help rooting CDMA Hero on windows 7 64 bit

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I have been following the unlock instructions on these posts on how to unlock the Hero, but I am having some trouble. When to comes to making the adb shell, it just doesn't do it. It shows a dollar sign and says that the request is denied. I just don't get what I'm doing wrong. Are there extra steps for me because there are x86 files? If I have to put the android sdk into the program files x86 folder, how would I enter that into the commander? Any help would be appreciated guys, this is driving me crazy.

OK so you get to the dollar sign. What do you do then?

Originally Posted by Kamar234

I have been following the unlock instructions on these posts on how to unlock the Hero, but I am having some trouble. When to comes to making the adb shell, it just doesn't do it. It shows a dollar sign and says that the request is denied. I just don't get what I'm doing wrong. Are there extra steps for me because there are x86 files? If I have to put the android sdk into the program files x86 folder, how would I enter that into the commander? Any help would be appreciated guys, this is driving me crazy.

Just extract the sdk so its a folder. Then go to Start->Run-> type cmd.exe in the box that opens. Now navigate to where you extracted the sdk folder. If you extracted it straight onto the c:\ drive at top level, you'd do something like this:

cd c:\android-sdk\tools

That will get you into the directory that has adb.exe

Now follow the instructions in the "how to root" thread.

I can get down to the point where I execute the adp push and all the lines come up saying that the adp is restarted and there is obviously a command that is executed.
adb shell
chmod 0755 /data/local/asroot2

this part is when it says access is denied. I follow everything perfectly, but I just don't get it.

Oh, easy.

Type "su" and hit enter.

The dollar sign prompt indicates you are running as a regular user. Run su and it will give you a # prompt indicating you are running as root.

Then do the chmod.

It specifically says after entering this line
/data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh

system cannot find the path specified. Any ideas?

so when the dollar sign comes up, just type su and hit enter, that's it?

Originally Posted by Kamar234

It specifically says after entering this line
/data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh

system cannot find the path specified. Any ideas?

Are you sure the asroot2 file has been copied over to your phone? What I did is extract asroot2 into the tools folder, so that I could just say adb push asroot2 /data/local/

My suggestion is to make sure the file is in /data/local/

Also, here is the full thing taken from the other thread:

adb push /directory_you_placed_asroot2/asroot2 /data/local/
adb shell
chmod 0755 /data/local/asroot2
/data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system/bin
cat sh > su
chmod 4755 su

Yup, I put it in the tool folder within the android sdk. I am using the 1.5 sdk as well.

I just really can't understand what I'm doing wrong