What to do next?

[Guest sjf430]

Evening guys.

I started with a stock Hero G2 on T-Mobile and ever since getting it the G2 splash screen did my head in. I know its only when you boot up the phone but it really did annoy me.

Anyway i began modding my phone installing many different roms and radios over a few months.

Today i used the Generic HTC RUU and this got rid of the T-mobile screen on booting up the phone.

However i now don't have my patched recovery ( i did know this would happen by installing the RUU.

So to cut a long story short i know have a completely stock Hero which is what i wanted as i had files and updates allover my PC and it was hard to tell what was what. By starting a fresh i hope to keep it tidy know ive learnt what's what.

I'd like to have the patched recovery back so i can utilise the nandroid backup feature (mainly just as a precaution). To do this i believe im going to have to use the gold card method as the kernal version on the RUU i have (build number 2.73.405.66). Currently i dont have a card reader so will need to get one to do this.

My question though is, Is it al worth it? My thinking is that i can do the gold card method to install an earlier generic RUU which will enable the recovery image and then i can Root and update the ROM via the update.zip method. I was thinking though with 2.0/2.1 looing like it'll be out soon if im installing that via an RUU ill be back with the recovery image and rooted device anyway.

Sorry the above is a bit long winded but in short im wondering if i should go ahead and gold card then root and then update to 2.0/2.1 via the update.zip method if available or just wait and see what happens with the release of 2.0/2.1?

Thanks in advance

Steve

[Guest pulser]

Evening guys.

I started with a stock Hero G2 on T-Mobile and ever since getting it the G2 splash screen did my head in. I know its only when you boot up the phone but it really did annoy me.

Anyway i began modding my phone installing many different roms and radios over a few months.

Today i used the Generic HTC RUU and this got rid of the T-mobile screen on booting up the phone.

However i now don't have my patched recovery ( i did know this would happen by installing the RUU.

So to cut a long story short i know have a completely stock Hero which is what i wanted as i had files and updates allover my PC and it was hard to tell what was what. By starting a fresh i hope to keep it tidy know ive learnt what's what.

I'd like to have the patched recovery back so i can utilise the nandroid backup feature (mainly just as a precaution). To do this i believe im going to have to use the gold card method as the kernal version on the RUU i have (build number 2.73.405.66). Currently i dont have a card reader so will need to get one to do this.

My question though is, Is it al worth it? My thinking is that i can do the gold card method to install an earlier generic RUU which will enable the recovery image and then i can Root and update the ROM via the update.zip method. I was thinking though with 2.0/2.1 looing like it'll be out soon if im installing that via an RUU ill be back with the recovery image and rooted device anyway.

Sorry the above is a bit long winded but in short im wondering if i should go ahead and gold card then root and then update to 2.0/2.1 via the update.zip method if available or just wait and see what happens with the release of 2.0/2.1?

Thanks in advance

Steve

Hi Steve,

One question. How did you get a generic HTC RUU to install without making a goldcard? (An RUU being the exe that you run on a PC that wipes everything on the phone and flashes it, as you described). AFAIK, you need to make a goldcard to get an HTC build to install on the G2 (never actually tried it myself, but plenty of others have found this).

Personally, I would ALWAYS use the update.zip method to install a rooted build from either Modaco forums or XDA forums. This way, you never lose root access, and therefore control of the phone. If you install the 2.0/2.1 release, HTC will probably have patched all the holes we exploit to get our custom/unofficial ROMs on. By getting a patched recovery on, you will be better in the long run, in my experience.

TBH, if FlashRec doesn't work for you (have a search for it here, I can't remember where it is mentioned just now), you will probably need a goldcard, unless you can currently fastboot your phone. Since I doubt that, Goldcard seems the way to go, and for that I believe you need a microSD reader. But back to the first question - how did you get the RUU on the phone without a goldcard?

Cheers.

[Guest sjf430]

Like i said i started with a stock T Mobile (UK) handset. This was on 1.76.110.6 so i was able to root with the other easier methods.

This allowed me update to the updated T - Mobile rom where i used the update.zip method to go to 2.73.11.26. I then updated the radio before going to a HTC generic ROM again via update.zip method which got me 2.73.405.38.

From here i changes the SPL from 1.76.0004 to 1.76.2007 and then updated the kernal to the latest terminologist package at that time. That gets me up to yesterday when i then downloaded the latest HTC generic RUU via a link on XDA. I ran the exe and unlike when i tried the T-Mobile RUU when there last major update was released this RUU worked perfectly and so took me back to stock.

I'm hoping to get a card reader today and ill set about the gold card method to patch the recovery and then root what ive got now and then stick to the update.zip's method of updating the phone.

Steve

[Guest sjf430]

I havent got my card reader yet but i was playing with ADB a little and decided id note down my memory cards CID now just generaly check all the drivers were installed and ready to go when ivegot the card reader.

I went on adb and after looking at what applications were i typed in adb shell and hit enter.

I was then given the '#' sign on the next line and not the '$' which i expected.

now i thought this sign only appeared when the device had been rooted? but i may be mistaken? can someone clarify?

Cheers

Steve

[Guest venturerider]

The '#' is definitely the root prompt.

Use the command "id" to confirm.

[Guest sjf430]

ok so i opened up comand prompt and did the following:

after connecting the phone as adb i typed : adb shell. i was then given the '#' sign

i then endtered : id and hit return giving me this message:

uid=0(root) gid=0(root)

#

I presume this means that the phone is rooted? i am however a little confused as to how this is the case considering id just installed a stock rom from the RUU method.

Does this mean i can now just download a recovery image and then use the below to flash it to the phone:

adb shell reboot bootloader

fastboot boot recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.2.img

adb shell mount /sdcard

adb push recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.2.img /sdcard/recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.2.img

adb shell flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.2.img

adb shell reboot

Cheers

Steve

Edit- having read around a bit more i don't think the above method will work so think i have to downgrade the rom via the goldcard method then root an patch the recovery from which i can install a new updated rom in update.zip format.

Edited January 3, 2010 by sjf430