A few weeks ago I bought my first smartphone: The HTC Hero. It's been a great purchase since the beginning, but I was wondering how Android would "feel" without all the HTC customizations such as the SenseUI. So, I installed an AOSP (Android Open Source Project) ROM for the Hero. It was a build of the Android 2.0.1 sources combined with the Google closed-source applications such as Gmail, Talk and Calendar. This was a really great experience, because all the features I use worked great. There was just one problem that is quite important for me: battery life. Somehow this ROM seems to drain the battery at night. When I first brought up this issue, nobody had noticed it, but quickly other people started to monitor their Hero's and it appeared they were experiencing the same problem. I've switched back to the official ROM until this is solved, but you should really give this a try. The developers of the ROM did a great job!
Frank Groeneveld
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Does anybody know which sort of video information are supported? I remember the Instinct solely might dl 3gp using opera mini. I downloaded the twist ap, maybe that's the problem? How can I watch videos from sites other than youtube? Which file types? Usually I'm given the choice of 3gp or mpeg4. Cannot get both to work. Thanks in your time! Damn I want I used to be eligible for the upgrade to EVO!
You can use RockPlayer to play almost anything, including xvid etc. However, I'm not sure it works on a Hero.
Thank you for the good article, I'm very excited. I've had my phone for simply over a month now and am actually taking part in all the unfastened apps from the android market, with the ability to have the web and navigation at my fingertips all the time. The one not up to idea function is the image/video textual content messages, as they don't seem to be downloading properly.