[GaMedic]

Originally Posted by gguruusa

Yeah, I'd like to emulate the RUU utility to eliminate some of this confusion. You are correct, ignore the Reset in "Step 1" of the RUU, and ignore the "soft reset" at end of RUU. The correct build sequence is
1) .....push play button,
2) lot's of stuff scrolls up buildstatus window,
3) bootloader mode instruction pop-up appears - set phone to bootloader mode,
4) connect phone by USB cable (if it's not already connected),
5) RUU starts, ignore Step 1 reset instruction,
6) push Next buttons until flashing is done,
7) ignore soft reset instruction at end of RUU,
unplug PPC, hard reset instruction pop-up appears - hard reset,
9) [unplug ppc here if you didn't already],
10) visualize the glory of your new ROM.

You can reconnect your USB cable after your PPC fully boots, if you want.

LOL i like your simplified instructions. That is easy for those of us that have done this a few times, but I have no knowledge of programming and I am not very knowledgable about PPC's. I have learned a lot from this site. I was scared to death to flash my phone the first time, as I am sure a lot of people who visit here are. I wanted to post this just because I have seen numerous people ask about a tutorial because they fear screwing up thier phone. I just wanted people to know this is not that hard. I thought it was when I started, but soon found out even a dude from Georgia could do it. It sounds a lot more technical than it is. I really appreciate the efforts of people like you gguruusa. You took a lot of the fear away when I first did this. I have not been able to donate to the developers due to issues with identity theft involving my paypal account so I thought this would be a small way of trying to give back until I get this paypal crap straightened out.