hi some advice for a new owner

[skedone]

hi guys i am now a proud owner or a HTC hero on orange uk

the questions i have are this

im on the latest update from HTC them self for the orange network should i change this to a generic firmware, if so what one do you all recommend ?

why is my market place so empty i cant find alot of apps as in the the 1clickroot app ect ?

what is the best way of enabling root account on this mobile?

thanks in advance guys and gals

 

[Steven__]

As far as I know, the only other option you have for a different ROM is the MoDaCo custom ROM. This is because HTC asks for your phone serial number before letting your download one of the official ROMs (as you probably found yourself on their website), and they know which phones were shipped to Orange or not. You'll find MoDaCo's ROM in a sticky in the Android Development section of the Hero forums.

It's possible this 'one click root' application has been removed from the market, as I think that officially they don't like people getting root access. The easiest way to get root though is to install the custom rom mentioned above. Just make sure you read through the various posts so you know what the problems with the latest release might be.

 

[foxmeister]

As far as I know, the only other option you have for a different ROM is the MoDaCo custom ROM. This is because HTC asks for your phone serial number before letting your download one of the official ROMs (as you probably found yourself on their website), and they know which phones were shipped to Orange or not. You'll find MoDaCo's ROM in a sticky in the Android Development section of the Hero forums.

Not strictly true - MoDaCo has repacked "vanilla" HTC and carrier updates, in update.zip format, so you can apply them without going through the RUU process.

However, this does rely on having a Hero that hasn't already been patched to the new HBOOT and kernel that prevent such updates being applied.

Regards,

Dave

 

[RetroFlux]

why is my market place so empty i cant find alot of apps as in the the 1clickroot app ect ?

what is the best way of enabling root account on this mobile?

I don't think the market is empty as such, I find the search is not that good e.g. searching '1clickroot' and '1 click root' will return different results.

As for rooting, look in the android dev section there are guides, I have seen one had videos in it which was more helpful.

 

[skedone]

I don't think the market is empty as such, I find the search is not that good e.g. searching '1clickroot' and '1 click root' will return different results.

As for rooting, look in the android dev section there are guides, I have seen one had videos in it which was more helpful.

thanks for the advice guys i will now leave the firmware as is for now as HTC say that the 1.6 rom is on the way

as for root i think i will look into it some thanks again guys