Root Help a Noob - Clockworkmod recovery screen question

[wilcox99]

Hello everyone, I recently rooted my Hero using superoneclick, worked like a charm. I downloaded ROM Manager and was looking to start experimenting with ROMs. For starters, I figured I'd load one of the ROMs already preloaded in ROM Manager (free version).

So I downloaded the ROM which seemed to go fine, clicked on it, followed the prompts which eventually led me to reboot into recovery mode via Clockworkmod to "complete the installation." So I got to the reboot screen, here's what it looked like (below). What do I do from here? Where did the ROM download to? How do I "complete installation." Thanks.

Not sure what to do once I reach this screen. It already asked if I wanted to back up the current ROM and wipe, which I agreed to. when I downloaded the ROM it didn't ask me where I wanted to save it to, when I got to this screen I looked in the SD card by clicking "install zip from SD card" and didn't see it there. Where is it?

 

[wilcox99]

okay I can get into where the file is downloaded on the SD card:

install zip from sd card>choose zip from sd card>clockwordmod>download/

this brings me to a screen where I can see a downloaded item from "crunchysoft" which was the ROM I downloaded. When I click on it it brings me to another screen that looks like this:

- ROMManagerManifest/
-img/

The first one has "No files found" the second one brings me to another screen:

-ss/

when I click on that it also says "No files found"

Help!

 

[Xyro]

First off, are you using a GSM or CDMA (Sprint style) Hero? Please ignore everything I'm about to say if you're using a CDMA hero

Personally I'm not a big fan of the clockwork stuff. It's not as good at the other recovery menu, amon ra IMO. Plus, who knows where it's pulling it's ROMs from. I would much rather use one recommended by other Hero users.

What are you looking for in a ROM? 2.1? 2.2? With HTC sense or vanilla?

Here you'll find full instructions for using amon ra. It's really easy

Get amon ra.img from the link in my post, put it on the root of your sdcard and then skip to this bit,

Launch RM again and pick the bottom option, to flash amon ra.

 

[wilcox99]

CDMA. Looks like I figured it out, I'm not sure how, but it appears to have worked.

 

[Xyro]

CDMA. Looks like I figured it out, I'm not sure how, but it appears to have worked.

Ok then. Next time make sure you're using the Sprint (CDMA) Hero section of the forum. This is the GSM section and we different phones, so anything you find here will risk bricking your phone.

 

[wilcox99]

oh wow, sorry. thanks for the heads up.