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Borked my Hero

Hi guys,
I was a total idiot and manage to make my Hero into a whats essentially an expensive brick.
I got root going by booting from insecure boot.img. Then after verifying that it worked, playing around a bit, rebooting, i continued, with the pursuit of installing cyanogenmod.
So I dled and fastbooted from cm-hero-recovery.img (cm 1.4 + jF) (#android told me later that i wanted i wanted 32A, which wasnt specified it this image, but it worked). Did a nandroid backup that i managed to delete just afterwards (Boy, that was phucking selfownage). From there I pushed cyanogenmod-update-4.0.1.zip over to the sdcard and upgraded the device. It finished successfully.
When rebooting the device only comes up with what #android calls the first boot screen, only HERO with no android coming up in the O (i miss that cute little android). logcat says - waiting for device -. For the record, ive never come beyond this point now. Ive let it boot for 6 hours, its not that i didnt wait long enough.
With help from alankila (thanks mate) at #android i used his nandroid backups from a factory reset to flash cache boot userdata system, all of them. Ive also wiped before that. Everything went successfully, but to no avail. It still wont boot further than that first boot image; HERO without an android in the O. Logcat: waiting for device.
After that ive tried using some of the leaked Hero rom's, other custom roms (both same as before, successfull install, fails at boot), recovery image 32A (didnt work), CM 32A (same as before).
My default recovery image says:
HERO CVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-1.76.00004 (HERO1000)
MICROP-010f
TOUCH PANEL-SYN0104
RADIO-6.35.04.25
Jul 3 2009, 15:22:21
I feel like I have tried everything except making a goldcard. Do anyone have an idea of what to do (other than return to seller and admit guilt)?
Thanks in advance,
Thinky

wow, sounds like you are in deep. i think the s**t would be way over my head by now so i cant help you much. Where did you get the phone from?

Sorry to hear that.
This is the reason I really don't want to mess about rooting and booting different ROM's unless I really have to.

joemax - you not debranded yours then? im thinking about doing it if I want to get hold of this update?

I'm a European, so they sell it here - got it at a regular cell phone store. I certainly am not going to attempt to go further than rooting it, before someone else has done it and documented it properly. its really hard to find good information on this device. Google search for Hero ROM will most likely leave you with lots of ROMs for Magic with a hero theme (rosie).

From what I read on the forum, it may be the case that we won't need too.
Loading the new official HTC firmware supplied (somewhere here hopefully) by a trusted source from the HTC website (it will use serial number / IMEI to check to see if the upgrade is valid on your handset) will effectively replace the Orange firmware.
Currently the only customisation that they have done is the start up Orange logo. As of yet there is no other customisation that I can see anywhere.
Internet access info is pulled from the SIM I am led to understand.
Best we wait to see how this all goes - being a bit proud of my Hero, I will let other braver more adventurous souls try it first

Joe,
Interesting, I think it might be best to wait for this new update from HTC and see if it will update our Orange Mobile Hero's, I would hope it would personally like you but time will tell.
If it doesn't then it's time to look at De branding. But as you say best to wait to get the update (if it actually materialises!) and then go from there
Rich

Come on guys, im without a phone here, please dont hijack my thread. Does anyone have any helpful advice?

Sorry Thinkpad...have you posted on Modaco?

No i did not. Thanks for the tip.

no probs;
http://android.modaco.com/category/409/htc-hero-hero-modaco-com/

thinkpadx86 said:
Hi guys,
I was a total idiot and manage to make my Hero into a whats essentially an expensive brick.
I got root going by booting from insecure boot.img. Then after verifying that it worked, playing around a bit, rebooting, i continued, with the pursuit of installing cyanogenmod.
So I dled and fastbooted from cm-hero-recovery.img (cm 1.4 + jF) (#android told me later that i wanted i wanted 32A, which wasnt specified it this image, but it worked). Did a nandroid backup that i managed to delete just afterwards (Boy, that was phucking selfownage). From there I pushed cyanogenmod-update-4.0.1.zip over to the sdcard and upgraded the device. It finished successfully.
When rebooting the device only comes up with what #android calls the first boot screen, only HERO with no android coming up in the O (i miss that cute little android). logcat says - waiting for device -. For the record, ive never come beyond this point now. Ive let it boot for 6 hours, its not that i didnt wait long enough.
With help from alankila (thanks mate) at #android i used his nandroid backups from a factory reset to flash cache boot userdata system, all of them. Ive also wiped before that. Everything went successfully, but to no avail. It still wont boot further than that first boot image; HERO without an android in the O. Logcat: waiting for device.
After that ive tried using some of the leaked Hero rom's, other custom roms (both same as before, successfull install, fails at boot), recovery image 32A (didnt work), CM 32A (same as before).
My default recovery image says:
HERO CVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-1.76.00004 (HERO1000)
MICROP-010f
TOUCH PANEL-SYN0104
RADIO-6.35.04.25
Jul 3 2009, 15:22:21
I feel like I have tried everything except making a goldcard. Do anyone have an idea of what to do (other than return to seller and admit guilt)?
Thanks in advance,
Thinky
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so far as i know, there are no custom roms out yet for htc hero.
did u try flashing the stock hero rom from this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=547282

Is it a unlocked hero or a orange/t-mobile one? That firmware will probably only work on the original unlocked one. But its your best bet.
For Orange you'll need 1.76.61.3
and for t-mobile you'll need 1.76.110.6

SOLVED:
With help from packetlss over at madoca.com I fixed it.
Yesterday I tried flashing all the partitions with flash_image from adb shell. That didnt work.
Today packetlss ran RUU for me (since he was on a Windows computer, its a windows executable), and made a nandroid backup of it. Then he sent me the zip containing all the .img's and the nandroid.md5. I made a path on the phone, using adb shell, under /sdcard/ called
nandroid/HT97PL902664/CBDMRS12-20090820-1613
which equals
nandroid/Serial Number/I presume static-date-time
I pushed all the .img's over, along with the md5 checksum file.
Then I fastbooted cm-hero-recovery.img and selected the "Restore latest backup".
It worked. Thanks to packetlss. I promise not to be stupid in the future.
Thinky

Excellent, good news

I seem to have landed myself in the same situation, not exactly sure what to do.
Can anyone help me?

evertb said:
I seem to have landed myself in the same situation, not exactly sure what to do.
Can anyone help me?
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This is a very old thread,... What is the problem with your phone pal?

Why "no signature" with official ROM?

Hi, Sorry to start a new thread but I have a specific Android 2.1-invoked difficulty. (I think. Indeed, I hope.)
This is my phone. I can give the serial number if it helps anyone.
hero cvt ship s-on
hboot-1.76.007 (hero10000)
m1crop-010f
touch panel-syn0104
radio-6.35.06.18
Aug 4 2009, 19:43:30
My Hero is completely unmolested. Just a Hero supplied by my subcontracted Vodafone supplier. I have done nothing to it except load apps. It is not rooted. I think. Until yesterday, I did not know what "rooted" meant. Well, not in this context, and unless you are Australian you will not get that joke.
So I got the OTA ROM notice to upgrade - supposedly the prep part of Android 2.1. I accepted it and it all went fine. No problem - all done. Rebooted and running 2.73.405.5...
Nothing happened for a fortnight until Sunday evening when the second OTA part came through. I accepted. It downloaded, the 75% wait thing happened, it rebooted... It stopped at the famous triangle warning screen. I waited, waited, waited, went to bed and got up. "Hero" it said - it is hung at the Hero screen. I rebooted a few times. Nothing. Stuck. Took the battery out for a few hours, took the SDcard out, swapped SDcard, took out the SIMcard, put them back. Nothing. Hung at Hero screen. So I read a few websites = "Reflash the ROM, you fool". OK, how do I do that? And so I found the two boot methods...
Rebooting with VOL DOWN works - ie it is available but does nothing. FASTBOOT can be seen but does nothing. RESET DEVICE does nothing. HBOOT fails and says no image. USB connection is found by Windows - it appears as a device in Control Panel but reflashing the RUU.exe from the HTC website gets error 170. No connection. Hsync is loaded, says not connected. Obviously I cannor mount it. So I extracted the rom.zip from the official RUU and did the HOME+POWER Android System Recovery sdcard and update.zip malarkey. It found the zip but says "No signature". Now, this is the official HTC ROM from the website, matched to my serial number - extracted from the EXE because the EXE won't work because it won't connect - and it says no signature. I thought that that was impossible. Reading about, I think that that happens when trying to put strange ROMs onto unrooted phones. And I have no idea how to even begin doing stuff like that even if I had an interest in it.
And so I have stopped before I turn the bloody thing into a paperweight. If it is not already one such.
BTW it is under warranty. Should I just send the damn thing back to HTC?
One other message I do not understand is that when I load the system recovery, the first thing that comes up (in yellow, under the blue menu choices) is "E:can't open /cache/recovery/command". I have no idea what that means but it may mean something to somebody. There are no directories like that on the SDcard so I guess that it is referring to the internal memory.
I have tried to give as much info as I can but I am not an Android freak. I am though pretty IT savvy and at a loss to understand what has happened. I think that my phone may be branded to somewhere I do not understand but that does not explain why the official ROM has a signature issue. Or am I just a dim noobie?
Any and all help will be gratefully and humbly accepted. Thanks. Great phone BTW.

And another thing...
I did have a thought that maybe the signature part of the gig resided in a part of the RUU that isn't in the ROM.ZIP and that maybe that is why it is failing. Alas, I have no idea if that is the case or not. If it is the case, I will need advice as to how to make the phone connect to the USB so that I can use the RUU.EXE - which screen would be best etc.
Thanks again.

Are you on Windows 7? If so you may want to find an xp machine as I know people with Windows 7 including me have problems. I use a Windows XP virtual machine.

Good idea
Good idea, Andrew. Thanks. I'll report back.

menelaus said:
Good idea, Andrew. Thanks. I'll report back.
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It will work, remember to install the HTC SYNC application and enable debugging on the phone. Good luck.
P.S I like your terminology "My Hero is completely unmolested. " lol...

Excellent!
Windows 7 it was, Andrew, thank-you. You are a Genioid. Although I have never had a problem before.
Now, shall I try updating to 2.1 again before restoring all my stuff.... Yes!
Thanks again. Much appreciated.

menelaus said:
Windows 7 it was, Andrew, thank-you. You are a Genioid. Although I have never had a problem before.
Now, shall I try updating to 2.1 again before restoring all my stuff.... Yes!
Thanks again. Much appreciated.
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Good luck...

Or not.
andrewb84uk said:
Good luck...
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Well, that was fun. Update failed again with...
can't chown/mod system/xbin
It seems that this is related to having an old SPL. That is all very boring and technical. I am back to my trusty RUU and will wait for a month or two before trying the update again. I have a living to earn.
Thanks for your help, Andrew.

rooting after receiving 2.1 ota frusturations

First off, ive been searching and trying different roms for hours to no prevail. I will begin with what ive accomplished and attempted. BTW, im a complete noob to rooting.
I followed the 1.5 to 2.1 sticky "[Walkthrough] From stock (1.5) to rooted 2.1 (update - new link)". I successfully completed part 1 and part 2 but fail on part 4. I did not attempt the recovery install and regret it now.
So I was able to get the full install of PB00IMG.zip to work flawlessly. I don't believe it was actually necessary to install a special rom at this point but when i started i figured they were step by step instructions. Then i got the usb driver installed and my pc recognized my phone as the htc dream which i figure is normal. After that I attempted to install the ivan 1.0 rom and got exactly this:
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/command
--Install from sdcard...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package...
E:signature verification failed
Installation aborted
I figure the only relevant part is the signature failure. I realize that all the zips are signed and therefore cannot be opened. I understand that they have to be renamed to "update.zip". No im not naming it "update.zip.zip". I am renaming it with windows xp. I saw somewhere that a guy had the same issue and renamed it with astro and it worked out fine so Im hoping this is the issue but that seem silly. Ive verified the md5 sums of the rom images as well.
Ive also tried the Eris_Official that is on the sticky and plane jane 1.0.
Ive seen some debate on whether or not the 2.1 ota eris's can be rooted but it seems quite apparent its the same as any other eris. my hboot is 1.46 and not 1.49 so all is well there.
I also applied wipe data/factory reset
At this point i am at a loss as to what to do because it seems as though ive tried everything. I will reinstall PB00IMG.zip (hopefully) but im not sure what that rom actually does, i have no idea at all. From what i saw upon booting it seems like a simple stock 2.1 rom that is rooted. I'd prefer not to use that but as long as i can install the overclock kernel then i dont mind too much. I prefer the ivan rom. I prefer to switch between roms at will like the experienced rooters on here.
i did not wipe cache partition because im not sure what that does and it was never mentioned.
From deductive reasoning, it HAS to be an issue with the signature verification and is probably a simple fix.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully i have mentioned everything that has transpired.

You can't flash a rom without first flashing the recovery img, go back to step 4 and flash amon ra's recovery image.

i realized that and was in the process when you posted. thanks tho. I guess i got impatient and figured recovery meant like a back up if i screwed up. thats what happens when ya dont follow directions! i have like 3 roms saved and im dl'ing the ivan and will give it a shot. everything else is completed tho. just waiting on teh download. i think i lost a good amount of contacts tho because i didnt back them up. i have no clue how to get them back beyond trying to sync with google. does our google account save all contacts automatically?

illogical06 said:
i realized that and was in the process when you posted. thanks tho. I guess i got impatient and figured recovery meant like a back up if i screwed up. thats what happens when ya dont follow directions! i have like 3 roms saved and im dl'ing the ivan and will give it a shot. everything else is completed tho. just waiting on teh download. i think i lost a good amount of contacts tho because i didnt back them up. i have no clue how to get them back beyond trying to sync with google. does our google account save all contacts automatically?
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it does if you have syncing enabled, when you log in with your email on the new rom, it will restore your contacts back from google. also the first time you open your market, if you hit menu and go to downloads, it remembers what you had previously downloaded.
ivans is nice as an like stock rom, but i think it is out dated, there was a newer one jcase's plain jane rom, or basically anything on the front page. tho i perfer cyanogen elb, or zenexp. eh try a few different ones

its weird because i never turned off sync my google email. the only sync options i had were google, facebook, and flickr (that applied to me). Most of my contacts are saved but not all.
I also did the market thing immediately but apps like handscent weren't in there which is odd to me.
My big thing about switching between roms is saving all the settings from the previous one. I presume there is a root app for that but i havent even begun to dive into it. I just wanted to overclock this thing because its pissing me off with how slow it is. Also, it being more slim as far as cluttered bs apps helps too.
btw, i got it fully up and running, just installing apps and adding contacts. I would say that contacts over a few months old or less are the only ones missing.

illogical06 said:
I guess i got impatient and figured recovery meant like a back up if i screwed up.
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so why would you leave that to chance. . . im sure you noticed all the disclaimers, i understand its at your own risk but still. The recovery has saved my 4$$ several times now. . . trust me especially if your a new it isn't worth the risk. (unless your ballin but no offense to anyone if we were we'd all have incredibles or at least moto droids by now). . and don't use rom manager until its been tested on our device thoroughly . . . which means never use rom manager on an HTC Eris. lolz

You can use something like titanium to backup your apps and settings
Sent from my Eris using Tapatalk

Illogical when did you get your Eris? I ask this because I'm getting a replacement Eris next week an I'm just wondering if I have to prepare my self for the new 2.1 with the 1.49 h boot or if there a possibility that I would get something easier to root.

Cellular South Hero problems after 2.1 update

Hi all! I'm new to the forum AND somewhat new to Android
anyway.. I recently updated my Cellular South CDMA Hero (1.5) to 2.1 via the RUU on the Cellular South website, following all instructions carefully.
Now, after the update, my phone will reboot almost like clockwork whenever it is left in sleep mode for more than ~30 seconds. This happens ONLY when it's unplugged or plugged into a car charger.
I've restored to factory settings, re-flashed the stock RUU, rooted and applied hexskrew's new CS-only ROM... each of the aforementioned steps were taken, multiple times.. I even reformatted my sd card ...
I don't know what to do.. I'm planning to take it to the shop soon in hopes of getting it replaced (I doubt they have troubleshooting steps for THIS problem). I've tried everything. What gives? Please help! Thanks in advance (reply if you have had similar problems)

self-bump! lol sorry... but I'm desperate at this point..
Anyway.... also, does it matter that I'm using Win7 for all this? I know that with Vista, for example, certain compatibility issues arise. Could it be that adb is not connected just right because of such incompatibility? would I have more luck with Terminal or something?

OB1canOB said:
self-bump! lol sorry... but I'm desperate at this point..
Anyway.... also, does it matter that I'm using Win7 for all this? I know that with Vista, for example, certain compatibility issues arise. Could it be that adb is not connected just right because of such incompatibility? would I have more luck with Terminal or something?
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I used 7 to update mine and it went fine. Not sure what could be wrong with yours. Were you already rooted when you upgraded or still on stock 1.5?

it was stock 1.5

Yeah. I flashed DangerRom, and now it works just fine. Thanks, MrDanger!

Semi-bricked DHD

Evening all,
I have a DHD that is stuck in HBOOT/FASTBOOT, or at least that and the stock recovery program is all I can get to.
I tried an AAHK, and it basically tried to do a downgrade and has left the phone with no data, still at s-on, and I can't find an operator RUU(three uk) to flash it back to a useable state.
Is there a three RUU available?
I'm running around in circles as I can't make a gold card, due to not having another DHD available to retrieve the MMC2. All I need is a goldcard and then I can flash a WWE, but I cant find anywhere to make one without the phone or a similar one.
I dont think it turned the microsd properly into a gc, before it tried to downgrade. Is their anyway I can test to see if the memory card has been successfully goldcarded?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
James

This might help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29203392
Sent from a dream.

Teichopsia said:
This might help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29203392
Sent from a dream.
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Mine has a lot of those symptoms to be honest. If I vol down/power to get to Hboot, it sits there with no keys being able to be pressed, just highlighted blue FASTBOOT and not even checking for files on memory card
If I just turn it on, it sits at the three splash screen, which i assume is the equivalent of the HTC one for branded phones.
I have now turned it on and left it on as per those linked threads, in the hopes the sd is a proper gold card and it is just slow. Fingers crossed.
Thanks for the pointer
James

There are many threads for your problem, do a search, check what it might be. I believe in the second page of that link has another link, check it out. Find out what is wrong before trying anything. If you have any questions, let us know what are the symptoms, what you have done and so on.
Sent from a dream.

Teichopsia said:
There are many threads for your problem, do a search, check what it might be. I believe in the second page of that link has another link, check it out. Find out what is wrong before trying anything. If you have any questions, let us know what are the symptoms, what you have done and so on.
Sent from a dream.
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Well what I did, was follow the AAHK instructions, cleaned up my environment etc, went through the install. When it asked to do the downgrade, I said yes, then it asked about wiping and was I sure, so I said yes. It then rebooted the phone and it is now as it is. I pulled the battery and tried vol-down/power, which brings up HBOOT, but it doesnt let me do anything, vol keys and power do not work and it doesnt start looking for image files.
From that thread, it was mentioned it just could be going very slow, and people have just left it overnight. This is what I have done now, and will see if it has accessed the files on the memory card and downgraded properly in the morning.
Thanks
James

Have you tried looking for the RUU here?
Last I remember when aahk downgrades, you will be asked to reboot to basic recovery twice

Panic over, thankfully! Not my phone, you see!
It was so easy to root my S2 and the X10 before that, and the iP3G before that(and custom winmo, and nokia etc etc), I said give it to me, i'll sort you out with some ICS rom action.
Then it all went wrong as explained in my previous posts.
2 days later, i finally found the H3G RUU I needed to get an system on it. Silly branded phones. Took 4 hours to download as it was on a throttled download service(my 100MB leased line usually eats 300MB in seconds, but not this time)
So long story short, into FASTBOOT USB, ran the RUU and it completed and put froyo on the phone, and as a happy coincidence it was at a level that didn't need a downgrade, so AAHK ran through like a trooper, busybox installed and hey presto, ENG S-OFF. IceColdSandwich installed through cwm and one happy mate, who then proceeded to ring his wife and tell her to rent a film, as he would be tinkering with the phone all night lol
It was getting to the point I was going to have to give him my S2, and as I've just taken possession of a Sony SmartWatch, I didn't want to do that!!
Thank for everyone's help and pointers, not sure what went wrong the first time(probably a memory card/incompatibility/goldcard problem), but all sorted now.
James