[Q] HTC Hero Flashing Problem - Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have an MTS CDMA HTC Hero, and I'm un able to put a custom recovery image on. I went into that HBOOT menu and at the top it says "S-ON" and I was reading that it needs to say "S-OFF" in order for me to put a custom recovery like Clockwork Mod onto it. My phone is rooted, I used z4root. I have no idea how to put the custom recovery on. And I cannot find the free version of ROM Manager in the market, and I tried the appbrain method and putting the .apk on my sd card method and nothing is working
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks!

xcolester5x said:
I have an MTS CDMA HTC Hero, and I'm un able to put a custom recovery image on. I went into that HBOOT menu and at the top it says "S-ON" and I was reading that it needs to say "S-OFF" in order for me to put a custom recovery like Clockwork Mod onto it. My phone is rooted, I used z4root. I have no idea how to put the custom recovery on. And I cannot find the free version of ROM Manager in the market, and I tried the appbrain method and putting the .apk on my sd card method and nothing is working
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks!
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Our phone does not require S-OFF to flash a custom recovery. When I get to a computer I'll upload a recovery.img for you to download. Until then download Terminal Emulator and Busybox Installer. With Busybox Installer open it and install busybox
私のEVO 3Dから送信される。

there should be aman ra or an older recovery in the wiki

Whenever I put my hero into recovery mode I also get this red exclamation mark with a phone beside it. Is that because I don't have a custom recovery installed on the phone or?
And I'm also not too sure how to install a custom recovery on the phone.

Flash recovery using: ADB
NOTE: This method will work while you are booting into the current recovery on the phone.
1.Download the ClockworkMod Recovery: HeroC
2.Copy the recovery.img to root of the SD card.
3.Boot the phone into recovery.
4.Open command prompt, cd to the Android SDK directory & type the following commands:
adb shell
mount /sdcard
flash_image recovery /sdcard/"name of recovery".img
reboot recovery
5.Your phone should now reboot into the ClockworkMod Recovery (orange text for 3.0+).
Flash recovery using: Terminal Emulator Note: Requires s-off, otherwise you'll recieve "out of memory" errors.
1.Download the ClockworkMod Recovery: HeroC Download Optimus V Download.
2.Move recovery.img to root of the SD card.
3.Open the Terminal Emulator on the phone & type the following commands:
4.:
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/"name of recovery".img
reboot recovery
5.The phone should now reboot into the ClockworkMod Recovery (orange text for 3.0+).

Whenever I type in the first code I get "error: device not found" and I have my phone in recovery mode

do you have android sdk installed on your computer, if no , install it. if yes, open a command prompt and type,
cd C:\android-sdk-windows\tools
next type:
adb devices
it should list your device
next type:
adb shell
you should get a # sign
then procede from there
or try the terminal emulator method,,,much easier. you can get "terminal emulator " from android market...good luck

whenever I change my directory to the tools folder ADB doesn't work, but when I change it to the "Platform-Tools" folder ADB works.
Sorry for being such a pain-in-the-butt, but I'm new to this whole rooting stuff.
What's the terminal emulator method?
I was trying to do this method
"Type in the following commands:
adb push recovery-clockwork-2.5.0.7-heroc.img /sdcard/recovery-clockwork-2.5.0.7-heroc.img
adb shell
su
cd /sdcard/
flash_image recovery recovery-clockwork-2.5.0.7-heroc.img
reboot recovery"
but that doesn't seem to be working for me either, that's where I get the "Flash_Image: not found" error

Related

How to install Cyanogen 1.3 recovery??

Can someone please help me install this? I've tried the terminal way and the update.zip way and I still see JF 1.43 recovery utility.
You sure you did it correctly? Try again make sure you redownload the image file. It should be roughly 4000kb.
Su
Flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.3.1.img
domiiniicano said:
Can someone please help me install this? I've tried the terminal way and the update.zip way and I still see JF 1.43 recovery utility.
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first obviously make sure you have root, do this buy going into Terminal Emulator and typing su then press enter you should see this (#) and make sure the .img file that you downloaded (Cyanogen's Recovery 1.3.1) is in the root of your SD card, this is where all your folders are like (DCIM) (make sure you don't rename the .img file) once all that is verified then go back to Terminal Emulator and type su again and when you get the (#) symbol type
flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.3.1.img exactly how you see it because it is case sensitive then press enter, now turn off or reboot back in to Recovery and verify that it worked.

How to flash stock recovery.

Hi guys,
I have to send me N1 to htc for fix some problem.
I have RA recovery with lock bootloader, and I want to flash the original, but "fastboot" way doesen't work (signature fail ).
How can i flash it in other way?
Ty
(sry for my eng )
Just flash the stock rom with the recovery image like frf92 original.
evilkorn said:
Just flash the stock rom with the recovery image like frf92 original.
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How? Through recovery? Because "fastboot" hates me, and won't work.
I'd suggest using a passimg for frf85b and then maybe updating to 91 (or just leave it at 85), you can always re-root when you get it back.
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N1 w/ XDA App
got it, thk to cyanogen wiki
Plug the phone into the computer
Reboot into fastboot by holding TrackBall + Power (you should see three Androids on skateboards and the words 'fastboot USB' in red)
On the computer, open a command prompt cd to the sdk/tools directory (we will assume the SDK is located in C:\android-sdk and the recovery file is in the root of the sdk/tools directory for the following steps)
With the phone connect via USB, open up a cmd prompt
Code:
adb reboot recovery"
Code:
adb devices
​A device name and 'recovery' should be returned
Code:
adb push recovery.img /sdcard/recovery.img
​recovery.img is located on android-sdk/tools dir
Code:
adb shell flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
​This permanently flashes the recovery.img to your phone, you can now boot into it by holding Vol- while powering on the device
Reboot
nrdmtt said:
got it, thk to cyanogen wiki
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Thanks for searching!
I hope this encourages other users new to ADB, flashing ROMs, etc. to continue to search after asking for help.
Way to go nrdmtt!!

[Q] Root permissions in Recovery: How To??

I have Root permission in my ROM (Using a DocRambone FroYo ROM). But when I reboot in Recovery mode (blue chars, I think normal recovery from Samsung), and start ADB Shell, the prompt is $ and I have no root permission (everything is denied).
If I reboot in Clockwork Recovery 2.5.1.2 (using ROM Manager), the one with green chars, the Galaxy is isolated and if I try ADB Shell, the result is Device not found...
Before Galaxy I had a Desire... with it, when rooted, I had root permission in Recovery and in normal boot.
How To have root permission available in Recovery too on Galaxy?
I need to do some operation via ADB shell. Or there is a way to flash Clockwork Recovery in the place of the normal Recovery (as I had in my Rooted Desire)?
Thanx
tesking said:
I need to do some operation via ADB shell. Or there is a way to flash Clockwork Recovery in the place of the normal Recovery (as I had in my Rooted Desire)?
Thanx
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run adb root in recovery from this kernel
PS: I presume its a froyo ROM though.. dont know if there are any kernels supporting this in eclair.
tesking said:
I have Root permission in my ROM (Using a DocRambone FroYo ROM). But when I reboot in Recovery mode (blue chars, I think normal recovery from Samsung), and start ADB Shell, the prompt is $ and I have no root permission (everything is denied).
If I reboot in Clockwork Recovery 2.5.1.2 (using ROM Manager), the one with green chars, the Galaxy is isolated and if I try ADB Shell, the result is Device not found...
Before Galaxy I had a Desire... with it, when rooted, I had root permission in Recovery and in normal boot.
How To have root permission available in Recovery too on Galaxy?
I need to do some operation via ADB shell. Or there is a way to flash Clockwork Recovery in the place of the normal Recovery (as I had in my Rooted Desire)?
Thanx
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if using ULTK (afaik doc's rom use that), you can type "adb root" on your PC, and the next time you say "adb shell" you'll get root.
sztupy said:
if using ULTK (afaik doc's rom use that), you can type "adb root" on your PC, and the next time you say "adb shell" you'll get root.
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I tried but without success. If I enter in Recovery (standard one, with blue chars), and I type adb root, the answer is something like "adbd cannot have root privileges in production builds". If I try same command in Clockwork Recovery (started by ROM Manager, reboot in Recovery, the one with green chars), the result is "Device not found".
Ciao!
I think that the right way is to replace original recovery with Clockwork recovery... but how to?

[Q] Cant install recovery on my rooted Hero

the error i get every time i try every method i have found... yea i searched... it just keeps saying when i get to the flash_image recovery command
it says that command doesnt exist?
can some one help me out?
Just download rom manager from the market and use it to flash. You can do clockwork or amon ra
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App
You should be entering "flash_image recovery" either using a terminal emulator on your phone OR using adb shell. Both of which you should enter the "su" command to get the substitute user (hash sign "#").
Try this:
Open up terminal emulator on your phone and type "flash_image"
Regardless of whether you get root (#) or not ($) you should get a response saying "usage: flash_image partition file.img" So it'll look something like this:
Code:
$flash_image <- this is what you enter
usage: flash_image partition file.img <-this is what gets returned to you
$
Let me know what response you get.
AbKc0rax said:
the error i get every time i try every method i have found... yea i searched... it just keeps saying when i get to the flash_image recovery command
it says that command doesnt exist?
can some one help me out?
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As the other posters have said, rom manager from the market is your easiest choice,
as far as flashing a recovery manually, put the recovery image of your choice
on your sd card, and either from the terminal emulator, or from adb shell,
you need to make sure you have the # prompt, indicating you have
superuser rights. If you just see $ you need to type su first.
Once you have the # prompt, the command would be
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
(replace recovery.img with the exact name of the recovery image you
are trying to flash). as the filenames are case sensitive, I usually rename
the recovery image to a more manageable form, (ie: I rename clockwork to
clockwork.img or amonra to amonra.img, shortening the names and ensuring
that I don't have an issue with missing a capitalized letter).

flashing recovery help

somehow i screwed up my recovery. i'm running ads-magpie with no problems. I need to get my recovery working again. either amon-ra or clockwork. in adb shell i type: flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0.img It says /system/bin/sh: flash_image: not found
please help
if you are able to boot into the phone then go into your terminal app and then type:
su
mount /sdcard
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0.img
and you're good to go...
still doesn't work?
then flash the recovery using a fastboot zip
newellj79 said:
somehow i screwed up my recovery. i'm running ads-magpie with no problems. I need to get my recovery working again. either amon-ra or clockwork. in adb shell i type: flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0.img It says /system/bin/sh: flash_image: not found
please help
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Can you get into fastboot (hold down the camera button when you restart)? If so, then flash recovery image from there.
Open command prompt in directory where you have recovery image stored. Command:
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0.img
yes but hopefully he has fastboot set up. if not then i'm sure we can walk you through or forward you to a tut on how to do so
I got it working, truth be told I don't how. I tried a command string that previously didn't work. It responded out if memory, twice. For kicks I tried boot into recovery and low and behold clockworkmod. thanks guys.
no problem anytime

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