This post is only here to serve as your standard warning / notes for updating so that I don’t need to include them in every post:

Flashing this rom should keep all of your personal settings and should not wipe anything but you are doing it at your own risk. I make no promises on what may happen to your device and your data. This also means that unlike winmo, it’s not going to look different after you flash. It will look just as it was before hand.

Requirements:
A rooted CDMA HTC Hero by Sprint. RA’s recovery loaded on. If you have any questions on that then please visit one of the other various threads on here about how to root your phone.

How to use it:
0. Create a nandroid backup!
1. Copy this rom (do not unzip) to the root of your sdcard using one of the various methods.
2. Go to the recovery program by either typing “reboot recovery” from an adb shell or by powering off the phone and holding Home while you power it on.
3. Scroll down to “Apply sdcard: choose zip” and select the zipped rom. Press the home button to confirm you want to write it.
4. After it finishes (takes several minutes) click “Reboot system now”.

Background:
We are both new to Android development having recently switched from Windows Mobile phones. This is our first release. The current goal is to make a rom (from a clean image of stock RUU) that is optimized and stripped of unneeded items. In this case that is mostly going to consists of the Sprint applications that take up space and the HTC apps that like to constantly launch themselves in the background. If we took out anything that you like then they can be added back in manually. We’ll provide more instructions and possibly some app packs later to help you with that. I personally would have stripped Rosie (senseui) but freshlyill likes it too much. :-p . I will likely release an ultra-light version that removes it.