New here and completely lost!!

[Guest AstroDonut]

Made my way here from the Android forum.

HTC Hero owner (G2 Touch really, but hate that name!!)

Can anybody point me in the direction of a 'Rooting for Dummies' or a 'Custom ROM for Dummies' thread??

please please please help, I'm going out of my mind with all the options!!

[Guest chucky.egg]

See this thread for Modaco Custom ROM v3.1

http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-hero...online-kitchen/

For the complete newbies, these are the steps you need to take with a 'virgin' Hero:

- Download the patched recovery image linked above and install as detailed in that post

- Download this custom ROM, and copy it to your SD card

- Enter the recovery image (if you're not in it already) by powering on while pressing 'home'

- Select 'nandroid backup' from the menu to do a backup

- If you copied the custom rom as update.zip, select 'apply sdcard:update.zip', else select the option below.

- all done