I know this might sound lame to some of you folks, but I am too inexperienced to trust myself to do this alone and I have no real life friends who are into electronics. I have tried this on my Mac & my wife's PC using the walkthroughs with no success. I want to root my phone, remove a few preloaded apps and then install Fresh Rom. I would also like to know how to upgrade the rom for updates. I can Pay $10.00 for the lesson & walkthrough through Pay-Pal after the lesson. Contact me if interested. Thanks
Don't know if you've already seen this, but here is the easiest walk through i've ever seen. The Fresh 1.0 ROM is great as well. Good luck! Its totally worth it!
Sorry, forgot to post the link. lol. Geek For Me – Fresh ROM for Android CDMA Hero Blog Archive How to: Root the CDMA HTC Sprint Hero
I just flashed back to the .7 with the patch and that seems the fastest. You lose the clear lock screen, but the speed is improved.
I hit a snag. Running step 6, I run the sdk.exe and i get this message : Failed to fetch URL https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/repository.xml, reason: HTTPS SSL error. You might want to force download through HTTP in the settings. This is keeping me from selecting 32/64 drivers. Any suggestions?
HTC Hero Drivers download for Android - Softpedia drivers for win vista 32 or 64. Do a google search for HTC Sync driver install if you need help installing the driver. i can't remember the site i used. hope this helps.
ok, almost there. I got done rooting and now I hit a snag with the rom. Step 1 will not work. It says 'cannot stat 'adb push recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img: no such file or directory.
Wow, didn't plan or rootin my Hero or installing Fresh Rom. Worked fine first time through. Using Windows 7 on a MAC through Parallels. Now what do I do with it?
Yes. I have double checked and I have even replaced it twice to make sure it was in there. Is there another recovery image to try and use? I was looking on theunlockr.com and they mentioned something about putting it on the sd card? Again, I am new to this. I feel like a smacktard not being able to do this with so many step by step instructions ... Thanks
You won't be able to flashrec unless you have it copied to your SDcard. That is where you are failing on step 9. You use the cmd line to push the recovery image to the sdcard, then you flashrec the image so it becomes your "Recovery Image".
Don't drag it, use the push cmd from the console to push it to the sd card pretty sure you'll need to do it that way as i've never heard of someone just draggin it.
That is where my problem is right now. It is not allowing me to do so. Dumb question, on the first command, at the end, should it say sdcard or something different?
