[Q] Can anyone please help me here - Noob. <)

[addu]

Hi, I'm a noob just bought a new Defy (my first Android device)

I know this will annoy most of you here, but I have been reading this forum for past few days but couldn't come to a conclusion. So thought of posting a new thead.

I have a Defy running on Eclair and wanted to upgrade to 2.3 or to some custom ROMS, but I got too much confused reading all about Stock ROMS, CM7, CM9, MIUI and other Custom ROMS.

I just want to upgrade my phone from 2.1 and I desire a ROM which will give me Great Performance and Good Battery Life.

Can anyone here be kind enough and give me a simple explanation of what should I do.

You can post a wacky caption as well.

Thank for any help.

 

[Sainyam]

Hi, I'm a noob just bought a new Defy (my first Android device)

I know this will annoy most of you here, but I have been reading this forum for past few days but couldn't come to a conclusion. So thought of posting a new thead.

I have a Defy running on Eclair and wanted to upgrade to 2.3 or to some custom ROMS, but I got too much confused reading all about Stock ROMS, CM7, CM9, MIUI and other Custom ROMS.

I just want to upgrade my phone from 2.1 and I desire a ROM which will give me Great Performance and Good Battery Life.

Can anyone here be kind enough and give me a simple explanation of what should I do.

You can post a wacky caption as well.

Thank for any help.

congrats on your new defy.
read this
any other help pm me or post it.

 

[addu]

Thanks, that clears lot things.

Can you suggest me which ROM should i choose? as i said in previous post i want to upgrade. I'm just confused with so many options. Should i go for stock ones or the custom ones? Or which one is most stable. M just looking for speed and battery life.

Thanka for your time.

Sent from my MB525 using XDA

 

[fiskenigaten]

Don't have time to give instructions now, but DO NOT flash a full 2.3.6 sbf/upgrade to 2.3.6! Stay on froyo. It is possible to run all custom roms with this as base, also the newest 2.3.6 gingerbread ROMs. Someone please specify for the guy^^

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[addu]

Okay thanks mate for that info.
Currently i'm on Eclair so i think first of all i have to upgrade to froyo then i can think of going to cm7 and othet custom roms, right?

As you all would have played with lot of custom roms, can anyone suggest me which one should i go with?

Sent from my MB525 using XDA

 

[fiskenigaten]

It's really just a matter of taste. Here are some of the main categories of custom roms:

MIUI
CM7
Modified stock roms
CM9 and CM9 based ICS roms (that's ICS, android 4 . Not stable yet, maybe never 100% without unlocked bootloader )

There are many different flavours to choose from within most of these categories, but there are already a lot of threads about this. You need to read, read, read before you start flashing custom roms. Have you read the All-in-One Defy Beginner's guide? Every defy user should read it. Every single day a noob starts a new thread about a bricked defy: "please help me, my father will kill me if he finds out about my defy", etc, etc. These questions have ben answered 1,000,000 times already, so use the search function before posting!

By the way this thread should be moved to the Q&A section. Moderator will take care of that when it's reported...

 

[Step666]

Questions go in the Q&A section