Ok so at this stage I had Amon’s RA-hero-v1.5.2 installed on my phone and I could boot into the System Recovery Mode. The first thing to do from the Recover Menu is to preform a nandroid backup.
To do this turn off the phone and boot it up while holding down the Home and Power buttons.
The [...]

I recently bought a HTC Hero on bill pay with meteor. I have to say I love my new phone, Android is a really nice user experience,  especially with HTC’s SenseUI enhancements.
I had read a lot about people rooting their Android phones and installing custom ROMs. I had also read that there was a leaked Android 2.1 [...]