HTC Hero 2.1 update with MacOS X and VMWare fusion (Updated)
If you are like me and don’t have an extra Windows XP or Vista machine laying around, but need to update your HTC Hero to the latest firmware, seems like upgrade works also using a virtual machine. For me, I used a Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 image, running on VMWare fusion version 3.1.0 (261058). Host operating system is OSX 10.6.3 and it’s running on Macbook Pro.
Have the VMWare tools installed and then when you plugin the Hero to your Mac, you only need to remember to click “Connect to Windows” button on the dialog rather than “Connect to Max”.
Otherwise everything seemed to work as expected, but I needed to run the HTC RUU (Rom Upgrade Utility?) twice since the first time the upgrade got stuck on waiting the bootloader on Hero. I unplugged the USB cable and rerun RUU, after which everything went ok.
I’ll tell you if something still went wrong, but for the time being, it seems like it’s possible to upgrade the Hero firmware using a VMware guest operating system.
I just hope the HTC will have a Linux or Mac version of their tools soon.
(UPDATE 2010-06-28) And as you probably guessed - NO, this is not the android 2.1 update but the one which just upgrades OTA and flash player… I misread the update specification (guess due to elevated expectation) and blogged before the install was complete.. Duh!
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