I purchased an HTC Hero A6262 yesterday from a guy posting his for sale on a classifieds site, in Toronto, Canada. The part number on mine is 99HHM001-00, model is A6262, serial number starts with HT998L,
and it has been upgraded to "Android2.1-update1" according to the firmware screen. There is no visible branding information on this phone, and I have no idea which ROM versions are usable on it.
It has the following problems that I need to find a solution to:
1. the capacitive touch screen has almost no sensitivity on the right-most and bottom 1 centimeter margins of the screen, making the portrait keyboard useless (delete and space for instance don't work) and most buttons that appear at the far bottom of the screen can only be pressed by using the little marble/trackball device.
2. the locales/keyboards available on the device are all asian-english regions, and all the keyboards include asian keyboard options. There is no "English US" or "English UK" local/language option.
3. the docs speak of a screen calibration procedure, which is nowhere available in the settings menu at all. My guess is that they removed it from Android 2.1. Maybe I can get an app in the android store that will let me recalibrate the onscreen keyboard?
My guess is that it was purchased in one of the Chinatown shops and that is the reason for the singapore/taiwan english choices, and the asian locale of the firmware ROM on this thing.
My basic question is: I'm a geek, but new to the Android scene, what should I do? Should I ditch this phone and get something that works or should I play around? I wanted to get this phone and load a stock Android distribution on it, assuming I could find one that worked with this phone. Eventually I want to write apps for android, and I thought this would be a good handset to get. All the reviews for this were glowing. But like all embedded tiny systems, without a keyboard, when the going gets tough, the device gets useless. I am used to my Nokia phones and their hardware keyboards. I took a leap of faith grabbing a used htc hero, instead of the htc dream or dream2 that I originally thought I'd get, because I wanted to stay up with the android-2 times. Now I've got a device that I probably can't return, and might not be able to use.
Any tips or ideas would be most appreciated. If I could get the darn touch-screen to actually WORK, I would be so much better off. Why oh why is that calibration option GONE in Android2.1?
I am thinking I should take this down to the chinatown computer shops that sell asian cell phones unlocked, and see if the geeks down there can make this phone workable again, for another $30 or so.
Thanks dudes.
Warren
[Toronto,Canada]
Android2.1-update1
HTC Hero A6262
and it has been upgraded to "Android2.1-update1" according to the firmware screen. There is no visible branding information on this phone, and I have no idea which ROM versions are usable on it.
It has the following problems that I need to find a solution to:
1. the capacitive touch screen has almost no sensitivity on the right-most and bottom 1 centimeter margins of the screen, making the portrait keyboard useless (delete and space for instance don't work) and most buttons that appear at the far bottom of the screen can only be pressed by using the little marble/trackball device.
2. the locales/keyboards available on the device are all asian-english regions, and all the keyboards include asian keyboard options. There is no "English US" or "English UK" local/language option.
3. the docs speak of a screen calibration procedure, which is nowhere available in the settings menu at all. My guess is that they removed it from Android 2.1. Maybe I can get an app in the android store that will let me recalibrate the onscreen keyboard?
My guess is that it was purchased in one of the Chinatown shops and that is the reason for the singapore/taiwan english choices, and the asian locale of the firmware ROM on this thing.
My basic question is: I'm a geek, but new to the Android scene, what should I do? Should I ditch this phone and get something that works or should I play around? I wanted to get this phone and load a stock Android distribution on it, assuming I could find one that worked with this phone. Eventually I want to write apps for android, and I thought this would be a good handset to get. All the reviews for this were glowing. But like all embedded tiny systems, without a keyboard, when the going gets tough, the device gets useless. I am used to my Nokia phones and their hardware keyboards. I took a leap of faith grabbing a used htc hero, instead of the htc dream or dream2 that I originally thought I'd get, because I wanted to stay up with the android-2 times. Now I've got a device that I probably can't return, and might not be able to use.
Any tips or ideas would be most appreciated. If I could get the darn touch-screen to actually WORK, I would be so much better off. Why oh why is that calibration option GONE in Android2.1?
I am thinking I should take this down to the chinatown computer shops that sell asian cell phones unlocked, and see if the geeks down there can make this phone workable again, for another $30 or so.
Thanks dudes.
Warren
[Toronto,Canada]
Android2.1-update1
HTC Hero A6262