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flipz(mode) and freshlyill are proud to release: Fresh Rom for CDMA HTC Hero (Sprint) 1.1!
A new year release!

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Special thanks to the testers / motivators. From xda: n0j, 702droid, toastcfh, abcdfv, 27s, kcarpenter. And from ppcgeeks: thacounty, athlet1c. And of course everyone else!

Base: RUU_Hero_C_Sprint_1.56.651.2_signed_release (Now built off the official RUU!)
Tested with: recovery-RA-heroc-v1.5.2

In this release (1.0) 12/10/09:

The most noticeable change that people will see is the work that is being done to port Espresso's Rosie over to Fresh ROM. I really like the look of the new Rosie and therefore am putting it in here. If you don't like it never fear. I can assure you that someone will put together a standard rosie theme that will put you back to all green. The pre-kitchen is 100% compatible with this rom. You will see that some parts of the rom are blue while some are green. This is exactly how the Espresso dump is. In fact the espresso dump is even worse! But freshlyill is working hard to spread it out to more applications. We'll post an update when it's ready.

• Added: ES File Explorer 1.2.5.1 (i’m liking it a lot more than astro)

• Updated: wifi tether from 1.6 pre-3 to 1.6 final
• Updated: busybox to remove color codes (thanks to obelisk, I didn’t know this existed)
• Updated: ad-less browsing hosts file (dec 22)
• Updated: ensured that all files matched what they are in the most up-to-date RUU

• Modified: removed the “lock” image from the left screen and left it totally blank (as voted on here. if the lock screen is still showing your old wallpaper then there is a tool in the pre-kitchen to clear the cache).
• Modified: espresso inspired rosie (light blue highlights)
• Modified: espresso inspired dialer (light blue highlights)
• Modified: battery icon
• Modified: re-optimized and zipalign’d apk’s after several changes to them
• Modified: signal icon
• Modified: removed “Sprint” from the lockscreen
• Modified: removed the 800×480 images from sdk’s that had them
• Modified: launcher to remove the landscape files
• Modified: htc contacts to remove the landscape files
• Modified: htc weather widget to remove the landscape files
• Modified: rosie to remove the landscape files
• Modified: htc contacts to remove the landscape files

• Fixed: headphone icon (left it out of 1.0 on accident)
• Fixed: GPS icons (left it out of 1.0 on accident)
• Fixed: speakerphone icon (left it out of 1.0 on accident)

• Removed: dropbear
• Removed: teeter (i’ll be adding it to the kitchen)
• Removed: HTC location manager (for me this has seemed to resolve our phone lag caused by location service. It dramtically cuts down on the heartbeats. but my phone is generally rebooted multiple times per day so only time will tell if this works)
• Removed: .bats in /system/app (accidentally left them in from my deodexing)
• Removed: astro file manager (keep in mind you will need to uninstall it. I don’t want to force remove it because those people that still use it)
• Removed: field trial
• Removed: jbed
• Removed: learn more (i did this a while ago, not sure when it got back in. lol)
• Removed: sprint app updated
• Removed: sdsa
• Removed: quick office
• Removed: html viewer
• Removed: im plugins

Known Issues:

• If you came from a fresh install rather than an update, the standard clock&weather widget that is on the home page will not pull your location automatically. More information coming soon. Current workaround is to delete it, then add it back and actually pick your location. Don't select "current location." More info and fix here.
• Flash player is not working in the browser. More info and fix here.

Download Link: http://geekfor.me/new-release/fresh-rom-1-1/

Flashing this rom should keep all of your personal settings and should not wipe anything but you are doing it at your own risk. I make no promises on what may happen to your device and your data. This also means that unlike winmo, it's not going to look different after you flash. It will look just as it was before hand.

Requirements:
A rooted CDMA HTC Hero by Sprint. RA's recovery loaded on. If you have any questions on that then please visit one of the other various threads on here about how to root your phone.

How to use it:
0. Create a nandroid backup!
1. Copy this rom (do not unzip) to the root of your sdcard using one of the various methods.
2. Go to the recovery program by either typing "reboot recovery" from an adb shell or by powering off the phone and holding Home while you power it on.
3. Scroll down to "Apply sdcard: choose zip" and select the zipped rom. Press the home button to confirm you want to write it.
4. After it finishes (takes several minutes) click "Reboot system now".

Bugs? Questions? Comments? Ideas? Please post here.