root new firmware

[kinextions]

Originally Posted by iviyth0s

http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
it's a program that can open pretty much any archive file ever.
download it and use it to extract the .img folder from inside the .zip folder (or I guess you could just use WinZip but I'm partial to WinRar)

Thanks but I tried something before and I ended up clearning my whole phone. Something tells me I should wait till friday for the 2.1 firmware upgrade.

[iviyth0s]

Originally Posted by kinextions

Thanks but I tried something before and I ended up clearning my whole phone. Something tells me I should wait till friday for the 2.1 firmware upgrade.

Yeah naturally the switch to 2.1 would require a whole wipe

[Slammed]

Great write up ima try this when i get home thanks

[tokuzumi]

Just rooted earlier this week.

Make sure you have the hero drivers installed on your computer. I installed the latest version of HTC Sync on my Win7 64 bit laptop.

I used the Fresh Kitchen 1.0.5 to auto root. The phone should do some stuff, and reboot.

From there, I powered off the phone, and then I held down home, and power. I was put into a menu, where I selected Nandroid > Nandroid Backup > Backup (can't remember the exact menu setting, but you only have a few options in the menu, and it's related to backup/restore).

I powered my phone back up, and put the rom I wanted to install on the root of the SD card. I did another power down. Hold down home and power, and I did a wipe of the phone (I didn't do this at first, and my phone was stuck in the HTC boot screen....thought I'd bricked my phone). After the wipe, I selected the option to load zip from SD card. Follow the onscreen instructions (of which there are very few...I think you just press Home to confirm), and when your phone comes back up, you should be good to go.

I didn't mess with the FlashRec.apk file. I didn't find it necessary.