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[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] graphreak:
I know this would work at least for email (haven't checked with SMS).

The quickest way to change font size is:

On your TF3D slider go to Mail view>

If you already have an email envelope on the screen, just Click to open it

(if not, Click any email account icon & open an email) you should be reading the email now>

Click Menu (bottom right of screen)>

At the bottom of the pop-up menu, click the 'down' arrow to get more features>

Click View> Click Text Size>

Adjust to whatever size is comfortable for your eyes/screen.

Choice is Largest, Larger, Medium, Smaller & Smallest.

I noticed that changing the size in one email account makes it change the font size

across all email accounts so one does not need to repeat the steps for each

individual email id on the phone.

HTH.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Genesis3:
That changes the text, but not the header/top level display. I'm trying to change the latter.... without success....
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] graphreak:
I haven't seen any way of achieving that for headers only- on my TP2, or for that matter,

any default email application on a phone yet, if I remember correctly.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] improwise:
I'm guessing I must be misunderstanding your question, as the answer "Settings => Screen => Text size" seem to obvious?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] eepyaich:
Not as obvious as you might have thought! I put it down to being tired, but I was searching for a "display" setting. "Screen" just didn't jump out at me!

I don't know about Genesis3, but this was exactly what I needed!

Thanks,

Ed
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phel21:
I've got my music organised in /sdcard/MP3/<artist>/<album>/<tune>, but the music-player gets confused sometimes wrt the cover images it displays.

Example: In one directory there's an album with 14 songs. None of the 14 MP3-files have images embedded, and the cover is in a file called AlbumArt.jpg. There are no other files in the directory. The player however manages to pick an albumart.jpg from a completely different artist/album. This particular example is a "Greatest Hits" album, and there are albums with the same name under other artists if that could be confusing the player. This particular combination of album and artist tags is unique though.

Is this a known bug?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] piflechien:
Yes, I also have bugs with cover arts, not showing the right one.

This bug was already there on the TouchFlow music player under Windows Mobile ...
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Breakthecycle2:
Is there a specific file I could push from one to the other? If that's the case, which one would I need?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaygajay:
it would be a file name lights.msmk9.so or lights.trout.so that i dont remember where tofind but if u tryin to use it for Hero dont try. Hero has a whole different LED infrastructure
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Breakthecycle2:
Its was already working on hero for my mytouch.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Breakthecycle2:
OK, question...I tried but it looks like Drizzy;s Championship Hero is missing the whole HW sub folder under lib. Is there anyway I could push the whole folder?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shafty023:
The MyTouch (aka HTC Magic) has the same LED structure & bluetooth chipset as the HTC Hero. That's why it works there and not on the G1 (aka HTC Dream)
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shafty023:
Yes you could push those from any other Hero build for the G1 phone. The G1 requires filename.msm7k.so (example: lights.msm7k.so) as it is using the MSM chipset. If you pull it from another Hero build meant for the HTC Dream then you don't need to worry about filenames, it will just work as is
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Breakthecycle2:
Im doing in mytouch, not my G1. They worked on JacHero's 1.2 and not on Championship version by Drizzy. Any suggestions on what to do?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Breakthecycle2:
Ok I pushed each file via adb and they still dont work on the newer build.

Here are the files from the new build (led's don't work)

copybit.trout.so

lights.goldfish.so

sensors.goldfish.so

sensors.sapphire.so

sensors.trout.so

sensors.hero.so

lights.trout.so

copybit.msm7k.so

lights.msm7k.so

In the build that worked:

snesors.trout.so

lights.trout.so

lights.msm7k.so

copybit.trout.so

copybit.msm7k.so

sensors.hero.so

Any suggestions?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Breakthecycle2:
Ok I did the obvious and used adb to pull lights.goldfish.so, sensors.goldfish.so and sensors.sapphire.so. Worked like a charm!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] soulonfirexx:
Vonn over at Android Community Forums just posted that they got an email from HTC Customer Care saying that there will be an update in the very near future.

Full post from Vonn:
[Hero, G2 Touch General] joemax:
Cool.

Lets hope the telco's have betas and are testing to allow for us branded Hero users to take advantage of this.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Stafflover:
Normally branded phones have their own software, at least my htc diamond did. The website didn't accept my serial code, instead I had to go to the vodafone site to download the official vodafone rom.

Flashing it to a manufacturer rom (for example normal htc-rom) would screw up my warranty through vodafone (but I heard you would get warranty through htc)

So don't just flash, read before you do that :D
[Hero, G2 Touch General] soulonfirexx:
That's good advice. Be warned, people!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] tatwamasi:
Assuming you still had access, you could just flash it back, no?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] christonge:
:D Excellent news
[Hero, G2 Touch General] robboy:
Makes a change for HTC normally they wait for the guys on this forum to release updates for them. They must be keen to make sure they get the android market share.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Sawkes:
Brilliant!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] J-Zeus:
Excellent!!!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] kiz:
Great!

Can someone enlighten me as to how these updates (especially the "major" update in September) work? Do we completely reflash the entire rom? Will this erase our settings, personal data such as smses and downloaded apps? And will it bring the phone back to being unrooted?

Thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch General] The Doctor:
It will almost certainly wipe your phone but thanks to the fact that so much is stored on Google's servers and the SD card, I didn't find wiping my Hero was actually too bad. Certainly I was up and running again with far less hassle than my Touch Pro...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] zippyioa:
It will be interesting to see what improvements HTC can put together and what user issues they resolve with it.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Golgo:
Well, I certainly hope this is the case but the guy I spoke with today at HTC customer service in Sweden gave me quite the opposite impression. He told me no major fw-updates were planned, only minor fixes but no dates were set.

Hopefully, he's not up to speed :p
[Hero, G2 Touch General] suisen:
he's not, my email from HTC came this evening saying 10 days first, September second, i asked because i hope firmware update will take care of the led issue
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Aridon:
Good just in time for the US release. Can't wait to hear what they manage to do.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] robboy:
So that's why they are doing a firmware update for the US market. Couldn't understand why they were so keen yo get an update out.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] spacecat:
re the leds that will be interesting as my hero has been sent back to HTC for this very reason. When i spoke to customer support they said there was no record of the led issue being reported
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Huey85:
Not having LED issues here so I hope the update addresses the UI lag with some performance enhancements.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] dperren:
To be honest, I'm hopeful but not optimistic. Heard all the 'new release in ten days' bollocks from HTC when I had the absolute disaster that was my Kaiser, and never got anything from them then. I hope they've changed...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ghoonk:
Not necessarily. If you're moving from one major build to another, e.g. T-Mobile US to T-Mobile UK ROM, or T-Mobile to Rogers ROM, then yes, you will probably need to wipe. My experience with the 'official' ROMs is that they never require a wipe and are designed to be so.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] npw:
So what do we reckon about Hero's "branded" to orange? I no with other previous handsets that Orange normally release their own updates after the manufacturers, and the manufacturer ROMs aren't permitted to be installed.

However the Orange HERO isn't really branded, other than bookmarks.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Funkyfin2000:
Yeah I have Hero on Orange, and it isn't really branded at all?

How do orange release there firmware updates? I can't see anything on their website to get them?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] npw:
They are normally found on the business section of the Orange website bizarrely. If I need to change the boot img of my Hero to apply the HTC update I will, I just wish to know whether we will be able to legitimately use the one from the HTC webiste, it let me register my Hero as a device under my account.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nicelad_uk:
Normally when you try to get the download from HTC you need to enter your IMEI. Now with branded devices, their IMEI's are disabled from the HTC database so it will error and say that you can't download.

That said, anybody that downloads it and posts it on here, you should be able to run it and install it without any problems.

They do this because of the custom rom thing, so networks can customise the software before making it available. The only problem with this is that sometimes they are either really far behind HTC in timescales, or they don't bother to release it at all!

I will be installing the HTC rom when its posted on here.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] H5N1_NL:
This is correct. I've done this with my Diamond a few times.:)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] joemax:
If the Orange Hero is not branded... how come it has the Orange logo swooshy thing when you start it up ?

Or is that as far as they have gone along with all the settings for internet access points, SIM Toolkit etc ?

Would be very cool to update the Hero with the HTC only software.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Funkyfin2000:
Strange can't see any updates on the Orange Business site on here?

http://www.business.orange.co.uk/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Business
[Hero, G2 Touch General] barryallott:
Well its not out yet.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] gavinfabl:
Looking forward to this. If you buy apps on Market place, am I correct in assuming after applying this update, you will be able to free of charge redownload the apps boughts via the market place.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] joemax:
As long as you use the same googlemail log in I believe so yes.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] npw:
Yup, if there was one you have to select your phone and find it in there.

This forum is going to be the best place to get it from for Orange Hero's, I'd give it an hour after release before its on here. Just hope it isn't CID locked like the winmo phones and we can just use the .exe
[Hero, G2 Touch General] :
strange...my contacts tell me this is only a nordic release....although they are a bit hazy on it. just don't be surprised if it turns out to be Scandinavia only.

I hope not, obviously!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] piflechien:
HTC has officially confirmed the update to slashgear yesterday.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] :
i saw that later. glad to hear it!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] badgaz:
Hmm I would expect that mid September release to be "Donut" based yes?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] foxmeister:
It is conceivable since Donut is supposed to add CDMA support, and word is that Sprint will launch a CDMA version of the Hero in October. Personally though, I'd be surprised if it is.

Regards,

Dave
[Hero, G2 Touch General] xdaman85:
I hope so :cool:
[Hero, G2 Touch General] :
I am assuming that Donut is not referring to 2.0, cos i thought that google had said that donut was NOT 2.0 and 2.0 was still quite a way away....or was I reading a stupid website again??
[Hero, G2 Touch General] roakes:
I think 1.7 is the next release
[Hero, G2 Touch General] unga89:
News...

http://www.slashgear.com/htc-hero-new-rom-gets-video-demo-1952904/
[Hero, G2 Touch General] barryallott:
YEAH! Screw 1.6 WHO needs it!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOP WOOOOOOOOP Why not 1.84443. YEAH ! WOOOOOOO
[Hero, G2 Touch General] simcarloc:
I have an Orange branded Hero. Am I right in thinking that unless Orange release an update, the HTC update will not be usable on my phone? If this is the case, then I will be majorly :-(
[Hero, G2 Touch General] bigbamboo5:
I have an unlocked, unbranded Hero with a Voda sim and I'm obviously on their network, although they never touched the phone. Would I be correct in thinking that I can just go ahead and upgrade without waiting for their version? Thanks.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nicelad_uk:
Yes, it is more than likely that HTC won't allow you to use the generic software update as this will unbrand your phone. You will have to wait for Orange when (if) they release it.

Thats right, you can download it straight away
[Hero, G2 Touch General] simcarloc:
Fvcking great. I'm really starting to love HTC and Orange right now.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Mansn:
Wow, the software update looks amazing.

Can't wait to download and install to my device.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] liamhere:
i have had htc (spv) with orange from day one....your have to get used to it :rolleyes:
[Hero, G2 Touch General] simcarloc:
Respectfully, why should I get used to sloppy service? Orange are notorious for either issuing updates late or not at all. So what are Orange customers supposed to do in these circumstances? Apart from going through the fuss of debranding their phone and running the risk of voiding their warranty that is...

If there are other options that I am ignorant to, I would be grateful to know.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] sdc77:
But this isnt new is it. Orange have been like this forever. You surely have to weigh up the pros and cons of having a free or almost free 'cutting edge' phone which has limited or no updates vs getting an unbranded phone that HTC supply updates for.

My last grief with Orange was with the Diamond .. no more.. this Hero is unbranded and I am sure ill be happier.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] kiz:
Fantastic! We can actually use the widgets now. I wish there were details somewhere of the bugfixes included though.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] robboy:
Freest it will be like getting a new phone in a few months. And that's without it been cooked
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ethan3686:
That UPDATE looks awesome!! any news when its coming??
[Hero, G2 Touch General] hkr:
Besides the Java icon I couldn't see a difference. My Hero runs as smooth as the one on the video :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] David Horn:
Mine doesn't. Do you have smooth scrolling in the People app?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Leviathon:
Mine runs like the video already as well
[Hero, G2 Touch General] joemax:
Mine can run as smoothly as the updated one... but at times it just plain sucks and can completely unresponsive for no apparent reason.

Its currently running well.

Yesterday it decided to mostly run very jerkily.

Weird.

Fingers crossed HTC has done us proud and will continue to do so :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] The Jones:
Seems like a small overall speed increase. The question though is consistency. I dont generally find apps running slowly, but I do find Sense jerks and runs a little slowly at times.

Some of the widgets are very slow, so if HTC have sped those up and improved the proportion of the time the device runs without lag, then it will feel so much faster overall - which is good!

I remember with my Diamond, the original ROM felt dog slow, the first update felt like it made it usable, but in reality it was only a small speed increase. I have great hopes here :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ghoonk:
Frankly, I think HTC was under a lot of pressure to get this to market as quickly as possible, which they did, but at the cost of more optimizations that they could have done. Now that a good number of phones have made it into the market, the in-house devs can work peacefully on optimizing SenseUI for the hardware, which, hopefully, will show up as a ROM update in the coming weeks - or if it leaks on XDA (which I'm hoping it will)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] joemax:
We all wait excitedly :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Funkyfin2000:
how long do we think before it leaks then?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ProfessorAsian:
My biggest speed complaint is the people scrolling and the dialer (which looks like it has people in the background.

Sometimes I accidentally call someone because it is so laggish.

The device is great, so through the magic of software, things should improve in the future!

Since I am unlocked on AT&T, will it be difficult for me to get updates?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ritdaw:
Hopefully orange will release it fairly swiftly, considering the problems like missing sms messages (a fairly basic but essential function).
[Hero, G2 Touch General] phel21:
Agree. Lagging is hardly noticeable otherwise unless the homescreens are completely littered with HTC widgets.

The worst problem for me is with email. HTC's version of android-mail doesn't like signed messages. For the 1/3 of all my incoming messages which are signed I only see "from" and "subject". The message body-pane says "message still on server", and there's no error message. There's always K9-mail from the market, but it doesn't provide the same slick appearance and integration with sense.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ProfessorAsian:
My Wifi is not reliable either...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ethan3686:
why are we expecting soo much from this update?? its not magic u know that everything will be alright after it!

but if there were major ones then they shud be :

1. lagginess

2. video playback

Also i was wondering if it wud be cool to have VIDEO RINGTONES support for HERO?? what do u say?? assign video ringtones for incoming calls,,,just like in symbian!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] joemax:
NO its a Hero, far better ;)

From what we hear this is a minor update to improve performance of the GUI and a bug fix.

A major update is due later.

All rumour of course until its fact.

Best thing is to send feedback to HTC via email, Facebook and Twitter @htc

@htc is very responsive, having had a number of DM's regards contact pictures and Peep issues requesting screen shots and further info.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ethan3686:
^^LOL i know its not magic LITERALLY!!

but when expectations are high...mostly u get dissapointted only..fingers crossed..

and what do u think about VIDEO RINGTONES?? shouldnt we have it..its not a big deal actually!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] joemax:
Expectations... always the best route to disappointment ;)

Not too fussed about video ring tones TBH, when someone calls all I want is a clear picture from my contacts list of who it is ;)

Imagine the mess that would entail a video ring tone if still images are not being handled correctly.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ethan3686:
^^i agree on that but these have been there for ages...android though its new but the technology in it is enough to use them..lets hope some day..:)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] joemax:
Someday :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] danielferguson:
Looking forward to this :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] J-Zeus:
In order of preference I hope they fix:

1) Bluetooth

2) Atrocious contact pictures

3) Lagginess ( don't suffer from this too much )
[Hero, G2 Touch General] mccreath:
Yup

I'm with you J-Zeus, I want the poxy BT fixed first.

Haven't been able to sustain a connection to my BMW with this fone and is firking annoying!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] rovex:
Im expecting the Hero to improve a lot over the next 6 months. MyTouch HD (which is basically the same hardware) has massively improved with XDA-dev ROMs, its almost a completely different device.

I do notice some lag on my Hero, but its usually ok. I do think the CPU it just a laggy thing anyway. Despite its supposed power i think its broken somewhere in the pipeline and that causes bottlenecks. People have been blaming Winmo in recent HTC devices, but its not the case, clearly.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nicelad_uk:
The problem is more than likely your Bluetooth in your BMW, it was with mine, i've got a 645.

These phones use new bluetooth drivers like the Touch Pro 2 and some bluetooth handsfree don't accept the profiling. A simple update to my BMW bluetooth car kit and it connected and synced straight away.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] archboy69:
Hasn't the 10 days already gone by since this posting?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] robboy:
It's probably time to change the name of the thread. I wasn't expecting id to be on time
[Hero, G2 Touch General] :
The first post in this thread is from the 17th of August. So, no.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] foxmeister:
Hmm, 17+10 > 23. (17th August vs 23rd August)

So no, 10 days hasn't passed. If you head over to the original source of this info (http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f58/hero-software-update-due-in-next-10-days-23144/ ) it was also posted on the 17th, so it isn't late yet.

Not that I expect to see an update on the 27th - far from it, especially when it is still essentially hearsay. ;)

Regards,

Dave
[Hero, G2 Touch General] frymaster.127:
you could always wait until the update is out, and complain about the service then :P

I too am on orange, and realistically I too feel there's likely to be an annoying wait, but don't you think getting angry about before the fact is just a little premature?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ChrisWaller:
New to all this - how to flash Orange Hero

Ok, so I'm new to this. I've got an orange branded Hero. How would I go about backing up my existing ROM (for warranty purposes) and flashing with the latest, unbranded version?

Thanks in advance for any guidance provided.

Chris
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Huey85:
Let's see if the update doesn't come out within the next couple of days. Dying for an update; but not because I need it.. more so that I just feel like updating. So used to updating my iPhone every couple of weeks with betas.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] soulonfirexx:
So the time is up for the update, and it looks like no one is seeing anything yet!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] shaolinx:
its just a rumor for 10 days, its not official so dont put your hopes too high...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] spacecat:
I heard it was 11 days so its DEFO tomorrow
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Obsidiandesire:
Well they released the source code to the Dream and Magic? Was that today?

That's something to be released if not for the hero.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] joemax:
No its available in Julember I heard. Around the eleventyseventh... maybe a few days before.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Huey85:
Your source, spacecat?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] maruchan78:
You should try to find a source not drinking from a brown paper bag ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] spacecat:
Ir

Actually its 12 days coming this Saturday
[Hero, G2 Touch General] qvert:
they won't release an update on saturday...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] spacecat:
actually my Sauces tell me its 14 days at 10.10am precisely greenwich mean time

only white Heros for the first hour followed by Black ones form the second hour and lastly graphite and brown ones the 3rd hour onwards

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[Hero, G2 Touch General] alitech:
Yeah, I tend to beleive all my sauces too, they have never let me down. Expecially Chilli sauce and mint sauce. They tend to have the sixth sense of a mofo.