Comments on: How To: Speed Up Your Hero ROM http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:21:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: TheUnlockr http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/#comment-23169 TheUnlockr Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:09:59 +0000 http://theunlockr.com/?p=1124#comment-23169 Badtom, Thanks! The issue with using Hero ROMs is that they are all based on 1.5 Android builds (since HTC didn't make hero for Cupcake). You should be able to find a 2.x rom running either with or without Sense UI on top and flash that. Good luck! Badtom,

Thanks!
The issue with using Hero ROMs is that they are all based on 1.5 Android builds (since HTC didn’t make hero for Cupcake).
You should be able to find a 2.x rom running either with or without Sense UI on top and flash that.
Good luck!

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]]> By: BadTom http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/#comment-23168 BadTom Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:10:16 +0000 http://theunlockr.com/?p=1124#comment-23168 Hi Guys Hey Unlockr - I love the dedication to answering questions - I can imagine it is hard to find the time especially with your popularity! I have been in IT for decades and still managed to get it wrong several times until I watched your videos step for step - then I wondered what the hell I had been doing wrong all the time!! Fantastic quality and work! Anyway - I have one small question: I had the pleasure of playing with Google Maps Navigation before downgrading to 1.5. Now it Google maps is no longer available to me in the Market. A google search says " You must be running Android OS 1.6 or higher in order to access the Navigation feature." My question is:- do we have the option of flashing to 2.x or are we committed to 1.5? I must say that I am not 100% clear on the fundamentals between flashing firmware and loading a ROM. Are we simply emulating the Hero with a ROM on 1.5 in place of using the actual firmware? anyway - any access to higher firmware versions on a Magic 32B Thanks, Tom Hi Guys
Hey Unlockr – I love the dedication to answering questions – I can imagine it is hard to find the time especially with your popularity! I have been in IT for decades and still managed to get it wrong several times until I watched your videos step for step – then I wondered what the hell I had been doing wrong all the time!! Fantastic quality and work!

Anyway – I have one small question: I had the pleasure of playing with Google Maps Navigation before downgrading to 1.5. Now it Google maps is no longer available to me in the Market. A google search says ” You must be running Android OS 1.6 or higher in order to access the Navigation feature.”

My question is:- do we have the option of flashing to 2.x or are we committed to 1.5? I must say that I am not 100% clear on the fundamentals between flashing firmware and loading a ROM. Are we simply emulating the Hero with a ROM on 1.5 in place of using the actual firmware?

anyway – any access to higher firmware versions on a
Magic 32B

Thanks,
Tom

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]]> By: Tommy Le http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/#comment-23167 Tommy Le Sun, 11 Apr 2010 04:24:37 +0000 http://theunlockr.com/?p=1124#comment-23167 Hello The Unlockr! I tried to partition my sd card and it had some kind of error and it told me to run sdtools on console? any help would be greatly appreciated! thanks! Hello The Unlockr!

I tried to partition my sd card and it had some kind of error and it told me to

run sdtools on console?

any help would be greatly appreciated! thanks!

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]]> By: TheUnlockr http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/#comment-23166 TheUnlockr Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:44:35 +0000 http://theunlockr.com/?p=1124#comment-23166 Ekie, You need to be rooted and running a custom hero rom on a non hero phone to use this. Ekie,

You need to be rooted and running a custom hero rom on a non hero phone to use this.

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]]> By: ekie http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/#comment-23165 ekie Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:35:17 +0000 http://theunlockr.com/?p=1124#comment-23165 do u need to root to do this??? do u need to root to do this???

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]]> By: Tommy Le http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/#comment-23164 Tommy Le Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:33:28 +0000 http://theunlockr.com/?p=1124#comment-23164 thats wierd, i downloaded the advanced task manager and "touchflo" was nowhere to be found! i even looked in the excluded section, still not there.... thats wierd, i downloaded the advanced task manager and “touchflo” was nowhere to be found! i even looked in the excluded section, still not there….

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]]> By: dimple http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/#comment-23163 dimple Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:56:07 +0000 http://theunlockr.com/?p=1124#comment-23163 Thanks a lot,It helped too much to get faster my htc magic with Hero Rom Thanks a lot,It helped too much to get faster my htc magic with Hero Rom

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]]> By: TheUnlockr http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/#comment-23162 TheUnlockr Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:51:53 +0000 http://theunlockr.com/?p=1124#comment-23162 Paymanz28, I would do the usual cure for most problems on that. Reformat/repartition the SD card via recovery, wipe data, then load the the new custom ROM again (Modacos works well in the downloads section). And his ROM should move everything to cache automatically (so long as your card is partitioned). Paymanz28,

I would do the usual cure for most problems on that.
Reformat/repartition the SD card via recovery, wipe data, then load the the new custom ROM again (Modacos works well in the downloads section). And his ROM should move everything to cache automatically (so long as your card is partitioned).

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]]> By: patmanz28 http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/#comment-23161 patmanz28 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:43:21 +0000 http://theunlockr.com/?p=1124#comment-23161 hey i just tried to move the cache in my hero to the sd card(using ra 1.53 i think) and now none of my apps or widgets work i also cant acess the terminal. I have no idea what to do i have been searching all day and havent seen one iota to help. thanks in advance. hey i just tried to move the cache in my hero to the sd card(using ra 1.53 i think) and now none of my apps or widgets work i also cant acess the terminal. I have no idea what to do i have been searching all day and havent seen one iota to help. thanks in advance.

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]]> By: TheUnlockr http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/#comment-23160 TheUnlockr Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:15:56 +0000 http://theunlockr.com/?p=1124#comment-23160 Carissa, That is why we recommend that ROM, because it is similar to the original but has root access. With root access, you can load any app that requires root access (like Wifi Tether which turns your phone into a MiFi hotspot which is great, plus a bunch others, go search through the market for root). You can also notice that you have more homescreens, the performance has been tweaked to go faster, your apps will be saved to the sd card instead of the internal memory so you can have more apps, etc (assuming you did the partitioning correctly) and a few other benefits like the ability to load free themes. Also you HAVE A CHOICE as to what ROM you load, if you don't like that one, then you are free to load another and see what benefits the other devs put in their ROMs they are all different. Hope that helps, enjoy! Carissa,

That is why we recommend that ROM, because it is similar to the original but has root access.
With root access, you can load any app that requires root access (like Wifi Tether which turns your phone into a MiFi hotspot which is great, plus a bunch others, go search through the market for root).
You can also notice that you have more homescreens, the performance has been tweaked to go faster, your apps will be saved to the sd card instead of the internal memory so you can have more apps, etc (assuming you did the partitioning correctly) and a few other benefits like the ability to load free themes. Also you HAVE A CHOICE as to what ROM you load, if you don’t like that one, then you are free to load another and see what benefits the other devs put in their ROMs they are all different.

Hope that helps, enjoy!

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]]> By: carissa http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/#comment-23159 carissa Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:25:31 +0000 http://theunlockr.com/?p=1124#comment-23159 I decided to run the donut rom you guys recommended. What I'm trying to figure out now is what is the difference between the standard donut that I was already using before I rooted my phone and the donut rom I now have. Why did I root my phone at all? I still have less available ram then when I started. Keep in mind I'm very much a noob and would like to speed up my mytouch, it just seems that I've actually gone backwards in my effort to speed up my phone. I really appreciate you responding last time, and thank you for putting up with noobs like me. Please help I decided to run the donut rom you guys recommended. What I’m trying to figure out now is what is the difference between the standard donut that I was already using before I rooted my phone and the donut rom I now have. Why did I root my phone at all? I still have less available ram then when I started. Keep in mind I’m very much a noob and would like to speed up my mytouch, it just seems that I’ve actually gone backwards in my effort to speed up my phone.
I really appreciate you responding last time, and thank you for putting up with noobs like me.
Please help

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]]> By: TheUnlockr http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/#comment-23158 TheUnlockr Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:25:02 +0000 http://theunlockr.com/?p=1124#comment-23158 Carissa, 1. This procedure your looking at will help speed it up a bit. The Hero phone has a lot more RAM than the MyTouch so even though we have created virtual RAM with the procedures (partitioning your card and loading the rom) you will still be short on RAM. 2. There is no 1.6 for Hero phones yet (HTC said they will not release it and will release a 2.1 upgrade eventually). So if you are running a Hero ROM you will be on 1.5. But Hero ROMs have most of the 1.6 features in them anyway since HTC put them in there before Google did. Good luck! Carissa,

1. This procedure your looking at will help speed it up a bit. The Hero phone has a lot more RAM than the MyTouch so even though we have created virtual RAM with the procedures (partitioning your card and loading the rom) you will still be short on RAM.
2. There is no 1.6 for Hero phones yet (HTC said they will not release it and will release a 2.1 upgrade eventually). So if you are running a Hero ROM you will be on 1.5. But Hero ROMs have most of the 1.6 features in them anyway since HTC put them in there before Google did.
Good luck!

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]]> By: Carissa http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/#comment-23157 Carissa Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:45:10 +0000 http://theunlockr.com/?p=1124#comment-23157 I'm a super serious newb. I followed the one click method and rooted my mytouch. I also followed the custom rom instructions and am now running hero on my mytouch. When I switch to task killer, I'm showing no more then about 20-25 m of ram available. Is this because I'm running the hero rom? And if so is there any way to speed my phone up? My second question is how do I use android 1.6 or better on my hero rom since I had to downgrade to 1.5 in order to root it? Please help, I would greatly appreciate it! ~Carissa~ I’m a super serious newb. I followed the one click method and rooted my mytouch. I also followed the custom rom instructions and am now running hero on my mytouch. When I switch to task killer, I’m showing no more then about 20-25 m of ram available. Is this because I’m running the hero rom? And if so is there any way to speed my phone up? My second question is how do I use android 1.6 or better on my hero rom since I had to downgrade to 1.5 in order to root it? Please help, I would greatly appreciate it!
~Carissa~

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]]> By: mike larry http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/#comment-23156 mike larry Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:06:56 +0000 http://theunlockr.com/?p=1124#comment-23156 the hero rom the hero rom

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]]> By: mike larry http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/#comment-23155 mike larry Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:01:26 +0000 http://theunlockr.com/?p=1124#comment-23155 i intalled a new rom for the mytouch and the recording app on the rom doesn't work a long with every other voice recording app. do u have any idea why....plz help i intalled a new rom for the mytouch and the recording app on the rom doesn’t work a long with every other voice recording app. do u have any idea why….plz help

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]]> By: TheUnlockr http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/#comment-23154 TheUnlockr Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:18:12 +0000 http://theunlockr.com/?p=1124#comment-23154 Kareem, It automatically does Apps2SD, you're done. enjoy! Kareem,

It automatically does Apps2SD, you’re done. enjoy!

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]]> By: kareem http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/#comment-23153 kareem Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:07:47 +0000 http://theunlockr.com/?p=1124#comment-23153 hi unlocker : i just rooted my g1 and load the jachero 2.63 it has apps to sd ? if not what i get to do to install apps to my sd card........... hi unlocker :

i just rooted my g1 and load the jachero 2.63

it has apps to sd ? if not what i get to do to install apps to my sd card………..

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]]> By: TheUnlockr http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/#comment-23152 TheUnlockr Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:03:36 +0000 http://theunlockr.com/?p=1124#comment-23152 Hero05, Your welcome :) He removed it in his new recovery image. Just download Move Cache from the Market and run that instead. Hero05,

Your welcome :)
He removed it in his new recovery image. Just download Move Cache from the Market and run that instead.

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]]> By: hero50 http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/#comment-23151 hero50 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:00:48 +0000 http://theunlockr.com/?p=1124#comment-23151 Hi unlockr, Thanks for great tips. but step 1 & 2 i done it, but step 3 i don't see move cache to sd, i used Ra recovery 1.3.2, how to do this step. thanks. Hi unlockr, Thanks for great tips. but step 1 & 2 i done it, but step 3 i don’t see move cache to sd, i used Ra recovery 1.3.2, how to do this step. thanks.

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]]> By: TheUnlockr http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/#comment-23150 TheUnlockr Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:50:56 +0000 http://theunlockr.com/?p=1124#comment-23150 Saqib, There is an app in the market called something like move cache. Download that instead. Saqib,

There is an app in the market called something like move cache. Download that instead.

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]]> By: Saqib http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/#comment-23149 Saqib Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:53:39 +0000 http://theunlockr.com/?p=1124#comment-23149 Hi Unlocker i have the lastest recovery by Amon Ra and it does not have the move cache to sd rather i only get one option that is wipe dalvik cache etc. so what should i do lot of people asked this before but i am stil not clear on what to do??? Hi Unlocker

i have the lastest recovery by Amon Ra and it does not have the move cache to sd rather i only get one option that is wipe dalvik cache etc.

so what should i do

lot of people asked this before but i am stil not clear on what to do???

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]]> By: LP http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/#comment-23148 LP Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:40:31 +0000 http://theunlockr.com/?p=1124#comment-23148 Hey Unlockr, Would occasionally wiping Davlik cache be advisable? Any adverse side effects? And I occasionally get bogged down and laggy for no good reason, any maintenance steps I can / should take from time to time to 'reset' or clear things out? I've done all your above recommended steps and upgraded to a class 6 8 gb micro sdhc, all which helped a lot.... Thanks for any help as always!!!!! Hey Unlockr,

Would occasionally wiping Davlik cache be advisable? Any adverse side effects? And I occasionally get bogged down and laggy for no good reason, any maintenance steps I can / should take from time to time to ‘reset’ or clear things out? I’ve done all your above recommended steps and upgraded to a class 6 8 gb micro sdhc, all which helped a lot….

Thanks for any help as always!!!!!

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]]> By: TheUnlockr http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/#comment-23147 TheUnlockr Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:02:20 +0000 http://theunlockr.com/?p=1124#comment-23147 Hello Eduardo, Ya, the new recovery image might have removed that option, does it say anything else similar to cache to sd? Hello Eduardo,

Ya, the new recovery image might have removed that option, does it say anything else similar to cache to sd?

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]]> By: Eduardo http://theunlockr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-speed-up-your-hero-rom/#comment-23146 Eduardo Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:55:35 +0000 http://theunlockr.com/?p=1124#comment-23146 hi unlockr, on step 3 i dont have the option move cache to sd card, i only get wipe cache from sd card. please help. hi unlockr, on step 3 i dont have the option move cache to sd card, i only get wipe cache from sd card.
please help.

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