[Recovery] [16-Sept-2009] [RA-HERO-v1.2.2]

[Guest Amon_RA]

This is a custom recovery specifically build for devices without keyboard.

Features

• root
  
• full ADB access in recovery mode
  
• Partition your SD directly from the menu! (500MB Ext2, 32MB Swap, remaining Fat32)
  
• Repair ext filesystem, convert ext2 to ext3, fix package mismatches, move apps2SD directly from the menu!
  
• Flash ANY .zip from your SD - by krut0n
  
• 51dusty's sdparted v0.5.1 util
  
• Loads of scrips and binaries from Cyanogen's v1.4 dream recovery
  
• Nandroid v2.2 backup and restore
  
• Busybox
  
• Green colored menu with a nice HTC logo :)
  
• See detailed changelog for more details!
  
• See attached screenshots :)
  

Download

Latest :

RA-HERO-v1.2.2 - MD5Sum: 05cf03c4d9f273072f2df868da593a36

How to use/install

Try it out WITHOUT making changes to your device (NO flashing):

fastboot boot Recovery-RA-HERO-v1.2.2.img

Flash it permanently :

adb shell reboot bootloader (wait for device to reboot into bootloader)

  fastboot boot Recovery-RA-HERO-v1.2.2.img

  adb shell mount /sdcard

  adb push Recovery-RA-HERO-v1.2.2.img /sdcard/Recovery-RA-HERO-v1.2.2.img

  adb shell flash_image recovery /sdcard/Recovery-RA-HERO-v1.2.2.img

Changelog :

recovery_RA_Changelog.txt

Special thanks to :

packetlss for showing me the secret to make it boot :)

enlightener for helping me out with the packaging and hero trackball scan-codes :)

51dusty for his super sdparted script! Thanks! ^^

Cyanogen for his dedicated work! , buy him a beer!

JesusFreke for his awesome JFv1.43's recovery , donate

Edited September 16, 2009 by Amon_RA

[Guest AlThePost]

Very nice, sir! Flashed with no issues here.

[Guest BrumBrum74]

Great work.

Flashed without any problems here as well.

[Guest sveintore]

Will install next time I have to boot my phone.

(trying to get a huge uptime) :)

[Guest ccsnet]

Interesting - got to be worth a sticky this one....

Terran

[Guest Heppieboeddah]

Flashed permanently. Works great..thxz

Edited September 17, 2009 by Heppieboeddah

[Guest juju125]

can I flash it with FlashRec.apk using this procedure below with your recovery image.

http://TheUnlockr.com/2009/08/27/how-to-ro...o-in-one-click/

thanks

[Guest Musicmannetje]

Oke.. splitting the 8GB sd card was the last thing on the wishlist, after installing MCR 2.2 (2.3 has some problems, i understood)...

I have installed the loader, formatted the card into apps/swap/sd, moved the apps over, and then rebooted.

Now for the hardest part: how can i check if it works. I can't see any difference in the memory usage of the phone, and doing a mount command in adb shell doesn't give me much info either.

Is there a (quick) way to check if all is well?? (removing sd card??)

[Guest clarkEEE1]

It's simple to check all you after do is check phone memory, partition sd card through adb guides on this forum then reboot check phone memory again and you should have more memory space not all apps go to sd card though some stay on the system so phone memory does go down abit.

In cmd promt adb type:- parted dev/block/cmmblk0 then type:- print this will show you your partitions on sd. If its partitioned correctly reboot phone and apps move to sd automaticaly.

[Guest Musicmannetje]

In cmd promt adb type:- parted dev/block/cmmblk0 then type:- print this will show you your partitions on sd. If its partitioned correctly reboot phone and apps move to sd automaticaly.

Thanks for the info.

Doing this i noticed that the parted command gave an error.. it is not found. Could be that it is not in the path, but could also be due to changing recovery images, yesterday.

Anyway.. the mount command gives me cmmblk# entries for cache, system/sd and /sdcard. I have found my apps on the /system/sd dir, so.. i guess all went well....

[Guest clarkEEE1]

Thanks for the info.

Doing this i noticed that the parted command gave an error.. it is not found. Could be that it is not in the path, but could also be due to changing recovery images, yesterday.

Anyway.. the mount command gives me cmmblk# entries for cache, system/sd and /sdcard. I have found my apps on the /system/sd dir, so.. i guess all went well....

Glad ya sorted it ya might of got wrong cmds its

adb

adb shell reboot recovery

adb shell

parted /dev/block/mmcblk0

print

That should show you your partitions on sd card for future reference.

[Guest hp1]

Can I use this with Hero that has a 'standard' HTC Orange ROM installed?

[Guest clarkEEE1]

Can I use this with Hero that has a 'standard' HTC Orange ROM installed?

Yes you need the sdk or fastboot to flash it on to your phone I suggest you read the forum all the way through to get a good understanding of things.

Edited October 4, 2009 by clarkEEE1

[Guest hp1]

Yes you need the sdk or fastboot to flash it on to your phone I suggest you read the forum all the way through to get a good understanding of things.

I have, many times! But to a new android user many elements of this are still pretty confusing.

[Guest amihud]

Thanks, easy to use

Made it via mac with mac fastboot , excelent work you made.

[Guest clarkEEE1]

I have, many times! But to a new android user many elements of this are still pretty confusing.

There is a program called flashrec that you can use to flash the recovery img onto your phone really simple program just backup img and flash the new img

[Guest hp1]

There is a program called flashrec that you can use to flash the recovery img onto your phone really simple program just backup img and flash the new img

Ok I did it! A big deal for me.... :) It says in the original post that this image recovery features 'root'. Does this mean that by installing this image I have effectively rooted my phone. Is there an easy way to check if the phone is rooted?

Thanks

[Guest clarkEEE1]

Ok I did it! A big deal for me.... :) It says in the original post that this image recovery features 'root'. Does this mean that by installing this image I have effectively rooted my phone. Is there an easy way to check if the phone is rooted?

Thanks

I'm not sure if the recovery img is rooted I rooted my phone a while back now before this recovery img came out but if your phone is rooted you should have an app In the programs menu that says superuser permissions try going to the market and search for root should come up with apps that require root install one and it should come up worth superuser permission then press allow then you no you got root sorted.

If its not rooted all you need to do now is download modaco Rom do a nandroid backup in recovery mode and apply new modaco Rom update.zip file needs to be renamed to and put onto your sd card then apply update.zip

Edited October 5, 2009 by clarkEEE1

[Guest hp1]

I'm not sure if the recovery img is rooted I rooted my phone a while back now before this recovery img came out but if your phone is rooted you should have an app In the programs menu that says superuser permissions try going to the market and search for root should come up with apps that require root install one and it should come up worth superuser permission then press allow then you no you got root sorted.

If its not rooted all you need to do now is download modaco Rom do a nandroid backup in recovery mode and apply new modaco Rom update.zip file needs to be renamed to and put onto your sd card then apply update.zip

Ah I was hoping that I could manage to root while keeping the updated Orange ROM I installed when I got the phone. So is it only possible to root by installing a custom Rom?

[Guest clarkEEE1]

Ah I was hoping that I could manage to root while keeping the updated Orange ROM I installed when I got the phone. So is it only possible to root by installing a custom Rom?

To root and keep Orange Rom

1. Download the sdk

2. download and unzip superuser.zip I sent you link in private message copy and paste su and superuser.apk files to sdk/tools folder

3. then open my computer copy sdk folder into the root of c: (rename to sdk if not already done) then open cmd prompt and type

cd/ (the / needs to face the other way this line only can't do it on my phone lol)

cd sdk/tools/

adb shell reboot recovery

adb shell mount /system

adb push su /system/bin/

adb shell chmod 4755 /system/bin/su

adb push Superuser.apk /system/app/

adb shell reboot

This will root your phone and you can keep Orange Rom.

Edited October 6, 2009 by clarkEEE1

[Guest hp1]

To root and keep Orange Rom

1. Download the sdk

2. download and unzip superuser.zip I sent you link in private message copy and paste su and superuser.apk files to sdk/tools folder

3. then open my computer copy sdk folder into the root of c: then open cmd prompt and type

cd/ (the / needs to face the other way this line only can't do it on my phone lol)

cd sdk/tools/

adb shell reboot recovery

adb shell mount /system

adb push su /system/bin/

adb shell chmod 4755 /system/bin/su

adb push Superuser.apk /system/app/

adb shell reboot

This will root your phone and you can keep Orange Rom.

Hey thanks for taking the time to explain this. I will give it a try tonight after work, I have the SDK installed on my PC. I dont really have a problem with the updated Orange ROM. Everything works and not a hint of lag which is why I am keen to keep it.

[Guest clarkEEE1]

Hey thanks for taking the time to explain this. I will give it a try tonight after work, I have the SDK installed on my PC. I dont really have a problem with the updated Orange ROM. Everything works and not a hint of lag which is why I am keen to keep it.

No probs, just make sure you do a nandroid back up before you start with the cmds so you can roll back to original unrooted Orange Rom and if owlt goes wrong you can go back apart from that its pretty straight forward to do.

Edited October 6, 2009 by clarkEEE1

[Guest trstn]

Ah I was hoping that I could manage to root while keeping the updated Orange ROM I installed when I got the phone. So is it only possible to root by installing a custom Rom?

Why would you want to keep the orange ROM? Vanilla has got to be better surely?

My hero picked up my APN stuff from the sim card (I'm guessing) and hasn't lost it when I've updated the modaco roms, I'd recommend installing that over tainted firmware any day :)

[Guest Axiosuk]

Having a bit of problem with my Hero (linky) and isntalled this in the hope it would help or that i could back up but it did not help.

My error msg did change from "E:can't read MISC:" to "E:Can't mount CACHE:recovery/log".

thats for this custom recovery, will be keeping it. :)

[Guest clarkEEE1]

Why would you want to keep the orange ROM? Vanilla has got to be better surely?

My hero picked up my APN stuff from the sim card (I'm guessing) and hasn't lost it when I've updated the modaco roms, I'd recommend installing that over tainted firmware any day :)

I think you only loose apn settings If you wipe and flash the new modaco Rom, if you install over the top of your existing Rom you shouldn't loose APN settings