics etc that you want to keep to a cpu.

Axiom is a good rom, but the latest versions are less feature rich than the older versions, so you may want to try crossbreed monolith 2 for the time being. The kernel baked into that i believe is either a version of franco's or trinity. either of those are overclockable/undervoltable, and you will find that almost every kernel for gnex is configurable in such a way.

To make a backup, you need to flash custom recovery (typically, clockworkmod recovery). You can do so with rom manager app from the market.

This guide will teach you step by step everything you need to know about backups, recovery, and flashing roms/mods/kernels: http://forums.androidcentral.com/ve...backup-restore-install-roms-galaxy-nexus.html

Nandroid is a complete copy of your system that is recoverable, titanium backup will backup apps and data. You use titanium to keep apps and APP data (don't restore user data, it causes problems).

When you unlock, everything will be erased, so you wont have anything to backup with TiB until you've redownloaded apps you want to have.

You will be able to download rom manager on any rom, however, you should flash roms and kernels manually in recovery mode, and not in the rom manager app itself. Rom manager is basically only useful for flashing recovery, and to make nandroid backups.

You can download your roms and kernels/etc straight from the browser on your phone, or from your cpu and then transfer to the phone via usb.

DEFinitely read the Guide by Cyber warrior, it will answer most if not all of your questions, and of course if you have more feel free to post.

Good luck

 

[sicario666]

Zero... very well explained. Impressive fo sho! Was this explained before or after a few drinks? :beer:

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[sicario666]

DuckButter... you may wanna give liquidsmooth 1.25 a whirl too. Its what I'm on and its rock solid for me. Extremely smooth and fast. A lot of options.

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[zero neck]

Zero... very well explained. Impressive fo sho! Was this explained before or after a few drinks? :beer:

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I plead the fif?

 

[kca2000]

I have not tried it but I'll second liquids 1.25 rom because his work was amazing on the Droid 1. It was my daily driver for months. I can't imagine he's lost his touch.

 

[shanedroid1]

read up on the stickies here and take all the above advice, if you run into any problems or questions do not hesitate to ask on here for help or advice. the android central forums maybe the most friendly, helpful place in on the interwebs. i went from root-noob to root-master in a short time from just from using these forums. right now my personal favorite combination is Axiom Patient Zero with Franco's latest 130 kernel. axiom's creator, DT, is a phenomenal developer and constantly updates and improves his rom. enjoy your new super-phone!

 

[dmmarck]

Also, the AXI0M "family" of roms are all awesome and offer a variety of options. The developer is awesome and the support for these roms is astounding.