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Originally Posted by inferno1
step 3 (where i get a little lost) nandroid/recovery image
first, these two concepts are the same thing, correct?
and it is basically and image you keep on the SD incase the custom image you load causes the phone to behave badly and is inoperable, you can just due the magically power dance of buttons and boot the phone to the backup image... is that correct?
if so, where is the tutorial on booting to the nandroid backup?
and is a recovery image (talked about in post two) the same as a nandroid
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It was confusing for me at first, but think of your phone as having a recovery partition like a lot of newer computers come with. Your main operating system has a section of your hard drive that it runs on, and a backup of everything is stored in a recovery partition in case you want to reinstall or restore to factory default. It's roughly the same idea on your phone.
When you replace the recovery image, all you're doing is replacing the default recovery program with something that is much more powerful that will allow you to both backup and restore your phone as well as install custom ROMs. You boot into this new recovery program the same way as before. You can make a backup of everything onto your SD card, and then you can install custom ROMs without worry. If something doesn't work right, you just load back into recovery mode and tell it to restore the backup from your SD card. The backup section of the recovery mode is called "Nandroid" (although I don't think it actually says that anywhere in the actual recovery mode...but that's besides the point). So yes, nandroid and the recovery image are generally referred to as being the same thing.
Hopefully that's of some help.