Questions About the Hero on T-Mobile

**ImaG** · 09-22-2009, 10:23 PM

Can anyone here describe to me their experience with the Hero on T-Mobile's service.
Like what data plans are you using, and how does the signal strength compare to the G1?

I'm strongly considering taking the plunge to decide whether or not its worth going to Sprint, especially after the positive reviews I've been hearing regarding the performance after uploading the custom roms.

**ImaG** · 09-23-2009, 02:03 AM

Mods, can you change the name of my thread title? Didn't dawn on me till after I made it that its a bit misleading. Appears I'm guilty of one of my own forum pet peeves. Can the name be changed to something like "Questions About the Hero on T-Mobile" ?

**DaYuMu6ft7** · 09-23-2009, 03:34 AM

Gotcha!

(10 Char or more..)

**andysmeg** · 09-23-2009, 04:25 PM

I had an iPhone 2G on Vodafone and in comparison my Hero on T-Mobile kicks it's ass. I can actually make phone calls in places such as Tesco. It doesn't sound like much but I couldn't do this on the iPhone.

I've only had signal issues once on my Hero and that was in a small village in the Lake District. Apart from that I have absolutely no issues whatsoever. The phone's brilliant and I've so far found T-Mobile to be really good too.

Hope that helps!!

**ImaG** · 09-23-2009, 04:37 PM

It does greatly. I'm on an iPhone 3Gs at the moment, and the signal strength is one of the phones rare blemishes. What data plan are you using, the 34.99 one? Anyone other opinions?? I thought there was a group buy a week prior to the phone's release, I assumed there were a bunch of AC users sporting the Hero.

Good looking on the title change DaYuMu6ft7

**bienc** · 09-23-2009, 05:32 PM

The data plan I have for my Hero (I'm on AT&T btw), with a basic unlimited data plan, and I'm on a family plan so it was only $10. Pretty sweet. Also, I'm on AT&T because where I live in Reno, NV, there is very good coverage and it is the carrier I've had the most experience with.

Word of caution, if you get the phone and skip the preliminary setup where it asks you for a Google account, factory wipe the phone and enter it in or else there will be problems. I thought AT&T wouldn't let me phone use data beacause I couldn't sign into my account, but I could go on the browser on Edge. A simple factory wipe fixed this.

I played with the phone to check the features and whatnot before I got it fully set up with a data plan and it was fairly nice. I did not notice any lag with the browser or anything really, but I did not have access to all features such as calling and whatnot.

After spending a bit of time with the stock ROM of the Hero, I decided to upgrade to the custom MoDaCo ROM, and it made it FAST. There is no lag that I can discern when switching through home pages or flicking through the call log really. It is a very stable ROM and highly recommended.

There is a bit of a lag issue in 2.3 for some reason, so I would say go for 2.2 for now. I can get you the link to it because MoDaCo's link on XDA and their site only points toward 2.3. Just PM me if ever you need it (but there may be a new version by the time you get the phone if you do).

EDIT:

Also, I can live without the 3G because I'm a stickler for battery life and would have left it on Edge anyway. The battery life is AMAZING, too. I don't have any programs that use background sync except Twitter and Gmail. Twitter I set to sync only every 2 hours. Gmail I have set to sync only my mail, and I seldom get much mail so it doesn't sync very often. Also there is an option to sync the calendar and contacts, but I leave those off because I don't use Google Calendar, and the contacts sync quite often but I have not made any changes, so I'll only turn that on if I make a new contact.

So far today, I've had it off the charger for 8 hours and it's at 88%. I've had at least half hour of calls, 10 texts, some web browsing, OCD checking of the battery (which requires a swipe and two screen taps for me) and checking Twitter every hour or so.

**ImaG** · 09-23-2009, 09:50 PM

That sounds amazing (the battery life) your usage sounds very similar to mine as far as G-Mail and Twitter. I appreciate the reply. If you have anything else worth sharing I'd be more than happy to hear it. I'm giving myself about a one week deadline, after that I'll just sit tight for the Sprint version to arrive.