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[Hero, G2 Touch General] Gormandy:
eatmydave, speed really isn't the issue. My Hero is running perfectly fine, and as for data I'm mostly on a WiFi which is why I got the Hero from Europe and back then the Telus Hero wasn't out. Personal opinion, I just didn't have a satisfactory experience with the phone. I'm not bashing on the phone at all It's great and a lot of people love it... just not me.

kadison, getting defensive much? Yes, really. Read the above section. I knew that I'd only have EDGE and sure I didn't think it would be that slow but I'm on wifi most of the times anyway.

And of course I saw videos before buying the phone I'm not bashing on the Sense UI, all I'm saying is that it's more eye candy than it is useful. At least for me.

Custom ROMs were the only reason I put up with it for so long anyway. But in the end, this phone just isn't for me.

The reason I posted this was to possibly warn future buyers who are like me. Sure a lot of other people love this phone, but a few are dissatisfied.

Oh yeah, no one would really want to buy the Hero now since they have the Legend or whatever out. HTC is just using their marketing techniques (pushing 2.1 further and further back) so some people give in and buy their new hand sets.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] harsha_aithal:
Even I do disagree.

HTC Hero is a great phone. Its proved that It can handle 2.1 ver well including 3D Gallery n Live wallpapers. Its just missing the 2.1 Update from HTC. But not doing that might make HTC to loose some customers.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Explosive_Cornflake:
I run on edge most of them, and for day to day usage, you wouldn't notice much difference with Edge vs 3g vs HSDPA. The web is a bit slower, but I use opera mini so pages are small.

The lack of 2.1 is annoying, but give Villain a whirl. I'm running 5.3 it's the first time I'm happy with a 2.1 rom. I had been running the Mr Bang performance rom for a few months previous as I felt it was the best 1.5 rom.

I to got the urge to move to something else, but there will be bigger upgrades around the corner.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] kadison:
No, I'm not being defensive. EDGE is crap and on average you get less than the speed of a 56K modem. The times I find I really need a decent data connection is when I am not near any WiFi, say if i'm lost somewhere or need to find a nearby business or shop. Doing this on EDGE is a real ball ache and if I knew that's all I'd ever have I'd reconsider my phone/network choice.

Sense ties the OS together visually but I wouldn't call it eye candy because IMO Android needs this. It also provides quite a few useful widgets and shortcuts, meaning you don't have to go hunting in the market as soon as you get your phone for something as basic seeing the weather, bookmarks or connectivity toggles on a home screen.

I agree no one who can afford a Legend or Desire would buy a Hero now. Furthermore the only reason to buy a Legend is because you have a soft spot for aluminium or can't cope with the physical size of a Desire - there's only a £15 price difference between the two phones on devicewire.com!

HTC are dragging their heels with the Hero's 2.1 update but it'll be here eventually.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Orionscrest:
It seems to me that despite what you said you did want to start a flame war. Why even post something like this? We are all on this forum because we love our Heros and want to get the most out of them. You've gotten 6 months of use out of a phone you wanted so much you imported it, there's no use complaining now about how it's not up to scratch. So what if 2.1 hasn't come through the official channels yet, this is an open source project and if you're relying on official roms, then I truly believe you are not realising the full potential of what your phone can really do.

Maybe you should just join the ranks of the drones conforming to consumer commercialism and buy an iphone
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Pietje_1985:
stop this!

Please, could somebody close this Thread??? :confused:

I don't like (and prob many other people) this kind of discussing on this Forum from the Hero. there is a general discussion forum where you can talk about this, but in MY opinion, this forum is for people who definately like their HERO and want to use all of it's functionalities.....

If you don't like the phone, stop complaining, get the hell out of here, buy yourself an Iphone, and bugger off......sorry for being rude!

Thanks

Jeroen
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cbailey:
You need to think about these two words 'discussing' and 'discussion' - oh look, well I never, you used those two words in your comment.

Think about what those words mean, and then, the answer to your upset will be found :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] SherlockHolmz:
This is a valid topic imho, if he doesnt like his product which he has bought with his hard earned money, this is his prerogativ.

Nobody had to respond to his post, people could just let it die, but people keep posting, therefore, its a valid topic.

If i had known about HTC's unfriendly update/customer policy, i wouldnt have bought it either.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] kadison:
I sat here for far too long constructing a long scathing reply but I decided i'm not going to waste any more of my time on it! So:

OP - If you really hate your Hero so much that's your choice. You have a right to your opinion and the world would be a dull place if everyone liked the same thing.

Pietje - Grow up.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cbailey:
Looking at the numbers in his handle, one has to assume he has a fair bit of that to do.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Gormandy:
Yeah does seem like this has turned into more of an argument.

All I'm saying is that I, personally, didn't like the Hero. Never said anything about the Hero being bad or anything. It's all a matter of opinion. I have friends who love their Motorola Razrs and laugh when I tell them I paid 600 dollars for a phone, they just say "what's the point of using internet on your phone?" so yeah there are people like that also.

As a device Hero is definitely great. As something I would like/want/need/use, it's not. Just not for me.

I'd appreciate it if people didn't try to argue their points here, I'm not disagreeing with anyone.

Cheers!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] kadison:
I never understood the appeal of those phones!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] MentalDeath:
Well I have to completely disagree with you I got my Hero in April and I love it I am running Kimera's overclocked ROM so I basically have a Legend and my Hero does do everything I love to show off with it and everyone thinks its so cool and its so fun to just play with and i absolutely HATE Apple
[Hero, G2 Touch General] kasmq:
@MentalDeath - Agree on all accounts. Especially the Kimera ROM.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Arranmc182:
why did you not just get a htc magic (mytouch 3g) its same specs as hero bar the camera and would work on T-Mobile with 3g

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[Hero, G2 Touch General] Phasmatic:
does this work?

In the hidden test menu, under phone information(*#*#4636#*#*), it's possible to select cdma as network. Would some of those settings enable 3g, for european heros in the states ?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Arranmc182:
No I dont think this will help as that do not have the bands the US carriers use

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[Hero, G2 Touch General] avseq:
he meant to say discussion..and we all r wise enough to understand some minor spell mistakes...and m sure u did too..thts why u started this..so y would u reply on it just to make it complicated..and yes i agree wid him..this thread shuld be removed..i love my hero and m happy for wht devs have provoded me..atleast they if not htc, has given me2.1 on my hero..

apologies for my bad english..
[Hero, G2 Touch General] superbestfriends:
I think people arguing their points of view is perfectly valid, considering this is a forum, not a blog-spot.

If people aren't allowed to, one has to question the purpose of the thread in the first place.

On topic: taking the gamble and importing a Hero before it was readily available in Aus, I am happy with it as a phone, though disappointed in its performance & fragmentation.

It is too soon, in my opinion, for me to be upgrading again (where I prefer to grab phones out-right) when what I could sell it for pales in comparison to what I'd need for a speedier phone (glares at evo 4g).

I'm happy to be patient, and recently swapped to 2.1 BeHero+ which has renewed my interest. I'm just disappointed that some of the phones can be deprecated so fast.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] norazi:
if u didnt think the difference between EDGE and 3G was that much, then you werent very phone saavy
[Hero, G2 Touch General] fredphoesh:
gormandy, im not a sense fan either.

in a few days, there will be a free rom that I am testing at the moment, it is vanilla 2.1 and works really well on the hero, have a look here:

http://villainrom.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=507

ive paid for getting a beta version, but it will be free in a couple of days... so wait for that, its really nice.

mark.
[Desire General] kermaani:
Hi!

I tried searching the forums for the problem but couldnt find anything related to mine!

I have a problem where the phone suddenly just says "No write access to file" when i try listening to stuff on spotify, take pictures etc... Yet i can access the SD on ASTRO. :confused:

Has anyone else noticed this one? Any tips? Rebooting the phone fixes the issue for a while.
[Desire General] cbgb:
Same issue here. I found in other android related forums a lot of people complaining about this as well - seams there's no solution yet (reboot helps in my case - format the card didn't). Some people reported that a change of the sdcard hasn't solved anything. I guess we have to replace the device.
[Desire General] kermaani:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=673110

Don't give up yet, if you are running a task killer, remove it and try without it.

As I said on the other thread, I removed it and I'm now testing it. Atleast now it seems to sync Spotify's offline playlists without errors..
[Desire General] cbgb:
I have no task killer running but still the above mentioned issue. I also removed the sd-card and put it back in several times. I cleaned carefully the contacts of the sdcard, removed ALL apps but it still happens every other day.

And no, the desire wasn't plugged into the pc via USB. m(
[Desire General] kvmanohar:
i had the similar kind of issue. when I switch on the phone from standby mode.. sometimes it says "cannot backup the phone data.. SD card not accessble". When I opened the Estronge File manager I can see no files under the SDcard..

This problem has started to me only after I have installed ebuddy and started using it. Then I have uninstalled the ebuddy and till now i did not get this problem again (3days tested after uninstall)

You can give a try by uninstall any recently installed apps.. my doubt is some apps are creating this issue on slow writting SD cards (my Sd card is Class 2)..
[Desire General] cbgb:
Been there, done that! *sigh* It happens also with no apps installed (plain stock)
[Desire General] alexbush:
Also just happened to me after installing a Touchdown update - camera was reporting no access to SD card and Astro (file navigator) was showing some weird behaviour (opening the 'download' folder took me back to the home screen)

A reboot appears to have solved it but a bit worrying
[Desire General] Cleargrey:
Not sure if this is 100% related, but I'll include it here. This didn't happen to me at the start but has started happening in the last few days.

I've had my phone set up to connect by default as a disk drive without asking me. Now when I connect to my computer, I get the message on my computer that there is something wrong with the drive and it needs to be scanned and corrected. I don't because I don't always trust Windows auto corrective measures, you can't always go back.

The problem really kicks in when I connect my Desire to the computer and it (the computer) says card needs to be formatted. As soon as I get this message, I know it's all over. I can't access the SD card on computer or from the phone. When I disconnect, the phone says the SD card is empty, and I get the small SD card with question mark up in the top right of the notification bar.

My system is running Win 7 x64.
[Desire General] Fairford:
I get the same problem every other day with the "cannot backup the phone data.. SD card not accessble". I also got an error message when trying to download an email attachment saying that there was no storage space but Astro shows around 6gb free on the sd!
[Desire General] cbgb:
you have another sdcard than the stock SanDisk 4GB card, I guess? If so, could you tell us what sdcard you are running?
[Desire General] ChaosOfChris:
I have had the same problem as reported above (backup error) recently. A reboot solves it, but not permantely.. (I also had a problem where the home screen froze, but the lockscreen worked fine. I guess it could be related but I don't know...)

It's a bit annoying with these kind of problems..

Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Desire General] ChaosOfChris:
It just happen again after I replayed to a text messages..

I started my terminal emulator and checked if the sd card was still mounted (which it appeared to be). But noticed that it's set to remount as read only on errors (Not saying it's the problem, just that it may be the cause of the symptoms..)

Then I checked the rights (ls -l -d /sdcard) It was set to ---rwxr-x (owner: system, group: sdcard_rw) = Owner has no rights, group has full right and others read & execute only..

Also one thing I noticed was that the date was set to 1970-01-01 01:00 (aka start of "unix-time"). That can happen, but it still seemed a bit strange..

BUT: Apparently, that is the way it's "supposed to be", as after a reboot it says the same..

This was just an update on my experience with this error, and what I've tried (so far)..
[Desire General] AMoosa:
Stock Rom and card and it is happening to me periodically.

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] ChaosOfChris:
Update: A working solution?

I read on another forum where they (Vodaphone actually) recommended that you reformat the card if you have this sort of problems... So I thought: What a heck.. It can't become worse..

These is the steps that I did (pretty straightforward..) and it works (for about two days now without any big problems..)

Backup the card

You probably don't want to do that using Windows... (You can download free Linux Live-CDs from Ubuntu.com or other places)

Why?? For me, and I don't doubt you may encounter something similar, Windows wanted to reformat the SD Card before it mounted it (DON'T do that if you want to backup your files [and I'm not sure on what the phone would think about that]).

I guess it could work Fine in Mac OS X (but I haven't tested..)

Reboot the phone (mine had trouble recognizing the card after I had disconnected it from the computer)

Go to Settings > SD and phone memory (* ) >Unmount SD Card > Format SD card

Reboot again (not shure if it's needed but just to be sure)

Connect to the computer and put your data back on (be careful, the best is perhaps to only transfer "your stuff" and not replace any files that already are on the card). AND BEFORE you pull out the cable, make sure you unmount the card from your computer!!!!

Done!

(* Translated from Swedish, don't know what it says exactly in English.. )

If you need directions for how to use Linux for this, feel free to contact me..
[Desire General] gordy1:
Try doing a google search for h2testw its a bit of software that can be downloaded that test SD cards and removable drives. I recently had a problem with a new card ran that and it told me that the card had a problem, I sent it back and got a new card and don't have any problems now although they were different to what you were experiencing.
[Desire General] Minos20vt:
I get the same issue about once enery couple of days. I'm first alerted to it when I get a notification saying the automatic backup has failed, then no writes are allowed to the SD card. It's solved temporarily by rebooting.

Phone is stock, Orange ROM, stock 4Gb card. I use HTC sync and often use the phone in disk drive mode.
[Desire General] awf:
Simple damaged SD card...

Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Desire General] kermaani:
All my issues disappeared after i removed the task killer.
[Desire General] dirtyfrog:
Just today, I've started getting issues. It *only* happens when I try to open Spotify. It was working fine this morning on my way to work, but now every time I open the app, the SD card gets mounted as read only. I have used Quick App Clean Cache, and wiped the cache within Spotify itself. Rebooted, powered off, removed and reinserted SD card, and nothing fixes it. ****ing annoyed and pissed off that this keeps happening.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] leadaxer:
Hi guys, could u help me out with this. Yesterday tried flashing my HTC Touch Dual from WM6.1 to WM6.5. Everything went on quite smoothly except when finished, had some audio problems.

Upon loading the audio is fine but after initiating a call (either incoming or outgoing) the audio disappears altogether. A soft reset or restart would make it come back again but the problem repeats after a call is made or received.

FYI, these are the steps i followed for the WM6.5 upgrade:

(Using a Dell Latitude D630 on WinXP, connected via USB cable)

1) Updated SoftSPL:

Link: xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=355730

File used: sspl-1.16-nike.zip

2) Updated HardSPL:

Link: xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2786065&postcount=439

File used: hardspl-1.22-nike-shipped.zip

3) Updated win mobile ROM:

Link: xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=534205

File used: Clean Black 6.5.2 WWE (0409)

4) Updated radio ROM:

Link: xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=369502

File used:

> RUU Nike Radio 1.71.09.01K - didn't work, error during install

> RUU Nike Radio 1.58.21.23S Modded - worked, but audio prblm as stated

> RUU Nike Radio 1.64.08.21K - worked, but audio prblm as stated

Let me know if u need further info in assisting me with my problem.

Appreciate the prompt response. Thanks in advanced :)

Regards,

leadaxer
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] Rataplan:
Try another radio, and the best way to update the radio is by flashing the original rom, I suggest to use radio 1.65.29.22 that radio come with the original wwe 2.16 rom which you can find here.

It is possible to update the radio only, but your problem could still be there so to be sure flash the original rom and see if you have a problem then if not then flash the cooked rom.

FYI If you want to use a 1.71... radio you have to downgrade your radio to a 1.58.. version and then it's working.

Greetz,
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] leadaxer:
Sorry i'm still a noob in this. Correct me if i'm wrong, what ur saying is i have to:

1) Flash back to the original ROM as per link above

2) Test audio issue

3) Flash cooked ROM

4) Downgrade to radio 1.58

5) Upgrade to radio 1.71

Is the above the correct way?

Thanks
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] Rataplan:
Small correction, only do step 1, 2 and 3 and see if your problem is fixed.

Greetz,
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] leadaxer:
Thanks, so far step 1 & 2 is fine. Any suggestions of good cooked ROMs? Seems to be quite aplenty in this forum
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] Rataplan:
It depends on what you want, if you want a lite version or a full version, you want it in English or another language just search and try out for yourself, this is something where I can't help you, it is just personal.

Greetz,
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] leadaxer:
Thanks. Whats the diff between a full n lite version?
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] Rataplan:
The diff between lite and full is that in a lite rom there is a minimal of programs added, so you can add your own programs, and full there are a lot of programs already cooked in the rom.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] lijnkamp:
Hi,

Did it work? I have quite simular issues, but no sound at all and for me the recovery of the original rom did not do the job

thnx

Koen
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] leadaxer:
Worked for me :)
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] fannar:
Worked for me aswell :> tnx alot !
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] thisisred:
Hey Guys I Am New To this. so if this is in the wrong place im sorry...

well when i 1st got my N1 the wifi was working Just Fine.well And Just a Few Days Ago I was was trying to connect to my Wifi At school and it would not connect it would not even try...so i guessed it was the school wifi so i got home i did it on my home network and the same issue...when i try and connect it asked me for my Password but when i type it in and push connect it just say out of range when i am right next to my router....has any one had this prob b4... and is there any why to fix is i already did a hard resent... maybe unrooting and going back to stock out the box N1 would work but i have not clue on how to do that HELP GUY PLZ!!!:confused:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] rcxquake:
Did you recently flash a custom kernel? It doesn't sound like your issue, but it's worth a shot...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] thisisred:
well i dont think i did but ill try anything at this point I mean i GEt 3g And I Only Use wifi in my House cuz i dont get 3g in my room :confused: sounds confusing sorry by anyways my Kernel number is 2.6.29.6-gcbca6ae root@vmwaremic-x64#2 idk if that stock or not
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] erebusting:
I am having a similar wifi issue on a stock un rooted n1

update..

turns out I forgot to add my MAC address to my router....haha
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] drtrmiller:
Some websites call a function to disable autocomplete, and so the Android browser doesn't save passwords for these websites. I would like to bypass this limitation. Any idea?

Cookie points: Some way to manage/view saved passwords individually. Simply being able to clear all saved passwords isn't cutting it.
[Windows Mobile] mezz_89:
Hi.. I'm new to cooking.. Could you please guide me on cooking 6.5 Rom for O2 Atom Life? Which link should I follow? Thank you..
[Windows Mobile] + Que PPC:
"Taken from Atom forum"

It seems that HTC atom uses a diferent upgrade file .nb0... newer kitchens do the same but for .nbh files newer devices, you can maybe go here...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=345735

and take a look around, maybe a chef can helps here in older device cooking process.
[Windows Mobile] mezz_89:
I presume that O2 Atom & Atom Life have different flash Rom.. Because Atom Life using AL1.DIO for flashing.. Any suggestion?
[Windows Mobile] bajaoc:
yahh me too im an atom life user and i want to cook my own rom help pls
[Droid Incredible General] IncredibleDoes:
While the phone is off hold down "Volume down key" and the "power button"

*use volume keys to go up or down

*fastboot is locked so there is no options available besides "fastboot reboot"

*boot into recovery "option"

Just thought I'd post for you all to know this.

*ID*
[Droid Incredible General] hexto:
Thank you. That seems to be the same on all the HTC's. I used that method on a MyTouch 3G
[Droid Incredible General] adrianh85:
also while off hold down the opical button and press power u will access it too
[Droid Incredible General] Hero_Over:
you should update the original post. either optical button or vol down to enter bootloader for one and...

once you are in bootloader do this.

-press vol down to hover over recovery

-press power button to select recovery

-once you reach screen with exclamation and device hold volume up and press power

you can now wipe device or flash an update
[Droid Incredible General] drunkenmonger:
bootloader

i got to the screen with recovery on then i hit the power button again and another menu screen came up that has the bootloader options on it.