okay, so I ordered an htc hero cdma version and I'm most definitely going to root it. I don't know how, but I've already found a guide on how to do that. So my question is, aside from Wi-Fi tethering and overclocking the device, what other things can I do with it after rooting it? ...Can I download apps for free?
Getting themes is another advantage. Check out impalers black and gold theme for cm6. As for free apps, google getandroidstuff. There are so many possibilities with rooting, you will just have to discover them as you go.
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Any way to get sprint apps to work on the eris, specifically the nascar app?
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Nope only with a sprint phone, but you can always root and see if you can make the android market think you have a sprint phone, like a HTC Hero
it could work maybe if some one hacks it, i say this cause i have a hacked ver. of black board which is only free for those on sprint and im on verizon
Thanks for the Replies . I have rooted , running Kaosfroyo v32.
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Thanks for the Replies . I have rooted , running Kaosfroyo v32.
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There are a few forums looking into getting it to work. If you google sprint nascar app hack it should bring them up. Progress is probably somewhere around 60% but I suspect by next season it will be up and running Barring any set backs.
I did look into it, like you said seems to be a work in progress.
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NEED SERIOUS HELP WITH CDMA HERO ON SPRINT. After rooting, downloading ROM Manager, & applying various ROM's due to rebooting issue finally was able to apply Cyanogen Mod version: 6.0.0-Heroc but now I'm totally unable to REACTIVATE MY SERVICE ON SPRINT! I sat on hold with Sprint's supposed "Tech Support" last night for not resolution to the issue. I came to the conclusion that Hero won't accept any provisional programming codes. Anyone, anyone, ANYONE know an answer to this issue, experienced the same issue, have an explanation for this issue? I am a former manager with Sprint so not a complete imbecile with phones/computers/techy. devices but this has me completely baffled & stuck using my old HTC Touch Pro until this issue is resolved. Thanks in advance.
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Reactivate your service? Were you trying to activate it after rooting and loading cm6?? aosp does not support ## codes...why don't you load the sprint ruu and then activate your phone and then root, flash a custom recovery (use clockwork in the rom manager app you have) and then load cm6
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Thanks!
I really appreciate your suggestion and was wondering if the ROM was unequipped to do any carrier provisioning after-the-fact. I'im definitely going to do as you instructed, which had struck me as an option, but, was a little freaked out to start applying different ROMs not in ROM Manager App since for the most part of the week my "Hero" has been inoperable, unprovisioned, or buggy in one way or another. Will attempt this tonight and post-up the outcome!
You could try Fresh 2.4, its a pretty solid sense based rom....let me know if you need anything else
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"Love it when a plan comes together!"
Funny you should mention that, too because I just got done downloading Fresh App. before going to xda to check if anyomore feedback on my post. Thanks, again, for the advice & are going to start on fixing this issue at this very moment.
smathias503
Someone else that I was helping with this same thing flashed the liquid sense rom and got all his missed texts, like I did with fresh then came back to cm6 and everything was fine, so this should solve your problem too, but let me know...
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Should've replied earlier but was too busy celebrating the usage of my Hero, again! Lol! So, did as advised above & did esn swap before flashing to Fresh & no problems. Thinking I want to go to Cyanogen instead but a little weary because of previous issues, any advise, should I give it a shot?
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I'm glad I was able to help you! I would not hesitate to go to CM now that you are up and running again, it should flash nice and smooth! Let me know if you need any more help!
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I'm looking at purchasing the Evo 3D next month and want to give my Hero to my son. Is there a way to uninstall the browser and the market? I don't mind him texting and whatnot, but I don't want him to be able to browse the internet or use the market. Currently I'm running Cyanogenmod 7.0.3 and would prefer to keep it if possible, but I'm willing to load a different ROM if necessary.
Thanks for any help!
Also, if you can't uninstall it normally, would someone be willing to edit the current C7 ROM and remove those 2 apps and repost for my (and anyone else's) ?
You can use an app called "root explorer" which can delete system apps.
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Harvick_29 said:
I'm looking at purchasing the Evo 3D next month and want to give my Hero to my son. Is there a way to uninstall the browser and the market? I don't mind him texting and whatnot, but I don't want him to be able to browse the internet or use the market. Currently I'm running Cyanogenmod 7.0.3 and would prefer to keep it if possible, but I'm willing to load a different ROM if necessary.
Thanks for any help!
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The Market isn't included in CyanogenMod by default. You wouldn't have it if you didn't separately install gapps.
Like oohaylima said, get titanium and just freeze the market and browser. I don't know if the phone will go bananas without the browser or not, so uninstalling it may cause issues.
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Im using cyanogen mod 7 on my hd2 and I used ROOT EXPLORER to delete all gapps and I'm still running without problems.
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Thanks guys
So I took the plunge and changed from Win 6.5 to nand install Android 2.3.5 on my two year old HD2(love android!)and one of the apps Iwas looking forward to using was Sky Go (launched today for selected devices) mainly for the sport. Shock horror no support for the HD2. Is anyone aware of a workaround? will someone on the forum be looking into a way around this? any advice welcomed Cheers newbie clarkyi
Why don't you just try installing the apk? There are some instructions here.
http://isozial.so/2012/02/20/sky-releases-sky-go-for-android-download-apk-here/
Theres also an xda thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1506967
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Would love if someone could get this app working on a HTC HD2, any help would be appreciated.
I have Gingerbread 2.3.7
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i can get sky news but nothing else on my fone. i have tried the apk on the forum and one from market but still nothing
I got screwed up by the stupid AT&T update... it only half finished. I don't know why. I kept telling it NO, not to update. But at some point it must have on a reboot. In the update section it says, "Continue update" but clicking that does absolutely nothing.
UNFORTUNATELY, now I have NO WIFI and NO BLUETOOTH. Can't see any wifi routers now, and can't see any bluetooth devices. UGH! DAMN AT&T! I didn't even ask for an update. SO....
HELP ME PICK A ROM!
I used to flash ROMs on my older PocketPC phones... I flashed a Gingerbread ROM on my Galaxy Tab, and I flashed a ROM on my HTC Aria.
So tell me what your opinions are about some ROMs. Here's some features I'd like to have:
- ICS
- Newest Sense
- HTC's button dial command and voice dial that was left out of ICS (bastards).
- Native wifi hotspot
If there's a ROM that combines that and is STABLE, tell me about it! I want opinions.
There's really only one option and it's not on xda.
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Are you just gonna leave me hanging with that?
I'm by no means an expert, but I've recently taken the dive into helping a friend with his AT&T Vivid. After looking around at all the ICS ROMs out there, the one I settled on was Extreme Holiday Dream X2...doesn't have the newest sense version, but it's running 3.6, so it's fairly recent. Also (again, not an expert), I'm not sure any newer version of sense would work on the Vivid.
Now as a heads up, most people don't seem to have issues with the ROM (and it is a very nice one), but we have had some problems that may or may not be related. First is WiFi constantly attempting to turn on and never working, which I think I've narrowed down to the fact the ROM uses the stock kernel, so I'll be attempting to fix that tonight.
Other problem is the ROM Toolbox not working, though I think that may be linked to the way I rooted the device since SU isn't giving permissions to it (set to auto-allow). That I'll be attempting to fix with SuperSU.
I know this ROM is stable for just about everyone else so far (no actual known bugs), but I don't know if it meets your last two prerequisites, since I'm not really all that familiar with Android devices in general yet. I'll ask my friend and see if he knows.
Due to my permissions right now as a new member, I can't link you to it, but you should be able to find it by googling. The thread I found was on rootzwiki.
Hope this helps. If I find out more about the button dial/voice dial and native WiFi hotspot support, I'll let you know.
EDIT: So I asked about the features, seems like it has the button dialer and native WiFi Hotspot, but not the voice dialer. I'm sure there's an app for it, but it's not native.
Google the rom in my signature
Maqical said:
Google the rom in my signature
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That's the one.
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I'm using extreme holiday dream also.
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Except that WC's forum is down. Is there an alternative way to get the ROM and kernel?
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Except that WC's forum is down. Is there an alternative way to get the ROM and kernel?
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He shuts it down when he's uploading new builds.
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