I love me some AOSP ROMs! Especially when it came to my Sprint HTC Hero since that phone didn't have a lot of system space. HTC Sense just seemed to weight it down over time. Couple that with the fact that the device was left high and dry with only Android 2.1-update 1 and a now archaec version of sense. Due to this limitation, ports of AOSP-based ROMs had flooded their way onto countless Hero's so that many were able to rawk Froyo and even Gingerbread. Being able to rawk Froyo on my Hero was an awesome achievement for me. Besides, my G1 days had made me partial to a vanilla Android experience anyways so this was a win-win for me!
With that said, just because I tend to lean more towards AOSP ROMs, doesn't mean there aren't people out there that prefer HTC Sense based ROMs. In fact, I'm willing to bet the majority of HTC handset owners probably prefer HTC sense over a vanilla Android experience. Unfortunately, as I had mentioned earlier, since the Hero never officially got past Eclair (Android 2.1 update 1), most of the Sense ROM ports rawkin' Android 2.2 and above weren't as stable as I would've liked them to be on my Hero. That is... at least in my experience.
Now for those of you that still rawk this phone as their daily driver but are not fans of the vanilla Android experience, I'm assuming your choices are limited as to what ROM you could use on your phone. There's always Fresh ROM which I ran on my Hero for a long time due to its stability and customizability but again, that's still based off of the stock Eclair ROM. What if you want your Android OS to be relevant by today's standards?...
