If you already rooted your hero

[princem131]

Originally Posted by quiqnezz

try adb devices

This will usually "turn it on" for me.

Tried that, no luck.... I'm gonna mess around with the drivers a bit see if that works

Prompt-wise where should i be when i enter that command? c:/? androidsdk/tools?

[jonnythan]

Originally Posted by princem131

Ok I have established that mine is rooted and the directions and help you all have provided has been excellent. I thanked you, but thanks again! One small obstacle in the way of me and success, I cant figure out what I'm doing wrong. My computer just wont accept the adb prompt. It keeps saying " 'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file." I am in the android sdk/ tools directory and i tried the suggestions on xda with the "$" prompts but i get the same error. I know I'm missing something simple here or is it really this challenging?

You must be in the wrong directory, or you somehow deleted or moved the "ADB.EXE" file.

Type DIR and see what you have.

[princem131]

Originally Posted by jonnythan

You must be in the wrong directory, or you somehow deleted or moved the "ADB.EXE" file.

Type DIR and see what you have.

Ok you may be right. I dont see the ADB.EXE file. Not sure why I was able to root my Hero hmm.... searching for file now!

[jonnythan]

What files do you see? You should have acp.exe, ddms.bat, mksdcard.exe, and several others.

[princem131]

Originally Posted by jonnythan

What files do you see? You should have acp.exe, ddms.bat, mksdcard.exe, and several others.

Dag!... was hoping I could get to work before you logged off.... any who, I dont see any of those files in my directory.

I did the DIR command in my c: drive and in the c:\androidsdk\tools

take a peek:

[Killabee44]

Originally Posted by quiqnezz

Ok, I think you're having the same problem I was having as I didn't really know what the "recovery" image was. Turns out this is like the bootloader that is needed to do the backups/flashes/restores to the phone. Assuming you already rooted the phone you need the following..

Download http://www.androidspin.com/downloads...roc-v1.2.3.img and place that into the same directory you extracted asroot2.

Open up a command prompt and you should be in the directory where you extracted the recovery image. For example C:\android-sdk-windows-1.1_r1\tools, If not go there. Then type in the following:

adb push recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img /sdcard/

Once that is done, type:
adb shell (or sudo ./adb shell in ubuntu). If your command prompt is a dollar sign then type in su and press enter. If it is a pound sign you are good. Then type in the following:

adb shell flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img

Once that is finished you are done. To reboot into recovery type in adb shell reboot recovery. You should reboot into recovery mode. Or just turn off phone and power up while pressing home.

I had an issue copy the image to the SD card then running it. I think on page 3 in this thread is where people started having the same issue and trouble shot till it was resolved. So if you have the same issues read through the thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...=581577&page=3

Ok, I rooted my phone using windows, but I really use Ubuntu most of the time. Is there a tutorial for rooting and removing apps from ubuntu? I am kind of a newbie to ubuntu but usually do alright. One thing Im not sure of is if my ubuntu pc loaded the correct drivers for the phone. How would I find out?

I found the tutorial on XDA doesn't go into real detail for Ubuntu. Thanks to anyone with info.

[tokuzumi]

To confirm; based on my reading, it looks like when you root your hero, and load the recovery rom, you don't lose your installed programs/contacts, correct?

[princem131]

Originally Posted by tokuzumi

To confirm; based on my reading, it looks like when you root your hero, and load the recovery rom, you don't lose your installed programs/contacts, correct?

I know you dont lose them from rooting because I've done that successfully with no problem the recovery part I'm still working on.

[princem131]

So I'm realizing now after HOURS of trouble shooting and you guys assistance that for some reason when I am unzipping the adroidsdk files to my c: drive all of the enclosed files are not being extracted for some reason. So I will try to extract again and see if I can create the back up finally.

[STILLSPRINTIN]

Originally Posted by princem131

I know you dont lose them from rooting because I've done that successfully with no problem the recovery part I'm still working on.

I was having the same problem with the image portion that you mentioned and trying the money sign, from post #17 at xda. Read it carefully, below is the last sentence I didn't pay attention to: "That should work. Note, don't type in the $ or the #. Those are just there to show what the command prompt should look like."

So assuming that you got this to show in the command box: " C:\androidSDK\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb push recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img /s
dcard/
1747 KB/s (3352576 bytes in 1.873s)"

You should get this: "C:\androidSDK\android-sdk-windows\tools>"

Now just type in adb shell, then the money sign will appear, then continue with:
cd /sdcard/<hit enter>
su <hit enter>
flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.2.3.img <hit enter>

You should see a # sign now, from here just type:
reboot recovery <hit enter>
Now that nandroid screen should come up!