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How To: Root Your Sprint Hero in One Click! (Updated 01.10.10!)

November 18, 2009 in Android How To's, Featured, How To's, HTC Sprint Hero How To's

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PLEASE TRY OUR NEW, EASIER PROCEDURE AND SEE IF IT WORKS FOR YOU, IF NOT THEN COME BACK TO THIS PROCEDURE AND CONTINUE.

HOW TO ROOT THE HTC HERO (ANDROOT METHOD)

Here is the new Flashrec method to root your Sprint Hero in one click and flash a custom recovery image so you can start loading new ROMs!

I. Before Your Begin

1. THIS PROCEDURE IS FOR THE SPRINT HERO ONLY! IF YOU HAVE THE GSM HERO, PLEASE GOTO THIS PROCEDURE INSTEAD!

2. After you finish this procedure and have a custom recovery image, you must then goto the next procedure and load a custom ROM to get root access for applications etc. If you JUST want Root access and have no intention of Flashing ROMs then use this procedure instead.

II. Flash the Custom Recovery Image

1. On your phone, goto Settings, Applications, and make sure Unknown source is checked ON.

2. On your phone, goto Settings, SD card and phone storage, and click Unmount SD card.

3. Then click Format SD card (it should automatically remount after this).

4. Plug the phone into the compuer via USB, then pull down the notification bar and click on the SD card notification. Then click mount.

5. Download this APK and recovery image and save it to your computer:

FlashRec.apk (Updated 01/10/2010)
 Amon Ra’s Sprint Hero Recovery Image (Updated 01.10.10)

6. UPDATE: Do NOT follow the video instructions from this point on (use them as a visual aid only!) We have recplaced the Cyanogen Recovery Image with the Amon Ra one so when it says anything about the Cyanogen Recovery Image, just ignore that and put the Amon Ra one in it’s place. This is VERY IMPORTANT when typing into the FlashRec program. You will NOT be typing what is written in the video, type what is written here in this procedure instead!

7. Save both the Recovery-RA-HEROC-v1.5.2.img and the FlashRec.apk to your computer, then copy them both to your SD card (do NOT put them inside any folders on the SD card, just put them on the SD card itself).

8. Unplug the phone from the computer once they are downloaded to the SD card.

8. Goto the Market and download Linda File Manager or any file manager program if you do not already have one.

9. Open the file manager and goto SDCard and then find the FlashRec apk file and click it. If asked tell it to use Package Installer to open it. It should automatically install the apk.

10. Open the FlashRec program and click on Backup Recovery Image and wait for it to finish.

11. Once done, click on the empty text box in the FlashRec program and type (again remember we have replaced the recovery image from the one in the video so type what is written here, NOT what is written in the video!):

/sdcard/recovery-RA-heroc-v1.5.2.img

Then click on the Flash Custom RecoveryImage button and wait for it to finish.

12. Turn off the phone and turn it on into Recovery mode by holding down Home and Power to turn it on (keep holding until the recovery screen comes up has a bunch of text on a black background). So long as that screen comes up, you have done it correctly and can now go on to the How to Load a ROM video for your appropriate device!

13. To get Root access you MUST go to the next video mentioned below and load a custom ROM.

How To Load a Custom ROM On Your Hero

!UPDATE 01.10.10: If this method still does not work go to our old method  for a longer but more effective method.
How To Root the Sprint Hero

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110 responses to How To: Root Your Sprint Hero in One Click! (Updated 01.10.10!)

  1. Casey said on April 22, 2010

    I have a HTC HERO thru Ntelos (CDMA). The methods laid out here (to root the phone) and other places don’t seem to work for me. Is my phone’s programing different than sprint? My only goal is to be able to wifi tether my htc hero to the iPad coming Next week. I would be very happy and willing to paypal someone $50.00 if they can hold my hand and make this happen.

    Thanks,

    Casey

  2. Brad said on April 22, 2010

    The Unlockr,

    A couple of folks have asked if this works (or how to) unlock the cellular south htc hero……I haven’t seen any responses. Do you know, or can you tell us where to find this info?? thanks!

  3. Connor said on April 24, 2010

    Yo dawgs, Im having the same issue as Terry(#comment-11101) and that FlashRec said “flash successful” but when booting into recovery mode (either from HBOOT or home-power) it just hangs in the HTC boot screen forever. Im assuming that somehow, the flash wasnt successful, or it was the wrong recovery or something like that. I dont know exactly what one it was, but i tried all 3 versions of FlashRec, and whatever versions of the recovery I could find. Since it doesnt work, i was just thinking I should proceed to the Asroot2 method, because honestly I have no idea what’s going on there. Thanks for any help

  4. Hennesy1980 said on April 25, 2010

    I would like to thank tha staff on this forum for a easy tut. on this phone…. i’m rooting my aunt’s htc hero for her bcuz i wanted her to enjoy tha freedom on her phone like i have with my #iPhone….. THANKS AGAIN…. follow me on twitter… @MrFuckThaFEDS

  5. Kevin said on April 25, 2010

    I tried every method I could find on the internet and all i did was break my phone, but now on phone number 3 this method worked the first time!!! Great work and thanks for the easy to understand directions..

  6. Ono said on May 13, 2010

    Unlockr,

    greeting from indonesia. I have an unlocked sprint hero with local carrier. don’t know whether my phone rooted or not. but if i want to root and install custom rom, will with re-locked to sprint? and I must unlocked again it to use with my carrier?

    regards
    Ono

  7. Marquel said on May 14, 2010

    I just got my sprint hero phone today. I tried rooting it and did all the steps. It said flash successful but when I went to put it in recovery mode it never worked. What should I do so this wont happen again?

  8. DCipher0101 said on May 25, 2010

    I have the Sprint HTC Hero. I was able to flash the customer recovery image successfully and accessed the Android System Recovery screen. From here I will load a custom ROM.
    Do you have any suggesstion on ROMS?
    or
    a link I can read about which ROMS have which features?

    Thanks in Advance

    And the walkthrough to for the custom flash recovery was very easy to follow & had good instructions.
    Good job!!!!

  9. Aztec said on May 29, 2010

    Does this work on the stock sprint htc hero firmware 2.1? i just want my phone to be rooted.

  10. roger said on July 2, 2010

    I THINK I FOUND IT THE MOBILE NETWORK TYPE IS CDMA-EVDO IF THATS NOT THE RIGHT LOCATION WERE WOULD I FIND OUT AND THANKS FOR THE HELP GUYS

  11. curtis said on July 9, 2010

    hello i d/l the flashrec-1.1.3-20091107-2.zip and i did not see the flashrec file? any ideas or help? my first time so i apologize.

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      David Cogen said on July 9, 2010

      Curtis,

      Your computer made it a .zip file automatically. It is supposed to be a .apk Just take the .zip at the end and change it to .apk and then you should be fine.

      • curtis said on July 9, 2010

        awesome! thanks for the insight. now i am running HTC_Sprint_Hero_MR_2.27.651.6 which i believe has the patch so we cant root will i need to load an earlier version that doesnt have the patch or am i fine to root? thanks again.

        • js15john said on September 1, 2010

          did you ever get this to work? I’m on this version as well and am wondering if it’s possible to root this version?
          JA

      • Pauly said on December 3, 2010

        alright…cant handle it anymore lol is anyone willing to give phone support for my Sprint HTC Hero.. ?
        Um in Vegas, so day or night lol anytime, id like to get this complete! Basically interested in making my HTC a HotSpot so my Ipad can access thru my phone and i can save $30 per month..
        Pauly
        702 528 3427

  12. coco said on July 11, 2010

    hey i did everything but i get stuck at Flash Custom RecoveryImage button its not lighted for me to peform this option its grayed out so it wont let do the image helpp!

  13. curtis said on July 13, 2010

    hello i did as the one step method said and when i go to backup recovery image i get “backup failed: could not run command?”… and the download recovery button is greyed out… i am using the two files suggested from your site. i was running RUU.6 but down graded to .5 could this be the issue?

    • Mik said on July 17, 2010

      same problem here HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLP!!!!!!!!!!

  14. Gerardo said on July 15, 2010

    I finished step 10 and typed the text in the box but there is no button that says flash custom recovery image. What do I do?

  15. roadkill said on July 18, 2010

    i have the same prob as curtis please help i already lost all the data on my sd card when i formatted it remounted and formatted my sd so i would like to finish

  16. XelaR said on July 28, 2010

    I did all the steps as mentioned above. I get as far as turning the phone on holding power and home, but no root screen pops up. I just get the black screen with hTC on it. What else should I try. Newby language please.

    Thanks

  17. Matthew said on July 29, 2010

    i followed the direction but when i hit back up image it says error cant run command? i need help

  18. joey said on September 16, 2010

    Hey so i did the downgrade steps but when i run the RUU it installs and such, then once its done, it says that i chould check the USB to make sure its plugged in, and my phone turns to the black HTC screen, its been stuck on this for 20 minutes

  19. brandon said on October 3, 2010

    evry time i click on the apk file link on the intruction ot takes me to some cinfusing website and i dont know which apk file to download from the site.

  20. Josh said on October 31, 2010

    I just did this and it comes to a white screen with the android skateboarding and says clear user data

    • Josh said on November 1, 2010

      i took out the battery and it turned on normally and it works but i do not think i rooted it

  21. Jwilliams said on January 13, 2011

    Cool got this to work now to load a rom, thanks

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