Rooting

[bradart]

Originally Posted by s4audi

Im going to try to do it tomorrow and let you know if it worked.

Thanks

ok. Bradart.ink@gmail.com Hit me up on gtalk if you need any help. I'm literally signed in 100% of the time. We'll figure this shit out.

[ezln0423]

still not working lol maybe is the phone?

[bradart]

Originally Posted by ezln0423

still not working lol maybe is the phone?

no. It's a 100% software issue, so the phone itself wouldn't be the culprit. I hate to say it, but this is user error.

[ezln0423]

lol yeah im really slow but usually figured stuff by my self but being new to android doesnt help lol how can i start all over again? by the way thank you for the help

[bradart]

Originally Posted by ezln0423

lol yeah im really slow but usually figured stuff by my self but being new to android doesnt help lol how can i start all over again? by the way thank you for the help

Ok. You'll need to run the Hero RUU. After that, you have officially set your phone back to the day it came out of the box. Then you're going to need to run Unrevoked to root it (Unrevoked Forever optional.)

after root, you're going to download the recovery image. As soon as it is downloaded, change its name (for simplicity's sake) to "recovery.img" (without the quotes, obviously).

Now, on the phone, download terminal emulator from the market. There are several free ones. My personal favorite is this one.

Now, move that recovery.img to the sdcard. You can do this by mounting the phone as mass storage and just drag and dropping it to the root of the card.

Now, fire up the terminal emulator. Type this in:

su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

That should do the trick. to test if it worked, type "reboot recovery" into the terminal, and it should take you to amon ra's sexy-ass recovery image.

Let me know.

[s4audi]

Originally Posted by bradart

ok. Bradart.ink@gmail.com Hit me up on gtalk if you need any help. I'm literally signed in 100% of the time. We'll figure this shit out.

when i type in "su" it says permission denied...

[bradart]

Originally Posted by s4audi

when i type in "su" it says permission denied...

then you aren't rooted. Unrevoked.com

[ezln0423]

i think u have to make sure u click on the hero screen allow

[s4audi]

Originally Posted by bradart

then you aren't rooted. Unrevoked.com

Well i thought thats what i was trying to achieve with all these steps.. to be rooted???

So which one should i pick.. Unrevoked or Unrevoked Forever??

[bradart]

Originally Posted by s4audi

Well i thought thats what i was trying to achieve with all these steps.. to be rooted???

So which one should i pick.. Unrevoked or Unrevoked Forever??

for right now, just ignore that fact that unrevoked forever exists. That's something totally different. Just use unrevoked classic.