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I _literally_ installed CM10 on my Samsung Galaxy S2 the hard way today, spending nearly 8 hours getting the right tools, the android sdk, figuring out why adb would not find my device and after a ton of cursing finally got it to load.

And then I had to also install gapps by using the Clockwordmod recovery mode.

A gigantic pain in the ass! I wish I would have attempted this tomorrow, would have saved me a ton of trouble!

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I went through exactly the same process about 15 months ago but I'm glad I did. I understand Android specifically and phone operating systems in general more now than I did before.

I agree, learned a ton in the process.

Me too. Superfluous knowledge to me, however. Could I have traded that learning time for something that was generally useful to me I'd have done so in a heartbeat. Dumbing this process down is an excellent direction.

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