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26-07-2009 11:58 AM
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I'm flashing my Magic now with a donut port already
Will report back in a bit....
26-07-2009 09:32 PM
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27-07-2009 09:35 AM
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Its interesting to read what you guys think about the ROMs you've tried. I just flashed mine yesterday morning (took about 1/2 hour following the guide linked to previously in this thread) to the Hero ROM. Looks amazing, but there's just far too much lag for me to stick to this one. So can anyone suggest some pretty fast ROMs? I've seen the Vodafone Black ROM which looks natty - but not too sure if there' d be much difference compared to the standard HTC Hero ROM. I like the look and feel of this ROM, its only the performance on the 32B that's making me rethink the options.
27-07-2009 10:30 AM
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yes the Hero roms look lovely but are currently too slow to be actually fucntional on our phones. I have read some reviews of the Hero phone and aparently there is the occasional lag on that phone as well so it's to be expected we experience some. I think it will get sorted out though as currently the devs are working on optimizing the rosie interface, trying to make everything as small as possible etc.
The pure black roms by Jepelea are the one's to look at, or at least keep an eye on his threads.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=5
I'm currently using this Cyanogen rom, i'm using the palm pre themed one and it's just lovely, super fast and does everything you could want. You can find the normal release at the top in the 1st post (go for release 3) and the palm pre themed rom in the second post (again release 3)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=5
27-07-2009 11:31 AM
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I'll give the Jepelea ROM a try tonight. I've been having a read though and there's been mention that the Hero widgets could be the cause of the memory leak. So I've removed a couple of them to see what effect it has on performance. Has speeded up a tad, but we'll keep trying. Cheers for the advice tho.
Miten
27-07-2009 01:20 PM
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27-07-2009 02:10 PM
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27-07-2009 05:23 PM
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Couldn't get the kitchen stuf to work so I asked Jepelea to build me a custom rom
Custom ROM! What did you get?
27-07-2009 06:03 PM
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(update 7/22) Very speedy port of JacHero2.7.3 32B and now with Compcache
available here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=5
what ive done to speed mine up is run nothing other than the toggle widgets, flip clock with weather on the home page, i know that sounds counterproductive, why have rosie and not run all widgets, well the weather can be accessed by pressing the weather on the flip clock then the app takes up the whole screen similar to the weather widget anyhoot, i launch all the emails, messages etc through the sliding doc , no difference to scrolling left or right pages in my mind takes as many button presses, yet i still use the apps of hero same with peep etc
27-07-2009 06:29 PM
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what trouble were you having with the kitchens? was that your fault the person got into trouble for providing an update.zip file on xda forum then
27-07-2009 10:12 PM
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The problem I had with the kitchen is that I just couldn't get the batch file to run properly, it just kept giving out errors. In the end I gave up and got asked the Dev to knock me one up in an update.zip file so I could actually use it!
No idea what your on about regarding someone getting into trouble
well just found another bug with the black rom, got my bluetooth stereo headphones delivered today and paired up, audio wont play and the mp3 is skipping 3 seconds at a time, whether or not this is a bug with the rom will soon find out........just a headsup for anyone.
what trouble were you having with the kitchens? was that your fault the person got into trouble for providing an update.zip file on xda forum then
28-07-2009 01:21 AM
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28-07-2009 12:27 PM
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yeah well seems to be the rom, went back to ion r4 just now until everything is resolved at least the audio works just doesnt look as nice lol.
I think the best so for is NK02's ION v4, and it looks great (the best I've found) if you download the Hero them version;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=5
I am also trying new ones, but always come back to this one.
Looks much nicer than the CyanogenMod && Palm Pre theme i just treid.
28-07-2009 12:42 PM
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&& Palm Pre theme i just treid.
28-07-2009 01:06 PM
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As Wayne said before, a great little conversation here!
To pick up on Seanmates point, the updates are delivered automatically over the air (OTA for anyone who stumbled in and wondered what everyone's talking about
As was mentioned earlier, reflashing a phone does invalidate the warranty, so to anyone considering it I would just stress that we cannot guarantee that you won't have issues in this regard if you go ahead.
DaveN
eForum Team
P.S. If anyone wants to find out what they can do with the Magic, just in case they're looking at reflashing the handset when they don't need to, our HTC magic help centre is a great starting point for instructions and information, including a series of tutorial videos and an animated guide to give you a complete visual guide.
28-07-2009 01:13 PM
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Multi-touch in browser/pics and some 'power' toggle widget bar!
28-07-2009 04:32 PM
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&& Palm Pre theme i just treid.
Yeah this is the one i am using again. If the bluetooth worked on the black id have to say black was better though. As for the palm one looks too much like stock to me unless im missing something
28-07-2009 04:33 PM
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Haha...... I mean, oh dear
Cruel........ Oh so cruel






