I HAVE THE T-MOBLE G1 AND MY BACK UP FAILED AS WELL, IS IT STILL UNSAFE FOR ME TO USE THE HIDDEN BUTTON BECAUSE I DONT HAVE A HERO??, AND IF NOT IS IT BECAUSE I DONT HAVE ENOUGH SPACE?? SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!

I managed to get my Hero into recovery mode using a different recovery image. I used the instant root from above, and i downloaded the zip from from http://android.modaco.com/cont.....rmanently/ and extracted the “cm-her-recovery.img”.

Then i went into recovery flasher and in the text box entered “/sdcard/cm-her-recovery.img” and clicked “Flash custom image”. When completed my handset went straight into recovery mode and i am now using the latest Modaco 2.2 hero ROM!

Thanks for all your help, Big-O!

Thanks for the help so far, i have done the instant root and tried flashing the recovery image again using recoveryflasher but still just freezes at the G2 splash screen. I think maybe i need to run the commands in terminal manually or use fastboot to boot into the recovery image?

links to easy guides for either of these things would be greatly received!

my gtalk is jamescadman@gmail.com

Thanks again!

The exclamation point with the triangle and a graphic of the phone, is the original stock version of the recovery screen, if when u see it, you press “Alt and L” you will get the options. I’d recommend using this recovery screen your describing to do a wipe “Alt + W” (also known as a factory reset) when you get to the exclamation point with the triangle, press “Alt and L” to go into the options section of that recovery screen, and then press “Alt + W” to do the wipe. Then restart your phone and hopefully it’s not freezing on the Rogers screen anymore. Also, Watch this video and read the details in this step by step instructions for the one Click Root: http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/.....one-click/

So just to be clear, you can still turn ur phone on and use it, your trouble is when u go into the recovery screen (that’s the screen u get when u turn on ur phone while holding power and home) that’s where u get stuck? I’m really surprised u didn’t see the CM Recovery image (the one with all the options) Well If this is the case its not that bad. Let’s get u root access first this time using an app called “Instant Root”, and then run “Recovery Flasher” again right after to get the recovery image flashed, I’m betting with Root Access already acquired your phone has no choice but to accept the recovery image, (this is not the case most of the time as “Recovery Flasher” worked great for me, but some phones are stubborn, lol) ok so download and install “Instant Root” all u do is install it, as installing it is what initiates it, its that simple. Then use Recovery Flasher to get the recovery image. Try this and let me know if this resolved ur issue. Also having root access first means as a last resort u can download terminal emulator from the market and try manually flashing the recovery image using code (worst comes to worst)….. if u want post ur Gtalk, and I’ll get back to you. Here’s the link:

http://neilandtheresa.co.uk/Android/

~Omar