I really appreciate your help. I know it must get frustrating. I was, indeed, already in the shell, so I did it the way you instructed and it now says:
If you put the recovery image on your SD card, try doing (from within the phone's shell again):
# cd /sdcard
# ls
<you'll get a list of files, the recovery image should be one of them>
# flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img
If you didn't see the recovery image file when you did the 'ls' command:
Back out of the shell by typing exit until you're at your normal PC command line.
Make sure you're in the folder with adb and the recovery image.
Then try again:
> adb push recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img /sdcard/
You should get a message about 'X bytes transferred' or something along those lines.
After that you can adb shell back in, su to root and try the the steps above again.
Well for me flashing the Madaco rom and then removing the sprint apps especially sprint navigator which i have a garmin already helped. The theme for madaco also helped. We have to wait for our rom to really be tweaked before we see a real significant boost in speed but for now atleast them ugly sprint apps are gone.
How do I get Madaco on my phone? I've already rooted and done my nandroid backup.
Hi, forgive me if I overlooked this problem in the thread but I am having an issue with rooting my sprint htc hero. I get all the way to the end and I get a
$ cannot creat su: read-only file system
$ unable to chmod su: no such folder directory
What am I doing wrong?
EDIT: So I got it to root after redoing the steps but now when I do the image recovery at the end of the steps it says
adb: not found
Never mind it is ROOTED successfully now! Now to get these horrible stock apps off!
Last edited by Penny; November 11th, 2009 at 04:13 PM.
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Got a ? about the core MoDaCo ROM that you dl. There is some enhancments that are add on's zips (boot sounds, wavesecure...etc) but do you simply update them the same way you update to the new ROM? (ie scroll down and click update?)
quick question I was able to follow the directions to root the phone however I don't think i created a backup on my sdcard. I would think its too late to do that now since I already removed some sprint apps. Anyways can someone post noob instructions to create a backup. thanks
quick question I was able to follow the directions to root the phone however I don't think i created a backup on my sdcard. I would think its too late to do that now since I already removed some sprint apps. Anyways can someone post noob instructions to create a backup. thanks
Power down the phone. Hold Vol down and press the power button. The phone will boot to a white screen where you see info about your phone and below that
<VOL UP> Fast boot mode
<Back> Simlock
<Home> Recovery
Press the home button to get to the recovery screen.
It'll take a few seconds to load, then you have several options to choose from..
Use the trackball to highlight Nandroid 2.2 backup and press down on the track ball.
It'll start the backup and tell you when it's finished.. it saves to your sd card in the nandroid folder.
Got a ? about the core MoDaCo ROM that you dl. There is some enhancments that are add on's zips (boot sounds, wavesecure...etc) but do you simply update them the same way you update to the new ROM? (ie scroll down and click update?)
download those .zip files onto your sd card (u dont have to change file names),
then reboot ur phone into recovery (home+end), in recovery menu select line where it says "choose" which file to use to update, then select your enhancement file.
after ur phone boots up, restart it again to make sure everything works fine.
download those .zip files onto your sd card (u dont have to change file names),
then reboot ur phone into recovery (home+end), in recovery menu select line where it says "choose" which file to use to update, then select your enhancement file.
after ur phone boots up, restart it again to make sure everything works fine.
Appreciate it. I guess im ready to give this whole process a try. We'll see how it goes.
I was wondering has anyone tried this method. It states that the Sprint HTC Hero is supported. I have watched the GSM Hero and the myTouch 3g videos by The Unlockr and he used this method. It seems like this is the easy way of doing things. Please give feedback if you have any. Thanks
When I press the home button the phone gets stuck in a screen with a picture of the hero and a warning icon with an exclamation point in the middle wierd. Have to take battery out to turn off the phone...Any ideas?
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Originally Posted by KennyD
Power down the phone. Hold Vol down and press the power button. The phone will boot to a white screen where you see info about your phone and below that
<VOL UP> Fast boot mode
<Back> Simlock
<Home> Recovery
Press the home button to get to the recovery screen.
It'll take a few seconds to load, then you have several options to choose from..
Use the trackball to highlight Nandroid 2.2 backup and press down on the track ball.
It'll start the backup and tell you when it's finished.. it saves to your sd card in the nandroid folder.
Ok I got that the next screen but did not see an option for backup android. There was an option for adding a zip file to the sdcard a reboot to home screen or factory reset.
Thanks
Quote:
Originally Posted by gulu
When I press the home button the phone gets stuck in a screen with a picture of the hero and a warning icon with an exclamation point in the middle wierd. Have to take battery out to turn off the phone...Any ideas?
Thanks alot man. Got it on there. I am having some trouble with apps2sd though. I did a fat32+EXT2+swap partition and thought thought it would just be automatic from there re the Macado Page. It seems to be working, I have quite a few apps one the phone and I have about 103 MB of int mem. But I'm still running into the problem where I'm running out of memory and the phone is crashing on reboot there for I have to uninstall apps to make me get a phone signal again. How do I know Apps2sd is working? I see no difference in my SD card. How do I know it partitioned properly? Is this a space issue since I still have the stock 2GB sd in it? Anyone, PLEASE HELP.
How many apps do you have installed lpeezy? I remember reading something about problems when you're ~70 apps, not sure this is something that the MoDaCo ROM would've fixed.
can someone please help me get my windows 7 32 bit machine to recognize my phone :'(
Just download PDAnet on your computer,install it, connect your phone to PC and follow online instructions....this installs the necessary USB drivers for your Hero. I tried HTC sync previously but that did not work out.
OK, I am lost again removing these apps from my phone. Forgive my ignorance can someone walk me through exactly what to do to remove the Nascar, tweet, footprints, and amazonmp3 apps. From where I open the cmd on the computer please.
You can do this on a Mac. What problem are you having? Installing the SDK properly puts adb in your path, and everything else is the same at that point.
Just download PDAnet on your computer,install it, connect your phone to PC and follow online instructions....this installs the necessary USB drivers for your Hero. I tried HTC sync previously but that did not work out.
You can do this on a Mac. What problem are you having? Installing the SDK properly puts adb in your path, and everything else is the same at that point.
you cant connect the phone to a mac...only to access the sd card is all. you cant snyc unless i install windows on my mac
why does one want to root the phone? and did you install the custom rom over on xda? and what are the steps to do the nandroid backup? seems you need a rooted phone before you can back up
why does one want to root the phone? and did you install the custom rom over on xda? and what are the steps to do the nandroid backup? seems you need a rooted phone before you can back up
I not trying to be rude or a jerk, but I have noticed that many people on these forums do not bother reading any of the related threads or run the simplest of searches to see if there questions have been answered somewhere else.
All of your questions have been answered in at least two other threads each.
Has anyone successfully tethered their rooted Hero?
With all the excellent help from this forum I rooted my Hero this afternoon and successfully removed several core dumps caused by the Bluetooth memory leak. Feeling invincible I tried to downloaded the tethering app for rooted phones but could not get it to work. Has anyone been successful?
Another question, my visual voicemail died when the activate message sent from Sprint was trapped as undeliverable during the upgrade. Sprint advises me that only a factory reset can trigger a resend. In the meanwhile, not only does the visual voicemail app incorrectly report no voice mail (which I could live with) but I don't get any notifications when voice mail is acually left. I assume that if I do a factory reset I'll have to root again despite having an image on my sd card. Is there a work around?
Does anybody have a TOTAL dummy version, I need just a little more than dummy guide. Like, why in cmd, it wont find my sdk files etc. Im following every step, but I get hung up there.
Does anybody have a TOTAL dummy version, I need just a little more than dummy guide. Like, why in cmd, it wont find my sdk files etc. Im following every step, but I get hung up there.
i used the youtube guide to about 99% completion, just getting stuck at the last line because it looks for the restore image in the wrong directory
My problem now is that my phone seems to be, for lack of a better term, only half rooted. I've been able to install and run root apps and delete the Sprint apps with no problem, but I'm getting a read-only error when I try clear the boot cache to fix app names, and Droid Explorer wont show me any files on my phone while many other users have had it run flawlessly.
OK. So Im rooted now, how do I do a nandroid back up? Thats next step right? By the way, I never re-booted and phone never re-booted, recovery or whatever. I checked to see if rooted with Better Terminal, and I got # sign. So I think Im rooted, but not sure of next step. And also, recovery image 123 is on my sdcard. THANKS in advance.
OK. So Im rooted now, how do I do a nandroid back up? Thats next step right? By the way, I never re-booted and phone never re-booted, recovery or whatever. I checked to see if rooted with Better Terminal, and I got # sign. So I think Im rooted, but not sure of next step. And also, recovery image 123 is on my sdcard. THANKS in advance.
did you do this?
3. Type in adb shell. If you see a dollar sign ($) then type in su and press enter. If it is a pound sign (#) you are good. Now type in:
Removing Sprint apps etc. ;So can we start doing this from the phone with better terminal now? Or do we have to cmd up the android sdk/tools/.... etc., adb.... phone hooked up to the computer. Ive read that xda post and its not real clear to me, a COMPLETE noob.
thanx, tried all these steps, but it didnt work, it always fails when installing the app to the phone, step 3
I was having similar problems but I noticed that even when PdaNet didn't finish installing, it did still successfully install the drivers.
If that doesn't work, after choosing the install directory and hitting next, all the drivers will be extracted to a sub folder in that directory, so if you should be able to go there and copy that folder before you progress any further with the pdanet installation.
Has anyone successfully tethered their rooted Hero?
