Flashing the Custom ROM to the phone

In this section, we will look at the installation steps involved in installing a pretty popular Custom ROM called CyanogenMod 11 (This keeps updating with the original Google Android version):

  1. Download CyanogenMod from the following URL and save it in the Phone Rooting directory. I have downloaded the latest GSM non-LTE version cm-11-20151004-NIGHTLY-n7100.zip from https://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=n7100.
  2. Connect the device to the computer using a USB cable and use the adb push command to copy the file to the /sdcard and unplug the cable once done. You can also drag and drop by opening the device in Windows Explorer on your system:
    C:\..\Phone Rooting> adb push cm-11-20151004-NIGHTLY-n7100.zip /sdcard ...

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