bretwalters13

WOOOOT! Its been done! Check out this thread over at XDA for more info! Just thought I would share, sorry if already posted!

CDMA Hero Root status? - Page 18 - xda-developers

WOOOOT!

Edaze55

Nice. Grats Sprint Hero owners. Enjoy that new found freedom.

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ssgmun32

Is there a risk of bricking the phone by rooting?

Darth Pooh

[ROM] CyanogenMod - Keeping You Legal For Less (STABLE) [UPDATED 10/31 - v4.2.3.1] - xda-developers

I wonder if our radio versions will work with this very popular ROM... apparently he has insanely stable work.

etbrandt

My breath actually caught a second when I saw this post Haha!

pking

The XDA'ers don't seem to have had any luck getting new firmware installed, but have successfully made backup images on the SD card - guess that's a step in the right direction.

It's early and young, will be fun to see how this plays out

The exploit is a race-condition bug in the linux kernel:

"Multiple race conditions in fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-rc6 allow local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or gain privileges by attempting to open an anonymous pipe via a /proc/*/fd/ pathname. "

Seems like it was pretty easy to get root once this was found - great for our phones but really bad for my computers! patch please!

Last edited by pking; 11-07-2009 at 08:22 AM.

Negrito

Sweet!!!


@Edaze: Why no more Hero?

zikronix

very nice....now they just need to finish it

Edaze55

I had some dust under the glass, I was going to have to replace it anyway, so I waited until the Moment came out and just swapped the two. The biggest issue I had with the Hero was lag dialing the wrong person and of course I wanted a real keyboard. I'd stated since before either came out that I wanted to see both.

Negrito

Ahh, a HW keyboard type. When i had the Apache that phone pretty much turned me off to HW keyboards, especially having the Touch(Vogue) right after. I personally could not own another device with a HW keyboard. To each his own though.

In terms of software, and overall 'snappiness' does the Moment do better than the Hero? Cause i think once the root is complete and we can ditch the Sprint bloatware the Hero will become a much better device.

cirehawk

My wife got her moment yesterday and I helped her get familiar with it last night. She really likes it, and it seems pretty good so far. But personally, I like my Hero better. Both of us had the Samsung Instinct previously. She wanted the phyysical keyboard, but I have gotten used to a virtual keyboard and prefer it (especially since I don't care for the extra size with slide out kb's). I have a little dust under my screen, but I'm waiting a bit to get a replacement to make sure they have fixed the problem. Other issues in my case are small enough that I can wait to see if the updates fix them. I really like the feel of the HTC SenseUI additions, while I have seen others comment that they like stock Android better. Bottom line is, they both are nice phones and it comes down to preference (in most cases).

BTW, I saw the Droid yesterday. It is a heavy phone, almost like it's mostly metal. It's kind of boxy and edgy in my opinion, so I'm not big on it aesthetically. Spec wise, it's impressive, but we'll have to see how that translates in real world usage.

Edaze55

Its definitely snappier and I went as far as to give it the appearance of Sense UI with 7 screens, Flip Clock weather widget, Pure grid calendar. No twitter widget though. Twitdroid works well enough.

cirehawk

Based on an hour or so playing with my wife's Moment, it's possible that it is a HAIR snappier. But hardly anything that I would really notice. The accelerometer seems to be a touch quicker. However, I was surprised to see that there is keyboard lag even with her HW keyboard. I'll post any other impressions as I get more familiar with hers.

cirehawk

How did you make those modifications? My wife might like them on hers.

Edaze55

A few paid apps get this done nicely.

Open Home - Full
Open Home Skin - HTC Hero
Beautiful Widgets
Pure Grid Calendar

cirehawk

Cool. I'm assuming they are in Market?

Negrito

That is surprising. I dont think i have ever heard of lag from a HW keyboard.

Edaze55

All in market.

There is some from time to time, not a real issue in my opinion though.

Negrito

I feel the same about my SW Keyboard. especially with the Haptic feedback off. it can usually keep up with me. Luckily for me i had almost the exact same keyboard on my previous phone (Sprint Diamond runnin the Mighty Groovy ROM).

quentinfisher

Seems like a good amount of linux knowledge is needed, hopefully my backup hero comes in today I wanna try this xD

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Godfather13

Ok, noobie ?. In layman terms, whats does rooting mean? Benefits?

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Negrito

I'm pretty sure its completely rooted now...

Photo Courtesy of The_Miker:



To root the instructions are here: Post# 209
CDMA Hero Root status? - xda-developers
View Single Post - CDMA Hero Root status?

Last edited by Negrito; 11-07-2009 at 03:10 PM.

bretwalters13

Thanks Negrito! I was just going to post that. Appreciate it!

Its getting exciting, now I cant wait till someone starts cooking some ROMS!

Negrito

No worries bro, just spreding the knowledge.

I havent got mine rooted quite yet, but has anyone tried to delete some of the Sprint Crap... i mean Apps.

elguapo76

WOW! Exciting stuff, now if someone will do me a favor of posting the "For Dummies" version.

rockcrawler

+1000, this is AWESOME and all, but I am 100% lost as where to even start.

deviouskoopa

Same here, never rooted a phone or anything... can anyone clear some things up for us noobs. What are the risks, and can your factory settings be restored (unrooted?) if need be?

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JasonK75

Me too. A dummy version would be so helpful!!

Aldo Junior Ao2

Really guys its soo simple just turn your Pc on and then just do that thing where it chmod and su this and that and use some of this kind of things(!@##!$@!) and then ....crap what were we talking about again?????

rockcrawler

ROFLMAO !! Hit the nail on the head.

Aldo Junior Ao2

What would be nice is if we get the one click root that was out for many android phones. Its early so all i can say is be patient and we will get something like that.

justpastfinish

Thanks to GBHIL at Android Central Forums:

I'll assume you're running windows.
1. DL the Android SDK here --> Android SDK | Android Developers
2. Unzip the SDK to c:/
3. Download http://zenthought.org/system/files/a...20091107-2.apk and save it to your desktop as a .zip file
4. Open flashrec and in the assets/raw/ folder copy asroot2 to the C:\android-sdk-windows-1.6_r1\tools directory.
5. Open the command line and browse to C:\android-sdk-windows-1.6_r1\tools (on Vista or Win 7 just shift+right click on the tools dir in explorer and open command window here)
6. Type the following EXACTLY as written:

From the cmd prompt in the SDK/Tools directory:

adb push asroot2 /data/local/
adb shell chmod 0755 /data/local/asroot2
adb shell
/data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh

you will see a friendly message telling you to enjoy your root. Notice the root prompt.

7. Now type:

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system/bin
cat sh > su
chmod 4755 su

this changes the permissions of su so you call call it and run apps as root.


8. In the Market, download a terminal. I recommend Terminal Emulator. Open it, click and hold menu until OSK comes up. Type in su, and see if $ changes to #. If so, congrats. You're root. Close the term app. If not, you did something wrong. Start over.

9. DL Downloads - android-wifi-tether - Project Hosting on Google Code on your phone.

10. Open the downloads folder, run the wifi-tether.apk (using your preferred installer). Once installed you're done. Run it, surf away. Be prepared for a big bill should you do something silly and get Sprint's attention, unless you have PAM on your account.


protip - dl and install google chrome on your computer to use while tethered. Shows a google footprint instead of an IE/Safari or firefox footprint, and wont raise as many flags to Sprint.

Thanks to his info, I got a good Nandroid backup, cache to sd and wifi tethering.

Last edited by justpastfinish; 11-07-2009 at 07:30 PM. Reason: More Info

elguapo76

Edit: Started working on this prior to previous post. Will leave here in case anybody needs it.


Success for fellow Dummy!!!

WARNING DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!!

#1
First you need to download the Android SDK execute and copy the file it produces to your C: drive. It should be named similar to:android-sdk-windows-1.1_r1 You should download any android sdk I downloaded 2.0 but to make things easy rename the directory you copied to your c drive to: android-sdk-windows-1.1_r1

This way you can copy paste commands. If you don't do this please change your commands as appropriate!!!

#2
Then you need to install adb driver, I did this by installing pdanet, installs it for you automatically. Follow instructions.

PdaNet -- Use your Android as a USB Modem
Some people had success by installing HTC Sync. I did not.

#3
Download asroot file from here: xda-developers - View Single Post - CDMA Hero Root status?

Copy asroot file to your file to the tools directory:
C:\android-sdk-windows-1.1_r1\tools directory

#4
Then change your environment variables:

To do this right-click on "My Computer" and select Properties. Next select the Advanced tab(Advanced Settings in Vista) then select Environment Variables.

Click "New" under System Variables and add the following:

Variable: adb
Value: C:\android-sdk-windows-1.1_r1\tools


#5 Put your phone in usb debug mode if not already. Found under applications> development settings



#6
Let's test.

Running Command Prompt:

Windows XP: Select Start or Tap the Windows Key on your Keyboard, select "Run" and type "CMD" then hit "Enter".

Windows Vista/7: Select Start or Tap the Windows Key on your Keyboard, select the search box on the left and type "cmd" then hit "Enter".

Code:
Copy paste into command prompt: cd C:\android-sdk-windows-1.1_r1\tools <-- Tap Enter

You should be at:

C:\android-sdk-windows-1.1_r1\tools> <run your adb command here>
Ok, now that you know how to initiate an adb command let's try one shall we?


Remember, we are still in the command prompt and in the /tools folder within the android sdk....

Code:
C:\android-sdk-windows-1.1_r1> adb shell <--- Hit Enter
you should get a $ sign.


ok now we are going to root. close out current command promtpt and start a new one like in step previous step:

#7

Let's Root!

Windows XP: Select Start or Tap the Windows Key on your Keyboard, select "Run" and type "CMD" then hit "Enter".

Windows Vista/7: Select Start or Tap the Windows Key on your Keyboard, select the search box on the left and type "cmd" then hit "Enter".


Code:
Copy paste into command prompt: cd C:\android-sdk-windows-1.1_r1\tools <-- Tap Enter

Copy paste:
adb push asroot2 /data/local/

Copy paste:
adb shell chmod 0755 /data/local/asroot2

Copy paste:
adb shell

Copy paste:
/data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh


You should have seen the following lines progressively as you typed the previous commands:
$ /data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh
[+] Using newer pipe_inode_info layout
Opening: /proc/857/fd/3
SUCCESS: Enjoy the shell.
#


# should indicate a successful root. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Now copy paste the following lines individually:

copy paste:
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

copy paste:
cd /system/bin

copy paste:
cat sh > su

copy paste:
chmod 4755 su


Close command prompt window.


#8
You should be fully rooted! If you'd like now google search for wifi tether. Download the HTC Version!!!


Start and test. It should work like a charm!!!!!!!!!


Thank you for the following guide. I copied heavily from it to apply it here:
[HOW-TO] ADB for Dummies(How-To Learner's Guide) - xda-developers

Last edited by elguapo76; 11-07-2009 at 11:51 PM.

5280droid

I wonder how long until someone posts the video for rooting the sprint htc hero up on youtube??? My guess will be before monday morning.

elguapo76

Seems I successfully rooted but wifi tether is not working properly, connects but with no internet access. Anybody experiencing this?

justpastfinish

Probably something similar.


I have it working but my damn laptop doesn't seem to like the adhoc. It just keeps trying to obtain an address.

Namek

Same here. Tried the tether app on my Mac and Vista... no go.

Any apps to increase clock speeds? Found one call Open Overclocker but it states its for g1 users.

Last edited by Namek; 11-07-2009 at 09:55 PM.

imb951

How to root the CDMA Hero - xda-developers

Here's another tutorial from the XDA dev forum.

I understand that rooting has a few perks. The ability to run wifi-tether, uninstall Sprint bloatware, and running and storing apps on the sd card.

At this point I'm torn between following through with rooting my Hero now or waiting until after 2.0 is released!

If I root now, I can enjoy the perks and explore new benefits of rooting, but if I want to upgrade to 2.0 after rooting, the exploit may be patched, essentially un-rooting my phone again, even worse the bloatware could be back on it...

pking

From what I'm understanding, the update will be available from both Sprint (maybe OTA, maybe not) and HTC directly. What this means is once you have a custom recovery bootloader installed, you get to decide what ROM gets installed. It'll be mere moments before someone hacks up the 2.0 update with a root fix, I'm certain.

I'd think it was pathetic that I've been tied to my laptop/phone waiting/rooting for the last 12 hours, but this stuff is too damn cool to care

koolhand79

So after rooting is it possible to then use apps2sd? I thought u had to have a custom ROM for that. Just wondering

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pking

It should be possible, apps2sd basically makes a symbolic link from your internal memory apps folder to a partition you create on the SD card. It'd take a little work to get it setup properly as the hero's default filesystem layout has the folders in different places than all the tutorial sites.

The one 'big' thing missing is busybox, which is a sort of linux toolkit that wraps up all the 'standard' linux commands that android is missing, like the copy command 'cp'.

Someone in the XDA thread I'm following mentioned he's trying to get it working and will write up a hero-specific tutorial.

What I'm trying to figure out now is how to uninstall some of the 'bloatware' apps I don't use that run incessantly in the background, like 'stocks' and 'peep'

lmao - apparently the obvious solution was too obvious for me to see, deleting the .apk file in /system/app seems to work. Also seems to cause the google app watcher service to throw a fit a couple times

Last edited by pking; 11-07-2009 at 11:37 PM.

Slug

The MoDaCo ROMs already have a working Busybox, and I'm sure there was a post a while back on the site from the dev (Paul O'Brien) about installing it on its own rather than as part of a ROM update.

If there are associated .odex files delete those too.

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imb951

Just successfully rooted my Hero!

I had to bounce back and forth between this thread and the XDA-developer tutorial thread. I've used ubuntu before so I'm familiar with the Linux command line. I did this in W7 32bit.

So far I have rebooted into recovery mode and done a Nandroid backup. Then I successfully removed Nascar, NFL, Peep, AmazonMP3, Stocks app, and Stocks widget from sense. I used the methods in this thread: How to remove Stocks, Nascar and other useless apps... - xda-developers

Cleared up a ton of space and now I know they wont be using resources in the background! Other's have said that it might be the placebo effect, but my Hero feels significantly faster already!

Next up is getting Wifi-Tether to work. Seems like a lot of people are having trouble with it so I'll wait till I find more success stories


I also started an Under/Overclocking thread in the Hero section over at XDA: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=581832

Last edited by imb951; 11-08-2009 at 01:43 PM.

imneveral0ne

maybe it doesnt work because the app was made to work with GSM?

Negrito

Wifi Tether it said to work on Modacos ROM.

[CDMA] TEST: 08/11 1.0 - MoDaCo Custom ROM Core featuring Wavesecure - Android @ MoDaCo

XDA thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=581846

Last edited by Negrito; 11-08-2009 at 04:35 PM.

imneveral0ne

this is gonna erase my phone isnt it :-p

pking

The Modaco ROM should be a 'no-wipe', nobody is reporting they've lost anything so far.

You'll *absolutely* want to create a Nandroid backup before flashing though, just in case

imneveral0ne

speak english lol

bretwalters13

He means the rom will not WIPE your phone if you flash. But if you are rooted you can create a backup image of your device (which is what Nandroid does) so if for some reason something went bad you could simply restore

Last edited by bretwalters13; 11-08-2009 at 06:29 PM.