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Goodbye to the HERO - Thanks to CyanMoD, XDA and the DEVS

Hi Have a look at the CM7 forum
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/forum-0/announcement-16-hero-gsm-cm-7/
I would like to offer an Official status report on CM7 (Android 2.3) and CM support for the Hero GSM.
As many of you know, Lox stepped away as CM Maintainer for your device sometime in January. Since then, we have continued to issue Nightlies, Betas and one ill-gotten stable build (which was subsequently pulled); all without an active maintainer dedicated to the Hero GSM.
The team has come to the conclusion, that this is just not a sustainable and viable endeavor. With no active developer looking out for the GSM variant, items like that nasty memory leak sneak their way in. Additionally, it would seem that those in the Android community that do work on the CM source, and publish their own ROMS, are not contributing their fixes back to the CM source.
Having a broken base serve as a stepping stone for closed fixed versions doesn't work for us, and is against our aims with CM.
This decision is not irreversible, we simply would require commitment from a capable developer to maintain and manage the Hero vendor. Till that point, CM support for Hero GSM is hereby discontinued.
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I think its fair Enough and I personally still appreciate there are still Dev's like Elelinux, erasmux and others who are still helping around to keep us happy with their lovely roms and kernels the time has come to move on
My contract is coming to an end in a couple of months and have already put my beloved hero on ebay.
Looking to go with with either the Samsung galaxy S2 or HTC Sensation as they have 1 GB Ram compared to LG's Offerings and the Motorola Atrix has too many expensive Accessories which I have no intresest
What do you guys think ?

Same with me
Really thanks to all developers especially erasmux, ninpo, pulser,Villain Team....
Because of you i still have my old good Hero. Cheers
I ordered new Samsung GS2 and I think I'm going to miss some of you crazy dev guys. The Hero was very great phone but his time is running out. Too often I feel the lack of power, camera...

At least if you get bored with your Hero, you could always just flash it with one of the many existing ROMs.

I'm in the same boat as most of you. Nearing upgrade renewal period and looking at the Sensation, GS2 maybe the Atrix and whatever else that comes out. My Hero screen stopped responding so I got a Blade for the time being. I'd like to thank all the developers for their ROM's and the community. I will miss the Hero once it's gone.

Just like reiterate what everyone else is saying. Shame that there isn't an active dev working with the CM team for our Hero.
Have a few months before upgrade time. Would love to go for the SGS II or one of the newer HTC phones (Incredible or maybe Desire S if I had to). I like the sound of the Atrix, but need to look at it in the flesh first. Loved my Razr when I had it, but later phones didn't appeal from Motorola.
Hopefully we will see some new stuff from Erasmux soon. Have tried VR13 and had been running Elelinux 7, but always go back to Floyo for speed and reliability.
Thanks to all the devs past and present.
This isn't an obituary for the Hero, just thought I would pass on my thanks before any more jump ship.

In december of this year my hero will become 2 years old and i think i'll get a new phone then. But i have to say that the hero was my best choice for a mobilephone till now. And i still think its very useable and it just makes fun to see that there are many more people who see this just like me. i'll miss my hero :*(

I've still got 10 months left before an upgrade
Luckily though my GF is going to get a SGS2 on contract and swap me, I'm going to wait till the sensation is released and the networks offer better deals for it.
Thanks to the devs who have been and gone and still remain, each and everyone has made the hero what it is today. It's a shame, but all good things has to come to an end.
Too many devs to mention but thank you all!!

The SGS2 looks quality, it got an excellent review too. I found it on a 12 Month contract albeit with £300 for the phone upfront but the contract is only £20 so it's equivalent to the phone itself on Pay as you Go. I'm quite interested in the Sensation too, I hope the bootloader or whatever is unlocked by someone.
Call me a traitor but Windows Phone is compelling as well. The Dell Venue Pro is chunky but I like it.

I still have many months before my contract will expire, but I am thinking to buy a new phone anyway..
The Hero was my first smartphone and thanks to him I am in love with Android now..
Thanks for everything Hero..

Do not give up, there is a hope. After all, there are no serious problem with CM7 on hero, except for that invisible menus bug, which affects lots of other devices, too. There might be some people, who can take LoxDev's place.

VillainRom just tweeted that they have managed to fix some of the mess of cyanmod so there might be something coming from Villain Rom

Despite having had a new phone for a few months now, I just can't bring myself to sell my hero - just like my old Motorola startac (showing my age now) I think it will remain firmly in my possession for a while yet.
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pnnorth said:
Despite having had a new phone for a few months now, I just can't bring myself to sell my hero - just like my old Motorola startac (showing my age now) I think it will remain firmly in my possession for a while yet.
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Lol im exactly the same I cant let go of it
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I can not let my hero go!!
We still have few developers working their nights and days out for our Hero!! So i am in ni way ready to give up on my Hero!! It has been my first love as a smartphone!! Have faith and patience!!

and now we have this new fascinating rom out there "WildHero" by Erasmux
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1076772
i can't let the hero go...

Important Please read

guys I think we all need to calm down when it comes to developers and
their work around here
Motorola has always been known for the Closed Playground when it comes to it's devices so when a dev starts a project, most of the comment here doesn't really help.
you need to remember that we don't have the source code for the kernel yet, the moto atrix is only recently BL unlocked and most important - devs are doing all of this work for free and on their spare time!!!
coming from a long line of Android Devices ( G1, Milestone, Desire HD ) i Know what waiting means and not always you get what you want when you want it.
Patience is not bad word and whining certainly doesn't help at all
i traded my fully i unlocked customizable Desire HD for the atrix and sometimes it's frustrating that i can't put whatever rom that i want on it but i know that talking **** about devs won't help me.
so sit back calm down and lets hope things will go faster from now on.

moshikko said:
guys I think we all need to calm down when it comes to developers and
their work around here
Motorola has always been known for the Closed Playground when it comes to it's devices so when a dev starts a project, most of the comment here doesn't really help.
you need to remember that we don't have the source code for the kernel yet, the moto atrix is only recently BL unlocked and most important - devs are doing all of this work for free and on their spare time!!!
coming from a long line of Android Devices ( G1, Milestone, Desire HD ) i Know what waiting means and not always you get what you want when you want it.
Patience is not bad word and whining certainly doesn't help at all
i traded my fully i unlocked customizable Desire HD for the atrix and sometimes it's frustrating that i can't put whatever rom that i want on it but i know that talking **** about devs won't help me.
so sit back calm down and lets hope things will go faster from now on.
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High five! o_/ \_o
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Great post!
I agree with every word. Coming from HTC hero, and being used to replace roms almost on a daily basis, I can say that these chilish rushing was what ruined the hero dev community. The devs are doing wonderful job, and rushing them will only make them leave (khock for example...).
On an other matter, sortof, didnt the atrix kernel code was release right after the device was?
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Moonshield said:
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Great post!
I agree with every word. Coming from HTC hero, and being used to replace roms almost on a daily basis, I can say that these chilish rushing was what ruined the hero dev community. The devs are doing wonderful job, and rushing them will only make them leave (khock for example...).
On an other matter, sortof, didnt the atrix kernel code was release right after the device was?
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Yeah, 1.26 was released & I think maybe 1.57??
http://sourceforge.net/projects/atrix.motorola/files/Atrix ATT/OLYFR_U4_1.2.6/
1.83 is supposed to be released this week, if you believe this:
http://sourceforge.net/motorola/atrix/discussion/general_comments/thread/c63fc4c9/

very well agree, i have been visiting this site for quite sometime, but keeping in the background since I do not know a WHOLE lot about modding and developing. Im starting to get the gist of it through books, and this website though.
I was quite disappointed when I read that kholk had quit due to people's immaturity

Very well said.

this should be stickied

Or face the fires of hell!
Annoying when idiots keep posting thread over and over and over bout CM7, MIUI etc..and when they will be released.
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[Q] I just upgraded to the Atrix 4G from a Captivate.

I had an upgrade so I upgraded to the Atrix 4G.
I had a Samsung Captivate before.
How does everyone like the Atrix?
I've read/watched reviews all over the internet but
I want to know what xda thinks of the Atrix 4G, as a communtiy.
Thanks everyone.

Atrix is great phone and now with bootloader unlock its even better.
Have a look around.
Search forums as 99% questions are already answered and its already got ics rom.
Enjoy your new puppy.

welcome to the atrix fam. this phone is a beast. i feel like with the proper tweaking our phone out performs all these newer phones. as stated search the forums for answers, becuz some of the people here are just lurking around waiting to flame you. lol. otherwise enjoy

Performance is great, functionality is excellent with blur ROMs. MIUI, or other CM7-based ROMs are getting there. Friend has a Sensation whom i play Parallel Kingdom with, I'm OC'ed to 1500MHz and he underclocks for battery, he has to plug into a charger looong before I do. Definitely the best balance of power, features, and efficiency out there at the moment.

The Motorola Atrix 4G is by far the most underrated phone that I have ever seen.
It is as powerful as the SGS2, has got many more options compared to other phones(Fingerprint Scanner and lapdock), it was the voted as the best phone of 2011 by CES. I don't know why it didn't sell like bread as it is an amazing phone.
I don't understand what people mean when they say that the SGS2's screen completely blows that of the Atrix out of water as my gf has an SGS2 and it is not true.
The only two disadvantages of owning the Atrix is that Motorola sucks at updates and there are not as many devs working on our Rome compared to other devices but our devs are really awesome.
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awesome! thanks for the feedback! I'm really stoked for my phone to get here!
Should be here about Tues. or Wed. then the adventure will begin.
I have a little experience developing on the Captivate so I'm hoping the Atrix won't
be much more difficult.

ih4ckback said:
awesome! thanks for the feedback! I'm really stoked for my phone to get here!
Should be here about Tues. or Wed. then the adventure will begin.
I have a little experience developing on the Captivate so I'm hoping the Atrix won't
be much more difficult.
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if you need any help getting adjusted to dev-ing on the Atrix just pm me or twitter @ me

I just joined the community, so I am a noob, but I love my Atrix. I have had it for about 8 months now, and finally found the courage to root/unlock and go to the darkside. Talk about taking something sweet and turning it up to 11...
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I used to have a Captivate before I had to get the Atrix. I took a swim in a pool with my Captivate in my pocket and after a week or so of letting it dry it still worked for around 6 months. Then one day it just shut off while I was using it and it wouldn't turn back on anymore so I picked up an Atrix from Best Buy for $50. I really do miss my Captivate at times. The screen was amazing compared to the Atrix screen. I also liked how thin and light the phone was. The audio quality was great too with some tweaks. I've thought about getting the SGS2 but I just can't pull the trigger. The Atrix records audio really well when capturing a video. At concerts there's barely any distortion from bass or anything. The Captivate wasn't that bad after tweaks but I've seen some videos with the SGS2 and the audio is just horrible. Other than that, the Atrix is a great phone.

i have upgraded from the cappy to the atrix also but still have both and constantly switching back and forth although id say the cappy screen was better i still love the processor speed and camera flash, plus dual cameras! i hope we get more devs workn on more roms though. all in all its a good phone a nd has louder speaker volume than my cappy.
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I've registered just to say that the Atrix is an amazing phone and the CM team has made this phone even better than already is. I'd like to thank all the devs that have made this possible and are continuing to work on improving the phone's capabilities.

Atrix has supports similar to Captivate with added specification. Captivate has ICS (sweet if both will have) as advantage over Atrix.
I started reading this post and learned so many things immediately.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1154600

I've been doing alot of reading and I'm pretty confident that dev-ing on the Atrix isn't gonna be too different from the Cappy so I'm pretty stoked for the future and glad to become a part of a great community.

Thanks for everything guys! Off to a nexus

Hey everyone,
I haven't really been around a whole lot these past few months in this section of the forum for my Dinc, just kind of been poking around and been really happy with CM7 then CM9.
Just wanted to thank anyone who I had interacted with on this forum and any people that I've helped. It's been a great community here with the roms, mods, and the like for the Droid Incredible. It's time for me personally to move onto the Galaxy Nexus. Just got it today and threw JellyBean on there and it's absolutely fantastic after having "essentially" traded my I/O GSM version for the VZW version with a friend.
Droid incredible was an absolute solid choice for my first Android phone. Got it pre-ordered so long ago and has done me a fantastic job these past years. Hope others are still enjoying theirs. See you over on the Verizon Galaxy Nexus section!

I can haz your old Incredible then? J/K. Enjoy. I looked at the display dummy Nexus and S3 and really really really want one of those but I can't bring myself to pay that much for a contract free phone that I probably won't be able to get fully working on Page Plus Cellular since they are 4G phones.

Congrats
Personally, I'm right on the edge of upgrading. DInc has served us all so well for these last 2 yrs. But the GNex is a solid upgrade and with JB coming out we want the latest and greatest.
So do u have the GSM version? I've heard that Vzw is often slow to update OS. Is it worth the extra $? If u flash a custom ROM, that shouldn't be a factor.
Lastly, I'd love to hear ur initial impressions and what you like new vs old. Maybe try to help convince us old schoolers its time to upgrade.
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Yeah I would also like to how you like it since I am going to switch to the gnex in a few weeks when my contract ends.

Thank you EVO 4g community

Yesterday was a sad day. My OG EVO left my hands to be replaced by a Galaxy Nexus on the Big Red network.
It was bitter sweet. I really loved my EVO. However my love was not as strong for Sprint and their AWFUL data service.
I just wanted to thank everyone that has had a hand in developing and helping noobs like I once was in making my phone what it was and in reality, making it bearable to use on Sprints network.
Because of this community, I got my feet wet with rooting. Learned how to flash custom roms, kernels, mods, and themes.
There are way to many people to thank that in some point or another I flashed something they dev'd on my phone. However there are 2 that I want to single out. They cyanogen mod team for their CM7 builds and Dark Tremor for his A2SD. Without those 2, my phone may not have lived as long as it did.
The last ROM that I had flashed was MBQsniper's SensuAOSP.
I plan on ducking in here every now and then just to see what is still being developed simply because there is so much of it for a phone that by todays standards is obsolete. Thanks again everyone. Happy flashing

Threads like these do not belong hete...sorry
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