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[Guide] Root/ROM FAQ/Tutorial (for 1.5)

pancake can be flashed over stock..

to install gumbo, copy the zip to the root of the SD card.. boot into the recovery menu select flash zip from SD.. select the gumbo zip file.. after the phone reboots.. power down and then back on.. this will make sure it's all running as it should.
 
mysticmead said:
pancake can be flashed over stock..

to install gumbo, copy the zip to the root of the SD card.. boot into the recovery menu select flash zip from SD.. select the gumbo zip file.. after the phone reboots.. power down and then back on.. this will make sure it's all running as it should.
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thanks again mystic. any idea how long the phone should sit at the HTC logo when i reboot after flash?
 
I ended up doing a recovery to my nandroid backup. (Thank goodness for that tool).

It sat at the HTC screen fora bout 20 mins so I figured it didn't work. I downloaded the GK_031 kernel and flashed it from the sdcard over the stock ROM. For me, it looks like GK is not working for me.

I'll probably look into the pancake ROM you mentioned and see if that works.
 
daman7676 said:
I ended up doing a recovery to my nandroid backup. (Thank goodness for that tool).

It sat at the HTC screen fora bout 20 mins so I figured it didn't work. I downloaded the GK_031 kernel and flashed it from the sdcard over the stock ROM. For me, it looks like GK is not working for me.

I'll probably look into the pancake ROM you mentioned and see if that works.
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Www.chocmatic.net

Go there to get a molested version of the Pancake rom. I love the ver 2-1. Been running it for a week.

This is the first rom I have found, and kept this long, runs super fast, amazing on battery life, and no issues what-so-ever. Love it.


Oscar
 
:mad:
Tried auto-root to no avail.

So, now trying to manually root.

Please see SS for where it fails. I have followed step by step, and everything worked up to command #6.



....quite frustrated.
 
Robchaos said:
you're not on sprint, is it possible that whatever cell company you are with has an updated patched firmware?


Here is another method for rooting...
Step By Step Way to root Using Flashrec(Updated 3/16) - xda-developers
use at your own risk I suppose.
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It's possible, I suppose. I am with a local Alaskan Cell carrier. Is there any way for me to determine if it is something special?

Can anyone recommend the alternative method? I am hesitant to do this as it is for the chance of bricking my phone, but I am a tinkerer. I hate to wander any further away from "safe"
 
i gotta the message cannot stat 'recovery-RA-heroc-v.1.5.2.img': No such file or directory.

What did I miss, what does this mean, what do I do next?
 
Theo321 said:
i gotta the message cannot stat 'recovery-RA-heroc-v.1.5.2.img': No such file or directory.

What did I miss, what does this mean, what do I do next?
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Please make sure your SD Card is not mounted. You should be able to push the recovery image to the SD Card. If not, there are several suggestions in the tutorial that tell you other ways to do it.

Please try and put exactly what it is saying and exactly what you did. Try and take a screen shot and post it (this is also explained in the tutorial). This will help is help you out ;)
 
As far as what I did. I followed the instructions to a T and had no issued. I
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Theo>cd C:\android-sdk-windows\tools

C:\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
HT9CTHF04135 device


C:\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb push asroot2 /data/local/
983 KB/s (74512 bytes in 0.074s)

C:\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb shell
$ chmod 0755 /data/local/asroot2
chmod 0755 /data/local/asroot2
$ /data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh
/data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh
[+] Using newer pipe_inode_info layout
Opening: /proc/3012/fd/3
SUCCESS: Enjoy the shell.
# mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
# cd /system/bin
cd /system/bin
# cat sh > su
cat sh > su
# chmod 4755 su
chmod 4755 su
# exit
exit
$ exit
exit

C:\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb push recovery-RA-heroc-v1.5.2.img /sdcard
cannot stat 'recovery-RA-heroc-v1.5.2.img': No such file or directory

C:\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb push recovery-RA-heroc-v1.5.2.img /sdcard
cannot stat 'recovery-RA-heroc-v1.5.2.img': No such file or directory

C:\android-sdk-windows\tools>
C:\android-sdk-windows\tools>^A^A
 
No worries, that sometimes happens. If you mount your SD card temporarily, put the img on it, and then unmount, you should be able to continue.

Heading to bed now. G'luck ;)
 
Rooted and flashed Fresh1.1 and Gumbo over the weekend. AWESOME guide. Was extremely easy to copy and paste all of the commands. Am LOVING how much more responsive, quick and less laggy my Hero now is. Will be waiting until after Sprint officially releases 2.1 for some custom 2.1 roms. Thanks for the guide!!!!
 
peck1524 said:
Rooted and flashed Fresh1.1 and Gumbo over the weekend. AWESOME guide. Was extremely easy to copy and paste all of the commands. Am LOVING how much more responsive, quick and less laggy my Hero now is. Will be waiting until after Sprint officially releases 2.1 for some custom 2.1 roms. Thanks for the guide!!!!
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Glad you got it working and all went well :). Enjoy the fun :p
 
peck1524 said:
Rooted and flashed Fresh1.1 and Gumbo over the weekend. AWESOME guide. Was extremely easy to copy and paste all of the commands. Am LOVING how much more responsive, quick and less laggy my Hero now is. Will be waiting until after Sprint officially releases 2.1 for some custom 2.1 roms. Thanks for the guide!!!!
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Congrats, and you don't need to wait. XDA's CDMA Hero Wiki has several stable, mostly functional 2.1 ROMs already available to check out. The three I've tried all run great.

XDADeveloperWiki - CDMA Hero ROMs
 
uminchu said:
Congrats, and you don't need to wait. XDA's CDMA Hero Wiki has several stable, mostly functional 2.1 ROMs already available to check out. The three I've tried all run great.

XDADeveloperWiki - CDMA Hero ROMs
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I understand that there are a few custom 2.1's availabe. So far I've been enjoying messing with the 1.5 ROM's. I may change my mind later. But for now I'm just going to hang out and wait for Sprints official release and then grab one of the 2.1's that will be fully fuctional. And, by the way, the best advice I received from the guide was to make some nandroid backups. I would make one as I went along and everything seemed to be working fine and then delete the older ones from my phone. I did save the initial backup to my computer that I made right after rooting but eventually deleted it from my phone. If I need to use that backup, I can mount my sd card, copy that nandroid from my computer to my phone and then run the backup from my sd card.......correct?? I can't tell you how many times I had to restore a backup because something I tried to flash didn't work properly.

Has anyone had any luck with the onyx blue icons? I've tried to flash them a few times, but everytime I do I completely lose the browser from my phone. Weird.
 
peck1524 said:
I understand that there are a few custom 2.1's availabe. So far I've been enjoying messing with the 1.5 ROM's. I may change my mind later. But for now I'm just going to hang out and wait for Sprints official release and then grab one of the 2.1's that will be fully fuctional. And, by the way, the best advice I received from the guide was to make some nandroid backups. I would make one as I went along and everything seemed to be working fine and then delete the older ones from my phone. I did save the initial backup to my computer that I made right after rooting but eventually deleted it from my phone. If I need to use that backup, I can mount my sd card, copy that nandroid from my computer to my phone and then run the backup from my sd card.......correct?? I can't tell you how many times I had to restore a backup because something I tried to flash didn't work properly.

Has anyone had any luck with the onyx blue icons? I've tried to flash them a few times, but everytime I do I completely lose the browser from my phone. Weird.
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I save all of my backups to my PC. They're labeled with a date reference, but I add a notation to the folder to jog my memory for which is which, so I'm able to go back to the one(s) I liked best. Sorry I can't be of help with the Godzon icons. I did try his clear widgets and liked the look a lot, with no ill effects that I could see.
 
uminchu said:
I save all of my backups to my PC. They're labeled with a date reference, but I add a notation to the folder to jog my memory for which is which, so I'm able to go back to the one(s) I liked best. Sorry I can't be of help with the Godzon icons. I did try his clear widgets and liked the look a lot, with no ill effects that I could see.
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I also have the clear widgets, which I like better than stock and they don't seem to cause any problems. Not sure why the icons are causing browser issues??? So if I save my backups to my PC I can just mount my sd card to my PC and copy that backup to the sd card and then run it from my phone?? I'm asking because the nandroid backups take up ALOT of space in my sd card. It would be nice to know that I can simply copy them to my sd card from my PC when I need them.
 
Yes, you can. I make backups, store them on my pc in named folders, and then put them back on my SD card when needed. I do however always keep 1 backup on my SD card just in case :)
 
ccapasso said:
Yes, you can. I make backups, store them on my pc in named folders, and then put them back on my SD card when needed. I do however always keep 1 backup on my SD card just in case :)
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That's exactly what I do. Works very well, except that the very first time when I didn't have the backup on SD and I was without a phone for half a day...that sucked lol.
 
DanielWalker said:
That's exactly what I do. Works very well, except that the very first time when I didn't have the backup on SD and I was without a phone for half a day...that sucked lol.
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Yeah, I almost did that once. Luckily I could still boot into recovery, and from there I toggled USB and was able to put the backup on. Always a good idea to keep a backup.

On a side note about backups (this has been mentioned before) DO NOT put spaces in the names of your backups. This causes errors and will likely not allow you to restore your backup. If you must have spaces use underscores instead. For example instead of Fresh 1.1 with custom screen I would do something like Fresh_11_with_custom_screen.
 
hey i successfully managed to root my phone and push ROMs onto it, but i'm still very very new to all of this. i originally had fresh 1.1 and was looking at the villain 3.4... so i created a nandroid backup and then pushed villain onto the phone...

was i supposed to wipe it back to recovery 1.5.2? (which is what i started with)

(i'm really hoping not) have i bricked my phone?
any and all suggestions are welcome and would be much appreciated.
thanks
b

EDIT - PS: when i rebooted the phone after it said it successfully pushed villain, it brought up the htc screen and stayed there for awhile then went black and won't start up now.. i can't even bring up the control panel thingy by holding the home key and pressing the power button...
 
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