Borked my Hero

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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.