A few noob questions about ROMs

[Hell Toupee]

First I would like to say Hello I am new here and will be getting my Droid within a week. I am from just north of Detroit.

I know Google and the Search function are my friends. I consider myself tech savy and can follow directions. I have been Googling and searching for over an hour. The problem is there is so many posts and threads I am having a hard time filtering it all. I understand Rooting and Root and what a ROM is.

My question is this - I am panning on rooting my phone on day one. I would also like to OC it to 800. Can any of the ROMs such as Sholes, Burgess including 2.1 be OCed using the evilboot files ect ? Am I confusing ROM with the Kernel ? Also if I can use any ROM can someone give me a brief side by side of the major ROMs , Sholes ect ? Are they all basically the same with diffrent wrappers ? What makes them unique to the others ? . I know alot of people say to try them all . The problem is I have a 12 week old and a 22 month old so my personal time to customize my phone is at a premium . Answers or a link or two will be greatly apperciated. Thanks in advance. Charlie

 

[justinc101011]

First I would like to say Hello I am new here and will be getting my Droid within a week. I am from just north of Detroit.

I know Google and the Search function are my friends. I consider myself tech savy and can follow directions. I have been Googling and searching for over an hour. The problem is there is so many posts and threads I am having a hard time filtering it all. I understand Rooting and Root and what a ROM is.

My question is this - I am panning on rooting my phone on day one. I would also like to OC it to 800. Can any of the ROMs such as Sholes, Burgess including 2.1 be OCed using the evilboot files ect ? Am I confusing ROM with the Kernel ? Also if I can use any ROM can someone give me a brief side by side of the major ROMs , Sholes ect ? Are they all basically the same with diffrent wrappers ? What makes them unique to the others ? . I know alot of people say to try them all . The problem is I have a 12 week old and a 22 month old so my personal time to customize my phone is at a premium . Answers or a link or two will be greatly apperciated. Thanks in advance. Charlie

Just use petes bugless beast rom, it has the great skinned rom and OC to 800 or 950mhz built in. Just follow my how to for noobs in the hacks forum of this site.

 

[qwiksilver711]

First I would like to say Hello I am new here and will be getting my Droid within a week. I am from just north of Detroit.

I know Google and the Search function are my friends. I consider myself tech savy and can follow directions. I have been Googling and searching for over an hour. The problem is there is so many posts and threads I am having a hard time filtering it all. I understand Rooting and Root and what a ROM is.

My question is this - I am panning on rooting my phone on day one. I would also like to OC it to 800. Can any of the ROMs such as Sholes, Burgess including 2.1 be OCed using the evilboot files ect ? Am I confusing ROM with the Kernel ? Also if I can use any ROM can someone give me a brief side by side of the major ROMs , Sholes ect ? Are they all basically the same with diffrent wrappers ? What makes them unique to the others ? . I know alot of people say to try them all . The problem is I have a 12 week old and a 22 month old so my personal time to customize my phone is at a premium . Answers or a link or two will be greatly apperciated. Thanks in advance. Charlie

I don't have a droid yet, but have been researching to see what to use when I root, and I hear good things about the smoked glass rom also

 

[Hell Toupee]

I appreciate the reply but it still dosent answer my questions. I would like to learn as much as I can so I can help my friends and others. I am a firm believer of helping my friends and family with computer problems but I make them participate in hopes something will rub off and they can fix the same problem later. I want to learn this phone inside and out but need a little help getting started. Thanks Charlie