Hi all, I'm new on here as I only got my HTC Hero the other day, and while trawling the internet for answers this place kept coming up.
I have a few questions about this phone, or more to the point, the android OS running it.
I see that it only has android 1.5 on it at the moment, and there are no newer upgrades available yet. That said, I've read in numerous places on the net that android 2.1 is coming to the HTC hero at the end of this week or start of next week depending on your network, is this true? What would this upgrade actually improve? My new phone seems pretty stable and usable as it is already, wasn't voted best phone of 2009 for nothing I guess!
My second query is about the apps from the android market. When this 2.1 upgrade comes, I expect it'll wipe the phone clean and reinstall with the newer OS. If any apps are already paid for, will I have to pay again to download them a second time? Or is there any way of me backing them up first?
And lastly, it's only a little niggle, but as soon as I'm on a call, the touchscreen keypad disappears, stopping me from going through automated systems and the like. Is there just some setting I can change, or is there an app available to stop the screen from doing this?
Thanks.
I have a few questions about this phone, or more to the point, the android OS running it.
I see that it only has android 1.5 on it at the moment, and there are no newer upgrades available yet. That said, I've read in numerous places on the net that android 2.1 is coming to the HTC hero at the end of this week or start of next week depending on your network, is this true? What would this upgrade actually improve? My new phone seems pretty stable and usable as it is already, wasn't voted best phone of 2009 for nothing I guess!
My second query is about the apps from the android market. When this 2.1 upgrade comes, I expect it'll wipe the phone clean and reinstall with the newer OS. If any apps are already paid for, will I have to pay again to download them a second time? Or is there any way of me backing them up first?
And lastly, it's only a little niggle, but as soon as I'm on a call, the touchscreen keypad disappears, stopping me from going through automated systems and the like. Is there just some setting I can change, or is there an app available to stop the screen from doing this?
Thanks.