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 mark cavendish 100708 Tour de france win Stage 5
A day after smashing his bike to the ground in a fit of frustration after losing yet another Tour de France sprint stage, Mark Cavendish found redemption Thursday at the end of the 116.5-mile Stage 5 from Epernay to Montargis.
The 24-year-old Cavendish, whose Columbia-HTC teammates led him out perfectly through the tricky finish — where the road narrows and roundabouts suddenly appear — won in 4 hours, 30.50 minutes.
Another American team, Garmin-Transitions, was also at the front of the sprint pack, trying to sneak out an emotional victory for Tyler Farrar, who is riding with a broken bone in his wrist. But it was the emotional Cavendish who stood up in the saddle at the end and who was sobbing on the podium to receive kisses and hugs from the award presenters.
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HTC Sync Update for HERO (Sprint) (2.0.40) | 06.16.2010
HTC Sync™ lets you synchronize Outlook and Windows Address Book (Outlook Express), contacts and calendar events on your PC with your phone. It also lets you install third-party Android applications on the phone, and the Mobile Network sharing function as well. more
Installation Instructions:
Version: 2.0.40
Improved Functions
- Support for Outlook 2000.
- Support for Finnish & Portuguese (Brazil)
- Hardware Requirements (PC)
- 1 GHz or higher processor clock speed recommended
- 512 MB of RAM or higher recommended
- Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution video adapter and monitor
- 50 MB of available free hard disk space
- USB 2.0 is required
- Software Requirements – Supported Operating Systems (PC)
- Windows XP Service Pack 2 and 3
- Windows Vista 32-bit version
- Windows Vista 64-bit version
- Windows 7 32-bit version
- Windows 7 64-bit version
- Installation Instructions
- Click Download below to download “HTC_Sync_2.0.40.exe” to your PC.
- Run “HTC_Sync_2.0.40.exe” to install it to your PC (Suggestion: Please close all running programs and temporarily exit your anti-virus program when you install the HTC Sync)
- From your PC, launch HTC Sync, and use the USB cable to connect your phone to the PC (if the phone is not connected to the PC there will be a sync failure).
- On your phone, check Notifications on the status bar for the icon to confirm if HTC Sync recognizes the phone.
- The first time you synchronize the phone, the Synchronization Settings Wizard will start automatically to help you set up HTC Sync. (If the Synchronization Settings Wizard does not start, click Synchronize now on the HTC Sync screen.) After the first time, to start syncing your phone to your computer, pull down the notifications bar on the phone and tap “Synchronize your phone with Windows” to connect to the PC
- On your PC, follow the instructions to finish the wizard on the HTC Sync screen.
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HTC Hero (Sprint) 2.1 Software Update | 05.19.2010
WARNING: Installing this software will erase your current user data. Please see instructions below for details. more
The software upgrade posted below provides several key enhancements for your HTC Hero:
Upgraded OS to Android 2.1 Éclair
Includes enhancements to Sense UI
Includes enhanced corporate email support
Includes a variety of minor bug fixes
Please read the following important notes before starting the upgrade:
Before you proceed, please confirm that this software upgrade is a newer version than what is currently loaded on your device. If it is the same version and your device is operating normally, there is no need to reload the software. To determine what version is running on your device, refer to the image on the left (the newest version is pictured) and note the Software version. Next, navigate to Home > Menu > Settings > About phone on your device (you may need to tap on Software Information). Locate the Software version or Software number here. If your Software version or Software number is different than what is pictured at left, you should proceed with this upgrade.
IMPORTANT – Back up your data before you begin
This software update will delete all information from your device. It is necessary to ensure that you back up your information before proceeding with this update.
Calendar and contacts
- If you are syncing your device with your Google account, log into the Gmail service and verify your data is up to date
- If you are syncing your device via HTC Sync, log into your PC and verify your data is up to date
- If you are syncing your device via Exchange Activesync, log into your Exchange account and verify your data is up to date
- If you are using another backup solution, verify the data is up to date with that solution
Text and picture messages
Text and picture messages will be deleted with this software update. You can back up text and picture messages by forwarding them to an email address.
- Open the Messaging application
- Tap and hold on the desired text or picture message
- Tap Forward
- Enter an email address then tap Send
Applications
Applications will be deleted with this software update. You will need to re-download the desired applications from the Market after this update completes.
Pictures, Video, Music, Media, and other files
Pictures, video, music, and other media saved on the microSD card will not be affected by this update.
Getting Started
Before you run the ROM Update Utility (RUU), make sure you have done the following:
- Backed up the data on your device
- Standby or hibernation mode of your PC has been disabled
- Close all running applications on the PC
- Set aside approximately 25 minutes to allow the device to update
- Charged the battery to at least 30%
Installation instructions
- Download and install the HTC Sync software available here: http://www.htc.com/us/support/hero-sprint/downloads/
- Download the update file for the HTC Hero available here: http://www.htc.com/us/support/hero-sprint/downloads/
- Connect your HTC Hero to your PC using the supplied USB cable
- If the HTC Sync application appears on the screen of your PC, you may simply dismiss the wizard by pressing the Cancel button
- Run the RUU update file for the HTC Hero
- Follow the on-screen prompts to install the update for your HTC Hero
WARNING: During the upgrade process, do not attempt to make/receive calls, press any buttons on your device or disconnect the device from the USB cable as this will stop the update and your device may be rendered inoperable!
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Users Guide | 05.19.2010
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 Most phones out there come with a regular 3.5mm jack ready to accommodate your favorite phones and bring your favorite music to your favorite ears. And when we say most phones we certainly don’t mean HTC phones. According to HTC a “vast majority of devices we launch after Hero” will be fitted with a nice, revolutionary, 3.5mm headphone jack. That standard feature is coming to future HTC phones so the company definitely deserves our applause for the day. We could use some insight on those future HTC handsets now that we know they’re not going to need a headphone adapter.
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With only 11 days of use under its belt, the HTC EVO will no doubt soon pass up Nexus One 2.0 % market share as demonstrated in this Chikita Handset Android Market Share Pie Chart. Nexus One had a 6 month jump on EVO with a January release date. The Motorola Droid dominates the Android market with almost 34% with HTC Hero following far back at close to 10%. I’m looking for the EVO to make a pretty fast climb to join its HTC brothers Droid Eris, Hero and Droid by the end of Summer.
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Iit looks a bit strange that a lesser-powered phone, such as the HTC Hero is able to offer better benchmark results compared to EVO 4G that is based on the Snapdragon. This make the Hero look pretty good, still.
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Z.buds Edge – Limited Edition – feature a premium length, tangle-free cord. Protected by ZAGG’s premium invisibleSHIELD material. Multiple sliders mean better cord management and greater listening convenience.
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that the HTC Hero is capable of producing quality audio. If you’re going to spend your hard earned cash on accessories a headphone upgrade is essential. Getting a pair of Z.buds is like getting a whole new HTC Hero.
The Pyramidal Package
As soon as the Z.buds arrived you will be struck by the unique packaging. ZAGG is all about innovation, and since the Z.buds have won the 2009 CES Innovations Design and Engineering Showcase award they have a box to match the product inside.
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Plenty of UK Hero owners were disappointed this morning upon hearing the news that free Google Maps Navigation had spread beyond the borders of the USA but required Android 1.6 as the minimum OS version. Stuck in their Android 1.5 world, they must have hoped that HTC would just hurry up and open the gates to Eclair heaven, but hurrying up is, regrettably, the opposite of what’s happening. Read the Full Tech Radar post.
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HTC announced that it will update the HTC Hero and the Droid Eris, the Verizon version of the HTC Hero to Android 2.1 next month. HTC previously emailed HTC Hero customers that they would be getting an update to Eclair 2.0, Android Eclair 2.1 has some more features.
The update to 2.1 brings with it more advanced Android features with a pinch zoom for photo album. Another new feature is Google’s navigation service, that gives spoken turn-by-turn directions, formerly only found on the Droid by Motorola and Nexus One.
Android OS 2.1 has speech-to-text, you can enter text in any text field by speaking it out loud into the Droid Eris or HTC Hero. If you tried voice search, it’s like voice search except, it fills in the text form with your spoken words.
The web browser has been updated. There is better camera software, and enhanced weather and news widgets in Android 2.1. The HTC Hero recently won “Best Handset” from GSMA at Mobile World Congress.
HTC Touch Sense also has been updated. It lets you use multi-touch gestures to pinch-to-zoom to the web browser, and adds some additional homescreen widgets.
A new Touch Sense feature is FriendStream, that brings together all your friends in – Facebook, Twitter, Flikr and email.
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General Notes
To get the MOST out of Android and your Hero, you must embrace the Google Cloud. Get yourself a GMail email account, use the Google calendar, sync your contacts to Google, use Google Picasa, use Google Calenday, use Google Tasks, use Google Docs.
General Tips
You may try out any paid application in the market for 24 hours. If you uninstall the application inside these 24 hours you will get a full refund. However, you may only do this once. If you reinstall a refunded application you may not return it for a refund again.
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Turn off WiFi and GPS if you are not using them. They can cause the battery to drain much quicker than if you turned them off. Toggling between these settings is easy via the default HTC widgets.
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To add a new photo album, just mount the phone via USB to a PC, create a new folder and give it a name. Add your pictures to this folder. Now browse to the “Albums” in your phone and it will automatically create an album with the folder name you specified containing the pictures you added.
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Calibrate your keyboard!!! You will find using the keyboard waaay better. To this via:
Settings > Local & text > Touch Input > Text Input > Calibration Tool
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There are 3 types of keyboard available for the Hero built in “full QWERTY”, “Phone keypad” and Compact QWERTY”. Give them a try, one may suit you better. To change do the following:
Settings > Local & text > Touch Input > Keyboard Types
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A Class 6 micro sd card may speed up your Hero.
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If you have both WiFi and data connections turned on, your phone will default to using the WiFi connection as long as you are connected to a WiFi network. So no need to turn mobile data off using home WiFi.
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