Fresh 1.1 Rom on a non-rooted Hero?

[toasty#AC]

I was in a Sprint store a few minutes ago (to get my Hero serviced, unfortunately), and while I was messing around with the display unit they had, I noticed that the UI looked a little different than mine. My knee-jerk reaction was that it already had the 2.1 update, but when I went to check, it still identified the firmware as 1.5, but under build number (I think -- might have been Software version), it said "Fresh 1.1."

I was under the impression that you had to root your phone to run that ROM. Am I wrong about that? If not, why the heck are they using a rooted phone for display purposes at a Sprint store?

If I am wrong, and it can be done without rooting, would someone be kind enough to point me to some instructions to do it?

Thanks

 

[rockcrawler]

I was in a Sprint store a few minutes ago (to get my Hero serviced, unfortunately), and while I was messing around with the display unit they had, I noticed that the UI looked a little different than mine. My knee-jerk reaction was that it already had the 2.1 update, but when I went to check, it still identified the firmware as 1.5, but under build number (I think -- might have been Software version), it said "Fresh 1.1."

I was under the impression that you had to root your phone to run that ROM. Am I wrong about that? If not, why the heck are they using a rooted phone for display purposes at a Sprint store?

If I am wrong, and it can be done without rooting, would someone be kind enough to point me to some instructions to do it?

Thanks

You must root in order to install a custom ROM. They probably used Fresh on the Display as it is considerably faster then the Stock ROM which in turn would increase sales. Not a bad idea really.