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sc34fd said:
Ok I put the new one on the card. Do I need to do a back up? Also do I need to delete the old one? When im at the green and black screen do I do a wipe then flash zip from sdcard?
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personally, I suggest doing a backup. You don't need to delete the old rom, and you shouldn't have to do a wipe unless the ROM you are flashing calls for it.
 
I have a rooted htc hero with fresh 1.1 and i love it but lately a black screen with the word fresh has started to appear any ideas thanx in advance
 
I rooted my phone last night. So far it's been a nightmare. Phone takes twice as long to boot and some of the stock apps I used a lot aren't there anymore and no way to get them back (Amazon MP3, and Ringtone Trimmer). Now, I can't even flash the RUU becuase it's WINDOWS ONLY! Unless you are a windows user, DON'T CONSIDER ROOTING!
 
I'm a linux user and rooted my phone just fine.

Yes, it does take a little longer to boot, but how often do you reboot anyways? I hardly ever do.

Also, it is possible to get those stock apps back. Download THIS and extract it, then look in the apps folder. You should be able to find the apks of the stock apps that you're missing. Just transfer them to your sd card and reinstall them. The only one I don't see in there is the Amazon mp3 app. But I think you can find that apk if you search around the xda CDMA Hero forum a little. If I find it I'll post here where you can find it.
 
Thanks, I got the ROM on the phone eventually. The only instructions for NON-Windows that I could find are these which have some errors (such as boot recovery) that wiped my phone. But I did get it. I know the kitchen will allow me to put some of the apps back, But my point is that if you don't use Windows, you can't use it. I don't use Windows, don't have Windows, don't have access to Windows.... it does me no good. I'll put them back on manually if i have too, but I haven't found anything that shows how to do it. Everyone just says "Use the kitchen".....:mad:
 
Yeah, everything is definitely geared towards Windows users.

I used this guide when I rooted mine. It's a guide for Ubuntu Karmic, but there isn't really anything ubuntu specific so it should work fine with any linux distro.

If you have Astro File Manager or ES File Explorer you can just put those .apk files from the Kitchen download on your sd card and then go to where you put them with one of those file managers and click on them to install them. If you don't have a file manager you can download either of those from the market for free.
 
Hmm.. will any of the others?

There is an app in the market called RingDroid that is an excellent ringtone maker. Let's you trim any sound file on your phone and set it as ringtone or alert tone etc...
 
rlundeen said:
I rooted my phone last night. So far it's been a nightmare. Phone takes twice as long to boot and some of the stock apps I used a lot aren't there anymore and no way to get them back (Amazon MP3, and Ringtone Trimmer). Now, I can't even flash the RUU becuase it's WINDOWS ONLY! Unless you are a windows user, DON'T CONSIDER ROOTING!
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You mean the guides on this wiki page don't work for you?
XDADeveloperWiki - CDMA Hero Guides

Not everything for this phone is geared towards windows. Most of it is, because most people use windows, and that's to be expected. But there are still guided for other operating systems if you look.
 
The Mac guide "worked" but isn't accurate. For instance, where it says to hold the HOME button and Power on the device to enter the recovery so you can do the nandroid backup, is incorrect. All that did was boot the phone and wipe out all my apps and data. The Volume Down needed to be held while powering on the phone, not the HOME button. I also found the organization at the bottom to be confusing. in the middle of flashing a rom it talks about partitioning the memory card and then goes back to talking about a rom. And that's just getting the rom on the phone. Once i got it on i find that the Fresh 1.1 rom is not as I expected. It's slow, takes a long time to boot (4x longer than stock Sense), Some of the apps don't work (es file browser, wireless tether, Messages) I have on icon on the taskbar that looks like a phone with circles around it, I can't get rid of it nor can I find anything that tells me what it is. I just want to go back to stock but I can't becuase I don't have windows. So until I shell out another $600 minimum for a windows computer I'm stuck in this ... whatever with a phone that is only a quarter as useful as it was just a day ago.
 
rlundeen said:
The Mac guide "worked" but isn't accurate. For instance, where it says to hold the HOME button and Power on the device to enter the recovery so you can do the nandroid backup, is incorrect. All that did was boot the phone and wipe out all my apps and data. The Volume Down needed to be held while powering on the phone, not the HOME button. I also found the organization at the bottom to be confusing. in the middle of flashing a rom it talks about partitioning the memory card and then goes back to talking about a rom. And that's just getting the rom on the phone. Once i got it on i find that the Fresh 1.1 rom is not as I expected. It's slow, takes a long time to boot (4x longer than stock Sense), Some of the apps don't work (es file browser, wireless tether, Messages) I have on icon on the taskbar that looks like a phone with circles around it, I can't get rid of it nor can I find anything that tells me what it is. I just want to go back to stock but I can't becuase I don't have windows. So until I shell out another $600 minimum for a windows computer I'm stuck in this ... whatever with a phone that is only a quarter as useful as it was just a day ago.
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well just a couple solutions to your problem.

1. Have any friends? I am sure they have a windows computer they would let you mess with.

2. Ever hear of dual booting a Mac? Yep, you can do that as well. Would cost you (legally) around $100, others can find it cheaper.
 
rlundeen said:
The Mac guide "worked" but isn't accurate. For instance, where it says to hold the HOME button and Power on the device to enter the recovery so you can do the nandroid backup, is incorrect. All that did was boot the phone and wipe out all my apps and data. The Volume Down needed to be held while powering on the phone, not the HOME button. I also found the organization at the bottom to be confusing. in the middle of flashing a rom it talks about partitioning the memory card and then goes back to talking about a rom. And that's just getting the rom on the phone. Once i got it on i find that the Fresh 1.1 rom is not as I expected. It's slow, takes a long time to boot (4x longer than stock Sense), Some of the apps don't work (es file browser, wireless tether, Messages) I have on icon on the taskbar that looks like a phone with circles around it, I can't get rid of it nor can I find anything that tells me what it is. I just want to go back to stock but I can't becuase I don't have windows. So until I shell out another $600 minimum for a windows computer I'm stuck in this ... whatever with a phone that is only a quarter as useful as it was just a day ago.
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perhaps you should do some research before rooting/ROM'ing your phone. You can put any custom taskbar you want on, which should get rid of that phone icon. Fresh appears to take longer to boot, and does the first couple of times, but then is about the same. The apps that don't work require a little more settings changing to get them to work. There's instructions all over XDA for using wireless tether. I certainly can't help you with that one, since I don't have enough service at home to use it...wish I did.

You can go back to stock without Windows. That's why you made a nandroid backup before putting the ROM on. You did make a backup, right?

You can also just flash the recovery image that you put on your SD card (I think), and that would bring you back to stock. Or download the factory image, and put it on the phone, and run it from the phone, because that's how it's supposed to be done anyway.
 
bmwboyee said:
well just a couple solutions to your problem.

1. Have any friends? I am sure they have a windows computer they would let you mess with.

2. Ever hear of dual booting a Mac? Yep, you can do that as well. Would cost you (legally) around $100, others can find it cheaper.
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1. Yes, but they know better than to let people install things on their windows computers.

2. Yes, built several of them. Not going to be able to touch Windows LEGALLY for under 299 since I'm not buying OEM, or have a legal copy of windows to upgrade from.
 
tatonka_Hero said:
perhaps you should do some research before rooting/ROM'ing your phone. You can put any custom taskbar you want on, which should get rid of that phone icon. Fresh appears to take longer to boot, and does the first couple of times, but then is about the same. The apps that don't work require a little more settings changing to get them to work. There's instructions all over XDA for using wireless tether. I certainly can't help you with that one, since I don't have enough service at home to use it...wish I did.

You can go back to stock without Windows. That's why you made a nandroid backup before putting the ROM on. You did make a backup, right?

You can also just flash the recovery image that you put on your SD card (I think), and that would bring you back to stock. Or download the factory image, and put it on the phone, and run it from the phone, because that's how it's supposed to be done anyway.
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Yes, I did do the research, I researched everything on this and the XDA forums. Problem is I made some assumptions that I shouldn't have made such as following the MAC guide explicitly when it didn't work. Or assuming that the guides for putting the stock apps back on would work.

Also, the updgrade process wiped my phone, I did do the Nandroid backup but AFTER the phone had been wiped. If I can flash that and go back to stock, fine, I'll do that. Don't know that it can be used that way. What I read leads me to believe it just backs up data and setting, not the stock Rom.

If I could find an IMG for stock to reflash, I'd do that too, but all I can find on these forums is the Radio Unit Upgrade exe for windows.
 
bmwboyee said:
maybe i'm out of the loop here, but here is windows 7 for $129

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Genuine Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Upgrade 64 Bit - eBay (item 260545900732 end time Feb-09-10 14:28:49 PST)
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UPGRADE! you need to have a qualifying version of Windows Vista to use it. I don't have that.
 
rlundeen said:
Oh my. Just forget I said anything. I'm sorry to have bothered ya'll.
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I'm assuming your problem was never solved? I'm not sure where the resistance is coming from wrt using a Mac. There have to be more people who don't use Windows in any fashion. It seems pretty unreasonable to me to that we get images that you can flash using the phone or the sdk for everything but the stock rom.
That's the only reason I haven't restored my phone and unrooted it. I also researched everything and didn't see any information about what version of the android base was being used in all the rom's so I assumed it would be greater than 1.5. That is what makes sense logically. The only thing I really saw from these rom's was that I was given the ability to uninstall the Sprint apps. Not sure why a rom built on 1.6+ without senseui hasn't emerged but once I figure out how to restore my phone from my MAC using the sdk, I'll just wait until Sprint releases the update themselves since it will probably be that long until a rom that is complete arrives here.

Thanks guys and gals for all your work. If I still had the free time, I would help where I could.
 
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