Root HTC and leaks.

[wuthton]

As some have probably already seen the new 2.1 update with Sense for the Droid Eris was leaked to XDA last night by a HTC employee in China. It is only a matter of time before some clever dev will port it to the Hero as the Eris is basically a hero encased in a rubber lump.

My question is who thinks these leaks are endorsed by HTC as a backdoor to public beta testing, no strings attached?

If you remember the 2.73 build update was "leaked" to Modaco about a month before the public release. Hopefully the same timescale applies.

 

[Xyro]

It is only a matter of time before some clever dev will port it to the Hero as the Eris is basically a hero encased in a rubber lump.

They already have for Sprint heroes
[ROM-DEV] 03/03/10 | CDMA Hero Eclair 2.0.1 v1.9.3 | ERIS PORT COMING - xda-developers

Porting it to GSM heroes probably wont be far behind.

 

[wuthton]

It is now ported onto the GSM Hero.

[ROM][Android 2.1] HeroDroid v0.1 "Eris latest dump port!!!" - xda-developers

I am going to hang fire for a more optimized build.

I must confess I am surprised that the release of a HTC built 2.1 sense ROM has not attracted more comment, XDA is on fire. Especially as this means that 2.1 is in the post for the Hero.

 

[SFA_AOK]

Interesting stuff. For those without rooted phones, I'd takes this as a good sign that official ROM upgrades aren't too far away.

As for the reason they get leaked - I think it's because it doesn't really matter as it'll be released officially at some point anyway. It's probably beta-stage software though, so they don't want to upset people who don't know what they're doing with buggy software. But for those who know what they're doing and understand the implications - yeah, they probably make good testers and are help HTC out.

"Release early, release often" as the saying goes...

 

[Xyro]

Lol, I was on my way here to post that link just now

I'm tempted to try it. But I'll probably wait a while untill everyone's got everything running smoothly.

 

[wuthton]

Yeah, I am going to give it a go as soon as he gets wifi working, can't imagine it will be a huge fix.

 

[vjprakashbe]

Yeah, I am going to give it a go as soon as he gets wifi working, can't imagine it will be a huge fix.

Wifi fix is already there but need to go for one more flash. 9/10th page of that thread I believe.

 

[wuthton]

Wifi fix is already there but need to go for one more flash. 9/10th page of that thread I believe.

Still no root access, but it is getting awfully tempting now.

EDIT: Nprussel has left work to go home and work on this, I am going to wait for his release this evening.

 

[Xyro]

I think I'll at least wait for the Villain version. Should be out tonight and he will try to get root access and maybe even apps2sd in.

[ROM]-[04/03/10- BIG NEWS] VillainROM 3.0 FINAL (HTC Sense - Android 2.1) - xda-developers

 

[wuthton]

I think I'll at least wait for the Villain version. Should be out tonight and he will try to get root access and maybe even apps2sd in.

[ROM]-[04/03/10- BIG NEWS] VillainROM 3.0 FINAL (HTC Sense - Android 2.1) - xda-developers

Same here.

 

[vido.ardes]

I am running it myself (with wifi fix) and everything works fine except root access. I can tell you it is lightening fast, well worth the wait

 

[Xyro]

Is it true it performs better than modaco's 3.2?

 

[vido.ardes]

There are a couple of slowdowns, most notably when removing widgets, but for the most part it is by far the quickest my phone has ever been. All the new apps work great (maps, market e.t.c) and the only thing I haven't seen working is the live weather wallpaper, but other have. I have no reason not to use this as my new everyday, and all he did was take the Eris dump and port it. Imagine how good it will be when the devs get their grubby little mits on it and tweak the task killer, compcache... It'll be like a new phone! I was thing about buying a Desire at the end of the month but I have lost all 'desire' to buy a Desire now (pun fully intended )

 

[Ziani]

I am running it myself (with wifi fix) and everything works fine except root access. I can tell you it is lightening fast, well worth the wait

OMG....even more excited about it now. I really hope this Apple crap wont delay it even more

 

[bluenova]

Still no root access, but it is getting awfully tempting now.

EDIT: Nprussel has left work to go home and work on this, I am going to wait for his release this evening.

It's rooted but there is an issue with apps getting SU permissions. Possibly busybox is missing.

Wifi and Accelerometer are now sorted...
[ROM][Sense 2.1] HeroDroid v0.1 "Eris latest dump port!!!" +Wifi fixed!! - Page 12 - xda-developers

 

[vido.ardes]

You can install busybox from within titanium backup, I have just restored all my apps with it no problem. Just open Titanium Backup, hit the "Problems?" button and it will download busybox for you.

 

[Xyro]

You can install busybox from within titanium backup, I have just restored all my apps with it no problem. Just open Titanium Backup, hit the "Problems?" button and it will download busybox for you.

Awesome, I assumed from the posts on xda that busybox was something that had to be added to the original update.zip.

Is Maxo64's copy rooted?

EDIT: Villain's version is out as a torrent, and soon as a normal download

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=622468&highlight=villian

 

[james]

Can anyone confirm this for me. I'm currently running MoDaCo. If I install this to try out, and go back to MoDaCo with a nandroid backup, will all my app2sd still work and stuff or will it get screwed up?

Cheers

 

[vjprakashbe]

Can anyone confirm this for me. I'm currently running MoDaCo. If I install this to try out, and go back to MoDaCo with a nandroid backup, will all my app2sd still work and stuff or will it get screwed up?

Cheers

Yes it does! Please make sure you do "nandroid + ext backup".

 

[G8D]

Yes it does! Please make sure you do "nandroid + ext backup".

Does a BART do the same?
So taking both is extra safe?

 

[james]

Cool I think I'll try it out over the weekend then

 

[vjprakashbe]

Does a BART do the same?
So taking both is extra safe?

I ever did only one BART backup in my life (not even restore) .
Where I haven't noticed any difference between these two back-ups. I read somewhere BART will create .TAR files with app, app-private and lost+found from SD. But practically I notice "nandroid + ext" also does the samething.

 

[Xyro]

I've never used BART either, NAND + Ext is about as complete as backups get anyway.