sprint hero questions
 

i have a couple questions about the hero for sprint.

*is there a way i can get paid apps for free?

*can i change my word keyboard to be like the calculator?

*how good is the iphone theme for the hero?

*can u customize everything on the hero?

thats pretty much what i mainly wanna know..

Re: sprint hero questions
 

No. That's called piracy and that's against the law. You'll brick your phone if you do.


Yes, there's a TI-83 app on the market

there's an iPhone theme?

Everything... covers, screens, I have some sworski crystals on mine

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soo with that keyboard one do i need like better droid or ahome or open home or anything like that?

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and yea theres an iphone them.. i think anyways, never seen it but seen it in the market.

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The iPhone theme (in the Market) is just a gimmick capture sadly, not a true theme.

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what about that keyboard thats like the calculator, do u know anything about that?

Wirelessly posted (HTC Hero: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 1.5; en-us; A6277 Build/CUPCAKE) AppleWebKit/528.5+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Mobile Safari/525.20.1)

No, never tried or heard about it sorry.

Re: sprint hero questions
 

*can i change my word keyboard to be like the calculator?
what type

*how good is the iphone theme for the hero?
why would u want to lol
*can u customize everything on the hero?
yes

Re: sprint hero questions
 

Yo hoodride you can get paid apps free dont listen to the first post just google it you wont brick the phone i already did it.

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Can definately get paid apps for free if your phone is rooted...

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I was being sarcastic... you know damn well we aren't supposed to be asking for that on these forums.

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I think he just asked if it was possible..

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keyboard type- i want my word keyboard to be like the original calculator thats black and when u press a number it goes red then dims out of it....

iphone theme- ehh just wanted to see how it would turn out.

whats a good app that'lll help me do all that?

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what does rooted mean??

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lol.. an exploit to make your system files rewriteable so you can flash custom roms and such.. do a search in the forums.

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Remember that one time we all broke the rules and supported piracy?

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thats not technically correct.

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Maybe you should explain it to us Brad..

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Originally Posted by Geo411m
Well, rooting your phone allows you to have administrator access to your phone and thus due thing not normally possible on standard android. With it you can have all your apps and caches run from your SD card, apply themes, tether your phone, enable auto rotation and the list goes on. Here's a few links of interest to help you get the most out of your rooted phone.

complaments to the android community forums for the answer to this

o and depends on what you want to customize.
there are theme packs. different roms. different versions of the core and so on and soforth
http://geekfor.me/ has my favorite rom the FRESH rom. but to use these you have to root your phone. and before you ask how do u do it
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=90380 has all the answers. thank thacountry for that. btw he rocks

Re: sprint hero questions
 

thats more accurate.

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lol.. if you say so. sounds pretty much the same to me.

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No, you said rooting was an exploit. Rooting is gaining unrequited access to every fundamental piece of the operating system with no security measure between you and a bricked or heavily modified piece of hardware/software which is achieved through an exploit in remounting the file system and changing the user mode to that a superuser. Significantly different.

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yea, exactly. The root is gained via an exploit. Meaning rooting your phone is an EXPLOIT. I don't think google ever intended us to have SU (root access) now did they?

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Yes they did. Open source means the source is open. Sprint doesn't want you to brick your phone and htc doesn't want you to change the work they've done. Google wants you to do whatever the hell you want. Go to XDA and search for AOSP.

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Ok, i'll agree with you there.. it's htc and sprint that doesn't want you to have SU. It's STILL an exploit. It's all beside the point. The guy asked questions and i answered them to the best of my knowledge. What i should have said was that Rooting your phone is achieved by an exploit and allows you SU access to the root system files so they can be rewritten. So thanks for pointing out how i am technically incorrect. What it is exactly really doesn't matter. Dude just wants to hear that it allows you to customize the phone. If he wants to root his phone and pirate every single app on his phone i could care less. I'm not gunna tell him how to do it, but i don't think it's against the the sites rules to say YES it can be done and yes it is quite easy.