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As I’ve said before the best thing about my Hero is the development community pushing out an almost constant stream of updated ROM’s for the phone providing:

• speed/storage improvements with kernel optimisations, swap/compcache and supports running apps from the SD Card on a range of filesystems (ext2/3/4, BFS, etc)
• new pre-release updates showing off new Android and HTC SenseUI features
• security software (Droidwall & Wavesecure) for protecting the phone from network attack, and locking it down/wiping it if stolen
• software packs and updates from other phones (Motorola, etc)

The principle resource at the moment for the development of ROM’s is the Hero android development forum at XDA-Developers, ROM’s so far:

MoDaCo’s Custom ROM (www.modaco.com)

Download/Info Link:

[ROM] 02/12 3.0 – MoDaCo Custom ROM Core / Chinese with TCK featuring Wavesecure

Paul from Modaco first released his ROM in August with releases every few days/weeks ever since.  It was a breath of fresh air after the initial software release that shipped with the phone (1.76.xx), and after v1.5 most of the speed, lag issues on the phone were all but gone.

Android Version: Cupcake (1.5)

Versions: 1.0 -> 3.0 (2/12/2009)

Features:

• HTC/Sense UI based
• Optimised build from official HTC updates
• Newer versions include Tecknologist’s Custom Kernel (TCK) 1.9
• Rooted (of course)
• Includes wifi-tether, busybox, Spare Parts, Wavesecure etc

Drizzy’s MotoBlur

Download/Info Link:

[ROM][PORT] Drizzys MotoBlur v1.0rc2 for Hero [STOPPED NO MORE DEV]

Now discontinued ROM showcasing the Universal contacts feature from Motorola’s BLUR UI.

Versions: 1.0 (September 2009) – [DEPRECATED]

Android Version: Cupcake (1.5)

behnaam’s Donut Clean ROM

Download/Info Link:

[ROM] Clean ION 1.6 for our Hero v1.0 [30/10/09]

This ROM was an attempt at a clean (no Rosie/Sense UI) build of Donut (Android 1.6) for the hero, but since the release of the Kernel source code and pre-release Android 2.0 leaks all development has virtually stopped.

Android Version: Donut (1.6)

Versions: beta

Features:

• Clean Donut build free of HTC’s SenseUI

Lox_Dev’s AOSP 2.0 Android release

Download/Info Link: XDA-Developers [DEV] AOSP-Eclair-2.0 (version beta1) – 29-11-2009

First Android 2.0 build for the Hero

Android Version: Eclair (2.0)

Versions: Beta1 (30/10/2009)

Features:

• Clean (AOSP) Android open source project build, with no Google Apps or HTC SenseUI

Behnaam’s Hero v2.1

Download/Info Link:

[ROM] Hero 2.1 v1.3 – It’s here by Behnaam w/ base from KingKlick [3/12/09]

Bleeding edge HTC SesnseUI based ROM with Android 2.1 and all the new 2.0 features, involves work from barakinflorida, eugene, kingklick, drizzy and a few others.

Android Version: Eclair-bugfixes (2.1)

Versions: 1.1 -> 1.3 (3/12/2009)

Features:

• HTC/Sense UI based

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