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Root The Villain 5.4 upgrade thread

premiump

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Nov 15, 2009
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Wow, I don't check the forum for a few days and the whole Hero community appears to have rooted their handsets!! :eek::eek: Happy days :p:D

I have a question :rolleyes:

I'm using Villain5.2 and I see that Villain5.3 is out. I'd like to use Villain5.3 but I'm not sure if I have to re-install all of my apps again :thinking:

Can I just flash 5.3 over the top of 5.2 and thats all I have to do, or is there more to it? Will I need to "wipe"? etc

Thx in advance ... :cool:
 
Just a heads up to a few problems Ive encountered since i installed 5.3

On making phone calls the Loud speaker does not seem to work that well.
The volume seems to be very Low ( Ive checked my settings )

Google Maps has me located approx two miles from were i live.
Google Navigation seems to work apart from the fact its always searching for GPS with out any success.

Anybody having these problems ?.
 
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Just a heads up to a few problems Ive encountered since i installed 5.3

On making phone calls the Loud speaker does not seem to work that well.
The volume seems to be very Low ( Ive checked my settings )

Google Maps has me located approx two miles from were i live.
Google Navigation seems to work apart from the fact its always searching for GPS with out any success.

Anybody having these problems ?.

Latest radio should fix the GPS issue
 
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Maps and Navigation work fine for me - however I updated radio straight after install as Jaffa mentions.

One question I have is that some apps that previously worked or I expected to work are not on the market. Google Earth cant be found and I Music (which I previously had installed) cannot be found either.

Anyone have any idea what the problem would be related to?

cheers for any advice
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