Ok, had my Telus hero on service, just got back but now with a new 2.1 rom. So will the bak2basik guide still work for rooting?
Nope. But this will:
- Root the phone using
this method
To put a custom ROM on:
- Put
Amon Ra on the root of your sdcard (i.e. not in a folder).
- Put your ROM.zip and any other .zips you need to flash on the root of your sdcard.
- Make sure you have anything you need backed up. Everything on the phone's internal memory is going to be wiped completely. (The sdcard is safe, of course). So contacts (if they aren't google/sim contacts), apps and sms messages need to be backed up, for example. Titanium Backup and SMS Backup & Restore are useful apps in this situation.
- Install ROM Manager from the market
- Launch RM and pick the first option to flash clockwork, let it finish.
- Launch RM again and pick the bottom option, to flash amon ra.
- Turn off the phone
- Boot by holding Home + Power, at which point amon ra should appear.
- Under the backup menu, do a 'nand backup'. This backs up your current firmware, so you should be doing a nand backup before you flash anything in the future.
- Under the wipe menu, do a factory reset, a cache wipe and a dalvik cache wipe.
- Then pick the option to flash a .zip from the sdcard and point it at your ROM.zip of choice.
- Any extra .zips you need should be flashed the same way after this. (e.g. themes, kernels).
- Reboot
- Install TB and any other backup apps used from the market, restore, and have fun