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Hi,
I bought a Generic HTC Hero from Mobistar in Belgium with the hopes of getting the new update on there. However I've downloaded both updates but it get an ID error when flashing the device. Does anyone have any advice on how i can get this update. Blegium isn't even listed in the HTC World Directory. =(
Thanks,
-David
are you sure you need to update? That is, I suspect the belgian hero is already based on a recent rom. Does the clock flip?
I am in belgium too an I use the Modacom rom with mobistar with no problems. So I suggest you flash this one
Dont know how to get the official rom, but try reversing the last numbers of the SN.
Ya im sure itys the old one, the clock does flip =P.
I tried reversing the last digits of the SN, finnaly got though, lets see if the update works though.
<Noob_Q>How did you flash you Hero with the latest Modaco Rom?</Noob_Q>
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Ya im sure itys the old one, the clock does flip =P.
I tried reversing the last digits of the SN, finnaly got though, lets see if the update works though.
<Noob_Q>How did you flash you Hero with the latest Modaco Rom?</Noob_Q>
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Follow this video for how to root your Hero: Link
DO AN NANDROID BACKUP AFTER THE LAST STEP OF THE FIRST VIDEO. YOU WILL SEE THIS OPTION IN THE RECOVERY SCREEN. Just in case something goes wrong, you can flash back your stock ROM.
This video for the actual flashing of the ROM: Link
They are video guides with written instructions and helped me understand what exactly is going on.
yep, just like above
davekilljoy said:
Ya im sure itys the old one, the clock does flip =P.
I tried reversing the last digits of the SN, finnaly got though, lets see if the update works though.
<Noob_Q>How did you flash you Hero with the latest Modaco Rom?</Noob_Q>
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Did it work?? I also have one from Mobistar and I'm curious...
Yes Sir. It certainly did work. =D
Thanks guys!
One other Q...how do i now install Apps to my SD card?
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Yes Sir. It certainly did work. =D
Thanks guys!
One other Q...how do i now install Apps to my SD card?
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It isn't working for me :-( Downloaded the update by changing the last 2 digits of my SN. Tried installing it but it gives me a customer-id error, how did you manage to install it?
I'm still having the same problem! Just changed the last number of my S/N from 1 to 0 and downloaded the package.
I'm getting the customer id error [131] as wel!
Isn't there any solution for this problem without having to root my phone?
I ended up rooting the phone and installing the Modaco ROM, very stable and fast rom!
genius
purchased my HTC Hero while on holiday in china, bought from one of those laptop/PC/phone/pirate movie/pirate software mega-malls in chengdu.
its software version was somewhere in the 1.73 range and I really wanted to upgrade but HTC responded "blah blah blah singapore blah blah no ROM available in RUU form for your phone as yet".
every time i tried the RUU exe files downloaded from here or from HTCs UK site, i was greeted with the "Error 131" Customer ID Invalid which I understand from xda-developers site relates to CUID lock being active on the phone (forgive me if it is called something other than a CUID lock)
installed nandroid which was pretty friggin easy
downloaded the "update-hero-generic-2.73.751.4-signed.zip"
copied the file to my SD Card on the phone and renamed to "update.zip"
turned the phone off.
booted up while holding the "home" key
selected "flash using update.zip" or something on the nandroid menu and press home or menu to confirm
once completed, re-booted and was greeted by the standard HTC Android setup prompts including my chinese/english language selection prompt (thank christ) - the china mobile splash was still present but the wierd green logo following it was replaced by the cute android jumping out from behind a HTC logo.
i think the key was that the nandroid installer and the update.zip packages do not respect the S-ON (CUID or whatever) lock that my phone has.
there is a procedure for removing the lock but it is beyond the steps i am willing to take as it involves making an RS232 3.3v usb connector, and sending console commands to the handset. While removing the lock would mean i could flash standard roms from RUU*.exe files, and i could remove the China Mobile splash screen, Nandroid does away with this step as it seems not to respect the S-ON lock that is set.
i LOVE nandroid now. xda-developers kicks ass.
xx
No need to use that method to bypass cid lock. Check the stickied thread on making a goldcard. Does similar thing, but without the risks from the hardware method.
As above.
Basically, I've tried rooting the device using this method Clicky but it just wont work. When I try to back up recovery image, it just says 'Backup failed : could not run command. I am using the lastest Orange rom.
Hope someone can help.
Im pritty sure you need to use a gold card for your device, then youll be able to root it, check out the wiki for making a gold card
The gold card method is the only way I have been able to root the last hero I bought in December 2009. Something changed about then for the phones on newegg and amazon.
The old one click method on unlockr would not work. I basically did the goldcard, downgraded, and then did the flashrec and loaded a recovery image and redid the rom to something else.
Then all was fine.
I've tried the Goldcard method, but I can't even get that to work. Tried it with 3 different memory cards and two different laptops. Any ideas? I can't let it beat me lol. Thanks.
i giot mine today liam and have the same problem,i thought i had rooted it but no.
Goldcard = FAIL
One touch root = FAIL
Bought that damn relentless rooter = FAIL
Tried everything on here but it wont do it
bonesy said:
i giot mine today liam and have the same problem,i thought i had rooted it but no.
Goldcard = FAIL
One touch root = FAIL
Bought that damn relentless rooter = FAIL
Tried everything on here but it wont do it
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It's right pain in the ass. I'm guessing with this new rom they've worked out a way to stop us doing it.
i guess so why didnt i find this out before buying the damn thing!
EDIT: I have done it!just keep trying with the sdcard,i ended up doing it with the standard sandisk 2gig one
I rooted my telus hero, using gold card method it worked, just make sure to type the reversed sd card sin when making the gold card
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Flashrec just change your bootloader to the one you wish? It doesn't actually root the thing, custom roms do that.
No you are right but the problem encountered is we cannot flash a custom rom because of this perfected spl. I kept making goldcards to do this and in the end it worked! Only got my hero because i couldnt bypass perfect spl on my Magic but now i cn do it lol
I DID IT!!!!
I just kept making the goldcard then in the end it worked!
I guess I'll say what I did to end up here, first:
A few months back, I bought an unlocked HTC Hero (A626) from eBay. This evening, I decided it'd be a good idea to root the thing and install a nice 2.1 ROM.
2 hours later, I find myself with a locked phone. Or, at least, that's what it seems to be. My SIM is definitely *in* the phone, and it's quite adamant that it doesn't have one.
I *was* following the instructions at theunlockr.com about "rooting the hero in one click" - I downloaded the RUU downgrade for "unbranded European users" (though my phone is now in Canada... it *is* an unbranded European phone).
After some mess with drivers and HTC Sync, I finally got the 1.76 RUU to work (I was on 2.73 before)... until I ended up with error code 140; something about a device error.
Now, from my browsing, I'm fairly certain that I could get around this by making a Goldcard and retrying the downgrade and continuing with the root/upgrade.
What I want to know is: will this fix my phone? (making a goldcard, rooting and continuing with a custom rom, that is) Right now it's on radio 6.35.06.18, but I don't believe that changed since the RUU failed. The RUU seems to have locked the phone, and nothing else; every other piece of my data is still intact. If not, is there any way that I can make it work again?
Thanks very much; any help is appreciated
i seem to remember the 140 error when trying to apply the RUU. making a goldcard got me past it.
strange..from other ppl post on phone sim unlocking, rooting shouldnt affect the sim lock at all
krisrm said:
I guess I'll say what I did to end up here, first:
A few months back, I bought an unlocked HTC Hero (A626) from eBay. This evening, I decided it'd be a good idea to root the thing and install a nice 2.1 ROM.
2 hours later, I find myself with a locked phone. Or, at least, that's what it seems to be. My SIM is definitely *in* the phone, and it's quite adamant that it doesn't have one.
I *was* following the instructions at theunlockr.com about "rooting the hero in one click" - I downloaded the RUU downgrade for "unbranded European users" (though my phone is now in Canada... it *is* an unbranded European phone).
After some mess with drivers and HTC Sync, I finally got the 1.76 RUU to work (I was on 2.73 before)... until I ended up with error code 140; something about a device error.
Now, from my browsing, I'm fairly certain that I could get around this by making a Goldcard and retrying the downgrade and continuing with the root/upgrade.
What I want to know is: will this fix my phone? (making a goldcard, rooting and continuing with a custom rom, that is) Right now it's on radio 6.35.06.18, but I don't believe that changed since the RUU failed. The RUU seems to have locked the phone, and nothing else; every other piece of my data is still intact. If not, is there any way that I can make it work again?
Thanks very much; any help is appreciated
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I dont see the sim lock being the cause of no network since you started messeing about with it as the sim lock is held on a totally different part of the phone so any ru update wouldnt effect that or the networks would be nackered, have you tried putting thte recovery image on http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-hero-hero-modaco-com/291486/06-jan-installing-the-patched-recovery-image-on-your-device/ and flashing one using that?
This is not a sim-lock issue. sounds like a goldcard is needed, as this is the bootloader lock you are experiencing...
Ok, well, I suppose I'll try the goldcard, then - one more question; once I make the goldcard, can I ever use the SD card normally afterwards? I don't know if I want to use my 8GB Class 6 if it's unusable as storage, after this :/ .
(Also, apologies to the mods for posting in the Development forums - 'tis what happens when one is low on sleep and stressed by phone problems )
EDIT: Ok - from some reading, it sounds like it's best for me to go looking for the 2GB card that came with the phone, as it will "just be a goldcard after this". If anyone wants to confirm this, that would be excellent. Thanks for all the help, by the way
Ok - I decided I'd try out Flashrec instead (I guess I wasn't on 2.73....7, rather 5, which apparently has the exploit needed to make flashrec work), and I flashed Cyanogen's recovery image successfully - I can boot into recovery mode and I get the familiar screen .
I just want to be very clear about this: can I now flash a custom ROM (preferably without bricking my phone )? (I was thinking Villain 4 Beta2, but if anyone else has a better suggestion... I'm looking for a 2.1 ROM with Sense). I'm not really sure I want to flash the "improved" recovery-RA-HERO right now, as I cannot su (I think this is an issue with me not having it on the phone, as I get "permission denied" errors when I try to run it). Would it be a wise idea to flash a custom ROM with su *first*, and then maybe update my recovery image?
Thanks
All right, sorry about that - disregard my above post; I went ahead with the update. I'm now running Villain4beta2 (2.1 is so nice ). However, I still have the "No Sim card in phone" issue, even though I most certainly *do* have a SIM card in the phone. Does anyone have any idea what's happened? Even better, does anyone know how I can fix this? I'd get it unlocked again, but as some of you mentioned, it doesn't really make sense that a ROM update would sim-lock the phone... Also, I have no idea which carrier it would have been locked to (it shouldn't have been locked to a carrier, really... it's a stock white international phone), so wouldn't that make unlocking rather difficult/impossible?
...and disregard *that* post as well. Turns out the Hero is *really* picky with the SIM tray. It has to be locked entirely; you can use your fingernails and swipe to the left if it doesn't work. Anyway, it had nothing to do with SIM locks and everything to do with me being incompetent at putting in the SIM . So, consider this problem SOLVED.
If it is incapable of detecting any inserted sim I imagine that will make unlocking impossible, since aiui to unlock you need to have a sim inserted belonging to a carrier other than the one it is locked to, in order for the phone to prompt you for an unlock code.
Was the sim recognised & working previously? I know you've just rooted it, but I'd be inclined to try flashing with a stock RUU, if you haven't already. Just pick an old one so you can root it afterwards without the hassle of a gold card.
If it doesn't work with a stock ROM I'd suspect a hardware problem, but it is strange if it was working prior to you starting to update flash. There's no way at any stage you attempted to flash a CDMA Hero rom to your GSM Hero (which I assume it is as you said it was European)? It doesn't seem likely, but worth double checking I guess.
Lol. I've done that before. Didn't think to suggest it as I never imagined anyone else could be as incompetent as me Glad you got it sorted.
Heheh, I do believe you've met your match . Thanks, everything is working beautifully now
krisrm said:
...and disregard *that* post as well. Turns out the Hero is *really* picky with the SIM tray. It has to be locked entirely; you can use your fingernails and swipe to the left if it doesn't work. Anyway, it had nothing to do with SIM locks and everything to do with me being incompetent at putting in the SIM . So, consider this problem SOLVED.
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haha you clown, well at least now you have the rec image and you can flash away till your hearts content!!
Hey guys,I'm trying to root my Hero,but I am having sort of a technical difficulty.I have tried using the flashrec method,but when I click "Backup recovery image" it says "Backup failed:Command not found".I searched the forums and only thing I found was that if my firmware is patched flashrec will not work.What does it mean that I have a patched firmware?Sorry for the question,but I am partially noob!Also,can I try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=543571 method?Seems pretty easy,but the title says "If you have a 2.73+ rom with the new boot you will need to follow This Post to boot the recovery image".I have the stock Cupcake ROM and just fed up waiting for Eclair!My build number is 2.73.405.38 CL#70768 release-keys(yes,it says all that exactly).
And for god's sake guys,please tell me for sure!If I brick my phone I am screwed!Tottaly!
And finally,why the heck will we won't be able to root if we update our Hero with the official 2.1?Seriously,it doesn't make sense to me!
Thanks in advance!
tolis626 said:
Hey guys,I'm trying to root my Hero,but I am having sort of a technical difficulty.I have tried using the flashrec method,but when I click "Backup recovery image" it says "Backup failed:Command not found".I searched the forums and only thing I found was that if my firmware is patched flashrec will not work.What does it mean that I have a patched firmware?Sorry for the question,but I am partially noob!Also,can I try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=543571 method?Seems pretty easy,but the title says "If you have a 2.73+ rom with the new boot you will need to follow This Post to boot the recovery image".I have the stock Cupcake ROM and just fed up waiting for Eclair!My build number is 2.73.405.38 CL#70768 release-keys(yes,it says all that exactly).
And for god's sake guys,please tell me for sure!If I brick my phone I am screwed!Tottaly!
And finally,why the heck will we won't be able to root if we update our Hero with the official 2.1?Seriously,it doesn't make sense to me!
Thanks in advance!
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Everything you need is at http://www.villainrom.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=46&p=14520#p14520
You will need gold card method iirc.
As for new ROM, there's a new splthat makes it secure, and exploits via. Kernel are patched.
Oops. Double post
Ouch...
First off thank you very much for your reply!But are you absolutely sure there is no alternative?The goldcard procedure seems like a major pain in the a$$ to get working!And,if there is no alternative,is it surely safe?No danger to brick my phone etc.
Thanks!
I'm pretty sure, there's no alternative. But I can tell you, Goldcard Method just sound so much more complicated then it really is. Just read the guide once or twice and your phone will be downgraded and rooted within a few minutes.
Good luck on your rooting. It's worth it
But no bricking,eh?I know I start being annoying,but please try to understand!I don't mind about the complexity,I will nail it,I just haven't tried anything with my Hero and Android yet and don't know what to pay attention to,what to avoid etc..
And another question.I have backed my data up using MyBackup.I will be able to recover it using a custom rom,right?
Also,do I need to be root to flash a radio?And is it necessary?I have radio 63.18.55.06FU_6.35.07.08.Thanks!
You need a recovery rom to flash a radio - you'll find that is very different from "rooting"
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But no bricking,eh?I know I start being annoying,but please try to understand!I don't mind about the complexity,I will nail it,I just haven't tried anything with my Hero and Android yet and don't know what to pay attention to,what to avoid etc..
And another question.I have backed my data up using MyBackup.I will be able to recover it using a custom rom,right?
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As a total newbie to this i managed it on my second attempt yesterday. Most important thing i found was to make sure you mount the card as a physical and not a logical.
It's pretty safe from bricking too, i allowed flashrec to download its own recovery image but from what i can tell it downloaded the wrong one so when i tried to boot into it the phone crashed. Not to worry, back into android and put a different image on it via usb and used flash rec to to install it and that fixed it.
Then later that evening i put a villain rom release on it and found everything on it was crashing, tried a different one and things were still crashing so in the end i put a leaked unmodified 2.1 build on there and that fixed it
Guys,I'm desperate!I've done the Goldcard procedure to the letter,but get stuck where I have to downgrade my phone.It connects allright with the Goldcard's SD plugged into the phone,the RUU starts,recognises the phone,and then it begins by rebooting it into bootloader.Then,my phone reboots into bootloader and the RUU says waiting for bootloader and an increasing number appears next to the "waiting for bootloader" prompt.It waits for a while,but then the RUU stops and says "Error 172:No usb connection" or something like that.What now?
Try BTDAGs guide on setting up drivers for x64 + x86,... then try again.
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Nah,nailed it!It was either a wrong driver or that I had left USB Debugging on.Anyway,thank you all for your support!Right now running VillainROM 10.2 and lovin' it!
Only thing is it gets a little hot when overclocked.Will trying a newer radio help?Everything else is a-okay!
memory card cid not showing
help!! when i try to create a goldcard the memory card CID wont show. after i have typed adb shell the hash symbol come up not the dollar symbol, wat am i doing wrong
cameronA57 said:
help!! when i try to create a goldcard the memory card CID wont show. after i have typed adb shell the hash symbol come up not the dollar symbol, wat am i doing wrong
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It's meant to be a # not a $ for adb shell.....
ok, sorry to be annoying, why is the cid not found then?
cameronA57 said:
ok, sorry to be annoying, why is the cid not found then?
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Edit: wait a sec - you did actually type the command at the hash line didn't you? After adb shell you type: "cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid" after the # symbol and then it comes up with your CID
Driver is probably not set up correctly (my guess). Try following my goldcard procedure instead (part of newbie guide) and see if that helps.
I havent used this method myself but I have heard good things about it.
Cheers,
Captainkrtek
Please forgive me if there are other threads.. But this is an old phone and al ow-activity device...
I bought a Verizon Mogul from ebay. Was working just fine until I decided I wanted to flash a ROM onto it. The ONLY tool I could fine from any tutorial was some titan unlock tool... All it seemed to do was bring me to the bootloader. Well, now I'm stuck in the bootloader and can't get out. I tried this exit bootloader program for Windows, but it doesn't think my phone is actually plugged in (not compatible with Windows 7?)
Other threads have suggested using some kind of .nbh file, but there is no region of the internet of which this mysitcal file exists. What do I do?
And finally... can someone provide the files needed that every tutorial says you need to flash a rom on this phone? They don't seem to exist on the internet either.
I realize this phone is old. But I like it because I can use it without a data plan
Thank you to anyone who helps.
There are some tutorials - I'll look to see what I have later. I haven't used this phone in awhile
Dr. Hax said:
I realize this phone is old. But I like it because I can use it without a data plan
Thank you to anyone who helps.
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Did you get it figured out there?