Ok, a friend told me I’d enjoy my phone a lot more if it was rooted, and given that I mostly trust this friend (and am always curious to hack something new) I went ahead and downloaded this lovely little program. Thanks btw, awesome idea.

Put the latest stable Cyanogen on the SD, backed up all the stuff I had on it, put the apk from g1files on it and installed it.

I backup recovery image and then flash cyanogen 1.4, turn off the phone and reboot into recovery mode. One of two things happens, the first being the most common, the second happening sometimes.

1) Freezes on the Rogers screen. It will sit there until I remove the battery.

2) The exclamation point with the triangle and a graphic of the phone, no options. This will also sit there until I remove the battery.

What’s going on?

My limited understanding is that the nandroid backup part of the process backs up your original unrooted ROM and that recovery mode should always work as long as you aren’t also trying to update your “spl” or “radio.”

I don’t even know what those terms mean, but this little glossary may help you out.