HELP! Bricked when upgrading to Modaco's custom ROM (my fault)

[Guest erectij]

I tried and failed to upgrade to Modaco's custom ROM. Here is what I did:

-downloaded and installed patched recovery image

-did Nandroid backup

-installed 'enhanced' custom ROM (from stickied thread) WITHOUT wiping the phone (because I forgot)

-after reboot, the hero image would just loop over and over again

-rolled back to Nandroid backup and wiped this time

-re-installed Modaco's ROM ---> got boot loop again

-read this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=547284) and tried to clear data by booting while pressing HOME + BACK (I think this is where I unknowingly deleted my nandroid backup)

-still got boot loop, tried restoring backup ---> got "Error performing restore! Try running 'nandroid-mobile.sh restore' from console"

-used adb to push other ROMS onto the SD card and tried to install them, same problem

-tried repartitioning sd card using this (http://androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-to-manually-partition-your-sd-card-for-android-apps2sd/)

-partitions are 1434MB fat32, 512MB ext3, 32MB linux-swap

-tried doing partitioning both before and after installation of ROM --> no effect

-tried repairing ext filesystems --> no effect

I don't know what else to do. Just to be clear, when booting: both androids come up and make the noise and then the htc noise chimes in and "hero" is replaced by "htc" before the loop is repeated. I'm pretty sure the Hero is unbranded (bought it from Chess in Norway).

Thanks a lot in advance for your help.

[Guest cTn]

I tried and failed to upgrade to Modaco's custom ROM. Here is what I did:

-downloaded and installed patched recovery image

-did Nandroid backup

-installed 'enhanced' custom ROM (from stickied thread) WITHOUT wiping the phone (because I forgot)

-after reboot, the hero image would just loop over and over again

-rolled back to Nandroid backup and wiped this time

-re-installed Modaco's ROM ---> got boot loop again

-read this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=547284) and tried to clear data by booting while pressing HOME + BACK (I think this is where I unknowingly deleted my nandroid backup)

-still got boot loop, tried restoring backup ---> got "Error performing restore! Try running 'nandroid-mobile.sh restore' from console"

-used adb to push other ROMS onto the SD card and tried to install them, same problem

-tried repartitioning sd card using this (http://androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-to-manually-partition-your-sd-card-for-android-apps2sd/)

-partitions are 1434MB fat32, 512MB ext3, 32MB linux-swap

-tried doing partitioning both before and after installation of ROM --> no effect

-tried repairing ext filesystems --> no effect

I don't know what else to do. Just to be clear, when booting: both androids come up and make the noise and then the htc noise chimes in and "hero" is replaced by "htc" before the loop is repeated. I'm pretty sure the Hero is unbranded (bought it from Chess in Norway).

Thanks a lot in advance for your help.

you can use RUU package to flash "hole" cellphone, that means you will loose your custom recovery, but when custom recovery is running you should be able to flash any other rom

http://content.modaco.net/hero/RUU_Hero_HT...ed_NoDriver.zip

[Guest Nel]

I tried and failed to upgrade to Modaco's custom ROM. Here is what I did:

-downloaded and installed patched recovery image

-did Nandroid backup

-installed 'enhanced' custom ROM (from stickied thread) WITHOUT wiping the phone (because I forgot)

-after reboot, the hero image would just loop over and over again

-rolled back to Nandroid backup and wiped this time

-re-installed Modaco's ROM ---> got boot loop again

-read this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=547284) and tried to clear data by booting while pressing HOME + BACK (I think this is where I unknowingly deleted my nandroid backup)

-still got boot loop, tried restoring backup ---> got "Error performing restore! Try running 'nandroid-mobile.sh restore' from console"

-used adb to push other ROMS onto the SD card and tried to install them, same problem

-tried repartitioning sd card using this (http://androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-to-manually-partition-your-sd-card-for-android-apps2sd/)

-partitions are 1434MB fat32, 512MB ext3, 32MB linux-swap

-tried doing partitioning both before and after installation of ROM --> no effect

-tried repairing ext filesystems --> no effect

I don't know what else to do. Just to be clear, when booting: both androids come up and make the noise and then the htc noise chimes in and "hero" is replaced by "htc" before the loop is repeated. I'm pretty sure the Hero is unbranded (bought it from Chess in Norway).

Thanks a lot in advance for your help.

You got it sorted yet buddy?

Did you also install the core rom before the enhanced?

Gotta install core first then enhanced. If you only installed the enhanced it will just keep looping.

[Guest Yeah8a8y]

you can use RUU package to flash "hole" cellphone, that means you will loose your custom recovery, but when custom recovery is running you should be able to flash any other rom

http://content.modaco.net/hero/RUU_Hero_HT...ed_NoDriver.zip

Similar thing happened to me, due to my incessant messing, but like the above suggests grab a RUU and reflash.

Then start the process from the beginning

Worked for me.

[Guest erectij]

Thanks for all the help. I guess I did just install the enhanced version without installing the core...

I ended up downloading this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=561124

With it, I formatted my SD to just have a FAT32, then I installed the HTC generic ROM from the stickied thread. It boots up now and seems to be ok (new ROM is much faster). There's no reason the custom ROM shouldn't work, so I'll try that out this weekend.