HELP! Bricked when upgrading to Modaco's custom ROM (my fault)

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I tried and failed to upgrade to Modaco's custom ROM. Here is what I did:

-downloaded and installed patched recovery image

-did Nandroid backup

-installed 'enhanced' custom ROM (from stickied thread) WITHOUT wiping the phone (because I forgot)

-after reboot, the hero image would just loop over and over again

-rolled back to Nandroid backup and wiped this time

-re-installed Modaco's ROM ---> got boot loop again

-read this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=547284) and tried to clear data by booting while pressing HOME + BACK (I think this is where I unknowingly deleted my nandroid backup)

-still got boot loop, tried restoring backup ---> got "Error performing restore! Try running 'nandroid-mobile.sh restore' from console"

-used adb to push other ROMS onto the SD card and tried to install them, same problem

-tried repartitioning sd card using this (http://androidandme.com/2009/08/news...droid-apps2sd/)

-partitions are 1434MB fat32, 512MB ext3, 32MB linux-swap

-tried doing partitioning both before and after installation of ROM --> no effect

-tried repairing ext filesystems --> no effect

I don't know what else to do. Just to be clear, when booting: both androids come up and make the noise and then the htc noise chimes in and "hero" is replaced by "htc" before the loop is repeated. I'm pretty sure the Hero is unbranded (bought it from Chess in Norway).

Thanks a lot in advance for your help.

hi there is your hero branded or unbranded?
if branded ie orange try down loading the rom HTC site for orange if undranded then again down load it from HTC and flash from with in windows follow instructions from HTC site

Originally Posted by locutus-of-borg

hi there is your hero branded or unbranded?
if branded ie orange try down loading the rom HTC site for orange if undranded then again down load it from HTC and flash from with in windows follow instructions from HTC site

It's unbranded, but I can't flash it with the Windows because the phone doesn't get far enough to sync.

Format your fat32 partition in Windows, I got a bootloop til I did this once.
Copy anything on your sd card to hd if you need to.

Originally Posted by soulehmoo

Format your fat32 partition in Windows, I got a bootloop til I did this once.
Copy anything on your sd card to hd if you need to.

How would I do that?

Put the card in a reader and plug it in.
Then my computer r-click the drive letter thats for your card and click format.

Originally Posted by soulehmoo

Put the card in a reader and plug it in.
Then my computer r-click the drive letter thats for your card and click format.

Oh. Any way to do it without a card reader?

Never had to do it, always had a card reader. Could try just formatting fat32 with the recovery to just try get it working but that'll wipe your nandroid backups. If you haven't already.

Originally Posted by soulehmoo

Never had to do it, always had a card reader. Could try just formatting fat32 with the recovery to just try get it working but that'll wipe your nandroid backups. If you haven't already.

I had tried that, but no luck.

I ended up downloading this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=561124

With it, I formatted my SD to just have a FAT32, then I installed the generic ROM from Modaco's thread. It boots up now and seems to be ok (new ROM is much faster).

Well if the generic works no reason why modaco's won't.
In that recovery image you have now do the fat32 linux-swap and ext2 format, upgrade to. Ext3 then give modaco's a whirl.