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divested alltel hero root help?

Admins please put this where it needs to go. Searched for over a month to no avail. any chance to get a carrier sub category in devices? Everything cdma seems to be sprint specific (or atleast not alltel specific) and takes a ridiculous amount of time to find info. Used touch pro for 2 years and could simply use hardspl and flash.. Not so simple with android. Anyone help please

Everything in this fora is Sprint-specific because... most of our Heroes are Sprint. Anything that's marked Non-Sprint CDMA hero is you.

yeah I know that but that doesn't mean the root method will work for my hero, alltel hero's are stock 2.2, and I've found no way to root alltel specific.
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Let's bug unrEVOked to give us 2.03 root for the Legend.

As it is the exact same method for the desire, evo aria & incredible, surely its the same for the legend?
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Just got a reply from the unrevoked team that they need a htc legend to work on it. I suppose this problem arises due to the fact that legend is not available. If you need root ,they have to be provided with a handset to work with. Please check their twitter stream for more updates.
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At least they are being fair to us...
unlike [email protected] who is totally ignoring our call.

If any of the NAM users out there can supply hardware , they say they can do it

tell him to go to a local store and say hes a reviewer form a website. they may give him a loaner for a few days or a week

Well its not that easy for reviewers as you say mate , you need to know which carrier in NAM is carrying the legend too

I guess my suggestion kind of sucked BUT!
If you checked out this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7229881&posted=1#post7229881 I did make a decent suggestion to wag3slav3
This was my post
kylecore said:
You should send the info you've gathered to unrevoked.com and see if they can give you some pointers and tips to help you out.
They said they'd try and get root but they don't have a legend to work with.
Maybe they could communicate with you and get something working?
Maybe even run some software that let's them use your comp via the web so they could technically use your legend but not have to be there?
Just a though but it could work
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The whole virtual pc thing could work for anyone with a legend too I guess?

This is a route to root.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=725430

Just wondering if anyone has an update from unrEVOked on this?
How can we bug them?

You don't really need them to root it for you good sir. Check the sticky in the legend android development forum. if you have 1.32+ ROM version, you need to downgrade to 1.31 then root. simple as that. if you're running 1.31, just root.

Thanks Joeball88 - am aware of that method however the 'one click' unrEVOked sounds so much more appealing. Knowing me I'd screw up the downgrade method, let alone actually rooting the Legend!
Not afraid of giving it ago but afraid of not being able to restore my Legend should something go wrong (the Legend community is a little quiet and its not guaranteed I'd get help if I posted about my bricked Legend!)

I'm gonna close this. XDA does not like Spamming, nor sock puppet accounts.

[Q] Regarding upcoming Rogers Captivate

Hey everyone, I kind of have a question that might be hard to answer. But maybe one of you can speak from experience with Rogers and android phones in general. Well my question is this. When the Rogers Captivate comes out later this month will the method of rooting be the same as the at&t version for the most part? I also wonder if there is a chance (maybe this has happened to other android phones in the past?) that Rogers will be a gigantic wiener and make it IMPOSSIBLE to root it at all?
Disregarding my questions for a second, it's a pleasure to finally join this forum and thanks for taking the time to read this.
Cheers!

First off, welcome to XDA, glad to have you with us.
Now onwards with your question. It's almost impossible, maybe even illegal, for a carrier to block rooting on an Android device. The whole point of these phones is OPEN SOURCE. The rooting method should be almost identical for the most part. Because we don't have Rogers here, nobody can truly say for sure, but I'd imagine it would be the same.

Oh, that's really interesting! Thanks

Hey,
The phone releases this Monday and the model number for the Rogers version is SGH-i896 whereas the ATT version is SGH-i897. Some files would need to be updated but nothing major. Hopefully we get the support for the Rogers Captivate and can flash it with the awesome custom ROMS
(my first post on the forum and would love to learn and contribute to the awesome xda team)

iswapnil90 said:
Hey,
The phone releases this Monday and the model number for the Rogers version is SGH-i896 whereas the ATT version is SGH-i897. Some files would need to be updated but nothing major. Hopefully we get the support for the Rogers Captivate and can flash it with the awesome custom ROMS
(my first post on the forum and would love to learn and contribute to the awesome xda team)
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Welcome to you as well! I'm not so sure that any files would have to be updated. As long as the hardware is exactly the same, all should be well.

miztaken1312 said:
Welcome to you as well! I'm not so sure that any files would have to be updated. As long as the hardware is exactly the same, all should be well.
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The update scripts have the model number in them which would have to be updated. Nothing major.

Interesting, for roms and such it does not sound like too much of a hassle. But maybe having the exact same hardware wasn't necessarily for the best. I got kind of excited with hopes that this new Captivate would be capable of handling 3.5G I think it's referred to HSPUA+ (Don't quote me on that!) Does anyone know if this is the case?
On a side note, do any current or upcoming phones support 3.5G on the Rogers network?

[Q] Anyone else with a Hero on Cox?

This is partly a matter of curiosity and partly a technical question. Since Cox has officially launched Cox Wireless in Hampton Roads, Omaha, and Orange County, we can be a little less paranoid about talking wireless tech.
And there will undoubtedly be some non-employee customers here, though they're all lucky enough to be able to start with the HTC Desire. I'm stuck with the Hero until they come up with some upgrade program for us early adopters.
So who here has Cox Wireless with a Hero?
More importantly, who has Cox with a Hero with CyanogenMod? Can you get MMS? If so, I may have other questions...

No I don't have cox. What is MMS.

lol, no. but a while back when i made a custom splash i remember seeing a great splash modified for cox, so whoever requested that should be on cox as well, here's the thread. cox, lol.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=766042
@macwilliam21 - that may be the funniest post ever.

il Duce said:
lol, no. but a while back when i made a custom splash i remember seeing a great splash modified for cox, so whoever requested that should be on cox as well, here's the thread. cox, lol.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=766042
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Heh. The only Cox splash I see on that thread is the one I made. Nobody requested it, I just figured I might as well share.
I made it partly because I wanted to "re-brand" my Hero back from generic HTC/CyanogenMod and partly because I wanted to prove I could make a prettier logo screen than our paid developers. Seriously, the Cox logo on the official ROM is tiny and grainy for no apparent technical reason.
And apparently two other people downloaded it.

Two people downloaded Cox.
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Wha... ? I though I was on xda. Apparently, I got redirected to 4chan.
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Sent from my CDMA Hero. I got some hot Froyo-on-Hero action here!

I *had* Cox wireless with the HTC Hero but I dumped the service and went with another carrier for an Android 2.x phone because I can't even use the Cox HTC Hero for the things I want. Many of the apps I use such as Skype, Firefox, and just recently many Google Inc. apps, Google Voice, PayPal, and many other apps I like, aren't even found on the Market because the firmware is not supported. Its stuck on Android 1.5 and when I asked Cox tech support if there were any plans to upgrade the firmware I was told they have no intentions of upgrading the firmware. I wasn't interested in paying more money for an upgraded phone and restarting my contract from day 1 all over again after I've been on the service for the first year. I still have the phone though and looking to find some alternative uses for it besides selling it which I think ultimately I may end up doing because no matter what I try doing with it, or install to it to make the phone more appealing, I almost always get the error that this program cannot be installed to this phone.
I was considering trying to upgrade it to 2.1 but I'm kind of reluctant because word on the street someone tried and it bricked the phone. Although I don't know how true that is.

puffidredz said:
Its stuck on Android 1.5 and when I asked Cox tech support if there were any plans to upgrade the firmware I was told they have no intentions of upgrading the firmware.
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This is true. I get the feeling that the Hero was more of a proof-of-concept or beta test phone and they had a bunch of them left over at launch time.
puffidredz said:
I was considering trying to upgrade it to 2.1 but I'm kind of reluctant because word on the street someone tried and it bricked the phone. Although I don't know how true that is.
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It's doable. Someone I know in one of the stores actually got a laundry list of reasons from the HQ in Atlanta about why we couldn't/shouldn't do it ourselves, so I upgraded to a proper 2.1 HTC Sense ROM just to prove it could be done safely and with full functionality. Then I upgraded it to Cyanogen 2.2 just for the hell of it.
But then I switched to a Desire when they came up with an upgrade program for us employee early-adopters who got stuck with the Hero. My interest in this section now is purely out of scientific curiosity.

ok....Im new to xda and new to rooting a phone but i cant take this 1.5 on the hero any longer and am in deperate need of directions on what i need to do. i was promised by cox that there was going to be an upgrade and now we find out that this will never happen. please help

you need to run the ruu from a computer witch will uprade u to 2.1 or since your still on 1.5 rooting will be easy for u and u can install a custom rom.also if theres a sprint tech store in your area they should be able to do the ruu for you regardless if your on a smaller regional carrier.

For Virgin Mobile Canada Users!!!

I emailed HTC and Virgin Mobile Canada the other day, and they said this,
"Thank you for taking the time to reply. We currently do not have the information available to us. At this time the Incredible S's that are slated to receive the ICS update are the ones in the European regions. You may visit htc.com, twitter.com/htc and facebook.com/htc for update information as it becomes announced."
Virgin Mobile said this,
"You've reached ****** with Virgin Mobile! First, allow me to apologize for the delay in my response. Your patience and understanding are appreciated. I'm happy to escalate your feedback about the Android 4.0 update. I know this is important to you and I'm happy to point you in the right direction.
******, I've escalated your email to ensure it's reviewed. Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback." This could mean that we
IncS users might see an Android 4.0 update! Virgin Mobile is BAD for updating their phones, but as you may already know, HTC has been working their hardest to work with carriers, and as VMC's update stated that they are happy to point me/us in the right direction, and will escalate it to ensure its reviewed!
Edit!: I emailed Virgin again, and they said that they are working very hard to get this update available! NOW im excited!
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using XDA

Good to hear. I'm with SaskTel which is in a similar vain, and even though I'm installing custom ICS ROMs anyways, it would be nice to see everyone get the update and move to ICS.
Though then, I'd have to stop joking that I'm in the 1%.

I rooted once, but i had to send my phone to get fixed, because it had a charge port malfunction, and they charged $200 to fix it because of the root access, so i am running all stock, which is why i am excited for VM to work out something with HTC
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