Part 2 of 4. How to restore the Defy to default to prepare to root, install clockworkmod and install CyanogenMod 10 Jelly Bean on Motorola Defy.

Click here for written tutorial.

Links:

• Motorola Defy drivers – Motorola drivers which will allow the pc to see the phone.
• Original Defy Rom Sbf files for your Defy – The original SBF file to take the phone back to default
• RSD Lite (flasher for defy) –  an application to flash the sbf file onto the phone
• SuperOneClick – as the name implies this application will allow you to root your defy with one click
  • scroll to the bottom of the first post and download directly from the xdaforum site
• 2nd Init – this app basically allows us to install custom recovery which in turns allows us to install custom roms
• CM10 – this is the rom itself
• Gapps – google apps to allow us to access the google play store – this is propriety software written by google and is not allowed to be included with the open source roms thus we have to install it separately
  • NOTE it’s important to download to correct version of gapps for the rom