How To: HTC Hero Flash to Cricket with Talk, Text, Wap and MMS

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Melkiha

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awesome, thanks for the update, glad to hear its working for eris and hero :) just waiting to hear back from a few others and ill work on getting it into the first post so others dont have to go through 10 to get the full setup :)
 
THANK YOU TOKEN!

another htc sprint hero working. Once again thanks for working all the kinks out. And thanks to others who helped. Market, apps, weather everything working. IM HAPPY!
 
someone else had that on their motodroid, most deemed it due to their local market, weather conditions etc.

I work for an internet streaming company and we hear of fluctuations all the time with cellular data connections. it wouldnt surprise me if this is due to that, but some others thought that it was due to the -o rmnet0 portion of the command. Your welcome to experiment either way and see if you get better results :)

Check your data rate before you make the change by doing ##33284 and going into EVDO

You can try changing the command in autostart.sh to:
/system/bin/iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p 6 ! -d 10.133.26.12 -j REDIRECT --to-port 1025
Instead of:
/system/bin/iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -o rmnet0 -p 6 ! -d 10.133.26.12 -j REDIRECT --to-port 1025

Then check ##33284 to see what your data rate is. But i was unable to get the programming commands to work, they would force close the phone app, i think due to routing ALL traffic instead of just the mobile web portion but others did report speed increases afterwords.

If you dont do it let us know if it goes back to normal in a few days, i.e. fluctuations due to weather, cellular congestion etc..

If you do it let us know how it goes :) im sure we are all intersted in any improvements :)

others also mentioned when they had less apps running that it sped up their connection as well. so this could be using more ram in the phone causing the connection to slow down as well.

Im assuming all the processes run through the central processor in the phone and if it gets bogged down will give networking a lower priority than rendering video/webpages etc.. i see this all the time at work where we get complaints about connection speeds dropping, and their internet is fine, but upon investigation its actually the CPU at 100%. dunno if theres any correlation here though, just food for thought :)
 
http://mobilespeedtest.com/

have always used that. since i have had the hero i have never seen below 260. I checked right before this guide and i got 413k checked twice same speed. Checked right after 10 mins later and im getting 148k nothing better still. Will try the other string tomorrow and report if i see a speed increase. I can tell the speed decrees just by browsing.
 
this might be a lil crazy but ...before this new web fix, i was getting 4000-5000 kbps from mobilespeedtest.com... i didnt think it was possible. I tried it about 10 times through out the day.

After the fix I did checked about 4 times and my avg speed was... 183 kbps :[ oh well.. still better than some peoples home internet.


Thanks Token, for bringing it to our attention and putting your part in!
Thanks also to the Moto droid team =)
 
i have tried the tutorial but i was only able to get talk and text going. I went ahead and did brandon's step 1 to get web and text then went ahead and performed the first 14 steps of step 2 to get the phone programmed. After doing so, i followed your intructions but ive had no luck. I was running fresh's latest rom so i figured that was the issue since nobody else has had this issue. So i went ahead and installed damage's latest and I'm still unable to connect. I can ping wap.mycricket.com but that's about it. if i try to ping anything from the phone it just hangs (no replies). GPS stopped working even after running the fix you mentioned. Well i got it back but now it's broken again and i tried the fix and it's not working. at this point, if someone could help me out i would apreciate it. I guess the issues has to do with iptables/u2nl since i can ping something. I know iptable support is compiled in the kernel since i can run the iptables -h command and it returns something.

like i said i followed your instructions to the teeth and it only worked for like a second then it stopped working. anything else i can look at? anything else i can do? man i love my hero specially now that it's running 2.1 but I've spent all day trying to fix this without any success.

token419 may we can chat on aim or something, im ready to slam my hero against the wall!

thanks for your time.
 
@felizf
do you have the 3g icon at the top of your phone?

if not it seems your settings from QPST may not have stuck, make sure to double check if not.

If so, then make your autostart.sh file empty, then reboot your phone
then do:
adb shell
cd /data/opt/
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p 6 ! -d 10.133.26.12 -j REDIRECT --to-port 1025
u2nl 10.133.26.12 8080 127.0.0.1 1025 >/dev/null 2>&1 &

and see if that works, let me know if so.

as long as you have a 3g icon, running that manually should get you up, and we can work through it from there.
 
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