Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Flashing your HTC Hero with custom ROM in three simple steps

Caution: Please do this at your own risk. You can run into problems like: data loss and complete damage to the phone.

This is quick summary of how I flashed my HTC Hero phone with a custom ROM based on Eclair 2.1(India):
1. First and foremost, to flash your phone with a custom ROM you will need to root your phone. Please read here how-to.
*Make sure you take a back-up before you proceed with flashing your phone*
2. Steps on loading custom ROM on your HTC Hero are available here.
3. The custom ROM that I loaded was downloaded from here.
Another ROM based on Eclair 2.1 (CKDroid 1.5.2.1) is available here.

Happy Flashing!

./M