Originally Posted by QuiQNeZZ

This how to is the one that I used as it was pretty simple step by step. I think I was one that was a little more to the point. The only thing this one and the one posted before this one are missing are the instructions on flashing the recovery image which is like the bootloader. That is what you use to backup/restore/flash roms to and from your phone. I have included that at the bottom...

http://androidforums.com/sprint-htc-hero/14814-sprint-hero-has-been-rooted.html#post90553

Also download http://www.androidspin.com/downloads...roc-v1.2.3.img (this is the recovery image aka bootloader) and place that into the same directory you extracted asroot2.

Now that your phone is officially rooted after the instructions in the link above, but we arent done yet though. Now you need to flash the recovery image. If you are still in adb shell type in exit until you are out. You should be in the directory where you extracted the recovery image. If not go there. Type in the following:

adb push recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img /sdcard/

Once that is done, type in adb shell (or sudo ./adb shell in ubuntu). If your command prompt is a dollar sign then type in su and press enter. If it is a pound sign you are good. Then type in the following:

adb shell flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img

Once that is finished you are done. To reboot into recovery type in adb shell reboot recovery. You should reboot into recovery mode.

I had a little trouble on this last part so if you run into some issues check out the thread on xda and look for the section where people had problems installing the recovery image. How to root the CDMA Hero - xda-developers