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[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mozaza:
Sim unlock code For HTC HERO

Hi

This is my first post and I hope it will be helpful to anyone interested in unlocking their HTC Hero on the Orange UK network.

Goto:

HTC Hero - ROM upgrade for HTC Hero (Orange)

and download the ROM:

ROM Version:2.73.61.66 for Orange. Then you can miss out all the the MODACO rubbish, because this ROM allows you to use the code without hindrance (TESTED), Install it onto your phone, then goto:

HTC Hero Unlock Code | Unlocking.com

and purchase a SIM UNLOCK CODE (£11.99 at the moment, 50%OFF) and follow instructions to unlock your phone.

The main reason I have posted this is that "Unlocking.com" will issue you with the unlock code within 5 minutes they say between 6-12 minutes.

IT WORKS and they're one of the cheapest around. I have used them and they are really FAST and the code WORKS...

Thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pearsonjohnboy:
i can comfirm i have done this and it worked for me on uk orange network.

Correct. The 2.73.61.66 update now allows all unlock codes to work as designed.

i did try and put a link to rom here but because i am a new user i am not permitted to post outside links SORRY

this is so easy also dont forget you need htc sync installed on your pc you can download it from htc too.

I think this will make a good sticky but also put in title uk orange
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bad4ss:
Anyone got a free way to unlock the phone for any sim yet? Something like a code generator or software update?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clidbury:
Didn't work for me

I went onto unlocking.com, and paid the £12 or however much it was.

They emailed me back in about 2 days and advised me they couldn't get a code, so they went to my network (Orange UK) and came back saying they were unable to get a code.

Went to my local unlocking place and they said there isn't a way to unlock Android phones as of yet (not without being all technical and downloading all these thingymajiggs to hack your phone and whatnot).

So I'm not too sure how I would go about getting a code to unlock my phone.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cauli:
You could try following this suggestion on modaco.

The only caveat is that /some/ orange firmwares are buggy & won't accept any unlock code, however if you've rooted your phone & are running a custom rom such as MCR 3.2, you shouldn't have any problems.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kopite61:
Hi all new to this forum.

But i've had my htc hero for a month now , and being trying to get it unlocked ever since.

Finally today i found out that if you have the latest ROM Version 2.73.61.66

then your phone can be unlocked, apparently htc and orange put some bug in the orange htc hero's that did'nt allow unlocking , but with the new rom version this now allows unlock.

This is for orange , don't no about other networks.

Also you must have been using the phone on orange for at least 3 months .

Which means i have to wait another 2 months ,DOH, but at least ther is light at the end of the tunnel. Hope this helps.

kopite61 .
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malayalapenkutti:
Sorry Free Unlock is not possible to get for the latest Phones,So You need to pay for this Phone to remove Network Lock,you can get the Unlock code from here Theunlockarena.com also and Unlock it....
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maheshjagadeesan:
A quicker way - if you don't want to wait - would be to go to a website like www dot mobifreedom dot net (they charge £12.50) and get it unlocked. I got mine unlocked after T-Mobile refused to do it for me. I swore to never get back on TMobile again
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nicholasbithell:
Is it possible to add extra Ram to the Dream by way of soldering a new Chip in?:confused:
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] supremeteam256:
Anything is possible, but no one has made the attempt yet.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jad011:
tricky buisness but its possible
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brios86:
in school we are soldering electronic components and i was wondering bout this also, but upgrade to what?? what is available out there for our phones
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zane McFate:
This is a very interesting topic for future development; however, I do not think the phone manufacturers are likely to oblige requests from the more hardcore users for power and memory upgrades. As all developers currently design for an exact type of device, allowing for those types of changes may diversify the market in a negative way.

The users have circumvented the 80mb system storage limit with "APPS2SD" and similar functionality, which I think is wonderful, but I await the person with the inclination to upgrade other types of hardware in a more "permanent" manner. I personally would love to have a faster machine, just so I'm not dealing with lag in heavier applications.

There is always the venue of creating a swap file, although I'm not certain what the performance cut is over a potential physical RAM upgrade. Would be worth researching.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sync3:
Considerations..

When swapping chips..lots of things have to be taken into consideration..voltages of new ram..power consumption...also physical space limitations...Ill def follow this..
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fleebailey33:
I think there even used to be companies a while ago that did this, for specific phones like the treo 650. What would you need the RAM upgrade for? Apps2SD is great..
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nephron:
Rosie.... DUH! :D
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeoBlade:
RAM is faster than MicroSD, however I haven't benchmarked the speed of the internal memory myself. Apps2SD is just used as extra storage not memory... Unlike what compcache/linux swap would actually do.

There has been a few threads already about people thinking about adding extra RAM into their G1, however you would have to find a suitable supplier of said RAM chips (same specifications bar size) and then you could attempt it.

I'm stuck though on an 18 month contract and can quite happily see me upgrading the G1 for a SnapDragon CPU model.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] somethingdope:
okays so i wanted to copy out the bootscreen image and edit it, somehow i selected the wrong option when using file explorer (probably to sort the files in some order or something), and now when i open file explorer, i get the spinning multi-coloured wheel as though its loading something. left it to be for about 15 minutes and its still like that. how can i get it to display the default folder that it originally shows when you first start the device. i already tried a soft reset but it doesn't appear to have worked :(

any help ?
[Sable] keyx:
i am on the bed and almost sleep when i wad planning route for tomorrow i notice it got me approximate location without gps:D

seems only work with wifi though...
[Sable] jpmatrix972:
they ve added IP geolocalisation to GoogleMaps

it shuld be because of that :confused:
[Sable] keyx:
not sure about that but today I was in a place without wifi network and once I turn on wifi after awhile it is able to get approximate location.

I will try to do more testing later
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ImTheOne:
Ok, I recently got a Black G1 from a friend and he said it was rooted and everything, but the multi touch and the auto-rotate dont work, and neither does the autorotate sideways keyboard. He told me it had all of that stuff, but I am trying to figure out if I have not done something right or what. Heres the info:

Model- T-Mobile G1

Firmware Version - 1.5

Baseband Version: 62.505.20.17h_2.22.19.26I

Kernel version - 2.6.27-00392-g8312bafjesusfreke@spork #2

Build Number - CRB43

I want to just format and reload if possible, because it seems to be running very slow to some of the ones that I have seen. Any help or information is greatly appreciated.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kusotare:
You have a custom JF rom and the newest radio. So yes, you're rooted. However, root doesnt guarantee autorotate and multitouch. Those are things that are *possible* but are rom dependent. Check out the dev section, find a rom that suits your needs and flash it.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] jerpelea:
ROM (increased speed)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9UPDDPAS

http://www.sendspace.com/file/k7jio6

http://hotfile.com/dl/9617209/5661c27/RUU.rar.html

KITCHEN

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AI6AMI9X

http://www.sendspace.com/file/hai6i9

http://hotfile.com/dl/9619058/1ad4d93/Polaris_Kitchen_WM6.5_23016.rar.html

I DON'T HAVE AN POLARIS SO PLEASE DO NOT COMPLAIN

THIS BUILD IS DONE USING ONLY KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT TEST

SO THERE CAN BE BUGS

THIS IS AN BASE FOR OTHER COOKS

big thanks to bepe,duttythroy and all other that made this possible for their work in this comunity

and itje for all his contributions

Da_G for wm6.5 porting and bug solving
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] jerpelea:
BUGS && Info

OEMDrivers sHTC POLARIS 4.13.405.0

ALL OEM HTC Mega 1.01.0.0

SYS 23016 patched

Pagepool 0 (automatic)

HY SPEED ROM

Free Ram 21.33 Mb

Free Storage 116.7 Mb

BUGS

1.To add wifi to commanager

edit PACKAGE_MEGA_CommManager\*.rgu in notepad

replace @="AUTD" with @="WLAN"

2.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] briggs81:
wooo! this should be interesting
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] emrause:
Please make a 4shared mirror :eek:
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] Olioaglio:
With kitchen? Very interesting :cool:

Olioaglio
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] ZILLKA:
Nice LOOK!
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] micuzzo77:
ehm...where is the link for the download???? it looks very interesting
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] emrause:
Please Please Please Mirror... Megaupload is filtered in my country!!! :(:(
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] rost2006:
In downloading, thx for your work
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] SaBo:
Only 21 MB free RAM?

Nice looking but useless

Sascha
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] jerpelea:
created an rom with more free ram
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] rost2006:
So, lets go

There are no WiFi button in Com Manager

Back Light adjust dont work
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] ZILLKA:
Will test and try to cook. :)
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] serouja:
Rapidshare link

http://rapidshare.com/files/263178729/RUU.rar
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] emrause:
many thanks... :)
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] naxos:
Its beatiful and nice but its very slow
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] emrause:
First boot with 76% and after comm wizard 83% but this ROM is fast!!! very smooth!

Thanks Jerpelea!

I'll test and report later... as for the first 15min of use it's very smooth!
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] pereirald:
Pros and Cons

Fast. Nice looking.

1.No wifi in comm manager.

2.Camera maximum resolution 2mpx and no autofocus.

3.Touch keeps failling and asking to be opened. Hard to select items (you can flow easily in menus but not choose a item or message). Biotouch error in Outlook. Closing application using the X is very difficult.

4.Already had 2 "out of memory warnings" (one trying to open comm manager!).

5.Quickgps error ("location setting must be on so that the latest stellite data can be used to speed ups GPS positioning"). Never seen that before.

6.Had to use contacts to make a cll. Dialpad is not working

I not a very good cook (a couple of tries) but I cannot see the packages you mentioned. I think theres's a IRDA package (and we don't have IRDA on Polaris). yes I know I can remove it if I'm cooking. Just saying that this is a waste of space.

Nice work. I think (don't have benchmark) is the fastest yet.

Just found the oem packages. For some reason it didnt extract from the rar at first time.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] naxos:
i cant conect to wifi !!! :(
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] rost2006:
For Back Light - pcarvalho's fix work fine :)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=4195045&postcount=2156

WiFi is able to ad in Comm Manager with Adv Configuration Tools
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] serouja:
you'r welcome, and this one for the Kitchen:)

http://rapidshare.com/files/263218968/Polaris_Kitchen_WM6.5_23016.rar
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] emrause:
i love you... :D
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] naxos:
i cant conect to any wifi network ? can you ?:)
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] bally3:
Nice nice work my friend :)

I think its really impressive when a rom cook who doesnt own the device creates one, but I think its mind-blowingly fantastic when they unselfishly post the kitchen they used as well.

Thank you very much Jerpelea, thats great work, I just tested the mega packages last night and even though I've never been a fan of Manila 2D, I warmed to the Hero styling of the mega one.

I'll flash your rom and have a play with the Kitchen, I was reading up on how to add the mega packages to Rukako's kitchen when I saw this posted.

I might still attempt a 6.1 version just to see if I can do it - but dont hold our breath!
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] oomek:
LOW RAM

Any advices what to do with that ridiculously low amount of free ram ?

This Rom definitely needs recooking.

What modules are not necessary or ram hungry ? Any1 knows ?
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] bally3:
If you stick all the mega packages into chavonbravo's naked rom you end up with about 40Mb free of ram. The rom itself appears to be the modified build that has the extra memory (storage reads 126Mb).

I originally thought it was manilla 2d, but switching that off in today and rebooting only shows 24.82Mb - 4-5mb gain.

I'll try switching off and replacing some packages, I suspect some of this is to do with the notification packages and stuff, resident in memory.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] ZILLKA:
WiFi works. But on my O2 i have only 15 mb of ram - UGH!
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] bally3:
I dont seem to be having much luck with the kitchen, I've only used m-amines bepe-based one and rukako's ervius visual kitchen before and this one looks like theres a bit of manual editing involved.

Anyone know how to switch off packages in here? theres no options in the build so I assume you remove the packages you dont want manually and have to edit some files?
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] _-Belial-_:
Edit the registry :

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\GWE\Touch\Filter]

"MinimumTapTime"=dword:00000000
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] rost2006:
With help of http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=541750

I had to delete manila packages and adds an compile the working ROM, but with the same memories:(

Other cleaning was not so success, I had received boot launch error, but I had understood that for memory notification enhancement is critical.

I am fully noob in cooking - I just want to receive clean ROM to translate it for Russian, can any help me with advice what i have to delete?
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] bsyx:
Camera

Camera not working and when I go to the camera it disables all sound.. any ideas?
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] rost2006:
What radio do You use?
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] pereirald:
It worked. Thanks

But biotouch error is still there. Disable touchflo in adv. config?
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] bally3:
According to the Kitchen theres a Nike Camera in use - Jerpelea is a Nike owner so that may be the reason it doesnt work?

I didnt test camera I have to admit.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] pereirald:
It works for me with radio 1.59, but you only get 2mpx and no autofocus.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] bsyx:
My radio version is R 1.58.25.14.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] bally3:
Camera shouldnt be a big issue, you should be able to download a cab file for one of our cameras and overwrite that. theres no radio included so it should be ok.

Anyone asks me where to find the file, I'll throw a banana at them.. ..ssseeaarrrcchh......ssseeaarrrcchh.... ;)
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] _-Belial-_:
I've cooked with this wonderfull Kitchen a ROM with these modifications:

Changing Western EzInput (based on Western Pack (EzInput 2.1 HTC MEGA) from JoOoSs)

Changing windows TaskManager (allow processes, services, registry management)

Adding a modified Advanced EzInput script to select the keyboard and language

Adding MortScript v4.2 (for the script above)

Adding Total Commander V2.51

Adding HTC Camera V6.29.19171321.01

Modifying CommManger to activate Wifi

Modifying registry to not have any MinimumTapTime

Deleting Nike Camera

Deleting S2U2-1_05-WM5_LITE

Deleting Skype_3.0b

Deleting Slick_0.50

Deleting SmartLock 1_7E

Deleting Softreset

Deleting Synchrotime

All the credits goes to jerpelea for releasing the Kitchen, to the developpers who have created the applications in the kitchen and to JoOoSs for the EzInput cab.

Here is the link : WM6.5_23016_HTC_MEGA_BelialMod_V1
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] rost2006:
and whate is about free memoty in Your version?
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] _-Belial-_:
Same Thing.

The memory usage is caused by the intensive cache use. But thanks to that the ROM is really fast.

I have 80% of Memory Usage ... And after few days of utilization I didn't have any memory problem.

I prefer having 20% of memory left and everything loaded in memory than 50% free and nothing loaded.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] naxos:
thanks i will try can i add new town in weather tab in your version ?

thanks again my friend
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] nicandris:
Belial why don;t you post a thread in Polaris Upgrading with your ROM. it will refresh a bit thinks with polaris. i'll be glad to test it, but we need a thread to post commends, thoughts and solutions ;)
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] HRQ.SLV:
I agree!

Welcome master cooker Belial!
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] bally3:
I am getting a crc file is broken error. .redownloading.. has anyone else this issue?

And how much ram are you left with after all those programs are removed?

thanks
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] nicandris:
yep same thing here. downloaded 3 times with/without accelerator. nbh file is broken
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] goliano:
_-Belial-_WM6.5_23016_HTC_MEGA_BelialMod_V1

it too by me,it was corputed , so did you can making another abloud,thanx
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] c3ro:
i had the same crc fealure, but i could repair the file with an advanced tool. im uploading the rom now

_-Belial-_WM6.5_23016_HTC_MEGA_BelialMod_V1

edit**

i took the link down, cuz it cant be flashed.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] bally3:
Thanks c3rodid it flash ok on yours?
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] _-Belial-_:
I don't have access to my laptop with the kitchen right now, I'll check that tomorrow. Sorry for the CRC error.

I may post a new ROM tomorrow. It seems that the kitchen was based on another smartphone and there are some useles apps/drivers (irda for instance). I will try to do a first cleaning.

Anyway, this is quite new for me. I hope I will be able to cook a good ROM.

In fact, thanks again to jerpelea for having shared the kitchen.

Please give any suggestions you may have for tweaks/configurations/interesting apps or comment on any bugs you may find.

Obviously, because of the CRC error nobody will be able to do so tonight :D
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] pereirald:
The device itself appears as "Touch Dual" in the phone information. waiting for your rom...
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] bally3:
It appears that a signifficant chunk is the keyboard as its multi-lingual.

If you can either chop down the eight meg install cab and remove languages or just leave it out it may help with memory issues.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] bally3:
The other one is the Youtube player...takes a large chunk of memory... try using an older version.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] bally3:
I can confirm I have installed all the MEGA cabs, apart from Album, YouTube and EzIput keyboard on Chavonbravo's naked rom and I still have 63Mb on boot.

replace album with an older album version. this one doesnt work anyway.

Add a different less memory hungry youtube player.

Choose a less memory intense soft keyboard if you dont like te stock one.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] _-Belial-_:
I have some issues for the moment.

In fact I'm using a more complete SYS (with office, IE7, ...) and have hacked the XIP to gain 16M of memory.

The device is starting and running but somtimes it freezes or does a soft reset.

I want to correct this problem before releasing the new ROM.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] _-Belial-_:
I think i've found (with the NK Memory hack I have to use 2 files from an old release of OEMDrivers).

I flash my device, test it, and if it's working I'll upload the ROM tonight or tomorrow.
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] kalti:
sitting here, hitting the F5 button and waiting for it ... ;)

just downloaded win7 from msdn - so i have something to play around tonight ;)
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] Alex-V:
I believe that the memory hack with mix of drivers are thing...that the device freezes and i believe that the system is slower with the hack....

Can you check this...?
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] pcarvalho:
just a little heads up...if the rom has the proxy resource package in it, it is normal to have low memory as that package loads resources into memory to speed things up...so for you all memory hungry people just dont cook what in and all will be fine :)

cheers
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] _-Belial-_:
Because I've started with the Kitchen from jerpelea I didn't have a full understanding of what I was doing.That's why I decided to start from the beginning.

Thanks to all the wonderful genius who have worked on Kitchen, there are incredible tools which make life easier. In fact, even me are able to cook ... which means that anybody can ...

What I've done for the moment:

I started with [16/01/2009] HTC Polaris Official Original new ROM - HKCSL WWE 3.19.831.3 which I think (in fact hope :D) is the latest Native Kernel Available for the Cruise.

So the Native XIP build is : 5.2.19981.1.2.9

Then I ported the XIP and SYS to Polaris from 23022 XIP/SYS CE OS 5.2.4069 Lang 0409 DPI 192 RESH 480 RESV 640. So the SYS and "not native" XIP build is 5.2.23022.5.3.0.

Because we don't have a true 6.5 Kernel we don't have enough Virtual Memory space avilable to leave the OS like this. I had to change from modules to file Adobe and Browsing SYS packages and delete the Windows Live and Widgets SYS packages (lazy to transform the modules ... should I do it ?). This will impact the quantity of memory available for a running process (which is different of the total memory availbale ... Check the link above for more details on memory). With HTC MEGA cooked, my goal is having at least 20M available for the running process (which, I repeat, is NOT the total memory available).

The ROM is booting on my Polaris. Of course because I didn't cook any HTC MEGA package for the moment, it's not really functionnal. But I can at least receive a call with my Polaris ... which wasn't the case all the day :D

I have extracted the 2 OEMDriver files from 1.xx branches (taken in fact from the official 1.25.405.1 HTC WWE ROM).

What I will do tomorrow:

Hack the Native Kernel to gain 16M (which make the ROM not compatible with the 3D Drivers) and insert the 2 OEMDrivers.

Cook the HTC MEGA components as they are in the jerpelea Kitchen ... I hope this should be the easier part.

I'm sorry to keep the suspens like that but I really would like to cook a good ROM. I prefer take my time and provide something useful than just provide a ROM quicly done.

At least to respect the insane work done by all who has freely shared their knowledge ... and just for us to have the useles (and so, absolutely needed) lastest version of Window Mobile ;)

I'll give more information as it come tommorrow.