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Hot root or how to get a full-fledged Russified HTC Hero with Google applications from the "cropped"


Many stare at the phone on the Android OS.
And, among the available options, HTC Hero is for many a cherished dream.
Unfortunately, for some reason, Google does not like Ukrainian citizens and does not allow officially selling phones from the Android Market in Ukraine - even with its free version ...
And besides, there are many phones available in the gray market from other countries in which there is no Russian or also no market.
But, the beauty of the Android OS is in its openness ... So, under the cut, I will try to tell you how you can flash the phone with full-fledged firmware with full-fledged Android Market, Russification and the possibility of buying paid programs.
This manual is particularly relevant for the official Ukrainian HTC Hero, but is suitable for owners of any Hero who want to change the firmware of their phone or open access to additional functions of their phone.



The whole process of unlocking and flashing the phone can be divided into 2 main stages:
1. Firmware update Recovery- special menu for repairing and flashing phones, which will allow to flash third-party firmware (not from HTC)
2. Directly firmware third-party firmware.

1. Firmware Modified Recovery
You should start by checking the firmware version of your phone. It depends on how hard the process of “hacking” the firmware will be. After the firmware version 411.5, Hero closed some holes and it became much more difficult to unlock the phone. To check the version, go to Phone Settings - About phone and look at the firmware version:

Option number 1 (the easiest) Suitable for phones with old firmware.
Installing third-party recovery - It will allow you to install updates without a digital signature. So go:
You must have Internet connection on your phone, preferably Wi-Fi, since download will have about 5 megabytes.

Option number 2 (more difficult)
You are not lucky, and your firmware version is higher than 411.5 - you will have to go through the “humiliating” procedure of downgrade - lowering the firmware version to open “closed holes”. You will need the official older firmware HTC Hero

And then - look and do Option number 1
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Option number 3 (the most difficult)
If you have a non-Ukrainian (Chinese, Vietnamese, etc.) phone or option number 2 issued a Wrong CID, then you will only save the creation of GoldCard , which will allow to flash your phone with official firmware from any other regions.
For this you need:

Step 1. Find out the unique serial number of the card. To do this, install Terminal Emulator (http://r.androidfan.ru/terminal.apk) on the phone, launch it and type the following commands:
ls /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/
we get the answer like: device mmc1: XXXX (XXXX is a unique number)
after that we give the command:
cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:XXXX/cid
For example, my number was 1b534d303030303010b1de9d11008860
upd: How correctly prompted, we turn the code: for this we download the QMAT from here. Attention-demo version only works 10 minutes. Select Cryptoanalysis Tools then Crypto Toolbox. At the bottom of the form there is a text field. Enter your sid there, click Reverse String. two characters replace 00-for example 12345678910 will be 00345678910
Step 2. Go here revskills.de/pages/goldcard.html and enter your email and the number you received, send you a file (goldcard.img) to your email that you need to write to the beginning of the flash drive.
Step # 3 Through the card reader and the adapter, insert the card into the computer, format the USB flash drive into fat32
Copy the file to it from here: files.androidfan.ru/flash/hero/RUU_Hero_HTC_RUS_2.73.411.5.rom.zip , after renaming it to heroimg.zip
Step number 4. Run HxD Hex Editor. In it, in the top bar, select Extra> Open Disk. In the Physical disk column, select Removable Disk, remove the check mark from “Open as Readonly), and click OK.
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Go to Extra - Open Disk Image, and select goldcard.img, which we received in the mail (when opening, select "Sector Size" 512 (Hard disks / Floppy disks), and click OK.
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Then from the goldcard.img file we copy all the items with 00000000 - 00000170 and paste them into the Removable Disk (your hard disk) with the replacement. Then click on the save and vaul- Your GoldCard is ready!
And then - look and make Option # 2 , then - Option # 1
As a result of all these simple transformations, we get a cyclopentan perhydrofinance cell phone, ready for any adventure. THOSE. to any third-party firmware.
And now the second stage, which is much simpler than the first
2. Directly flashing the phone
There are a lot of firmware for HTC Hero, most of all you can find them here.
Here is a small selection with lelvisl comments .

To reflash any of them, you will need to download the firmware file, rename it to update.zip, and put it in the root of the sd card.
After that, go to the recovery of the phone (when you turn on, hold down the Home button)
- Make factory reset - wipe (delete the data of the old firmware)
- Apply update - flash the phone with a modified firmware

If you managed to do all of the above, I congratulate you on the successful hacking of your phone!

And finally, if you want to officially buy paid programs in the Android Market (as long as it is not available for the CIS countries), download and install the Market Enabler program.
It will allow you to replace the code of the cellular network by introducing you to the user of the mobile networks of the countries of the “first world” according to Google - those who allow the purchase of programs.
PS: In the preparation of the material used materials Forum AndroidFan , and especially users hobbit19 , tamerlan311 , lelvisl.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/79320/

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