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Sprint Hero HAS BEEN ROOTED@!

I really appreciate your help. I know it must get frustrating. I was, indeed, already in the shell, so I did it the way you instructed and it now says:

usage: flash_image partition file.img
#

Is that what it should say?
 
Sounds like you're almost there.

If you put the recovery image on your SD card, try doing (from within the phone's shell again):

# cd /sdcard
# ls
<you'll get a list of files, the recovery image should be one of them>
# flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img

If you didn't see the recovery image file when you did the 'ls' command:

Back out of the shell by typing exit until you're at your normal PC command line.
Make sure you're in the folder with adb and the recovery image.
Then try again:
> adb push recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img /sdcard/

You should get a message about 'X bytes transferred' or something along those lines.
After that you can adb shell back in, su to root and try the the steps above again.
 
Aldo Junior Ao2 said:
Well for me flashing the Madaco rom and then removing the sprint apps especially sprint navigator which i have a garmin already helped. The theme for madaco also helped. We have to wait for our rom to really be tweaked before we see a real significant boost in speed but for now atleast them ugly sprint apps are gone.
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How do I get Madaco on my phone? I've already rooted and done my nandroid backup.
 
Hi, forgive me if I overlooked this problem in the thread but I am having an issue with rooting my sprint htc hero. I get all the way to the end and I get a
$ cannot creat su: read-only file system
$ unable to chmod su: no such folder directory

What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: So I got it to root after redoing the steps but now when I do the image recovery at the end of the steps it says

adb: not found

Never mind it is ROOTED successfully now! Now to get these horrible stock apps off!
 
elguapo76 said:
Edit: Started working on this prior to previous post. Will leave here in case anybody needs it.
Success for fellow Dummy!!! :D
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Just wanted to say thanks for the Dummy's guide. Got mine rooted successfully the first shot following your guide! :)
 
Got a ? about the core MoDaCo ROM that you dl. There is some enhancments that are add on's zips (boot sounds, wavesecure...etc) but do you simply update them the same way you update to the new ROM? (ie scroll down and click update?)
 
quick question I was able to follow the directions to root the phone however I don't think i created a backup on my sdcard. I would think its too late to do that now since I already removed some sprint apps. Anyways can someone post noob instructions to create a backup. thanks
 
gulu said:
quick question I was able to follow the directions to root the phone however I don't think i created a backup on my sdcard. I would think its too late to do that now since I already removed some sprint apps. Anyways can someone post noob instructions to create a backup. thanks
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Power down the phone. Hold Vol down and press the power button. The phone will boot to a white screen where you see info about your phone and below that
<VOL UP> Fast boot mode
<Back> Simlock
<Home> Recovery

Press the home button to get to the recovery screen.
It'll take a few seconds to load, then you have several options to choose from..
Use the trackball to highlight Nandroid 2.2 backup and press down on the track ball.
It'll start the backup and tell you when it's finished.. it saves to your sd card in the nandroid folder.

Hope this was easy enough to follow..
 
swaze said:
Got a ? about the core MoDaCo ROM that you dl. There is some enhancments that are add on's zips (boot sounds, wavesecure...etc) but do you simply update them the same way you update to the new ROM? (ie scroll down and click update?)
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download those .zip files onto your sd card (u dont have to change file names),
then reboot ur phone into recovery (home+end), in recovery menu select line where it says "choose" which file to use to update, then select your enhancement file.
after ur phone boots up, restart it again to make sure everything works fine.
 
DiNoise said:
download those .zip files onto your sd card (u dont have to change file names),
then reboot ur phone into recovery (home+end), in recovery menu select line where it says "choose" which file to use to update, then select your enhancement file.
after ur phone boots up, restart it again to make sure everything works fine.
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Appreciate it. I guess im ready to give this whole process a try. We'll see how it goes.
 
OK I think im stuck, I got down to typing this line

/data/local/asroot2/system/bin/sh

and im getting /data/local/asroot2: not found

Any ideas??
 
When I press the home button the phone gets stuck in a screen with a picture of the hero and a warning icon with an exclamation point in the middle wierd. Have to take battery out to turn off the phone...Any ideas?

KennyD said:
Power down the phone. Hold Vol down and press the power button. The phone will boot to a white screen where you see info about your phone and below that
<VOL UP> Fast boot mode
<Back> Simlock
<Home> Recovery

Press the home button to get to the recovery screen.
It'll take a few seconds to load, then you have several options to choose from..
Use the trackball to highlight Nandroid 2.2 backup and press down on the track ball.
It'll start the backup and tell you when it's finished.. it saves to your sd card in the nandroid folder.

Hope this was easy enough to follow..
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Ok I got that the next screen but did not see an option for backup android. There was an option for adding a zip file to the sdcard a reboot to home screen or factory reset.

Thanks

gulu said:
When I press the home button the phone gets stuck in a screen with a picture of the hero and a warning icon with an exclamation point in the middle wierd. Have to take battery out to turn off the phone...Any ideas?
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duckworth said:
Download the MoDaCo Rom [CDMA] 08/11 1.1 - MoDaCo Custom ROM Core featuring Wavesecure - Android @ MoDaCo
put it on your SDcard and name it Update.zip.
Boot into the recovery image by holding down Home when you power on and then select select 'apply sdcard:update.zip'
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Thanks alot man. Got it on there. I am having some trouble with apps2sd though. I did a fat32+EXT2+swap partition and thought thought it would just be automatic from there re the Macado Page. It seems to be working, I have quite a few apps one the phone and I have about 103 MB of int mem. But I'm still running into the problem where I'm running out of memory and the phone is crashing on reboot there for I have to uninstall apps to make me get a phone signal again. How do I know Apps2sd is working? I see no difference in my SD card. How do I know it partitioned properly? Is this a space issue since I still have the stock 2GB sd in it? Anyone, PLEASE HELP.
 
How many apps do you have installed lpeezy? I remember reading something about problems when you're ~70 apps, not sure this is something that the MoDaCo ROM would've fixed.
 
OK, I am lost again removing these apps from my phone. Forgive my ignorance can someone walk me through exactly what to do to remove the Nascar, tweet, footprints, and amazonmp3 apps. From where I open the cmd on the computer please.
 
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