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Error – Sprint Hero Update Kills Copy-Protected Apps? UPDATED

Word around the internet is that the Sprint Hero over-the-air updated reported on twice previously has caused some copy-protected applications to disappear from user’s phones.  Apparently not only do they disappear, but the users cannot find them again in the market even if they have already paid for the apps.  UPDATE: This seems to be [...]

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Sprint Hero Update Details

Sprint Hero Update Details

I posted last week about a Sprint Hero ROM update.  It was a small update at about 3.5MB, and at the time there was no official word on what exactly it was supposed to do, but there were rumors it was focused at fixing the SMS issue where the phone would not sleep after an [...]

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Sprint Updates Hero Firmware

Sprint Updates Hero Firmware

Sprint is sending out a small (3.5MB) update to the HTC Hero.  It’s just a small update, nothing to get really excited about, unless that is you want the SMS app to work properly and allow the phone to sleep after sending a message.  It appears, just from initial posts to the sprintusers.com forums, that [...]

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Sprint Hero Gets Root and First Custom ROM

Well, that didn’t take too terrible long.  The great minds over at XDA Developers have rooted the CDMA Sprint version of the HTC Hero and one custom ROM has already been created for you.  It was done with an exploit and there are already YouTube videos of it and everything.  So, for those looking to [...]

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