[thacounty]

First post will be updated today with my version of flashing a recovery image the way it worked for me and has all the steps that were missed in the xda version but added in comments. I am only consolidating. All credit goes to the guys who know what they are doing in shell and showed me the way!!

My suggestion, root the hero using my first link, follow those directions very carefully and make sure to put asroot2 and the recovery image in the AndroidSDK\Tools folder, that is very important. Once done click either xda or my link and follow those exactly.

Should work, I had to reset phone and box at least 3 times before it all went through, but it was worth it!!