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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 15, 2012
HTC has turned on the Wayback Machine and is now offering a bootloader unlock solution for the Droid Eris, the HTC Hero, the HTC Legend, and the T-Mobile myTouch 3G and 4G flavors. It's a ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 16, 2011
Now here's where it gets interesting. In HTC's response to questioning from U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., it listed some 6.3 million "active devices" that have Carrier IQ installe...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 07, 2011
Benchmarks can be useful, whether we're talking mobile or any other computer hardware. There is a problem though -- you have to depend on everyone being honest. Let me explain. Anyti...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 25, 2011
The GSM version of the HTC Hero is in need of a CyanogenMod maintainer, so it has been dropped by the CM team. Ciwrl sends word that while they have tried to keep the Hero on the supported devic...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 17, 2011
If you went ahead and tried out any of the CyanogenMod 7 nightly builds, you've surely noticed the new Gapps builds. This is something that the fellows on the CM team has been working on as...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 07, 2010
Gingerbread ROMs are being ported from the 2.3 SDK device emulator left and right. As of this writing, we have the Eris, the Hero, the Wildfire (pictured, and video after the break), and th...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 25, 2010
The 2.32.651.2 OTA for the Sprint Hero is still rolling out, and so are some bug reports. I'm hearing and seeing a bit too many reports of things like serious lag, to the point of a battery pull...
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by Jesse Potter
Nov 19, 2010
A bit of good news for all you HTC Hero owners out there. Sprint just announced a maintenance release that should begin rolling out sometime today. HTC Hero Maintenance Rel...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 19, 2010
When we brought your the first pictures of a Cox HTC Hero back in May, we were expecting it to only be a test device -- it's not a young phone, after all. But Cox has just launched its wireless ...
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by Sean Brunett
Oct 26, 2010
Good news for HTC Hero owners in Canada, as the 2.1 (Eclair) update for the TELUS version is now available for download. The Hero is not even available to buy new, but owners who have been devout...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 04, 2010
The Sprint Hero was another milestone for Android, and an even bigger one for HTC. As the first CDMA Android phone, it paved the way for others like the Droid and Evo 4G. It...
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by Andrew Melnizek
Sep 29, 2010
The Fall season brings new colors of leaves, the return of children to school, pumpkin pie (om nom nom), and new TV shows. If you've had your boob tube set to CBS in the past few weeks, you've pr...
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by Dallin Hampton
Sep 24, 2010
Two days, seven device updates pushed or announced. If that doesn't overload your systems and make you giddier than a schoolgirl, what will?!? From GPS fine-tuning to pulling the training wheels off ...
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by Andrew Melnizek
Sep 24, 2010
If you own an HTC Hero and you're tired of your GPS and dialer acting up, it's time to update your phone -- now. Software version 2.31.651.7 is hitting the phones as we speak, well, as we type. We go...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 22, 2010
Looks like the rumors are true, folks -- the Evo 4G update that's coming down the pike may well be fixing the 30FPS graphics issue that's been plaguing us all from the start. We were slipped th...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 07, 2010
The unrevoked team has announced that version 3.2 is now available for download, and support for Froyo has been added. This brings the list of devices supported by the flashing tool to:Sprint EV...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 16, 2010
Sprint has again updated its Sprint Football Live application, and it wants to remind everyone that the services are free to every Sprint data subscriber. Back in April, Verizon wrangled the off...
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by Andrew Melnizek
Aug 04, 2010
According to NPD, one of the largest consumer market research companies, Android phones smartphones (or superphones, as Google likes to call it), has out sold the BlackBerry in Q2's sales. Almost ever...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 04, 2010
Always had a special place in our hearts for the HTC Hero, even if it is a little long in the tooth. But dress it up in black, and we'd be more than happy to put this guy in our bag as a backup ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 20, 2010
For those of you with an HTC Hero on Cellular South, let it be known at Android 2.1 is now ready for you (albeit a little later than we'd expected). It's not an over-the-air update, unfortunately...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 09, 2010
It's always great to see Android spreading it's robo-love to the smaller guys, and starting today Credo Mobile is carrying the HTC Hero (CDMA). The Hero, running Android 2.1, will be offer...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 06, 2010
Just because we see what looks like Froyo running on a phone with HTC Sense, doesn't mean it's right around the corner. The good folks over at Pocket-lint got some one-on-one time with Eric Lin...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 05, 2010
Better late than never, HTC has released the Linux kernel source code for the HTC Evo 4G and both GSM and CDMA HTC Hero updates. This should allow the development community to address and improv...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 30, 2010
If you use a custom ROM on your Android phone, you should know about CyanogenMod. If you don't, go hit Google now, then come right back. (pretty freakin' sweet, huh?) With the drop of the ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 27, 2010
Hey guys! Jerry back with another neat trick you can do on your Android phone. This one helps keep things running smoothly, and gives us some user control over Android's internal task kill...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 25, 2010
We imagine there are quite a few pitchforks being raised right about now. Sprint dropped the bad news on Twitter that while the new Evo 4G will be getting Android 2.2 (which was already announced...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 05, 2010
There's a new software update from HTC for all of us holding on to the Sprint Hero. This updates the Android 2.1 system from 2.27.651.5 to 2.27.651.6. To get the update, open settings and ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2010
If you weren't quite up to installing the leaked Android 2.1 update for the Sprint HTC Hero, fair not -- it's now all official and everything on Sprint's Web site, sort of. It's listed as being r...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 17, 2010
It's no great secret that Cox (as in Cox Cable) is working on on its own wireless service. And low and behold, it appears that Cox may have been using at least one Android phone for what likely is n...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 14, 2010
When it rains, it pours. Just got word of a new leak for the HTC Sprint Hero. No way of knowing if this is the final 2.1 version, but this one is signed with release keys so you will lose ...
