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Download: Fresh ROM 1.1 – happy new year!
flipz and freshlyill are very proud to release:
Fresh ROM 1.1 for Sprint HTC CDMA Hero!
A new years release!
DOWNLOAD: http://link.geekfor.me/fresh11
Errors during install? Check the md5 hash: 33a415069b467c7df1204d4afdc2fa29
Base: RUU_Hero_C_Sprint_1.56.651.2_signed_release (Now built off the official RUU!)
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.
RELEASE NOTES (changes from 1.0 to 1.1) :
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
Looking for the removed apk’s? Check out the “downloads” category on the right side.
General warnings and notes apply.

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about 7 months ago
Hey Flipz any idea why Titanium Backup wouldn’t work with your rom? I tried it running one of Modaco’s roms and it works fine but I like your rom more but I would really like to be able to use that program. Titanium backup requires busybox but your rom also has that right? Any ideas? Would really appreciate the help!
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about 7 months ago
Yea it does have busybox. I haven’t used that app at all. Do you get any type of error?
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about 7 months ago
Flipz, here’s a strange one for ya. For some reason, after I installed Fresh Rom 1.1, when I press the power button the phone won’t go to black. If I hold it down, I can power it off, but, if I do a quick press, nothing happens. Any ideas? This will certainly help drain battery power.
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about 7 months ago
If you’re the only one experiencing it then it’s something with your setup.
If you have any power saving apps or anything that controls the screen then you can try uninstalling it. If that doesn’t work then you can try the extreme and do a data wipe.
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about 7 months ago
It doesn’t give me any error specifically but when I access the program it isn’t able to read any of my apps that are installed and it stays blank on the backup and explore tab. Funny thing is if I flash to Modaco’s new 2.2 rom it works. Any idea why that may be? Yours seems faster so I would prefer to use yours! Trying to figure this out is annoying the crap outta me so I figured I would ask for your help!
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about 7 months ago
There are different busybox versions, it may just be using a different build. I’ll look in to it for you.
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about 7 months ago
Awesome thanks so much man!
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about 7 months ago
Thanks for this.
Any guess what happened to the Bluetooth switch that came with HTC hero cdma. I did a clean install of 1.5.6? And then flashed Fresh. Now those icons are gone.(the grey ones) Can’t find any in market that show status on icon.
Facebook is another app that seems to be missing from a fresh install of 1.5.6
Is 1.5.6 direct from HTC or from asprint
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about 7 months ago
Are you talking about the settings icons that allow you to turn the radios on and off? They are definitely there. They’re under add widget < htc widget < settings. If you aren’t seeing them then try just flashing fresh on top of itself.
1.5.6 is still made by HTC but it was given to us by Sprint.
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about 7 months ago
Hey, Flipz! I have a small request: a version of Fresh 1.1 with the 2.1 icons. Doing it by myself I either get force closures (flashing a .zip update someone else made) or the icons come up grainy (pushing each individual icon manually). I, and I’m sure many others, would very much appreciate it! A donation is on the way… been a little low on cash.
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about 7 months ago
Does removing these landscape files mean that I won’t be able to use the app in landscape mode?
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
Any app that requires me to use the virtual keyboard I’ll have to use in landscape mode. my hands are too big for the keyboard in portrait mode.
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about 7 months ago
No because our phone doesn’t actually support landscape in any of those. That’s the thing… it had landscape files taking up a bunch of space, but they don’t actually support rotate yet.
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about 7 months ago
Also, is there somewhere that I can find a description of what each of the components that have been mod’ed or removed actually do?
Thanks,
Kurt
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about 7 months ago
http://geekfor.me/faq/why-flash-fresh/
That is currently the most detailed I have.
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about 7 months ago
Phone seems much smoother w/ this, but I noticed that “voice recorder” is missing. i use it often. where can i get the stock one? also, i’m probably the only person but i also use the nascar app, where can i download that?
is there a site with a collection of the bloatware?
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about 7 months ago
scratch my previous post… i found the pre-kitchen! thanks!
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about 6 months ago
Didn’t see this scrolling through the comments. Just rooted and installed Fresh 1.1 without a wipe from the stock. Also installed gumbo 1.5 kernal. I am having issues long pressing and being able to remove icons from the sense UI desktop. Example would be my Evernote icon. Long press to be able to move or remove does nothing but open the program. Is this the ROM or Kernal?
You made this real easy and I like the ROM. Great work and thanks for any info.
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about 6 months ago
Got help over at XDA…. if anyone else runs into this problem and has swype installed, it appears to be causing the problem. A senior member over there gave me the advise and I just uninstalled which solved the problem. A newer apk is also a way to resolve the issue.
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about 6 months ago
Thanks for that. I knew it was a known issue with an app but I couldn’t remember what it was. I appreciate you posting your fix.
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about 6 months ago
My Mobile network is not working idk why ???? i had to use wifi to sync my google account. can someone tell me how to fix this?
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about 6 months ago
So I’ve been using Fresh 1.1 for a lil while now and one of the things that bothers me is that the youtube app doesn’t work. Is this a known issue, or is there a work around for this???
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about 6 months ago
Definitely not a fresh rom issue. What is the problem you are seeing?
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about 6 months ago
When I open the YouTube app that came stock it will launch and everything works with the app. The problem that I am having is when I try to click on and watch a video it will say “Loading Video” then it will display a message in an error box that says “Cannot play video Sorry, this video cannot be played” and it only gives me an option to click OK. I was just wondering if this was a Fresh problem or if something else is wrong with my YouTube app. Any advice would be a big help. Thanks in advance
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about 6 months ago
There have been multiple reported uses (Sprint-wide) of youtube thinking you have a chinese address, and then the video gets blocked. I don’t know if there was ever a fix because it never happened to me. But it’s not specific to fresh.
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about 6 months ago
Cool. I was just checking
Thanks Flipz! And thanks for all your hard work.
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about 6 months ago
Just installed on my phone, loving the speed.
I’ve noticed that my phone is having a really hard time moving widgets/icons around my phone, specifically when in the lower half of the screen. I read above that someone fixed this by removing swype from their phone, but I don’t have swype to begin with.
Any known fixes or ideas on how to get around this? It’s frustrating the hell out of me.
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about 6 months ago
As a note: these widgets all still work, but there is no “press-and-hold to move” feature anymore. If I touch them at all, they start up.
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about 6 months ago
This is definitely not any known issue with this rom. It’s been downloaded over 5000 times and the only people that have had that issue were using swype. If you aren’t using that app then it’s likely some other app you are using. You can either try and remove them at random to see if you can fix it, or you may need to go extreme and do a factory reset.
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about 6 months ago
Fixed. Had to do with Shapewriter, which was my initial hunch. I didn’t have to uninstall the app, I just had to switch back to touch input. Once I did that and went back to the home screen, the keyboard jumped up for a second, went back down, and everything worked normally again.
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about 6 months ago
Thanks for all of your work – using the kitchen was my first attempt at rooting my Hero and installing a modified rom, and you are my hero for making it so painless. (I know, that was lame.) I made my first donation today!
One thing that I noticed is that 1.1 is really zippy after a reboot, but if I go into Task Panel and close some apps that auto load (like Sprint Nav or Pandora), the speed seems to slow way down. I don’t know if it’s my system or ??? but if I leave everything alone its faster, so I stopped closing apps.
Thanks again for your work!
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about 6 months ago
Check: FAQ: Why You Shouldn’t Be Using a Task Killer with Android
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about 6 months ago
Wow flipz – I had no idea. I should have found that FAQ. Once again, thanks for the great work.
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about 6 months ago
i cant get the apps to sd work. all of the apps that i have downloaded keeps on saving to the phone. can you please give a step by step way of fixing this
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about 4 months ago
Thanks for this! Just rooted my Hero and went straight to 1.1. Amazing how much faster everything is. Can’t believe I waited this long…
I am having trouble changing the lockscreen and icons with the kitchen. Everything appears to work. Even ran the debugger and no errors get thrown. However, the lockscreen and icons do not change. Tried rebooting, but it didn’t affect it. Any help is appreciated. I have searched but didn’t find any answers.
Thanks again.
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about 4 months ago
With this version of the kitchen I only included the tiny zips that are needed to make the visuals work. Meaning it takes the main frameworks, and mashes it with the changed files. They are not full on themes which is why if you try doing “install theme” via the kitchen and then picking one of the theme zips that came with it, they won’t work. I had actually debated on naming them something other than .zip so that they didn’t show up at all in the theme installer, but I didn’t do it.
But yea basically you need to grab any 1.5 themes you like and use those instead. They are getting a little harder to find with 2.1 being so close.
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about 4 months ago
Got it. Thanks for the quick reply. Yah, I’m eager for 2.1 too, but decided to start with your 1.5 so I didn’t have to wipe yet. Maybe I’ll cook up my own ROM with the elements I want. Great program, thanks.
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about 4 months ago
Anyone receiving an Error 404: Page Not Found message when clicking on the Known Issue links?
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about 4 months ago
Fixed. Thanks for the heads up.
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