I put the V2 firmware onto my Hero from the t-mobile website. It was very easy to update and my phone is now significantly faster, cheers HTC/T-mobile/Android team.
Update is available here
Category: htc
Size comparison between HTC G1, HTC Hero, HTC Vario 3 and Blackberry curve
From left to right: HTC Vario 3, HTC G1, HTC Hero, Blackberry Curve
HTC hero camcorder audio 3gp
The HTC Hero ships with a camcorder that records audio and video in 3gp mode using an audio encoder called “samr” (according to VLC)
VLC Errors: “VLC does not support the audio or video format “samr”. Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.” When you try to play the file and windows media player also plays no audio although doesn’t throw up any errors.
If the file is bigger than 3MB you cannot upload it to You tube so you are left with a video file you can only play the video from and not audio. Not great.
To watch these files download quicktime (The audio will work)
OR
Upload the file to Youtube from your PC and let them handle the conversion for you 🙂
(To do this mount the device using a USB cable and browse to the video folder)
God son [pics]
I love my android OS and my HTC hero #htc #android
Yet another awesome feature… Spam tag aware. Woop!