Beginner question - how to start?

Hi,

It will probably take some time until I'll get my phone, but I am trying to understand how to start.
I am OK with having only English on my phone, but I would prefer to have a clean and bloat free rom that has the GAPPS and that can get OTA updates.
I want to do the minimum needed to get this, I really don't want to change roms every other week.
How should I start? I am a bit lost.
Is the Chinese rom that bad?
Should I change the rom and root it?

Thanks in advance,
Asaf

Beginner Unlocking Question

Usually CDMA versions of phones are cheaper and come with GSM, although the feature is locked (or so i think). I have seen threads on how to unlock international GSM on sprint Samsung galaxy s5, sprint lg g3, and others. My question is this. How do i know if when i unlock the phone it will work with Canadian Carriers Like Wind, Rogers, or Telus ? Does it have something to do with the "bands" of the phone? I know this is a bit of a noob question but I couldn't find anyone asking something like this, so any help will be greatly appreciated.

Beginner to Clockwork mod and need help!

Hello, I have been messing around with clockwork mod recently but I'm having some troubles I'll list them below. if anyone could help me that would be great!

Question 1. Not sure what file to use. I am using a galaxy s4 GGt-i9505 and when I try to install CWM from the app it says jfte and if i click phone not listed it says gt19505 not supported. I'm not sure if this is the correct file to use because I looked on the clockwork mod website and seen the manual install files and found the gt-i9505 files on there. So basically my question is for the galaxy s4 do I flash the jfte CWM file or the gt-i9505 file? If I Google search jfte it says it just another name for the galaxy s4 so I'm not sure.

Question 2.I have had an issue with system ui crashing when trying to install the jfte file through the app rather than through Odin and once it says installed and reboot phone i still don't have Clockwork recovery it still is the original recovery that came with the phone. How do I fix this?

Question 3. Every time I do a backup to my external SD card it puts the date of the backup as somewhere in the 1970s and puts the time to 11pm and then when I try to restore to the backup it says MD5 mismatch and tells me the location where it sent the recovery.log and I can't get any of my backups to restore without MD5 miss match Every time. Does anyone know a solution.

Thanks for the help! Shaun. :good: