[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] iPasta:
MOVED!! www.hrdb.tk

As i saw this on Wildfire development thread, i thougt it would also be a good idea for us. So this is a collection of most roms. I'm trying to keep this up to date. If i've made any mistakes or forgot something please let me know so i can correct this.

I RECOMMEND ALWAYS TO CHECK THE THREADS BEFORE INSTALLING ANY OF THE LISTED ROMS!! YOU WILL FIND IMPORTENT INFORMATIONS THERE!

What i forgot: I want to thank every developer! You all make a great job and i'm happy having a HTC Hero. Keep going and keep the Hero alive ;)

UPDATE: I don't think this thread is very helpfull for people who are in the community for some time, but i think it is for people who are new to XDA and those who are new on rooting their phones and custom roms. If anyone likes to add some benchmark results or important information to some of the roms, just write me a pm and we can talk about that.

UPDATE2: I'm going to add benchmark results to the roms. The results aren't the best that can be scored on those roms. I just flash the roms on full wiped phone with 8gb class 4 microSD with 512mb ext2. The Linpackscore is the average of 10 runs, the Neocorescore is the average of 5 runs, boottime is the time after 2 restarts. There is nothing done to the rom, just enable wifi, download and install testapps and thats it.

You will find some other benchmarks made by shokkapic here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=721551

ROMs listed by AOSP/Sense and release date:

DEFAULT CLOCK IS 528 MHZ!!

AOSP - no Sense:

2011-02-20 - Elelinux 7.0.0 RC1 Hero v0.9 (2.3 | AOSP) by Elelinux - Thread here

Benchmark for v0.6: Linpack: 5.088 MFLOPS | Neocore (with sound): 56.0 (min: - | max: -) | Boottime: - (This rom is overclocked to 352 MHz/710 MHz) (Thanks to Proz0r for those benchmarks)

Benchmark for v0.4: Linpack: 4.955 MFLOPS | Neocore (with sound): 55,4 (min: - | max: -) | Boottime: - (This rom is overclocked to 352 MHz/710 MHz) (Thanks to Proz0r for those benchmarks)

2011-02-11 - Elelinux 6.2.0 RC0 Hero Speedmachine (2.2 | AOSP) by elelinux - Thread here

Benchmark for previous version: Linpack: 4,065 MFLOPS | Neocore (with sound): 27,0 (min: 26,5 | max: 27,2) | Boottime: 0:54 minutes (This rom has JIT and is overclocked 352 MHz/576 MHz by default)

2011-02-06 - TastyGinger 2.0 "Yahoo!" (2.3 | AOSP) by RaduG - Thread here

Benchmark: Linpack: 4,987 MFLOPS | Neocore (with sound): 54,8 (min: 54,1 | max: 55,1) | Boottime: 0:52 minutes (This rom is overclocked to 264 MHz/710 MHz)

2011-01-30 - CM 7.0.0 Beta3 (2.3 | AOSP) by Cyanogen - Thread here

2011-01-23 - TastyFroyo 1.2 - "The grand finale" (2.2 | AOSP with resolution hack) by RaduG - Thread here

Benchmark for Version 1.0: Linpack: 4,879 MFLOPS | Neocore (with sound): 27,3 (min: 27,1 | max: 27,5) | Boottime: 0:58 minutes (This rom has JIT and is overclocked 176 MHz/691 MHz by default)

2010-12-13 - FROYO 2.2.1 Final Android Stock / Special Edition Final (2.2 | CM6-based | AOSP) by elelinux - Thread here

Benchmark: Linpack: 3,973 MFLOPS | Neocore (with sound): 26,6 (min: 26,2 | max: 26,8) | Boottime: 1:06 minutes (This is the Android Stock Version, JIT enabled by default)

Benchmark: Linpack: 3,973 MFLOPS | Neocore (with sound): 26,3 (min: 25,9 | max: 26,6) | Boottime: 0:58 minutes (This is the Special Edition, JIT enabled by default)

2010-12-13 - Team Villain Presents... FroydVillain 1.7.2 (Based on CM6.1 Final) (2.2 | CM6-based | AOSP) by Team Villain - Thread here

Benchmark: Linpack: 3,933 MFLOPS | Neocore (with sound): 26,2 (min: 25,8 | max: 26,4) | Boottime: 1:09 minutes (JIT enabled by default)

2010-12-12 - Floyo 1.2.0 "Is the wait over?" (2.2 | CM6-based | AOSP) by erasmux - Thread here

Benchmark: Linpack: 3,908 MFLOPS | Neocore (with sound): 26,6 (min: 26,3 | max: 26,7) | Boottime: 1:11 minutes (JIT enabled by default)

2010-12-07 - CyanogenMod-6.1 for HTC Hero V6.1.0 (2.2 | AOSP) by Cyanogen Developers - Thread here

Benchmark: Linpack: 2,195 MFLOPS | Neocore (with sound): 24,6 (min: 24,5 | max: 24,7) | Boottime: 1:15 minutes (You will get better Linpackresults if you enable JIT)

2010-12-03 - Android 2.2.1 Froyo (Fusion!ROM 2.2.1) (2.2 | CM6-based | AOSP) by rbrucemtl - Thread here

Benchmark: Linpack: 3,939 MFLOPS | Neocore (with sound): 24,8 (min: 24,6 | max: 24,9) | Boottime: 0:51 minutes

2010-12-03 - FROYO 2.2 Special Edition RC1 update1 (2.2 | AOSP) by elelinux - Thread here

Benchmark: Linpack: 3,978 MFLOPS | Neocore (with sound): 26,6 (min: 26,4 | max: 26,7) | Boottime: 0:57 minutes (JIT enabled by default)

2010-07-26 - >> Hik@Ri_2.2.0_5_os << [AOSP/NO SenseUI] (2.1 | AOSP) by adwinp - Thread here

Benchmark: Linpack: 5,012 MFLOPS | Neocore (with sound): 26,4 (min: 26,2 | max: 26,5) | Boottime: 0:52 minutes (This rom has JIT and is overclocked 19 MHz/748 MHz by default)

2010-07-20 - VanillaEclair 5.0 - "Welcome to Prisneyland, Fish" (2.1 | AOSP) by RaduG - Thread here

Benchmark: Linpack: 2,935 MFLOPS | Neocore (with sound): 28,4 (min: 28,1 | max: 28,6) | Boottime: 1:00 minutes (You will get better Linpackresults if you enable JIT)

2010-07-05 - aHero v1.1 "Perfect Eclair/CyanogenMod" (2.1 | AOSP) by MaXo64 - Thread here

Benchmark: Linpack: 3,313 MFLOPS (JIT enabled), 2,172 MFLOPS (JIT disabled) | Neocore (with sound): 24,3 (min: 23,7 | max: 24,7) | Boottime: 1:19 minutes

2010-06-22 - VanillaEclair 4.0 "You don't score until you score"" (2.1 | AOSP) by RaduG - Thread here

Benchmark: Linpack: 2,878 MFLOPS | Neocore (with sound): 28,1 (min: 27,6 | max: 28,4) | Boottime: 1:06 minutes (This rom is overclocked 176MHz/691MHz by default)

Sense:

2011-02-11 - Tegro 2.5 RC3 (Slide Espresso port), updated kernels (2.1 | Sense | Slide Espresso port) by hawst - Thread here

Benchmark for 2.4: Linpack: 2,334 MFLOPS (JIT disabled) | Neocore (with sound): 24,4 (min: 23,6 | max: 26,9) | Boottime: 1:11 minutes (don't get it booted with JIT enabled)

2011-01-02 - ChocolateFroyo v1.0-rel2 - Go Sense (2.2 | Sense) by RaduG - Thread here (Not everything working atm, but most things do ;))

Benchmark (for version v1.0-rel1): Linpack: 2,87 MFLOPS | Neocore (with sound): 30,4 (min: 29,7 | max: 30,7) | Boottime: 1:02 minutes (This rom is overclocked to 176Mhz/691Mhz by default)

2010-12-06 - Sengle 0.7.2 (2.2 | Sense | Beta, not everything working atm) by erasmux - Thread here

Benchmark: Linpack: 4,112 MFLOPS | Neocore (with sound): 25,6 (min: 24,6 | max: 26,1) | Boottime: 1:34 minutes (This rom has JIT and is overclocked 614MHz/352MHz by default)

2010-11-24 - Froyo Sense +WIFI +GPS +App2sd (2.2 | Sense | Beta, not everything working atm) by bihariel - Thread here

Benchmark: Linpack: 2,621 MFLOPS | Neocore (with sound): 30,2 (min: 29,7 | max: 30,6) | Boottime: 1:14 minutes

2010-10-04 - Nebulae v1.1 (WWE Éclair 2.1) (2.1 | Sense) by Nazgulled - Thread here

Benchmark: Linpack: 2,297 MFLOPS | Neocore (with sound): 24,8 (min: 24,5 | max: 25,1) | Boottime: 1:02 minutes

2010-09-18 - RCMix 2.2b Fixed, Asian available, Cleaner, Better, Faster (2.1 | Sense) by robocik - Thread here

Benchmark: Linpack: 2,666 MFLOPS | Neocore (with sound): 27,5 (min: 27,5 | max: 27,5) | Boottime: 1:15 minutes (Without JIT, this rom is overclocked to 245MHz/614MHz by default)

2010-09-10 - MrBang Custom Rom 1.4.1 (2.1 | Sense) by mr.bang - Thread here

2010-09-07 - Fallah 1.4 ,Eclair, "Arabic enabled SenseUI" (2.1 | Sense) by MaXo64 - Thread here

2010-08-06 - VillainROM 12.0.0 Final - WWE Android 2.1 by TeamVillain (2.1 | Sense) by Team Villain - Thread here

2010-07-16 - ChocolateEclair 2.0 "Why is it always me?" (2.1 | Sense) by RaduG - Thread here

2010-06-30 - Kimera 2.1 - Based on official OTA (Now overclocked) (2.1 | Sense) by Exit93 - Thread here

2010-06-09 - Sensehero 2.1 Build 5 [Beauty.speed.stability] (2.1 | Sense | Very nice themed!!) by Stickman89 - Thread here

2010-06-08 - MoDaCo Custom ROM r5 (2.1 | Sense) by MoDaCo - Thread here

2010-05-24 - NeORoM v2.1 Legend 2.1 Port (2.1 | Sense) by alias_neo - Thread here

2010-03-11 - Raidroid 1.1, Eris 2.1 Port, EVEN FASTER! (2.1 | Sense) by RaiderX303 - Thread here

Kernels:

[Kernel] Flykernel-12a "Breaking the limits" by erasmux

[Kernel] [2.6.29] [Updated: 22/12/2010] RaKern-113 for GSM Hero by RaduG

Benchmarks for Non-Sense roms:

Linpack (higher is better):

Neocore (higher is better):

Boottime (lower is better):

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