Has anyone rooted their HTC Android phone?

[corvetteguy78]

A friend of mine had an HTC Hero and got a virus on it. It wouldn't do anything at all. I went on HTC's site and reinstalled the software- it returned his phone to original settings like the day he bought it. Would this same procedure work if I somehow messed up the root?

Possibly you really need 2.2 though

 

[klyph]

Flashing the factory ROM will bring it back to how it was when you bought it.
Rooting it just gives you the ability to flash a different ROM.

 

[Nykole0408]

Possibly you really need 2.2 though

Yeah- my carrier is stuck on 2.1 and says they don't have a timeframe for when 2.2 will be available.

 

[Nykole0408]

Well, tried the root today. All seems to work ok except I can't connect to the Android Market or Google Talk. Tried installing Froyo and when I go to reboot my screen just stays white with the HTC on it. I had to run recovery and now I'm stuck back at can't get on the Android Market...

 

[klyph]

Try clearing the data from the google apps and market in settings>apps>manage apps
Then connect to a solid wifi and try again.

 

[klyph]

Also where did you get the Froyo ROM?

 

[corvetteguy78]

Are you sure you don't have 2.2 available through Over The Air(OTA) programming? Should check under settings, and then about phone and should be an option to check for system updates, allot of people on that forum indicated they have Froyo(2.2) through OTA

and when you get 2.2 up and running you'll want to download "App Swap" by jrummy16 on the Market for 99 cents. this will allow you to place any app on your SD card

 

[Nykole0408]

Try clearing the data from the google apps and market in settings>apps>manage apps
Then connect to a solid wifi and try again.

Thanks, but no luck.

I'm off to my service provider. Hopefully they will install a factory system back on it.

 

[klyph]

Is this the same ROM you had before you rooted it, or have you installed a new ROM?

 

[Nykole0408]

Is this the same ROM you had before you rooted it, or have you installed a new ROM?

Same ROM, after recovery. Think I might have screwed myself when I deleted Tweet, stocks, and facebook. Blah.

 

[klyph]

Oh, well then you should flash an updated ROM. If the one you got doesn't work, try a different one.

 

[K2e2vin]

Here's a stock-based ROM that addresses the internal memory issue: [ROM] StarBurst Froyo HTC 2.29.405 [24 Jan] Stable Data2SD | Unlimited memory | Stock - xda-developers

 

[Nykole0408]

Here's a stock-based ROM that addresses the internal memory issue: [ROM] StarBurst Froyo HTC 2.29.405 [24 Jan] Stable Data2SD | Unlimited memory | Stock - xda-developers

Thanks. I will try that one and see if it will fix my problem.