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Root how many have rooted this week

LABRAT

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Oct 28, 2009
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Burnley UK
since htc put the update back again.. how many of us have rooted our hero's ?

im running the villain 5.2 rom since thursday night and very happy indeed with it.. allso updated to the latest radio, and seem to get a better signal..

overall im very glad i rooted my phone and went for a custom rom..

big thanks to all on the forum for help and writeups...

what are other new rooters running?
 
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Sensehero is a CDMA port, CDMA are generally american phones, they dont use sim cards, and I imagine more fiddling is required for use on a GSM phone, i assume a GSM rom would be more stable on a GSM phone

I believe it is a CDMA port as that is why there was dashes in the numbers when dialled and an issue with sending long text messages.
 
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Excellent a guinea pig, lmk how it goes!!

Unfortunately I'm not in the UK at the moment so I can't tell you whether Gmaps navigation is working. From what I've read though nav now works officially in the UK so there is no need to use BRUT to force it to work.

I've also read that the GPS needs to be on during boot to get a fix. If it's off you need to turn it on then re-boot for it to work. I think this might be why simondra was saying Gmaps doesn't work. I'll confirm this once it's installed. I'm still waiting on Titanium to finish at the mo :D.
 
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Yep, rooted my G2 TOUCH (UK), the day they announced ***ANOTHER*** 3 month delay.
Running Sense 2.1 v1

Pretty happy with it. Have Google Navigation and all protected apps in the store. There are a few small quirks, but nothing serious..

Some the same as you with my g2 yesterday, did you update the radio as i seem to have a much better signal now im sure, well i had a poor signal in my home and now it seems ok the only thing still annoying me is 3g still not working
 
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I rooted and flashed thursday night and have been playing with it ever since.

I decided to go with SenseHero2.1 and I really haven't had any issues. Stickman posted an incremental update last night, which has a couple tweeks that need to be ironed out, but otherwise it's a great rom.

I'm not having any issues with keyboard lag, even though I've got haptic feedback switched on.

Regardless of what rom you choose I would recommend updating the radio as I've seen quite an increase in signal strength since flashing the latest release, so if anyone has a been suffering from a dodgy signal, update the radio!!

HTC? Official 2.1 update? Pah!
 
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