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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
Wrong Thread/Forum? On that topic though, I wish they'd called the Hero ROM's for the G1 and Magic a Rosie update or something similar, searching for Hero ROM is very confusing when the ROM's are all for the older phones! :P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] philipjaifry:
After reading threads in this forum for the last week, I managed to successfully root and flash the modaco v2.2 rom onto my previously virgin phone. So first, Thanks for the hard work, Paul! Now, in his first post of this thread, he said to flash the latest radio separately. I've tried googling and searching on instructions on how to flash the radio properly, but nothing. Can anybody provide a quick step by step on how to flash the latest radio to the hero? Any help is greatly appreciated!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lsim001:
You just do it the same way as you flashed the ROM. Basically download the Radio and copy the file to your SD card. Then boot up your Hero in Recovery Mode ie Home button and Power button at the same time. Then from the menu select "install zip file from SD card" and select the Radio zip file. You could also rename the zip file to Update.zip and do use the "Install update.zip from SD card" option.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaptorRVL:
Same as the normal Rom!

Copy the radio update to your sd card, call it update.zip and fastboot the recovery image to run the update. It should see it's a radio update and update properly.

Quite easy actually :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] philipjaifry:
Thanks for the quick reply! I booted up in recovery mode and when I went to select the new radio, it didn't show up. The only zip file located was the update.zip even though I just copied the radio onto the root of the sd card. If I renamed the radio to update.zip, will that conflict and screw up anything?

-->Nevermind, I figured it out! Now it just says "Formatting CACHE:..." with all the option of the recovery screen available.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] J-Zeus:
Choose the next option on the list, which says something like " Install any .zip from SD card, then choose it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sentinel79:
Unlocked or go to T-Mobile for 3G?

Hey does the Hero have the 850 US band which is the inevitable future 3G for ATT? I read the rollout started in NYC and some other big cities but my guess is that if the HTC Hero (non branded) has this frequency then eventually us ATT people would have the 3G speeds right? Then again some other phone would be out by the time ATT ever completes the process of switching to 850.

I'm at the point where paying 170 bucks for early termination is a worthwhile venture since I f-ing hate ATT and would rather get a t-mobile Hero with 3G than go down the expensive unlocked road and be stuck with EDGE.

Comments? Suggestions? Words of wisdom for the tortured soul and his worn out Tilt?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] philipjaifry:
J-Zeus,

I chose the update from the 2nd option again, and it did the same thing as the first time. It's on the recovery screen again with all options available. Any ideas?

-->I just left the phone plugged in and about 20 minutes later after the reflash of the latest radio, it just booted up normally. All is good now and I am happy with the new rom :D! Thanks everybody on this board, all those that ask the questions so I don't have to and those that answer them!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RaptorRVL:
With me it was a bit different. First I renamed the radio update to update.zip. Then I let it do an update from update.zip. It did something and went back into the menu.

I selected the reboot option and then it finished the update of the radio.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] philipjaifry:
Did anybody else have any issues adding apn settings with the new 2.2 rom and latest radio? I can't seem to add one.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jedson:
Apologies if this has already been asked and answered but i couldn't find it.

I am a bit of a noob to installing roms and I have installed the new ROM 2.73.405.5 without the new radio.

I have now downloaded the new radio 63.18.55.06_6.35.05.31 and am going to install it but I was wandering if the phone will be wiped during the install? as I have just finally got everything back to the way I like it after installing the ROM.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Temjin:
Hi guys,

Just quickly; I've just got RA-HERO-v1.2.2 flashed onto my stock device (and made lots of precious Nandroid backups ;) ) and now I would like to consider putting on 2.2 MoDaCo.

Before I do so however a question regarding the stock SD card: Does this need to be partitioned in some special way BEFORE 2.2 is flashed? I keep coming across a lot of talk regarding A2SD and ext2/3/4...etc but It's still not clear as to the relevance (apart from A2SD which allows you to store apps on the SD card, correct?).

Thanks,
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] fleming222:
It doesnt NEED to be partitioned. But if you use RA's Recovery image to partition your sdcard to fat32/ext2/swap, then 2.2 will automatically install apps to your sd card, which will give you space for more apps.

Remember to upgrade ext2 to ext3 once formatted, I think there is a script to do that in Aman_RA's recovery image.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Temjin:
Ah right, I've decided not to worry about that just yet - all flashed now with 2.2 and the most up to date radio :)

Learnt a lot over the last few days, time for a rest! :P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Tirabytes:
Hi,

First time rooting and using custom roms.

Installed Modacos 2.2 and I have partitioned Fat32+Ext3 and still using internal memory as app storage. :-\

I am using RA-Hero.

Did I miss something?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] J-Zeus:
Install latest radio?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sillyshyme:
on next update can you include flash support?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] soulehmoo:
Using the RA recovery image upgrade ur ext2 to ext3
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Tirabytes:
Hi,

I don't have ext2 - I think.

I am using Paragon Partition and partitioned it like this..

Fat32 (14GB) - Ext3 (1.4GB) - Linux Swap (192MB)

Should I try Fat32 - EXT2?

And yes I am using the recommended radio.

EDIT:

Just a quick confirmation;

This is how you do it right?

Partition Fat32/Ext3/LinuxSwap

Upload MCR2.2e to SD

Update

and it should be all sweet ye?

Cheers
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Heppieboeddah:
It is if you do before the update a wipe..;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Tirabytes:
I did that, nothing! It still shows 154MB in internal storage..

Does having a different recovery image matters?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Amdathlonuk:
I don't see the problem then?

If you're showing 154mb of internal left, then it has worked if you have loaded programs onto your phone?

I currently have 243 programs installed and have used 30mb of internal memory for call logs and messages...etc.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Tirabytes:
Someone just told me about this on the other forum.

I was wondering whether it worked or not because I was watching a video from unlockr and in his way of doing, he get to see the partitioned size in Internal Storage from 150 to 1.4GB so I thought it would be the same case in here. - my bad.

Also it says here that there's no need to move the cache over to the SD card, is this optional or strictly we can't?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rdosti:
Screenshots would be useful just like we used to for WM.

I'd like to ask if its possible to remove HTC eye-candy and replace with the Android basics that you have in the Tmobile G1 1.5 version? That would probably save RAM as well as speed up the entire system by 3 times (or so).

Is this possible?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gaabrysz:
Ohhh just sitting here and pressing F5 ;) When is the new update coming ??
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] minty1978:
i think monday evening ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ritdaw:
Excellent!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] minty1978:
i am just speculating, I have no hard facts!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ritdaw:
Oh I see. lol
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gaz31:
2.3 will be out in the next couple of days.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] atsavlis:
Anyone know what kind of changes/additions should we be expecting with update 2.3???
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Temjin:
"I will be restructuring the ROMs a little for 2.3 - there will be a WWE core version and a Chinese core version, then an addon pack to apply to either which takes you from core to enhanced.

P"

I don't know if there is anything else planned.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] JBNAquatics:
I'm just hoping it's based off the 2.8 update and not the 2.7.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Amdathlonuk:
I haven't moved from Modaco 1.51 is there any reason I should?

It's just that my phone is running so well!!....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Temjin:
No idea - but if you're happy with it then I say stick to it. No need to fix what isn't broken! :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] minogue:
Anyone have the link to 1.3 version of this rom. I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] soulonfirexx:
Hey all, quick question about apps2sd. I have Amon_RA's recovery image and it has the option to move apps and davlik_cache to the SD. I have it partitioned with fat32+ext+linux swap. I try the option for move apps to SD, but my phone memory is still going down when I download something. Also, when I check my SD card using a file manager, I don't see an apps folder anywhere.

Any help?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
There is no 2.8 update. 2.73.x is the latest.

P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] samadhi23:
what about the bluetooth probelm? solved? greetz
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] oblika:
What about this one? There is indicated that it's based on some kind of 2.8x. I tried it, but yours is better:D

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=4541762
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
I think you meant the post above mine, but yea it does say 2.86.xxxx.

If I remember correctly, thats Drizzy's (he made the ROM in that forum) Tatoo build with Donut, which he'll be releasing a Hero-esque build of sometime this week.

On the topic of the best ROM's so far, I've used both Drizzy's and Modaco's (all versions up to 2.2 that were available here), and I'd say Drizzy's may be quicker in some areas, but Modaco 2.2 is so, so, so much more stable :P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] RD1945:
I know it is not the right place to ask but, is it me or is the MoDaCo website down?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Heppieboeddah:
I can confirm that.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lmart1n:
Just Website down!

Grab MoDaCo Costum Rom 2.3 here
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gavinfabl:
Probably because Paul is uploading v 2.3 :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lmart1n:
2.3 already up!

new Radio

update-hero-radio-63.18.55.06FU_6.35.07.08-signed.zip

http://rapidshare.com/files/283140896/update-hero-radio-63.18.55.06FU_6.35.07.08-signed.zip
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cdmackay:
Hold down "back arrow" whilst powering on?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] arahmank:
I installed 1.1 and I must admit that my hero now runs much more smoothly and is more responsive than before. However even with the 1.1 version I still encounter problems with the market. I can't seem to find some apps on the market that I used to have before, namely Google Maps, Google Listen, and several other games like phit droid. Any ideas?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] geovass:
use the market enabler... ;-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] behnaam:
Question to modaco, can I edit your custom ROM? Can I unpack the update.zip, make the changes I wan't, repack it and the sign the update.zip?

And do anybody know how to sign a update.zip under Windows vista with the SDK installed?

wanna try on Hero modding ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lsim001:
I think the one he is talking about is the screen you get when you do a press Home + power. I could be wrong.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cdmackay:
yup, sorry; back+power is the bootloader, home+power is the recovery image (if installed). my bad.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] joemax:
Dumb ass question... :o:o

If I mount my SD card on my Mac's desktop, copy over the ROM and/or RADIO zip files then reboot holding down Back while powering up... it will present me with the software to install ?

Or do I need to make a trip to Terminal to do this with the recovery image install described in Paul's thread ?

Sorry :o
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cdmackay:
back+power gives you the bootloader, which won't let you do that.

you need to either boot the recovery image, using the bootloader as above and a cable to your PC, controlling it from the PC, or *install* the recovery image, then boot the latter using home+power.

at least, I think so.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cdmackay:
and once in the recovery image, you are then prompted to install the updates, yes
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] joemax:
OK, so I still need to noodle around in Terminal to permanently install the Recovery Image ?

Then being permanent, I will be able to move additional ROM / RADIO updates to the SD card ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cdmackay:
yup; as I understand it, you will first need to fastboot the recovery image from the mac. Then nandroid backup, then copy the recovery image to the SD card, and flash it (still from the Mac) as a recovery boot image.

then you can boot the recovery image to install other updates, ROM, radio, etc.

I'm new to this myself, though, so hope I have it right :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] J-Zeus:
LOL - Joe I just replied to your PM regarding doing this on a Mac - keep me posted pls., as it sounds like your one step ahead of me in doing this!:)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cdmackay:
in case it's not obvious, on a Mac, if you only want to boot the recover image, all you need is to download the latter, and to download fastboot-mac from HTC. You don't need the SDK.

[edit: well, it doesn't appear that you need it explicitly; I did always have it installed, so it's possible it's installed a driver that you do need. if it fails, try it again with the SDK installed, perhaps]

then boot the bootloader (back+power) with the cable connected, and then:

./fastboot-mac boot cm-hero-recovery.img

to do anything else, e.g. shell access, flashing, etc, you will need the Android SDK to get the adb command:

~/android-sdk-mac_x86-1.5_r3/tools/adb shell
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ethan3686:
when is the official update coming???

IT was supposed to come on 27th i.e.today~~
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Dayzee:
As in the reply you quoted, I used a program called Paragon Partition Manager to format part of my 8GB SD to EXT3 which is a linux format I think. My partition was 723MB but I think it can be any size from about 300mb to 1GB. Once that is done, I put the card back in and flashed the ROM on this thread - after a wipe of course. Aps then start to install to the EXT3 partition, though some stuff does still install on the phone and memory does go down a bit - pre installing I had 160MB on device for apps and after installing around 40 apps (Including some big ones like copilot) I'm now at 145MB but I reckon theres a total of about 80MB of apps altogether. :)

John - As for formatting to EXT3 I can't really be more help - don't have any experience other than with XP and Paragon.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] furrypotato:
Did the update couple of hours ago, without a wipe.

Sluggish at first boot but once I switched off and on once it really speeded up.

Apps seem to launch faster and it all runs faster.

Of course it could all be in my hrad, but either way it was worth doing it.

Now bring on the new Sense UI versions Paul ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] arahmank:
Great, I can see all the free apps now but not the paid ones, is that normal? I wasn't able to view them on the original ROM but shouldn't market enabler fix this?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] arahmank:
oops double post. delete this sorry.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] joemax:
@cdmackay - many thanks for the info... still scares the crap out of me to do this, Will keep a note of this page and maybe wait to see how the HTC update changes things.

My Hero is playing nice at the moment apart from the odd sluggishness, and not very good signal reception.

Having a way to upgrade the Radio to boost signal performance and reduce battery drain is what really interests me at this point.

@Dayzee - Great post, very handy to have :)

cheers all
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] keyra74:
w00t installing now
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] paulobrien:
Version 2.3 is now online. Most of the changes are under the hood (again), you'll notice that you get the new People widget, facilitated by changing the base ROM.

The ROM is now available in regular and chinese versions, and the 'enhanced' features are now an addon pack to the base of your choice.

There will be some cool stuff coming soon in 'enhanced', and some even cooler stuff once HTC release the kernel source, but i'm open to requests for 2.4! :)

P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] keyra74:
damn can't get radio with rapid****
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tisungho:
Hi

is bouncing landscape keyboard in the browser fixed in this release?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lmart1n:
radio here mirrored

http://xlice.net/download/4e6e5a2748436d25/
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Jesterz:
Thanks Paul, one question, which ROM is 2.3 based on? the 2.83 ROM thats been floating around ?

EDIT: looks like 2.73.751.4 ?? as the base ROM?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] J-Zeus:
Nice one Paul ( thumbs up smile ) -- my biggest wish is for full bluetooth to be released....whats involved in doing that? I'm assuming it's more major than a ROM upgrade........
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] keyra74:
radio flashed now

no problems so far
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] C45hY:
How about the new market app I seam to remember seeing a tweet with that being on the latest custom dream Rom
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] justbabu:
Is anyone else having problems downloading 2.3 core without Chinese support? My download keeps stopping at around 40M mark?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Demologic:
yeah same. The download keeps stopping at 21mb
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] FrAN_oC:
Paul, you are awesome!! The best ROM I've ever had on my hero.

Still testing, but It's rock stable...

RGDS!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] justbabu:
Never mind, got it all now with Firefox. I was using Google Chrome before.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Jesterz:
prolly everybody and their sister are downloading this and hammering the server, i'll see if I can setup a mirror on xda
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Demologic:
working now with firefox
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lmart1n:
Rapidshare Mirror for MoDaCo 2.3

http://rapidshare.com/files/283177843/2.3-update-hero-modacocustomrom-core-signed.zip
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] janjan:
What is the latest radio (63.18.55.06EU_6.35.06.18 ) or (63.18.55.06FU_6.35.07.08)

OR which radio is to be use with 2.3 rom ...(thanks a lot MoDaCo )
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
The Final two sets of numbers.

so they went

05.31

06.18

07.08

I'm 'assuming' this was the date the radio package left HTC development, so you want the July 8th one.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] janjan:
ok thank you. so it means latest radio is 63.18.55.06FU_6.35.07.08...

can I use this rom with 2.3 rom ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lsim001:
Is the 7.08 Radio safe to put on the Hero? I thought I saw a post somewhere that said that wasn't safe for Hero on T-mobile but thought that was rather random. So not sure if it is right or not.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] AndiTails:
I've also mirror'd the files in case anyone else is having issues. http://thei.tguy.co.uk/hero/
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] janjan:
some one please tell me. Is it important to use radio 63.18.55.06FU_6.35.07.08 with 2.3 rom.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
Absolutely! That's the one. I may be wrong about this, but I believe the radio and ROM releases are version agnostic and don't depend on each other. Increasing the Radio rom version will just improve the dialer, mobile and wifi reception (not 100% on this though)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] domi55:
What about mirroring the RADIO update? ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gaz31:
Been using 07.08 radio most of the day with my Orange Hero, mobile internet has been very flakey.

So have gone back to radio 06.18 which seems a more stable version for me.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] robboy:
Here is one fore you. I think its a great idea would save allot of time. Don’t know if its something you could do for 2.4. BTW just downloading 2.3 cannot wait.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] soulonfirexx:
Downloading now and will be flashing within the next couple of days if time permits. This looks awesome!

I hope I can figure out the apps2sd thing for me!

Also, any chance of figuring out why album thumbnails don't get created in an 8gb SDHC card? Or is this a problem all on its own?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
Oh, I was more directing this at the Better Keyboard developers (or even myself if I could get my ass off the couch and figure out how to play with the keyboard functionality).

I'd hate to sound like a fun destroyer, but I'm thinking Paul (MoDaCo) is talking about what other apps he could include/exclude and any other enhancements he can make to the ROM as opposed to coding new apps and that. I'd hate if demands for software and addons turned him off the actual goal (expanding the Hero ROM and keeping up with HTC/Market updates)!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] chr1stus:
so... here is my proposal:

http://android.modaco.com/content/h...pps-in-modaco-hero-rom-anti-theft-protection/
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] soulehmoo:
I also tested the radio for a while, seems to bring back the HSDPA freeze i was getting with T-Mobile.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] belfastbob:
Just upgraded, but discovered that I wasnt getting any mobile internet, went into settings and discovered that all the APN's have been deleated, have restored back to 2.2 as didnt have all settings for Vodafone. Just wondered if this has happened to anyone else.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] chuti98:
Same mine Just wondering that Paul might forgot to put it in
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] kwiksand:
Yep, same here, must have just forgotten the APN Settings.

For anyone on T-Mobile UK:

APN Name: T-Mobile UK

APN Server: general.t-mobile.uk (not no .co.uk)

User: t-mobile

Pass: tm

These are working fine for me and are a lot shorter than most of the others I found on the web which looked old and had proxy/DNS/MMSC address and ports.

P.S Paul I cannot thankyou enough, I've flashed back from Drizzy's test ROM and it's nice once again (despite the older firmware/build number) to have the speed and stability of the MoDaCo Rom! (Not that there's anything wrong with the other ROM mind you, just definitely noticed a difference with stability)!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] risterdid:
hey modaco!

thanks for this great rom. i upgraded to the 2.3 but having trouble. i can't use my headphone jack anymore. when i plug it in it doesn't work after i updated.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gaabrysz:
Nice ROM but the problem with keyboard (search in the browser in landscape) is still there :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] _KaP_:
Suggestion for 2.4:

*Option for using HTC Browser in not full-screen mode. I'd like to see the notification bar while i browse the internet!

Thanks!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] spiderman_anhvu:
does anyone confirm this problem?