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

Brrtonman1497

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I have a Eris that was already on 2.1 when I received. From the best of my knowledge there is no proven method of rooting the device right now. Is there some program out there that will let me redirect the ports for the apps to the metropcs proxy withoout it being rooted? Or maybe even fool it into thinking the wifi is connected to the CDMA 1x connection kind of like a bridged connection in windows so that it thinks the wifi is connected when its not? Any help appreciated.

CptKirk
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u try redownloading the SDK again i know when i did it all the files werent there for some reason i read it on another site when i was having a problem with mine idk worth a try
 
Assuming that one is able to get their Hero on Cricket what can be expected to work or not work? Do apps work for example? How about GPS?

Thank you kindly,
Cheers,
Mike
 
Ok, I got everything working on Metropcs now, it was pain but it is working. Thanks for the replies, I was looking in the menus inside the phone(which says 2.1); the version from the bootloader menu which you access by holding down the power and volume down... It was actually version 1.46 so no problems. I did however have a problem with getting all the terminal commands to work from this guide. http://www.howardforums.com/showthr...Droid-Eris-to-Metro-PCS-(Tutorial-v2.0)/page1

but I worked around the cp command by using the " adb push" command instead

adb push autostart.sh /Data/opt
adb push u2nl /system/bin

After doing that and all the other steps now everything is working and is fast enough to stream music so awesome Sauce!!

Cpt Kirk
 
Wow. Welp, I guess it's time for me to try this out. Another question that is hopefully appropriate for this thread: Can the $40 a month plan get all of the features (including GPS and email) or is the the $50 plan the one that is needed. With this information I'll start ASAP.

Thank you kindly,
Cheers,
Mike
 
hey everyone im going to open up a new thread

and i would appreciate everyone with working mms post which rom they are running

also their internet speeds and which market they are in.
 
I really like how you details this tutorial step by step. Great Job. My question for you is: do you think this can work for Hero on MetroPcs? or is there a different steps to take? Please Help.
 
Step 3: MMS!
What you need:
a. Android SDK--- get it here
b. My Modified Telephony.db -- see file attached to this thread
c. Have Hero phone flashed for talk text and web (see above if you have not done this).

1. Unzip android sdk to a place where you can find it (the shorter the directory name the better as you will soon see. Mine is saved in C:\android
Also unzip the telephony.db into a folder where you can find it. Mine is saved in C:\android
2. In windows xp click start, then run, then type cmd and hit enter. In Vista or windows 7 click start and type cmd in the search and hit enter.
3. Navigate to the folder where you unzipped the Android SDK. If you are not familiar with the commmand prompt, I will make a list of the commands I enter in blue. The rest you see will be the text that will be generated by the command prompt:

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\brandonh>cd ..

C:\Documents and Settings>cd ..

C:\>cd android

C:\android>cd tools
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

4. Type the Following command in blue:

C:\android\tools>adb root
* daemon started successfully *
adbd is running as root
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

5. Send the Modified telephony.db to the phone with the following command (keep in mind that you will need to substitute the directory I am using for the one where your telephony.db file is located

C:\android\tools> adb push c:\android\telephony.db /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/telephony.db
85 KB/s (4096 bytes in 0.046s)

6. Unplug your Phone and hold the power button to turn it off. Turn it back on and there you go!

So there it is. If you have some experience with phones you may find this tutorial slow paced and boring, but at least the MMS might be intriguing to you. If, however, you are new to this, like me, I hope that this is helpful. Let me know if you see any errors. I think some things may be a little overkill but if you follow step by step all three things should be working!

Also, this is bittersweet. Even though WAP is working, many apps don't work with it like voice search, Google Maps and others, but it's better than nothing. If anyone knows of any miracles on how to make these work, add it to this thread, and also, let me know if this has worked for you! Just reply to this thread![/QUOTE]
im gettting an error when im doin the mms saying device is not found? why what am i doing wrong its in diag mode??
 
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