Rooting and upgrading my HTC Tattoo to CyanogenMod 7

Yesterday I decided that the days of my HTC Tattoo running original HTC-Android-1.6 were numbered – finally. Actually the thought about updating was in my mind for QUITE some time. But with all the different how-to-update guides and “oh my god I broke my phone”-posts, I was really frustrated and unsure if I should really risk to “brick” my phone (a.k.a.: turn it totally unusable).

Well okay – so I crawled the web once more for an up-to-date update guide. Well – to make a (rather) long story short: I achieved my goal!

I made some more restarts and so on, but the fastest way should be:

1. Make a list of Apps that you don’t want to miss
2. Download CyanogenMod zip and the Google Apps zip to the SD Card of the phone.
3. Download and run 1 Click Root and/or Recovery (This roots the phone and installs ClockworkMod which is needed to install a new ROM)
4. Reboot the phone into recovery mode (press home and power button ~20s until you are in recovery mode)
   1. Backup the system to the SD Card
   2. perform a factory reset (really needed?)
   3. Install Cyanogen and Google Apps
5. Restart
6. Reinstall apps
7. Make a donation to CanogenMod

As I said: really easy thanks to the 1 CLick Root and/or Recovery script!

Beware

• If you love your phone: DON’T DO IT!
• YOUR WARRANTY WILL VOID
• If something really fails, YOUR PHONE MIGHT BE DAMAGED IRREVERSIBLY
• Do NOT ASK ME for support if you brick your phone. There are plenty of forums out there with lots of experts.

Related links:

• [HOW TO] Tattoo Rooten und Flashen – Schritt für Schritt
• [1 Click Root and/or Recovery]Root and ClockWorkMod 5.0.2.0
• cyanogenMod

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