5 Pieces Of Advice

[petermatheson1]

Ok
I Just purchased an XDA1 off a friend of mine.
I have an orange sim, but will be getting an O2 sim with these 300 free txt's etc..

If you have 5 Pieces of advice to give to a new XDA User...What 5 pieces of advice would they be?

So far, I have no idea...I'm still trying to get my head around it lol
How do you unlock the phone. I have been hearing about sofware...but see no links to do it? What other XDA sites are there that you know of? Is there a seperate site from this site, or is it just a forum??
Sorry for many questions! Just trying to work out what I should do first...
Cheers

[Biso007]

for advices:
1. Get a SD card and take a backup ... you will always need to restore :)
2. do NOT drop your XDA ... it costs a small fortune to repair it :(

to unlock it, you can get the tool from www.xda-developers.com/XDAunlock/

Good luck ... :)

[jpiek]

3. Get a taskmanager, like pocketnav. to close program's you don't use...
4. get a battery watcher for on your todayscreen.

[petermatheson1]

what battery watchers are there? I got myself a rom from the rom kitchen which has Pocket Plus on...although it's only a demo..It ran out after 10 mins of using the rom so did not get a chance to test it properly.
Also, how long does the battery last roughly on a full charge?

[jpiek]

I use batememtime v 3.2 its freeware....