Rooting the HTC Hero/G2..(success)

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If you have a 2.73+ rom with the latest hboot you will need to follow This Post to boot the recovery image

1) restart into bootloader (switch on holding the back button)

2) Extract the latest GSM Hero recovery IMG into your android SDK/tools folder

(For SDK & CMD help reffer to Post 3 "The Basics" )

3) Download Superuser.zip and extract the contents to your SDK/tools folder.

4) Plug in USB

5) open a CMD prompt from the tools directory and type the following command> fastboot boot recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.2.img
(you should now enter a recovery console on the handset)

NOW PERFORM A NANDROID BACKUP from the recovery menu, once completre, continue..

6)then type the following commands in CMD exactly as they are here, hitting enter for a new line.

adb shell mount /system
adb push su /system/bin/
adb shell chmod 4755 /system/bin/su
adb push Superuser.apk /system/app/
adb shell reboot

Congratulations you now have root access..

Download "Root Boot" from the app store (this will only work if you have root!)

Step 6 modified thanks to ENLIGHTENER, cheers, su whitelist working nicely now..

Recovery image updated to recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.2.img , thanks to Amon_RA

Please be carefull! I accept no liability!



FYI, To unroot you will have to either restore an earlier backup or flash a stock rom..... (reccomend the new official HTC Update via RUU to do a full reset)

OK i have a stupid question as i'm new to all that android thing. Where is the sdk folder? How do i open CMD? Maby u could do a tutorial for totaly new guys on *how to root your HERO* ??

Thanks

The Basics

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Originally Posted by gaabrysz

OK i have a stupid question as i'm new to all that android thing. Where is the sdk folder? How do i open CMD? Maby u could do a tutorial for totaly new guys on *how to root your HERO* ??

Thanks

1) you need to download the android software development kit from Here and extract it to yourhard drive.

2) (check) fastboot and adb should be located in the tools folder.

3) in tools right click>new>shortcut when asked enter CMD.exe

4) right click on cmd.exe shortcut, go to properties and clear the "start in" box.

job done, follow as above.

*Edit*

FYI

Verify you have root, go to app store> download Root Booter and test its functions if this works, you have root!

The G2 is the HTC Hero on T-Mobile.

The SDK includes all the drivers needed.

once you have booted the img via fastboot you should enter a recovery console, at this point you need to follow the instructions exactly as typed for adb,

I am running windows 7 Ultimate, should be the same for all windows platforms,

Cheers
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Thank you
Oh and one more question. Do i loose any data doing this??

Originally Posted by gaabrysz

Thank you
Oh and one more question. Do i loose any data doing this??

No, you will not loose anything but be sure to do a Nandroid incase you need to go back to "Stock"

I've followed the process and I never ran into any problems, but I'm new to Android having previously owned Win Mobile phones and now an iPhone.

I got my G2 today on a contract upgrade just so that I could play around with it and try some development work.

Now that I have followed the process, how do I verify that I now have root?

Is there anything I can do to test?

Originally Posted by MrHorus

I've followed the process and I never ran into any problems, but I'm new to Android having previously owned Win Mobile phones and now an iPhone.

I got my G2 today on a contract upgrade just so that I could play around with it and try some development work.

Now that I have followed the process, how do I verify that I now have root?

Is there anything I can do to test?

Use a program that requires root access.

Originally Posted by MrHorus

I've followed the process and I never ran into any problems, but I'm new to Android having previously owned Win Mobile phones and now an iPhone.

I got my G2 today on a contract upgrade just so that I could play around with it and try some development work.

Now that I have followed the process, how do I verify that I now have root?

Is there anything I can do to test?

If by G2 you mean HTC Magic/Sapphire rather than HTC Hero you're in the wrong place...

OK i have a problem when i do this:
4) open CMD prompt use> fastboot boot cm-hero-recovery.img

the phone reboots and then you have to do "adb shell" but when i do that it says "error: device not found", what now??

Just tried it and it works sweet... Took all of 5 minutes... Awesome work thank you

I now have root access on my Hero