[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
for those of us who do have a working rom like the last post above mine, is there any progress in any other hardware threads about a few items here.... I ordered them imho from highest priority to lowest:

- data connection stability - after a while I have to reboot the phone to get data connectivity back again

- wifi connection stability (it seems to disconnect often and sometimes doesn't seem to try to reconnect automatically)

- market download capability (market's good other than not downloading anything LoL)

- location from data and wifi triangulation (network location option - doesn't seem to supply any location information to timezone/clock or apps)

- location from gps (probably isn't aware of hero's gps hardware)

- settings that don't popup correctly like the timezone chooser

- remaining sound issues (for example, wired headset doesn't appear to make sound if I remember correctly from a week ago when I tried it)

- stock keyboard in portrait mode

- ringtone/notifciation sound choices seem to mostly not work but I've read of some people having this work at least a bit

- data connectivity indicator

- wifi connectivity indicator is always dark like there is no signal

- alarms are really really quiet (but do work if you can hear them!) and have similar alarm sound chooser issues (many don't work)

- cool new gallery thumbnail display issues and possibly other issues (I haven't tried much since thumbs don't display unless you're touching your display in some specific way)

- speed (in the ways that we probably can improve it - like filesystem read/write access and sd access etc).

- camera (low priority, just asking, camera apps likely aren't aware of hero's camera hardware and there is no stock camera app included in the rom)

---------- Post added at 11:19 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:16 AM ----------

note:

I see that this rom http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1362062

in the cdma hero thread claims to have gps working!

---------- Post added at 11:34 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:19 AM ----------

hey guys - it pays to read other forums sometimes:

just found this in hero cdma forum - haven't tried it yet but it's definitely worth a try and very likely to work on our hardware also.

didn't post who wrote what, but credits or complaints should be directed to the original authors of these posts (search in the thread I posted above for these topics).

I added the descriptive headings myself:

KEYBOARD FIX:

For those that want to fix the keyboard, just download ics keyboard from market.

MARKET DOWNLOAD FIX:

For those that cannot download from market, use root explorer to go into "cache" and create a folder named "downloads", for those that want to increase scrolling speed etc., flash the TweakZ.zip found in the android general forum here at XDA. I would also recommend setCPU.

NOTIFICATION TONES WORKAROUND:

I found a workaround for the notification tones. I've been using Zedge from the market for a while and had some notification tones on my SD card from my previous ROM. I reinstalled Zedge, recovered my downloads, and set a notification tone. Tested and it works.

If you don't use an app like Zedge, you may try setting an MP3 or other audio file as your Notification tone. Not sure if it will work and haven't been able to test that yet. Might be worth a shot however.

---------- Post added at 12:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:34 AM ----------

so far the market download fix hasn't helped me, but I've only tried over wifi so far.

will try with data and see.

but the tweaks zip thing does appear, at least unscientifically to my eyes, to speed things up a bit. the file can be downloaded from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1353903&highlight=TweakZ.zip

I recommend flashing that on this rom and presumably on any gb rom as well. maybe froyo roms too, who knows.

if I can ever get the market to download anythign then the other fixes will be tested.