[ubuntu-uk] Updating phone ROM was: HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

[Alan Pope]

On 26 May 2010 07:50, Mark Fraser <ubuntu at mfraz.orangehome.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 May 2010 15:54:36 David Jones wrote:
>> Any updates/application installs are done over the air using the phones
>> normal 3G internet connection.
>
> That's not entirely true. If you need to upgrade the ROM in your phone then
> you'll only be able to do it from Windows - this is the page for the HTC Hero
> ROM update http://www.htc.com/uk/SupportDownload.aspx?p_id=283&cat=2&dl_id=671
>

Indeed, I have an HTC Hero which up until very recently was running
the HTC branded/modified Android 1.5. Jo Shields kindly wrote up a
how-to guide detailing how to manually upgrade the ROM on the UK HTC
Hero to Android 2.1. I followed this and am using the VanillaDroid ROM
which works very nicely. I'm now able to use some of the applications
(such as Google Goggles) that previously were unavailable to me in
1.5.

http://forums.hexus.net/mobile-phones-accessories/186335-htc-hero-custom-rom-guide.html#post1927569

Cheers,
Al.