[Hero, G2 Touch General] PowerBBS:
I know, everyone wants to tell me to search for it. But honestly, have you tried to "search" for it? When I go looking, I find everything but a decisive answer on how to do what I would like. SO if you'll bear with this LONG post. You'd not only be helping me, but others possibly. Sorry for the long posts... People hate reading them... I just want some simple help... without getting slapped down for not being able to find all the info I need from "searching" the forums. Pppppplease (says roger rabbit) :)

Not that I think it matters. I'm in the USA, running the HERO on a GSM Edge network (CellOne or CellularOne - aka: chinookwireless.net).

IF anyone out there knows how to get MMS working on CellOne (cellonenation.com) on this phone... (I LOVE YOU! and would pay a small amount of cash ($20) even to you if your info "works" via paypal - I'm an honest fellow... trust me you'll get the money).

I've tried to fanagle the settings on http://www.cellonenation.com/support/ they have a link near the bottom of the page "What if you have a smart phone? (CLICK HERE)" (multiple HTC phones, none are andriod). But with no success.

Current APN Settings on the HERO HTC that I've got working Phone, Internet and SMS are:

Name: internet.chinookwireless

APN: internet.chinookwiress.com ( this APN is all I need to get internet and SMS working )

Proxy: <not set>

Port: <not set>

Username: <not set>

Password: <not set>

Server: wapgw.chinookwireless.net

MMSC: http://mms.cellonenation.net/mms/

MMS Proxy: 204.181.155.195

MMS Port:8080

MMS Protocol:Wap 2.0

MCC: 310

MNC: 570

APN Type: <not set>

None of those MMS settings in with various combination changes seem to matter (still nothing works). I've contacted my provider and they won't support my phone as they don't sell it. MMS is turned on and part of my calling plan, I've confirmed that. The phone was ordered from Buy.COM vendor in the US it is factory unlocked. Help?

One final thing to request... The internet on CellOne is either REALLY, REALLY slow (up to 30 seconds just to load google.com (mobile version)) or there must be a better radio driver out there? How to on that would be grand as well.

Phone was purchased beginning of August 2009.

HTC Hero (the actual phone, not just the ROM)

Firmware: v1.5

Kernel version: 2.6.27-8dd6dee

Build number: 2.73.405.5 146733 (LATEST HTC FACTORY ROM - 9/11/09)

Software version: 1.0.0.A6288

HERO CVT SHIP S-ON

HBoot 1.76.007 (HERO10000)

MicroP-010f

Touch Panel-syn0104

RADIO-6.35.06.18

I've "rooted" my phone (using "Recovery-RA-HERO-v1.2.2.img" and "flashrec-20090815.apk" - as I got told I couldn't install "flashrec-1.1.2-20090909.apk" by the phone when I tried to install it), and also used the SDK adb to push and allow permissons for su and superuser.apk.

The instructions (and videos) on theunlockr.com seemed to help me with that, and I'm a total NOOB. As now that's where I'm at. Not much further.

Why don't I try a custom ROM? Well when I did that (Madacco's Custom ROM - http://android.modaco.com/content/h...2/03-09-hero-roms-radios-in-update-zip-format )... my SMS quit working all together. Since that's a "pretty nice feature" to have... I stepped back and went to the manufacturers ROM update that was just released. It seemed I got all the "speed" of the recent Madacco ROM and my SMS worked. I am willing to even try another custom ROM as long as I don't loose functionality of what I've already got to solve my MMS problem...

Help please :)