Broken HTC Hero Trackball?

A quick video that I shot whilst I caught my HTC Hero acting up. It's only a few weeks old but it's been a bugger and keeps acting like the trackball is being moved when it isn't.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• HTC
• Hero
• htchero
• broken
• trackball

[mbdavenportable]

Alright, I downloaded and installed the latest ROM (2.73.405.5) and it seems to have fixed the issue so I guess that it wasn't a hardware fault after all. Phew!

If you have an HTC Hero then I would SERIOUSLY recommend that you make the update. It's brilliant!

[mbdavenportable]

Thanks for the comments guys. I'll try a hard restart this afternoon and let you know how it turns out. I emailed HTC UK Support and they told me that the updated ROM was due for release "in the next week or so" so hopefully if the reset doesn't fix it the update will!

[JDxx76]

GHOST!

[MrHUU]

I also have that problem on my Hero. Upgrading to newest firmware didnt fix the problem. It seems problem is caused by data transfering. Problem doesnt show up every time, but when it occures, my phone is usually connected to EDGE-network with full singnal strenght.

Your phone was connected to GPRS-network, but it seems that your problem is caused by data transfer aswell. Whenever your display is moving on video, you can see those small arrows glowing to show datatransfering.

[Kime0]

it happened to my old Hero too. now i got a nexus one (at&t 3g) and i got this problem again but rarely.

[julusp]

I have same problem, but firmware upgrade did not solved it... :(

[dst0116]

lol

[su15en]

that or press Menu, End and Call buttons together, that reboots it

[Aqrab1]

restart your hero and see if it fixed

please put a comment @mbdavenportable

[capdvd]

how do u restart the phone? u mean shut it off and back on again?