hey dude,

I am sorry for my noobless..It's ok now..thanks thanks. By the way, can i install all patches all togehter without replacing one and another?

yep..you can..

Good work and keep it up. Goingf to get Hero to support u.

Thanks

Bro,

First and foremost, i would like to apologize for the nooby questions that i'm gonna ask.
I just got myself a htc hero (i admit, i intuitively bought it) with no particular knowledge whatsoever on android based OS. I am struggling to find out the true power of the phone and have yet to install/flash/update anything. The salesperson who sold it to me said he updated and added a few apps.

1. Are they any other ROMs out there that are worth considering?
2. By flashing to another ROM, will the GUI change? What else will change?
3. The latest version of Android SDK is 2.1, but do i need to update my phone to that version? how do i update to it?
4. Installing apps and widgets are only through the phone's wifi or can i download it onto my comp and then sync with the device? Is it through the apps store?
5. Are there any recommended free apps that i should have? Like Ndrive and such
6. I am an entertainment-enclined person so how do i sync music and videos quickly(from pc to device)?

If it's any use:

build 2.73.751.13
firmware 1.5

Thanks in advance

First and foremost, welcome to android room and congrats on your wonderful device!

Here you go..

1. Yep, you are good enough to even know about ROMs There are several out there, but cyanogen and MCR are the best as far as I have tested them.
2. nope..GUI doesn't change (unless you are upgrading to AOSP 2.1 which installs the new kernel altogether)
3. Your phone is 1.5 still. There is a 2.1 release which was not made officially by HTC yet. You can use that if you want, but if bluetooth is not a necessity to you, I suggest just hold back to 1.5 for now until the official 2.1 is released for Hero.
4. Yep, its through the "market" application.
5. When you go to Market, you will find this out..haha..Too many to list here
6. WiFi using FTP if you want..Thats faster and easier..

Hope that helps

thanks bro, much appreciated for your help.

Hello world of Android

Btw, the files that you provided on this post flashes the ROM to what what version?
Since i want to update to 2.1, what should i do next?

This post has been edited by y3ivan: Feb 28 2010, 01:16 PM

this one will not update the kernel..it uses 1.5 kernel with Modaco Custom ROM v 3.1
If you want to flash 2.1, you have to use different files

i've been following ur step and successfully installed modaco3.0.. there are some suspicious quotation there state SSH password: xxxxx.. what was that?? written in build number side..

This post has been edited by kamikraze: Feb 28 2010, 09:55 PM

lol..u shouldn't share it here..its a password only for your phone exclusively..its randomly generated and it enables SSH access to your phone..

lol.. i though my rom infected by trojan or something like that.. haha..

hi! thanks shahz for the tutorial in front, followed it step by step and installed modaco 3.0 too.. i wanted the ability to write chinese so i installed the Core modaco 3.0, followed by the 2.8 one with chinese, then lastly the bootsounds... then i noticed that some of the applications dun work, for example i have an icon tat shows "cz.hejl.chesswalk..." when i click on it it says the program has stopped unexpectedly, and i have to force close it... i have a few programs like that.. izzit becoz some files are missing? these are programs included in the ROM right? thanks!

try reinstalling those apps. Those are not part of the rom. Make sure u did a wipe beforehand..

ooh, thet're not part of the ROM? great, i'll just do a wipe then, hahaha... make things easier... thanks a lot shahz!
oh another thing, for those of you who use the chinese support, do u know how to enable Pinyin input method? after installing the 2.8 modaco with chinese, there's no Pinyin input method, only handwriting, Zhuyin and Changjie, haha.. anyone using the Pinyin input method? thanks!

Haha..that's one thing I can't help since I can't read or write chinese..did u long press the keyboard setting key? Might get a hint there…

i still cant change ext2 type.. is there any requirement required to able to change ext2 to ext3?

nope..there is none..make sure you followed the step correctly..or u can do it from the recovery

hi, to do it from recovery, there's an option ext 2 to ext 3 and ext 3 to ext 4, that's the one?

hmm, i did a wipe last nite, did it from the recovery page, i wiped everything, wipe cache, wipe sd card, wipe data etc... even reformatted my sd card..after that i applied all the modaco ROMs again, but when i reboot the phone, those broken links are still there... apps like afirewall still stopped unexpectedly and have to force close... is there anything wrong? the only way is to uninstall them manually i guess..

sifussss,

i failed on the step 2, once i type adb on the command manager, it showed

"adb" is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

what does it mean?

This post has been edited by Addonics: Mar 2 2010, 11:55 AM

Yeah, and you must do it part by part..ext2 -> ext 3 -> ext 4
Like I said, apps have nothing to do with the ROMs. Some apps may not be written well for certain phones.

Have you added the variables to the environment? Make sure you use the correct separator "," or ";"

i added, i used 2 of the separator you mention also not working.

same error prompt out in the command