Problems Rooting my Hero (FlashRec)

[Guest Carlos1987]

Hi Guys,

Im having problem rooting my device and getting it to the flash recovery screen. What I have done:

I have used the instructions on Unlockr. I am on 2.73

1. I have downloaded Flashrec and sdcard/Recovery-RA-HERO-v1.2.3.img.

2. Installed and loaded Flashrec

3. Flashed to the image sdcard/Recovery-RA-HERO-v1.2.3.img. This says Flash complete.

But then I reboot my Hero holding the home button in via pressing the on button, it just freezes at the "hero" screen.

I can boot normally but cant open the recovery bootloader so I can install Modaco. ANy ideas anyone? is this because I updated my rom to 2.73???

[Guest confuded]

Can you please got to Settings > About your phone and paste the info about your Hero in it's current state...

~confuded

[Guest shenshang]

ok here's what you do.

1-download the new amon ra 1.3.2 hero recovery (i've kindly attached to this post)

2-extract my file and copy the recovery-RA-hero-v1.3.2.img to your sd card root

3-get the better terminal emulator off google market for free

4-go on the terminal and type:

su

flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-hero-v1.3.2.img

5-wait a few second till a new line appears and type

exit

6-shutdown your phone

7-try going into recovery menu again.

recovery_RA_hero_v1.3.2.zip

Edited November 22, 2009 by shenshang

[Guest Carlos1987]

hi, thanks for the help guys. Am I being stupid.....I have downloaded the terminal emulator but doesnt support a virtual keyboard. Do you know any other software what would do this.... Someone told me connect bot but isnt that for ssh???

[Guest Carlos1987]

tried it on connectbot as local..... it says su: permission denied

[Guest shenshang]

better terminal does support virtual keyboard, its just buggy to get up, you need to press on the screen a few times and try some buttons, it will come up. you can also do it via adb if you know how to use it (type "adb shell" without the speech marks instead of "su" and followed by the "flash_image" command)