I honestly have no intention of rooting my HTC Hero, personally I am happy with the standard Sense UI that HTC offers me. But with that I am sure there is at least someone who will be happy to hear that the Sprint branded CDMA Hero has been rooted.
Of course, this news must come with the standard warning. If you proceed to test this out, do not, do not blame me is something goes wrong. That said, have fun and play.
I should point out though, that despite it being possible to root your Sprint HTC Hero there is not much you can really do just yet. The good news is now that the rooting is possible, we will most likely see some customs ROM’s surface.
With that, if you are still interested in moving forward, here is a link to the how-to over on the xda-developers forums. And with that, if you decide to go the rooted Hero route, please share your experience in the comments. Maybe I just need a good reason to convince me to play.
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November 11th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
I've had a G1 for about a year now, and it's been rooted for about the last six months. You're right…to get the big benefits, you'll need to wait for the modders to come out with custom ROMs. In the meantime, though, there are several apps available that require root access. The most notable of these is Android-WiFi-Tether (http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/). With a rooted phone, you can use this application to provide an internet connection to any Bluetooth-enabled device. There are even some applications available directly on the Market that require a rooted phone.
While there are always some risks to rooting your phone, I've never had any problems at all, and the benefits of using modded ROMs have been huge. In my opinion, the biggest of these are *much* faster performance, and the ability to install applications to the SD card. This last is key – it's very nice to never have to decide which app I'm going to install because of space considerations.
November 12th, 2009 at 1:29 am
Thanks for this article. I'm a big Android / Hero fan and exploring the capabilities of Android is getting to be a lot of fun more and more everyday;)