Telus Hero Reference's

[Xyro]

Unless there's something odd about the telus hero, everything can be done by mounting in the phone.

 

[Frust8edHeroUser]

Forgot to mention ... VillainRom 5.3 Bluetooth ..... Using my Garmin 1490T .... the phone transfers the phonebook over to the Garmin, which I was not able to do before ....

Just one of the many perks.

Voice Dial is still not perfect, but that's the limitation of 2.1 ... maybe one day they'll figure it out.


Not so Frust8edHeroUser

 

[IceCreamTaco]

Yea im just a noob when it comes to cell phones...im following it now and trying to figure it out , got all the files and my goldcard image so thats a good start lol

 

[The_Gnome_]

Yea im just a noob when it comes to cell phones...im following it now and trying to figure it out , got all the files and my goldcard image so thats a good start lol

If it makes you feel better, creating the Gold Card was the hardest part IMO! Smooth sailing from there man!

 

[goliath11]

I just finished rooting and flashing VillainROM 5.3, and so far it looks great. The only disadvantage I can see is the free memory shown in taskiller was normally around 80 mb, but now even after closing everything I can only get it up to around 50

 

[The_Gnome_]

I just finished rooting and flashing VillainROM 5.3, and so far it looks great. The only disadvantage I can see is the free memory shown in taskiller was normally around 80 mb, but now even after closing everything I can only get it up to around 50

I wouldn't be too worried about the free memory. Maybe it's a 2.1 thing, but the device seems a little snappier to me - maybe 2.1 does a better job of managing the memory that's free. Just a guess though!

 

[Xyro]

I agree, it's not necessary to keep 80MB free all the time. I use Autokiller, which tweaks android's own task killer to make it more/less aggressive, to keep 40MB free and have never had a problem since. It's a far better way to keep things running smoothly; you set it once and forget rather than constantly flicking to the task killer.

And it comes bundled with 5.3 as an added bonus

 

[nomnompie]

Ok, so, I just flashed 5.3, and um... I must say, I'm actually not that thrilled, contrary to what everybody says...

The phone seems laggy during use, and I don't know if it's just me, but, if I put my phone on the table, and touch the screen, the touch responsiveness is dodgy, UNLESS get this, I touch any part of the phone with my other hand.

Also, the weather widget doesn't have my town, but the Telus Rom did.. wth?? lol..

Am I missing some things here? Anybody else notice the touch responsiveness issue?

(edit) I restored the backup I made and the dodgy touch thing is still there.. weird maybe it always did that.. works fine if usb is plugged in or if skin touches any part of the phone.

 

[The_Gnome_]

Ok, so, I just flashed 5.3, and um... I must say, I'm actually not that thrilled, contrary to what everybody says...

The phone seems laggy during use, and I don't know if it's just me, but, if I put my phone on the table, and touch the screen, the touch responsiveness is dodgy, UNLESS get this, I touch any part of the phone with my other hand.

Also, the weather widget doesn't have my town, but the Telus Rom did.. wth?? lol..

Am I missing some things here? Anybody else notice the touch responsiveness issue?

(edit) I restored the backup I made and the dodgy touch thing is still there.. weird maybe it always did that.. works fine if usb is plugged in or if skin touches any part of the phone.

Not sure about the touch issue, but mine seemed a little laggy on first load, but a reboot seemed to correct that. Seems quick and responsive now. Did you do a full wipe before flashing?

As for the weather and your city, I'm not sure how that list works - maybe post on the feedback over at the Villain site and maybe something can be done for ya.

 

[ohmaynitseric]

i'm about to do the root, but when i backed up my APN, it said that i have

successful :0
failed :0
total :0

is this right?

 

[The_Gnome_]

Hmmm, I can't remember exactly but I think I had 4 (successful and total).

Have you tried it again? If it doesn't work, I say reboot and try again before proceeding just to save you the trouble of re-entering the APN info manually.

 

[Xyro]

That touch screen issue has been discussed here before, and it happens even on stock ROMs. I can't remember the specific reason, but it's just to do with the way the capacitive screen works and isn't a bug.

EDIT: Here's the original thread. The summary is that you ground the phone when in contact with it, and without that contact the screen isn't very responsive. (And no, the finger on the screen doesn't ground the phone).

 

[nomnompie]

Ah, thanks that makes sense.

I gotta say... I guess I like it, but it's kind of confusing. I can't find things I know were in 1.5, and I also thought the keyboard/phone was supposed to be better/have multitouch?

But the menus... they are completely different..

Pretty sure that's the "rosie" and that he has the original that can be flashed though. Gotta read some more about it..

One thing I have to know though cause it's driving me mad and I cant find it, is where is the option for contacts that lets you hide contacts from SIM??

 

[Xyro]

You can't hide SIM contacts unfortunately. The ROM is based on a Sprint ROM and those phones don't have SIM cards, so no need for the option.

Edit: Yeah I don't know what the real 2.1 keyboard will bring; that's just a mod of the 1.5 keyboard. Have a poke around in the settings for it though, there's a lot you can customise now.

 

[Perihelion]

Well, instantroot failed for me. Can someone point me to the Goldcard procedure?

 

[nomnompie]

Oh yeah... lol... duh.

That kind of sucks...

If we (telus hero owners) want to go back to stock 1.5, where do we get the generic rom from since telus's latest ROM is not possible to reflash? And if we install the generic rom, can we go back to custom later by using gold card method again?

 

[The_Gnome_]

Well, instantroot failed for me. Can someone point me to the Goldcard procedure?

It's linked to in my first post in this thread. Unfortunately with Telus Hero's you need a goldcard - the other root procedures won't work.

 

[goliath11]

One thing I have noticed is that my battery life has taken a HUGE beating. In a couple hours I went from 100% to 85% with light usage, which would be unheard of before i rooted.

 

[ohmaynitseric]

i must say, i just rooted my phone to this ROM and its really so much better than 1.5. i just wish it came with multi-touch.

other than that, did anyone else have a problem with wireless tethering? when i click start, it leads me to SU Request and after a couple mins of loading, it tells me that its taking too long to load, and thus asking me to either force close or wait.

did anyone else have a problem with this?

 

[The_Gnome_]

Haven't tried the wireless tether yet - when I get a chance I'll let ya know what I see.

 

[IceCreamTaco]

So i got a goldcard , did everything right , followed the procedure , but when i get to the part where u downgrade, it connects,it starts then it checks the model id, says its wrong and fails...any idea what im doing wrong?
I tried it on a diff pc because it doesnt want to sync properly in windows 7 , did i need to have the android SDK on the other pc as well just to downgrade?

 

[IceCreamTaco]

Great super fun!
Everytime i try to sync its ok...but as SOON as i start the RUU.exe file it disconnects and wont connect until i close it...this is so bloody annoying

 

[The_Gnome_]

Great super fun!
Everytime i try to sync its ok...but as SOON as i start the RUU.exe file it disconnects and wont connect until i close it...this is so bloody annoying

Sorry what's RUU.exe?

Are you using a Telus Hero? You might have get more help in the xda developers forums for the Hero (just a suggestion).

 

[IceCreamTaco]

RUU_Hero_HTC_WWE_2.73.405.5_WWE_release_signed_NoD river.exe

That file...ive got the goldcard etc and im at the part where i need to downgrade.
So i start htc sync , it connects...but as soon i load this exe file it disconnects and will not reconnect until i cancel the .exe installation...if i just try to continue it cant find the phone. About 30 seconds after i click cancel itll be in sync mode again connect to my pc.

Yes, it is a Telus HTC hero and i have no clue what to do ...

I made a post on the XDA forum , hopefully someone had the same problem as me.

 

[The_Gnome_]

RUU_Hero_HTC_WWE_2.73.405.5_WWE_release_signed_NoD river.exe

That file...ive got the goldcard etc and im at the part where i need to downgrade.
So i start htc sync , it connects...but as soon i load this exe file it disconnects and will not reconnect until i cancel the .exe installation...if i just try to continue it cant find the phone. About 30 seconds after i click cancel itll be in sync mode again connect to my pc.

Yes, it is a Telus HTC hero and i have no clue what to do ...

I made a post on the XDA forum , hopefully someone had the same problem as me.

Ah ok my bad! Do you have USB debugging turned on on your Hero?