I thought this might be of interest to folks, since the biggest complain I've heard of the Hero (both on the Vogue and on the "official" hardware) is that it is too slow. Apparently HTC is releasing an updated Hero ROM, which has had quite a few optimizations.
You can watch a video preview at the link below:
http://gizmodo.com/5340981/upcoming-software-update-fixes-the-htc-heros-only-real-problem
Maybe eventually some of this stuff will find its way onto the Vogue as well!
Sure hope so, the UI for Hero is so cool. If only it was as fast and snappy as 1.5 on our vogues
Amazing. I'm extra excited to get the Hero now... the sluggishness was the only thing in the back of my mind making me question the decision.
so can anyone get their hands on the new rom?
We need !
boygeniusreport.com/2009/10/16/android-2-0-screenshot-walkthrough/
Any indication about release date?
Hero support? That's actually the bad thing about hero. We will have to check if HTC decides to upgrade to the new android, while with Magic it will keep being supported..
Why would they update the Magic but not the Hero?
finisterre said:
Why would they update the Magic but not the Hero?
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Noob.
Please research before posting.
A vanilla Google os gets updates ota through their provider, while HTC has to make a hero build seperate
finisterre said:
Why would they update the Magic but not the Hero?
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cuz HTC made their version of Android using SenseUI so its not directly supported by Google. HTC will have to cook us up and update, test sense and release
I wouldn't worry too much about Eclair just yet because:
a) The Eclair development SDK hasn't been released yet.
b) We don't even have Donut!
Of course, if Eclair does ship before year end, there is always a chance that HTC might decide so skip Donut entirely, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Regards,
Dave
motorola are to start shippng phones running 2.0 from the beginning of november so htc may decide to skip donut.
http://www.t3.com/news/googles-eclair-android-2-0-update-arriving-soon?=41509
i reallyyy doubt that motorola will be shipping soon
id put an estimate at the years end
Could you not install 1.6 or 2.0 without HTC sense though? Whether it came from HTC or from Google.
Sorry if I'm being a "noob" but we don't all spent all our time playing with our phones and reading up on them. Some of us just like making old fashioned phone calls.
cymru said:
Could you not install 1.6 or 2.0 without HTC sense though? Whether it came from HTC or from Google.
Sorry if I'm being a "noob" but we don't all spent all our time playing with our phones and reading up on them. Some of us just like making old fashioned phone calls.
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I suppose it can be done. But i rather have 1.5 with sense than 1.6 / 2.0 without it. Ill wait for HTC since im just fine with what i have now
cymru said:
Could you not install 1.6 or 2.0 without HTC sense though? Whether it came from HTC or from Google.
Sorry if I'm being a "noob" but we don't all spent all our time playing with our phones and reading up on them. Some of us just like making old fashioned phone calls.
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If you just wanna make plain old phonecalls then why so interested in updates?
Thiesen said:
If you just wanna make plain old phonecalls then why so interested in updates?
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DITTO
1 thing to know btw.......
what exactly sense is? is it only the fancy thing with curve menu system and 7 home screens? or is it something integrated part of the android OS without which the OS cant even run?
i want to know this because for last 2 days i have been running without the sense home screen and it feels good with that simple and plain homescreen.
The Sens is the user interface that you c on your hero. i don't like the sens uit it slows down the phone. all the htc software for android are really really bad. i prefer the android plane OS.
HTC don't want to release the hero kernel, if they release it we will be able to install android OS without all the UI from htc.
you say you're running hero without sense home screen. you maybe don't see the home screen but it is still using your ram and running services on the background.
i'm looking forward to android 2.0 it looks great. and if you look @ www.droidoes.com you will see that verizon is gonna release their android 2.0 in november. but i still don't see any sdk for it what is weird :s.
the only thing we can do is to wait and see what happens next month
commodoor said:
The Sens is the user interface that you c on your hero. i don't like the sens uit it slows down the phone. all the htc software for android are really really bad. i prefer the android plane OS.
HTC don't want to release the hero kernel, if they release it we will be able to install android OS without all the UI from htc.
you say you're running hero without sense home screen. you maybe don't see the home screen but it is still using your ram and running services on the background.
i'm looking forward to android 2.0 it looks great. and if you look @ www.droidoes.com you will see that verizon is gonna release their android 2.0 in november. but i still don't see any sdk for it what is weird :s.
the only thing we can do is to wait and see what happens next month
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My guess is that the November date is just a date for a press conference or announcement of the phone, with the actual release date comes a month or two later. Besides the Android 2.0, it is nice to see that the hardware specification of smartphones is finally moving forward, i.e. manufacturers finally move to faster CPU, more memory, and bigger screen with higher resolution, rather than keep recycling the Qualcomm 528Mhz CPU and HVGA screen that powered to many devices over the last few years.
Is the locale language in menus, keyboards and dictionaries, a part of sence. Or would that be possible to have in a more native android version (like magic).
> I suppose it can be done. But i rather have 1.5 with sense than 1.6 / 2.0 without it.
> Ill wait for HTC since im just fine with what i have now
Personally, I'm dying for 1.6 because I feel handicapped & shackled by the soft keyboard, and urgently need the Gesture support from 1.6 to do Graffiti-like handwriting recognition. If Gestures were implemented as a shared lib that could be installed to 1.5 in addition to being an inherent part of 1.6 I wouldn't mind as much, but as it stands with 1.5, text input is just painfully frustrating, and has really put me off from exploring things I'd otherwise be spending lots of time playing with. I shudder to even think about trying to launch a Perl or Python app from the shell one painfully-fighting-with-prediction-and-losing-badly letter at a time. Prediction and autocorrection might be tolerable for t3xt msg3z, but falls flat on its face and dies a horrible death when you're trying to type something in camelCase with inline.punctuation.
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Thiesen said:
If you just wanna make plain old phonecalls then why so interested in updates?
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Cos 1.6 has, and i assume 2.0, a voice activated calling feature...
cymru said:
Cos 1.6 has, and i assume 2.0, a voice activated calling feature...
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The original T-Mobile US G1 firmware (Android 1.0) had a voice dialler! Are you sure you're not thinking of the text-to-speech engine that's in 1.6?
Regards,
Dave
when i first looked into getting a HD2, one of the things that sold me was the HTC sense video conducted by HTC (can be seen on youtube htc page)
i really liked the bit in the video that allowed you to customize different wallpapers, clocks etc depending on days of the week (ie work days vs weekend). So i was a bit disappointed to learn upon buying my hd2 that the feature known as 'scenes' is not available on the WinMo version of sense - only the android.
Of course, it is totally my fault for not doing the proper research.. i would just like to know if this feature will ever be included for the HD2/winmo version of sense? or maybe in a cooked rom?
thanks for any input!
was watching a HTC announcement video and spotted the new leap feature (amoungst other things) that is coming on the hero and the desire, do you think this new sense will also come to the HD2 or the HD2 Mini ?
and if it did would it be portable to our devices ?? (please don't pick on me, i am only asking)
Well, our Sense is different from Android Sense. They have different homescreens where they can add widgets. Ours is predefined and (IMO) better laid out. Leap was meant to switch between those homescreens, whereas we can just slide over really quickly!
So, in brief, no.
However, if I may hijack this thread, any chance we'll get friendstream?!
That would be nice to have .... that is one thing I like about the entire Sense for 2.1. I am possible getting a HD2 next week through T-Mobile so I would love to see this in a future Sense update for WM.
Hi,
Well HTC announced that new Sense would be available with new Android devices and would also be available as an update to other Android devices and didn't mention WinMo. Now, as they are selling WinMo products that have an unknown future with Microsoft I'd like to think that HTC will be providing updates, including sense, to keep their WinMo line fresh before Windows Phone 7 becomes available. Alternatively they might drop Sense development on WinMo like a stone as they wont be alowed to sell it on Windows Phone 7 Series anyway (unless they can get away with a Sense Hub). I think that perhaps all HTC's interface imagineers will perhaps be working on Android from now on to be honest. I am not always right tho
Like most things on this forum regarding future developments, I don't know for sure. No one does.
Hi there,
I've read this Dutch article about HTC is going to improve their Lockscreen and Camera software.
This article says they're gonna allow the users to add widgets on the Sense Lockscreen with widgets and that HTC is going to improve the camera app so you can easily take great pictures (without blur) of moving objects or people.
This is quite great news, imo!
So what do you guys think?
Original Dutch source: http://bit.ly/dE394X
English translated source by Google: http://bit.ly/fCu3Kw
the screenshot is from windows mobile.. so are you sure its about android?^^
Haha correct. It is from Windows Mobile
But I think they're talking about Android version
Because it's the only platform that allows customization.
Let's hope the update will come asap
Hopefully we get those camera improvements in the Gingerbread update.
Blezz said:
the screenshot is from windows mobile.. so are you sure its about android?^^
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From the sounds of it, even thought the screenshot is from WM, it sounds like Android.
Those improvements mentioned in that article apply for the HTC Sensation. HTC are talking about instant picture snapping and the new lockscreen. So maybe this article is mixing the phones?
Maybe the person that put this together was in a rush..... :L
So, will we be seeing these new sense implements that is the question... but in saying that it does say that existing phones will get it, and ours being one of the high end phones at the moment... that means us... right?
Sense 3 Perhaps
These features sound like they may be coming in the new Sense 3 which the Sensation and others will launch with.
Hopefully sense 3 will be released in future roms for our DHDs. If not I'm sure some devs will cook them into roms for us.