So you love your phone, but are not too keen on your phone service provider lately? Now, if you bought a phone from your provider when you got service then your phone is most likely locked to that provider and they will never let you leave with it, bwuahahahaha! Ok, so the sinister laugh is uncalled for and that statement is not actually true. I’ll explain. To make a long story short, in the US, the phone companies here meet with manufacturers to see their new phones. If the US phone company likes a specific phone then they order it […]

Ok, so we all want Hero to be faster, so here are a few tips and tricks to get it running as smoothly as it can. Keep in mind though that regardless of what we do, we still are short on 100Mbs of RAM that HTC Hero ROM was meant to run on so some lag is expected, but let’s see if we can get it to a bearable level, shall we? These tips all assume that you have followed our 1 Click Rooting procedure and our How To Load a Custom ROM procedure (including partitioning the card with 3

So thanks to MoDaCo (the guy who did the video showing the official update in our last post), we have a rooted and enhanced ROM based on the official update from HTC. So all of you rooted Hero users get on over to our Downloads section and check it out (or to the updated version of our How To Load a Custom ROM on Your HTC Hero procedure) for a link. For all of you non-rooted Hero users, don’t want to wait for HTC to release the update (and want the benefits of rooting to boot)? Head to our How

1. Download a ROM from forum.XDA-Developer.com to your computer. Or check our Downloads section and click on Android then ROMs and use the search bar at the top and type in “Hero ROMs”. *IF YOU HAVE A SPRINT HERO MAKE SURE THE ROM YOU WANT IS COMPATIBLE FOR THE SPRINT HERO! 2. Plug in your phone and pull down the Notification bar when the SD notification pops up. 3. Click on the notification and select Mount. 4. Once the SD card is on your computer screen, copy the ROM from your computer to your SD card (make sure NOT to

PLEASE TRY OUR NEW, EASIER PROCEDURE AND SEE IF IT WORKS FOR YOU, IF NOT THEN COME BACK TO THIS PROCEDURE AND CONTINUE. HOW TO ROOT THE HTC HERO (ANDROOT METHOD) I. Read Before You Begin 1. Try the procedure as is first, then if you get a backup failed response from flash rec come back to this section for what you need to do BEFORE using the rest of the procedure. Orange UK Users – Please downgrade your ROM version to 2.73.61.5 using this HTC Program. Then you can follow the rest of this procedure as it is written. Good

UPDATE! PLEASE READ BEFORE CONTINUING! – This procedure has been updated and simplified, please use one of the below procedures instead of this one: How To: Root the HTC G1 / Dream How To: Root the MyTouch How To: Root the MyTouch 1.2 / Fender (use this one if your MyTouch has a 3.5mm headphone jack at the top). I. Load a Custom Radio (For G1 – Mandatory, For MyTouch – Skip) – 1. Check what Radio you have first!!! Turn the phone off and then back on by holding down Back and Power. At the top you should see your

UPDATE! PLEASE READ BEFORE CONTINUING! – This procedure has been updated and simplified, please use one of the below procedures instead of this one: How To: Root the HTC G1 / Dream How To: Root the MyTouch How To: Root the MyTouch 1.2 / Fender (use this one if your MyTouch has a 3.5mm headphone jack at the top). I. Read Before You Begin 1. THIS ONLY WORK FOR THE OLDER MYTOUCH, and ALL G1’s. IF YOU HAVE A 3.5MM HEADPHONE JACK ON TOP OF YOUR MYTOUCH, READ THE BOLD LINE ABOVE. 2. You must downgrade back to cupcake first: