Comments on: HTC Hero new ROM gets video demo

By: Facebook User

Facebook User — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:39:09 +0000

yes I’d also like to see a video showing how speed is effected when openin apps or browsing and downloading on mobile internet, of course we must take into account whether or not brian is actually in a city or out in the country where wifi hotpsots aren’t so common, when he is testing the hero and shooting this video

By: Martin Beadle

Martin Beadle — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:52:33 +0000

hi there. I am from the UK and my htc herop does not have the Java widget displayed on the above screenshot. i have seen first-time glimpses at the Hero on youtube and theirs also featured the java widget.

Would there be any reason i don’t have one displayed? i have today upgraded my rom for my hero from the htc support website, so iv ruled that option out.

any ideas?

By: Evan Patrick Selleck

Evan Patrick Selleck — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:02:16 +0000

The software update is meant to make optimizations to the User Interface (UI), so that while apps are running in the background, TouchFLO isn’t so feature-laden and intensive. These optimizations are meant to fine tune the hardware, and how it works with the software. While the video doesn’t go into detail regarding apps, and it would help to see the things you talk about running, a lot of people were having lag just opening up the menu, or going from screen to screen, without running any apps in the background.

If you’re trying to kill running applications, I’d recommend running TasKiller or any one of the other task killing applications within the Android Market. While downloading a third-party solution might not be the greatest in some people’s eyes, it gets the job done, and it will make the Hero run a lot more fluidly.

By: Sheldon Els

Sheldon Els — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:30:48 +0000

seems to me that your demo only shows a newly booted hero moving about on the home screen. the speed trouble only starts happening on the old rom when you start opening apps and they aren’t shut down properly. could you try this again showing opening a web browser, mail app, and maybe twitter app, then go back to the home screen and scroll about. my bet is you’ll have the same speed issues as everyone else. don’t get me wrong, I love my hero, even without this update, but I don’t think a software update can fix a hardware problem. fixing htc hero speed problems can only be done by installing a decent speed sdhc card, or them allowing a person to choose which apps close and which don’t instead of running all apps in the background all the time.

By: nxd

nxd — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:15:27 +0000

Have they also tweaked the ROM to improve the photo/video quality ?