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[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thesubliminaljuggalo:
There's a few 1-click methods for rooting your Hero, so not complicated at all. Also, Hero battery life is pretty decent. Mine lasts all day and then some with moderate use. Other people get some ridiculous battery life out of their Heros with a combination of Decad3nce's kernels and Collin's battery tweak.

CM6 2.2 is more than fully functional I would say. The only problem I've ever had with it was the camera freezing and having to reboot my phone, but with the latest themed CM6 Roms (I.E. Redglass, Extremely Blue, etc), I've yet to have the same problem.

The only time my phone ever got hot was running Wireless Tether and pushing constant data through it for a few hours +.

One of the moderators on the Hero forums (impaler, I believe) has a link in his signature to a website that has about 6 or 7 radios that are compatible with the Hero and the signal strength that you'll receive amongst the radios will depend on your location, but flash these at your own risk as they have the possibility to turn your Hero into a shiny paperweight.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
the hero is a nice device. the 4g devices arent worth the premium. data will never be worth what they charge even WITHOUT the ten dollar upcharge on the terribly bulky epic or the over sized evo. no sense getting a 'flagship' device because they change constantly. soon we'll have dual core procs on these phones and even then, consumers wont be happy.

get the hero, my stock rooted is faster/more responsive than my friends stock evo
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steve19137:
wow thats a good chunk of info. im pretty much set on getting one now. one more thing, it has to do with overclocking. i *could* overclock my moment to 1.06 ghz, but if i can kill this with 40 minutes of music, thats not gonna happen anytime soon. i know that many hero roms, by default, overclock to 700something, quite a bit up from the measily 560ish that is stock. with either a replacement battery or one of those battery hacks you mentioned (or both :D), would it balance out the power needed to run the processor faster? and make it run for 8-10 hours while im at school all day? thanks for all the good feedback guys. now i just need to find someone selling one thats not too scuffed up :D
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JusticeAA:
Your friend must have jacked up his evo because my wife has one and it blows my OC'ed hero out of the water (CM6.1). You especially notice the speed in the browser and the games that I download on it without permission.

I agree the $10 extra a month is hard to swallow. Just remember that 2 years is a long time to commit to an older phone.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andythegreenguy:
Hero is a nice device. It is small and does not feel like a brick in your pocket. The battery life is not bad. I have not tried any battery tweaks, but with some minor tweaks, I can get anywhere between 18-24 hours on a full charge. The only time I have felt the phone get hot is while wireless tethering.

I got it new earlier this year and as time progressed, I was getting annoyed with some of it's shortcomings, due to the software provided by Sprint. It felt slow, could not utilize the SD card for apps and such. The last straw was when "The Powers" said they won't be giving the Hero any more Android updates...

So, I rooted it and put CM6 (stable). Since then, I have been feeling like a child with a whole new toy. It works amazing, plus no extra 4G surcharge... :D.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steve19137:
oh something else i thought of. i think the hero has multitouch, please confirm. does it also have flash player? if it doesnt have either, thats ok. the moment has neither :P
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
yeah its got multi touch. it doesnt have full flash, officially anyway.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thesubliminaljuggalo:
What the battery tweak does is clock your CPU based on certain variables. You can set it's max and minimum limits whilest the phone is running on battery/USB power/AC power. Also, you can change it so it reduces the max CPU usage when the battery is below a certain percentage, as to suck the most time out of your battery.

I have my tweak settings maxed out at 729 mhz for any given variable and a min 176 mhz. My phone lasts all day and then some, for sure. I woke up with it at 75% (put it in airplane mode for the night because I was too lazy to find the charger) and currently it's at 55% after 8 1/2 hours of moderate use.

Results may vary, of course. (:

edit: I carry around an extra charged battery just in case. There's a Taiwanese vendor on eBay selling 2 spare batters + a wall charger (charges your external batteries without needing your phone with the option of USB charging as well) -- all for $12 or something. Definitely worth it and I think there's a post in the accessories forum with the link to it. Not sure if it died by now or not.

Good luck! (:
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steve19137:
thanks for all this info guys! im cant wait to be able to get one of these things for myself!!! the hard part is the ebay bidding. i already lost 2 auctions that i was aiming for, trying for another one tonight, then done for the day. anywhere else that i might look to get an unlocked hero besides craigslist? i wont buy off there, no way.

EDIT: i finally won a hero off ebay!!! i got it for $110. i think thats a pretty good deal! but i was thinking about the rooting process, and i like the idea of a one click root, but i need a little more info. does the one click root install a recovery also? if it doesnt, is it possible that ROM Manager works with the Hero, and i can install clockwork recovery? i really appreciate all your info guys. thanks a bunch :D
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steve19137:
im starting to feel really bad because im bumping this thread quite a bit, but i have so many questions, and my searches arent showing anything :( is there a way for me to bring a backup of the /data partition on my moment over to my hero? in the moments recovery, there is an option to backup the /data partition to a .tar or some sort of archive. is it possible that i could take that to the hero, load it, then create a simple nandroid backup? because i hate having to reload all my apps and preferences. thanks for all the help guys, i really REALLY do appreciate it.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thesubliminaljuggalo:
The unrevoked method really works, yes.

Personally, I used http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=803682 on my girlfriend's Hero, but I'm not sure about the Recovery, after trying a few different rooting methods, the Recovery just appeared after rebooting, so I'm not sure which one did it.

The method I used to root my Hero is long outdated and was used for Android 1.5 Heros, so no help there.

About the /data backup on your Palm, I highly doubt it. Not natively compatible for sure.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] winter128:
Just start fresh on the hero. Put unrevoked on your hero(if you have firmware 2.27.651.5..... if it ends in .6 or .7 you will have to find the .5 somewhere and downgrade first, it's simple)

After using unrevoked, download Rom Manager from the market and flash clockworkmod recovery. Nandroid backup and then you can start flashing different ROMs.... I love the Cyanogenmod 2.2 builds....have fun!!!!!:D
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] winter128:
Here's a great site for you....should have everything you need plus a garbage load more.

http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=File:Hero_CDMA.png
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steve19137:
its not a palm... its a samsung moment :D that would quite peculiar if i tried to bring a webos backup to android... :D but i probably will start over. i have a bunch of crap on my phone anyhow. it would be a good thing.

oh boy! thats alot of stuff! thanks alot for that! i didnt know xda had a wiki... but then again, sdx has one too, so i should have known.

yep, i read about the OTA updates to block the rooting. but take a look at this (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=753910). this implies that you can root the .6 OTA. is that a typo, or legit? the wiki link above also says that .6 is rootable. i know how to downgrade if necessary, though. as far as the unrevoked rooting, i was right then! unrevoked then rom manager will do the trick? awesome thats way easy. and i know that i change recoveries within rom manager... i think im set guys! thanks alot for all your help. ill be sitting on that wiki link for a while. im gonna read all i can before my hero comes :D im super duper excited!!! and i will have fun!!! i plan on flashing CM6 anyhow :D
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stayclean:
.6 and .7 are both rootable, no need to downgrade.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steve19137:
how do i root .7 if thats what my phone comes with? will unrevoked do .5 .6 and .7?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stayclean:
In the Development section, check for the Easy Root thread. Takes about 3 minutes.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] bassahaulic:
With the new update today I think it's finally as good as the iPhone version, minus chat.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] ranova:
everything still loads slow as hell over here with cog 2.2 b9

Contact syncing is not back, no chat, etc etc

-_-
[Captivate Themes and Apps] mindfrost82:
Contact syncing is a separate service using some goofy Samsung thing SNS. On the Nexus One it was built-in with the facebook app.

Still no push notification, but at least now when you click on a notification it loads it in the app instead of loading up the website.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] ranova:
older versions of the fb app had contact syncing that allowed you to select "only sync with existing contacts" instead of samsung's fb sync that syncs every contact unless you manually uncheck them.

HTC did it best with their built in fb sync
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Dave the Knave:
I don't even get my notifications. Everytime I load the app, "500/Internal Server Error". Uninstalling and rebooting hasn't done anything for me yet. Heck it FC'd upon first launch. I just don't get why our app has to be so far behind the iOS and Blackberry versions. Its not like we don't have the user base.

Sent from my Captivate
[Captivate Themes and Apps] WickedStyx:
I'm pretty sure the setup wizard in 2.2 gives you the option to "only sync with existing contacts"
[Captivate Themes and Apps] mindfrost82:
Ahhh, ok. My biggest complaint about Samsung's SNS thing is that it doesn't seem to pickup new friends. When I add someone on Facebook, they never show up in my contacts or link to an existing contact, even if I do a manual sync.
[Fascinate General] zeroxg4:
My market just displays "starting dowload" indefinitely when i try to download anything. And my google talk closes the instant that it opens. Any ideas on a fix?
[Fascinate General] Mean Sixteen:
+1 on needing a fix.

My market has the exact same problem.

Just started yesterday when i went to jts clean rom.

Sent from Chad's Fascinate voo doo one point two
[Fascinate General] bleeeeeeek:
Have either of you done a titanium backup?
[Fascinate General] p3dror:
I had that problem yesterday I had to un-root the phone I can't post the URL but you can find the thread in the 2nd page of fascinate and devlopement forum

it was the only solution I found and it helped
[Fascinate General] Whitepaint:
Im Having the same problem. Happened after flashing JT's clean ROM.
[Fascinate General] GoogleAndroid:
It's from restoring apps with Titanium Backup. For whatever reason, whenever I do this, it breaks my market no matter what ROM and whether I have Voodoo or not. Restore to stock, re-root, and everything, and you need to restore every app manually.
[Fascinate General] Whitepaint:
I did not use Titanium Backup.
[Fascinate General] theformula:
I posted a new thread about this, seemed to work for me and a few others I tried. Check "for anyone having market issues"
[Fascinate General] absens:
Been having the same problem. I used titanium to freeze then defrost Market. Then did the same thing to Market Updater. Market works perfect now, but it reverted from the Froyo version back to Eclair. But it's better than not working at all.
[Fascinate General] mykebass:
Promise this will work. Just go to titanium and click on Market and then click Wipe Data. Do the same with Market Updater. All will be fixed.
[Fascinate General] Mean Sixteen:
Thanks for the idea.

Got anymore? Did this, and the thread mentioned above and no change.

I will have to try reverting to eclair if i can't get this working. Argh

Sent from Chad's Fascinate voo doo one point two
[Fascinate General] Daswolven:
This is an old issue, with several things to try.

I would first suggest looking through your application list and uninstalling any 0.00 sized files left as ghosts of apps manually removed. There will possibly be other smallish sized files left behind as well if you can identify them.

Force stop and clear market cache

Boot into recovery, clear cache and reboot.
[Fascinate General] zeroxg4:
I tried everything you just said above exactly. It still has the same result: "Starting Download" indefinitely.

I also tried using Titanium Backup to wipe data for market and market updater, but that didn't work either. I'm pretty frustrated that I can't figure this out :confused:
[Fascinate General] Beejis:
Got a solution. I was having the same problem with my Evo. Go to applications, then go to installed on sd. Move everything over to the phone. Then go to all applications and clear cache/data/and force stop it. That did the trick. You can move everything back to sd card after it fixes the market issue and it shouldn't happen again.

Sent from my HTC Evo 4g
[Fascinate General] zeroxg4:
I tried this to no avail. I also tried all of the above mentioned solutions, as well as all of them at the same time but with no luck. Its just stuck at "starting download"...

Anyone else have an idea?
[Fascinate General] zeiroe:
Uninstalling the froyo market and reverting back to the 2.1 market resolved this issue for me on 2 phones ... Mine and the wifee.
[Fascinate General] Andrew179:
I had this issue, and I found out something peculiar. I was running JT's Super Clean rom with Market 2.2 and a Voodoo kernel, and the Factory Reset ran, but did not actually reset anything. After turning Voodoo off, I was able to Factory Reset, which fixed the Market issues.
[Fascinate General] Jodiuh:
Same thing here...
[Fascinate General] johnnyv5:
I was having this issue as well. Had to install JT Clean rom w/ wiping cache and data. Tried every suggestion in the book but none fixed it but wiping cache and data and installing JT Clean Rom.

jv
[Fascinate General] pokedroid:
This might not be the answer anyone is looking for, but an odin restore, followed by another data/cache wow should erase any and all issues. You could also try flashing the vanilla (already rooted) backup that's flaring around the internets.

GL with this everyone. Uninstalling (not just disabling) voodoo was all I had to do to fix this a few weeks ago.

Sent from my stupidfast, blackhole fascinate
[HD7 General] shanssv:
Hi guys,

Anyway to skip song with the earphone remote?

Thanx

Shan
[HD7 General] ThePhoenixUK:
Not at the moment
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JWhipple:
Is tethering going to be an option you can sign up for, or rather, something that they will detect and bill you for ?

I can't seem to find anything on their website as far as adding tethering to your plan. I have no gripes about paying for it, especially since now I have WiFi calling... I just dropped my plan down to 500 minutes as I plan on doing most everything via WiFi anyhow.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gaww:
I do not know their plans. I am tethering with my Nexus while I am waiting on my order for this phone from the retention department.

I will be watching my billings to see if they are able to charge for this beginning today.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agentaaron:
I was curious as well...I dont know if they can detect that you are tethering, especially in places that have 4G service. The phone itself is capable of pulling quite a bit of data.

I can say that I have already flexed the tethering app installed on the phone and it works great...even on 3G. Its not something I abuse. If I need to tether to my laptop here at work, I do...then get off. I know some people who have cut out their home ISP and rely on tethering even to run their PS3 and XB360. That I think is being a little greedy for a service that T-Mobile has been pretty lenient with thus far.

On a side note...you would think that there would be a popup disclaimer "this app may result in charges...blah,blah,blah" when you open the default hotspot app...but there is not, leading me to believe that they may never take notice of casual tethering.
[G2 and Desire Z General] sundar2012:
I don't think this was working before the update, but now u can enter the

*#*#4636#*#* command and select WCDMA only to stay on 3/3.5g.

And before anyone asks

WCDMA only means 3g and 3.5g which means if your signal is strong enough, HSPA+/4g
[G2 and Desire Z General] G1rome:
Im just curious where do u enter that code?
[G2 and Desire Z General] funkadesi:
in that case, shouldn't it be WCDMA Preferred?.... if you end up in a EDGE... only area...?

also... I thought GSM Auto PRL.... was the best option... :confused:
[G2 and Desire Z General] Jigga0o7:
Dialer.

(ten char).
[G2 and Desire Z General] xmasguy:
it worked before the update...
[G2 and Desire Z General] SeReaction:
Fair warning... this move will impact your battery life heavily.
[G2 and Desire Z General] sheek360:
gsm auto prl can save u a bit of battery life but usually prefers edge if the 3g signal isn't strong enough.

Wcdma only wont allow for a 3g to edge fluctuation. It will force 3g. Problem is, if your in an area with poor coverage it'll be either 3g or nothing and you may find yourself with no connection at all since the phone wont bring u to edge.

Wcdma preffered is like the opposite of gsm auto prl. It will prefer 3g.
[G2 and Desire Z General] funkadesi:
Thanks sheek, I guess my best bet would be to good with WCDMA preferred, since reception is shaky in my area...
[G2 and Desire Z General] sundar2012:
I think this might be better since it will waste less energy capturing a weak edge signal in a weak area.
[G2 and Desire Z General] smirkis:
working so far. ill report bat life in due time. i cant see how it would really affect it. i hate when my g2 hits edge. if by not using it because of edge saves battery then im fine with a dying battery. i have spares and extended bats anyway
[G2 and Desire Z General] sheek360:
Yup. That's exactly what I do too.

I have a friend who lives in Philly; one of the best tmobile footprints exist in this city. Wcdma only and wcdma prefer netted no gains or losses except when he crossed and passed Camden new jersey.
[G2 and Desire Z General] dragginblazer:
Or search "radioinfo" in the market and get the app named network that pops up in the search.

Sent from my T-Mob G2
[G2 and Desire Z General] SeReaction:
That's not the only difference between the modes.

WCDMA Only will only lock in the 3G signals and switch over if there is no more signal for 3G reception.

-Only use this if you're in a metropolitan area or are covered in abundant 3G signals.

WCDMA Preferred will drain more battery, the reason being that it'll scan the airwaves constantly in search of better 3G signals. You are right about it having a wider 3G signal threshold.

-Use this if you're in a 3G abundant city but not where if you're noticing frequently 3G to E switching as it'll adversely kill your battery.

GSM Auto PRL will shrink the threshold for 3G signals as well as less frequent scans for better signal. Generally E to 3G/H transitions happens on 1.5 to 2 bars of 3G signal, but the phone will remain on 3G unless there is an EDGE signal that is better and thus may provide better data transfer speeds or if 3G/H signal is gone.

-Benefits for battery life but not great when better signal is a necessary. Would not recommend this mode if signal is scattered.

As you can tell from my city in my sig, I have a choice between the three, I went with GSM Auto PRL due to battery life being of importance to me as I'm not necessarily next to a tap in 8 hour gaps.

Hope this helps better than my original post.
[G2 and Desire Z General] dronepop:
Or the "Network" app.
[G2 and Desire Z General] khaosxiii:
confirmed xxxxxxx
[G2 and Desire Z General] philosophics:
I have never even touched an HSPA+ connection and I live in an area where it's apparently abundant.

Switched SIMs for a newer one and still nothing. I was told to wait for the 2nd OTA that's coming out by the 8th (And I'm still calling BS on that)

Why in the hell would they push out 2 different OTA's in 1 week for a single device?
[G2 and Desire Z General] theratdude64:
I'm hesitant to do this because I don't know if it is my phone being flakey or the actual area. According to TMobile's data coverage website I am in the middle of a massive solid high speed zone... but I constantly flake to Edge.

I don't want to change this setting and it cut out on me entirely, that it may be the actual area. But I guess all I can do is try :shrug:
[G2 and Desire Z General] SeReaction:
The one thing I've noticed about the phone is that signal drops when holding it to use the keyboard, if this information's any help.
[G2 and Desire Z General] sundar2012:
I found I was hemhoragging battery at some point with 50% no signal according to cell standby. But it wasn't caused by selecting WCDMA only - i am bathed in hspa/umta. Instead I turned on airplane mode while plugged in, waited a bit, then off, then unplugged. Then restarted phone to recovery (clockwork), wiped battery stats, and restarted. Running fine now.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tischn:
Hi All

Is it possible, that will come an Windows Phone 7 rom on the HTC desire???
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheGhost1233:
No development and posted before: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=814839
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PinkySlayer:
That would be nice! :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beanbean50:
mission impossible
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TermyJW:
Okay, here's the question that appears in most of these threads:

...Why would you want an inferior OS installed on top of Android?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diggedy:
I had a play with wp7 the other day, on the outside it seemed very very sleek and user friendly but when you read the reviews about what is missing.... urg. Its like going back to basics
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
Moved to Q&A. As was stated in the thread title, this is a question, so it should not be posted in development.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PinkySlayer:
Inferiority is in the eye of the beholder. So please don't state an opinion as being fact. Some of us just like to try different things, whether it be roms or OSs.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
Thats not true, wp7 is inferior to android in every respect, it might look deep, but if you read up on all.the things ms has left out, it can barely be called a smartphone os, more like a feature phone......
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PinkySlayer:
WP7 is effectively a brand new OS (primarily because the previous versions were so awful) so it is bound to be lacking in some areas. But compare Android v1 to WP7 v1 and the comparison isn't so favourable. M$ are sometimes slow to join the party, but give them time and the will give android a damned good run for its money.

But put all that aside, it all comes down to personal preference. I have worked with Windows since 3.1 and although I have tried various favours of Linux, I don't "get it". I used iOS for 18 months b4 Android and Android is inferior in many ways, but it comes down to personal preference.

And remember, XDA Developers was originally a Windows Mobile forum, so don't be so closed minded about people's individual choices.