I tried the battery widget on my Sprint Hero.  The first time I executed it after downloading and installing it abended and caused my phone to reboot.  The second time I tried to execute the widget after adding the widget icon to a page, the widget abended and caused my phone to reboot.  Third time I tried to execute the widget, it actually seemed to work, and provided some useful information.   Many other reviewers have reported the battery widget does not work on the Sprint Hero.  So hopefully HTC will fix it soon.  Not too good of QA in my opinion from HTC.

*** Further Update ***

Several people are reporting on the phandroid.com link that these widgets do not work at all on the Sprint Hero.

I eventually got the battery widget to work, provides % battery and temperature in Celsius with no way to change to Fahrenheit.

The Tip Calculator is a widget which takes up half the screen which no way to shrink it.  Not too bad, but takes up too much space when not in use.

The Dice widget seemed to work OK, but I wonder why the widget needed a full network connection.  Not overly useful.

The Today In History widget does take up the entire screen, and recevied a connection failed message.  So it did not work.

*** Last Update ***

Personally I do not feel any of them are worth the trouble, but I have decided to keep the battery one around for awhile.  It gives detailed battery percentage on the small widget icon down to a single percentage.

Message was edited by: terryg

I also had an issue with the battery widget.. Couldnt get it to work just kept rebooting my phone Weird....

The battery widget has worked flawlessly for me. No issues whatsoever.

CoronaDoug wrote:

 

Take a look at how much memory the battery widget uses. The widget was draining my battery.

Mine shows no RAM usage at all.

Hey thanks terryg did just that and it's works great .....