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[Q] Got a hero in 1.5... how upgrade to 2.1

Just got a real nice condition sprint hero in 1.5 (cupcake I think?)
I want to upgrade it to 2.1
Then I will root it, hopefully, using a one click method..
Can someone help me with the upgrade?
Thanks,
Stocky

root it as it sits and flash the 2.1 rom of your choice.
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Not sure on something///
I've been led to believe I can't root with 1.5...
using one of the 1 click methods that is.
Unless you've got some help on that which I'd truly appreciate?
Thnx

Stockymann said:
I've been led to believe I can't root with 1.5...
using one of the 1 click methods that is.
Unless you've got some help on that which I'd truly appreciate?
Thnx
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I've always done root by command line and I got a 1.6 phone.
Just download the latest RUU from the HTC website and flash it up to a 2.1 phone.
http://www.htc.com/us/support/hero-sprint/downloads/

thnx 4 that
Thnks for the link to 2.1
Bummer I can't download it directly into the hero...
i got no usb hookup cable with it.
That page has a sinc download as well...
shouldn't i just ignore that??? I'm just gonna root... right?

The sync software has the drivers you will need.
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Easiest way to do it all is going to be to do the official RUU from HTC, but not the one mentioned above because you wont be able to use unrevoked one click root. Follow this guide shown here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=694572 There is a link to the RUU you will need. Its the easiest method to get this done, make sure after you gain root access you download ROMmanager from the market and flash clockworkmod recovery to be able to start flashing custom roms. Hope this helps!

If you need a cable I can send you one. They are not expensive and readily available from the truck stop, corner store, wal mart, best buy..... Let me know though, if you need one.

When I first rooted 1.5 I used a app called "flash rec" its a old way of flashing a recovery. It might work for you. If you want a copy just pm me with your email and I'll send you a copy. You'll have to google how to use it correctly though. Its been a while since I rooted. Not a 100% sure it will work for you but I think it should since your running 1.5
Something.About.Me.U.Don't.Like.
It's.Cool.I.Understand.AWAH.

2.3
i just got gingerbread on mine its awesome fast and faster with setcpu.

I just clicked on the link on the HTC web site. (don't use the http version) and it did the rest. Then rooted my phone using the super one click root that is in this forum. worked for me. I also like the ClockworkMod, you can only get 2.5 free from the market, but can get 3.0 from their website. Alway remember before you root, or flash you phone to back it up. You will thank me for that advice later. You can use ClockworkMod to back up.

Hero os upgrade
Is there a way to upgrade 1.5 to 2.1 without erasing eveything?

[Q] How to return to stock?

Rooted and running CM 6.1.0, have backed up 1.21 firmware, what is the easiest way to unroot and return to stock? (remove CWM also). Need to send the phone in for button repair. If I apply OTA update on the 1.21 firmware (updating to 2.2) will it wipe everything clean?
Thanks in advance

DrBarrell said:
Rooted and running CM 6.1.0, have backed up 1.21 firmware, what is the easiest way to unroot and return to stock? (remove CWM also). Need to send the phone in for button repair. If I apply OTA update on the 1.21 firmware (updating to 2.2) will it wipe everything clean?
Thanks in advance
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uhh im not too sure anymore but i think the best way to do it would be to apply an older stock rooted rom and then plug your phone into a comp with htc sync, and then do the update thing thats it got on there.. thats the way i was told a while back but im not sure if theres an easier/better way to do it. probably should wait till someone else comments before you go do anything but yeah youre meant to do something like that ^ i believe..

From my own experience, the technicians doesn't know if its stock, cm or what. They fix the problem and that's it.
I've sent my device twice with cm on it and there was no problem
Sent from my Legend

Thanks for the replies although I would be happy to send it in with CM and whatnot, as it is not mine I do not even want to take the risk. Can anyone confirm that installing the latest vodafone firmware will restore phone to stock?

basically run a htc update on it (if you haven't S-OFFed then 2.1 is fine)
Search isn't working now so I can't link you, but either way find an offical RUU and it will do everything for you. Remember if you do update it to froyo (official) it is a difference process to root again (but still possible)

Or else.. search the forum.. I made a thread called "easiest way to unroot".. or something like that.. Always use the SEARCH feature before asking questions..
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Or ask anyway, and feel the loving response from the XDA forums
Ol' whitetigerdk's thread on unrooting is a good one though, check it out buddy!

TheGrammarFreak said:
Or ask anyway, and feel the loving response from the XDA forums
Ol' whitetigerdk's thread on unrooting is a good one though, check it out buddy!
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Old???? Okay I admit.. did turn 34 on the 17th this month.. but Old¿?? ;-P
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whitetigerdk said:
Old???? Okay I admit.. did turn 34 on the 17th this month.. but Old¿?? ;-P
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It's time for the younglings my friend

method 1 (preferred)
you can leave the LEGEIMG.zip to the root of your goldcard and go to boot loader and let it load and you confirm the update. i suggest using the same one that you use for the downgrade.
if, you don't have it download Legend rooting tools, extract the zip. locate testimage.zip... copy it to your goldcard and rename it to LEGEIMG.zip. (make sure you dont ended up renaming it to LEGEIMG.zip.zip if you know what i mean lol)
method 2 (goldcard not needed)
For the past few days i've been playing around with official RUU. and heres what i've done so far on testing the official RUUs from HTC (link from stickies)... it'll turn your Legend to stock.... even if your on CM7 or any other roms....
But... if you have an HBOOT of less than 1.00... be warn. RUU with Froyo will update it and there's no known method to downgrade. unless you dont care about it and thinks its about time you update it and you have intention on doing the S-OFF...

HELP lol

i wanted to flash my first rom so i was watching the cognition youtube video. I was rooted previously and didnt do anything but install clockwork.
when i used odin3 to revert to stock, then tried to root again instead of reinstalling the root it brought me to clockwork recovery.
how do i continue to root from there?
app sdcard:update.zip? or install zip from sdcard?

do you have the update.zip to root on ur sd, if so then apply update from sd.

It just brought me back to the manual recovery screen. I guess im destined to not have root access anymore?

If you have clock work then don't need to root. Just flash the rom from there.

Makes sense. How will I obtain superuser permissions in the future then?

My guess is the the update.zip you have has cwm in it not root. After you flash any rom it will be rooted.
no real reason to ever be on stock. it's awful.

Dude it worked! I knew someone knew what they were doing lol.
Thanks so much man! I would donate but im poor atm lol. [email protected] email where i can in the future though!

One quick question...
When I redownloaded rom manager it asked to install the recovery again. Should I install it again even though I can seem to get to it already?
Will it hurt the phone to download it even though I can get into it anyway?

Rom manager is useless...clockwork is baked into all custom kernels. No need for it st all once your off stock.

roidsmith said:
Dude it worked! I knew someone knew what they were doing lol.
Thanks so much man! I would donate but im poor atm lol. email where i can in the future though!
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You may want to not show your email address, unless you want the spambots picking it up and bombarding you. Email is better done in pm's, in my opinion.

Please use more descriptive thread titles. Someone with a similar problem will have no way to find this thread by doing a search.

[Q] New to all of this

Let me say I had an EVO and used Unrevoked to root it and all I did was use that for wifi.
So now I have an unrooted Nexus. I am in a position that I want some of the custom things but have not rooted and a lot of this technical stuff floors me at this point and I do not want to brick my phone.
Can anyone tell me what it means to install via recovery, how to do a backup and what deoxxed (I know it is spelled wrong) is?
I want to put a custom home screen, I like the blue market I see and I like the clear MMS that is posted, but the install instructions just confuses me.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I really am wanting to customize my Nexus 4G.

steveh552 said:
Let me say I had an EVO and used Unrevoked to root it and all I did was use that for wifi.
So now I have an unrooted Nexus. I am in a position that I want some of the custom things but have not rooted and a lot of this technical stuff floors me at this point and I do not want to brick my phone.
Can anyone tell me what it means to install via recovery, how to do a backup and what deoxxed (I know it is spelled wrong) is?
I want to put a custom home screen, I like the blue market I see and I like the clear MMS that is posted, but the install instructions just confuses me.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I really am wanting to customize my Nexus 4G.
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Check out the One Click Root thread in the Nexus S 4G Development section. See if that helps a little more. Your probably going to get flamed for posting this in this section, but oh well. Read that and try to get rooted first. Then if you need more help after that feel free to shoot me a PM and ill try to help you more. Read different threads as well, just search XDA for root NS4G. Hit me up if you need some help with anything.
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steveh552 said:
Let me say I had an EVO and used Unrevoked to root it and all I did was use that for wifi.
So now I have an unrooted Nexus. I am in a position that I want some of the custom things but have not rooted and a lot of this technical stuff floors me at this point and I do not want to brick my phone.
Can anyone tell me what it means to install via recovery, how to do a backup and what deoxxed (I know it is spelled wrong) is?
I want to put a custom home screen, I like the blue market I see and I like the clear MMS that is posted, but the install instructions just confuses me.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I really am wanting to customize my Nexus 4G.
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I went through the exact same thing. If you start reading more threads it will start coming to you. When you root, you need the drivers (adb and fastboot) installed on your computer, they come with either pdanet or sdk which you can find the download links to with a quick search of the forums. Find the stickied section of NS4G dev section and those should have all the files you need. Cwm is Clockwork Mod Recovery. It is flashed after unlocking the bootloader using a command prompt. After rooting and flashing cwm, you boot into recovery(cwm) and follow the instructions from a root guide to flash your new rom. I think BuglessPete has a great tutorial on root and flashing a rom. Find that and you're good to go. Don't get discouraged. It is NOT as hard or complicated as it seems. You will be surprised at how simple these guys have made it for us newcomers. Make sure you give them a thanks.
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So it was a day from you know what. I got rooted first this morning, I did the first update that I wanted which was the blue market, epic fail. I spent the whole day trying to get my market to work again, no go. I had not backed up (stupid me) and when put that new market in it was a FC galore. I tried downloading other market apk's including the market that is due to be released and none would install. I ended up flashing the phone with Oxygen ROM. Now I have to get the phone back to the way I like it, lots of apps to download (not sure why they did not restore since I am set to back up/restore from google servers) and go from there.
I will be doing more I am sure, lots of reading to do. Thanks to the two of you.

I've done something stupid

Hello people, I hope I'm not being a 'bloody annoying bastard '- I really have searched the internet forums thoroughly for a solution to my predicament.
I recently bought a Bell network branded HTC Raider with stock GB (2.3.4) rom. I have unlocked the bootloader and rooted the phone. In my haste to get rid of the bloatware, I stupidly used Root Explorer to delete files instead using Titanium Backup - ergo, no chance to restore deleted stuff. Anyway, now when I press 'Personalize' on the launcher bar, and then try to choose any of the sound options,(ringtones, notifications or alarms), I get a message saying 'The linked program is no longer installed on your phone'. And if I try to change the notification sound from within, say, the messages app, the app 'has to close'. The only 'program' that I can think of that is even remotely connected with sound is Soundhound, which I deleted, but I don't believe that would be the cause. I can still set a ringtone using the ringtone widget, but I can't change the notification or alarm sounds, even though I can still see and play them in System/Media/Audio. Has anyone any idea what I have inadvertently deleted? Something from HTC Sense, I'm guessing. Is it possible to download the Sense 3.0 files and pick them apart to perhaps find what I'm missing?
Sorry if this is a dumb question - my first post and all. Cheers.

Why dont you flash the stock.rom?
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tokidoki11 said:
Why dont you flash the stock.rom?
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Do you have a link to download the stock rom please?

I'm sorry
Im no htc user
Ask the forum i suggest
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I was able to find a link to the stock ICS update RUU for Bell Raiders
(this will upgrade your phone to Ice Cream Sandwich and wipe everything)
If you want to stick with the BellMobility stock Gingerbread, I think I have it archived at home. I can upload it this evening if you want it.
Thanks to the ICS BellMobility RUU post by kennethpenn
http://briefmobile.com/download-htc-vivid-ice-cream-sandwich-update
(there are 2 mirror links available for this download)
and... here is the upload of the GB BellMobility RUU!
(filename: RUU_Holiday_BM_1.65.666.3_Radio_1.11.1020.03_30.77.551061.02L_release_222207_signed.exe)
http://depositfiles.com/files/ri3ygxwsi

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Thank you, I'll try for the Gingerbread first, just to try to find out what I deleted. Upgrade to ICS I believe I can get from HTC OTA if I return the phone to stock first. I'm still new at this flashing business, so I'm grateful for any help.

OK . . . downloaded file, but unfortunately it is an installer package, and it won't install on my rooted Raider. Does anyone out there have it in a zip package? I'd like to sort thru the apk files.

Or at the very least, a LIST of installed apk's for the Bell Raider.

linzoid said:
OK . . . downloaded file, but unfortunately it is an installer package, and it won't install on my rooted Raider. Does anyone out there have it in a zip package? I'd like to sort thru the apk files.
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You have to relock your bootloader before running the ruu...its easy just download the toolkit and use the relock bootloader option...then run the ruu
As far as it in a zip file...I don't honk there is one for the bell...there's a rooted deodexed art one you can flash in recovery...don't know how that will play with your bell version tho
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linzoid said:
OK . . . downloaded file, but unfortunately it is an installer package, and it won't install on my rooted Raider. Does anyone out there have it in a zip package? I'd like to sort thru the apk files.
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When you run an HTC RUU exe, it takes a little time to extract whatever files it needs. Once you get to the very first step of the RUU (where you get to click buttons), I believe you can go to C:\Users\whoever\AppData\Local\Temp (for Win7 users) and then sort by modified date. You should see a folder that was very recently created. If you poke around in there, you may find a file called "rom.zip". That should be the stock rom from the RUU. But what you do with it is at your own risk!
mg2 is right - just relock the bootloader and the RUU will bring your phone back to glorious stock. It's so much easier than messing around. Then you can decide what your next step is.

LaZiODROID said:
When you run an HTC RUU exe, it takes a little time to extract whatever files it needs. Once you get to the very first step of the RUU (where you get to click buttons), I believe you can go to C:\Users\whoever\AppData\Local\Temp (for Win7 users) and then sort by modified date. You should see a folder that was very recently created. If you poke around in there, you may find a file called "rom.zip". That should be the stock rom from the RUU. But what you do with it is at your own risk!
mg2 is right - just relock the bootloader and the RUU will bring your phone back to glorious stock. It's so much easier than messing around. Then you can decide what your next step is.
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Yes, I realise now that reflashing the stock rom was the easiest way. Now I have the OTA ICS and Sense 3.6 rom in place, have re unlocked, re rooted and this time I am being more careful with bloatware removal! Have also done a full nandroid backup. Thanks again for the advice, people. Looking forward to asking more noob questions in the future. :silly:

linzoid said:
Yes, I realise now that reflashing the stock rom was the easiest way. Now I have the OTA ICS and Sense 3.6 rom in place, have re unlocked, re rooted and this time I am being more careful with bloatware removal! Have also done a full nandroid backup. Thanks again for the advice, people. Looking forward to asking more noob questions in the future. :silly:
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We'll be waiting
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Sweet!
Sent from my S-OFF'd underclocked Bell Raider LTE

Just one more thing . . . I understand that I'll need to S-OFF if I want to install custom ROMs, is that right? Any other advantages of an S-OFF phone? The procedure looks a tad daunting - poking around in the back of the phone with a piece of wire! I did it to my old Desire . . . was quite straightforward using Revolutionary. Cheers, all.

linzoid said:
Just one more thing . . . I understand that I'll need to S-OFF if I want to install custom ROMs, is that right? Any other advantages of an S-OFF phone? The procedure looks a tad daunting - poking around in the back of the phone with a piece of wire! I did it to my old Desire . . . was quite straightforward using Revolutionary. Cheers, all.
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You do not need to be S-OFF to install custom roms: just need to flash boot.img using fastboot and flash rom thru recovery
With S_OFF you flash kernel (boot.img) thru recovery instead of using fastboot

ronnie498 said:
You do not need to be S-OFF to install custom roms: just need to flash boot.img using fastboot and flash rom thru recovery
With S_OFF you flash kernel (boot.img) thru recovery instead of using fastboot
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OK . . . got it. Thanks for that.

If you're a ROM-a-Holic like me (and maybe a few others around here) and want to try many different roms and kernels to find out what you like the most, you'll want to do the S-OFF procedure. It's not that bad, and it's definitely convenient to be able to download a stack of roms and kernels, put them on your SD card, and then sit out on the lawn enjoying some sun and flashing your phone silly directly from recovery without needing fastboot! I highly recommend it.

ess.boyer said:
If you're a ROM-a-Holic like me (and maybe a few others around here) and want to try many different roms and kernels to find out what you like the most, you'll want to do the S-OFF procedure. It's not that bad, and it's definitely convenient to be able to download a stack of roms and kernels, put them on your SD card, and then sit out on the lawn enjoying some sun and flashing your phone silly directly from recovery without needing fastboot! I highly recommend it.
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I agree! If you follow the instructions from the SuperGuide (stickied in the development forum I believe) exactly, you shouldn't have any problems with the S-OFF procedure.