HTC Hero, coming July on Orange and T-Mobile, makes me want!

DoubleCheese said:
Thats pretty poor. I'm sure I get more life out of mine. If I "reboot" the phone so all the services and apps are running I struggle to get 24hrs of life out of it. Thats with a bit of browsing and a few short calls and sms's thrown in. If I regularly kill the apps with ATK then the life and resposiveness of the phone is improved, 2 days.

Killing the data connection will make a big difference to battery life but I use the connection so frequently it would really hamper the usefulness of the phone. It's a necessity when out an about on holiday though! Has anyone seen a Data "toggle widget" like the Wi-fi, GPS and bluetooth?
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If you press the plus button on the bottom right of the home screen, and go to HTC Widgets, then settings, there's a button for mobile network. That controls the mobile data, and should do the job. It doesn't turn of the network altogether, you'll still get calls and stuff.
 
My hero is a bit sluggish every now and again and I've been baring with it for a while. Anyone else suffer the same problem? I can't wait for the update to come out.
 
I'm not sure if you're allowed to on this forum, so if not let me know and I'll edit the mention of it out, but if it's OK can somebody give me a walkthrough of how to install the Modaco ROM for my Hero, including running the Nandroid backup?
 
Having huge problems at the moment with my Hero not receiving calls, only to send me a text letting me know I've missed a call. Read around a bit to find a lot of people are having this problem when the mobile data is active, however I'm still having troubles when it's turned off completely...

Any ideas?
 
ghost101 said:
HTC Hero hasn't really dropped in price other than on the 2nd hand market.
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The bay market hasn't dropped in value the last 6 weeks. Prices are still wild (£50 fluctuations for no apparent reason) and no lower than I got mine for then.
 
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ghost101 said:
I highly recommend this ROM.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=654030

VillainROM 5.2 RC

It is brilliant and I can't see how an official HTC release will improve upon it other than adding Friendstream. Also the ROM allows you to use Nexus One's Launcher.
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im running the same rom, and its great, super fast and with apps2sd working it uses very little memory, i cant wait for the official gsm 2.1 to be worked on.
 
insane200 said:
im running the same rom, and its great, super fast and with apps2sd working it uses very little memory, i cant wait for the official gsm 2.1 to be worked on.
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is apps2sd named differently on the system? i just installed this rom, and.. not really enjoying it so much, a lot of music player, calender crashes, even when i click on phone it gives me an error... i keep getting a ton of error messages :/ first time installing a rom following this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=645253
 
ghost101 said:
Did you do a complete wipe? it shouldn't be as buggy as you describe.

http://www.villainrom.co.uk/bug/view_all_bug_page.php

See if what you get is happening to someone else.

I haven't gone fully through the list, but nearly every single one isn't happening for me.

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Its the BETA CDMA Port you want to be looking at.
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hmm, well i dont know for now, i've just switched it back on, and its taking forever to get back into my phone, 2nd time i've rebooted and its just staying stuck on the hero logo. :/

i did do a full wipe, completely followed the guide.
 
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