Help Preventing bricking

[PostFatal]

Hello again,

So I was looking to root my phone and install a custom ROM and heard some chat from a friend that if done wrong you can brick your phone. But he also told me if you have a custom recovery installed and make a nandroid backup then you can't brick it. However, he didn't have the decency to tell me how to do either of those things! I don't really want to brick my new

 

[Slug]

CF-Root installs a compatible version of the ClockworkMod recovery which allows nandroid backups. As for d/l mode, you sure you're pressing HOME+POWER+VOL_DN and not VOL_UP?

 

[lotus49]

If, for some reason, you do end up in the position where you cannot get into download mode (it is possible) one of these little chaps Samsung Galaxy S/ S2 unbrick USB Jig Download mode | eBay UK will get you going again. All you need to do is plug it into the bottom of the phone and turn it on.

I don't think that it is possible to have a phone that is not physically damaged that cannot be recovered if you have one of these.