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[solidchips]

I got a new blade, ZTE T-U880.

Curious to inspect what's different in it.

The first thing i noticed it's running Android 2.2.2 and it's blazing fast.

Quick-sysinfo revealed the following details:
CPU :               Marvell 88SV331x rev 0 (v5I) @ 806 Mhz
RAM:   483MB (512MB for sure)
System storage:  200MB
Camera   5MP

Settings-Status:
Model number: ZTE T-U880
Android ver: 2.2.2
Baseband Ver: TTD_CP_01.06.049_P4: TTD_TVRTD_MSA_1.08.042_P2
Kernel Ver:   2.6.32.9
Build Num:   U880V1.0.0B03
Release time:  2011/06/16 08:00 PM
Hardware ver: MBV1.0



I tried the pigfish utility on this device:

ram_console: 0x000..
system_console:     0x000...

I guess it's neither GEN1 nor GEN2.

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Latest development
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1. Rooted
2. ClockWorkMod Recovery functional (nandroid is not working).
3. Market is Up.
4. App2SD


I'm posting this bcoz i thought it might be helpful for the developers on the forum.

Edited by solidchips, 15 July 2011 - 07:48 AM.

[hedgepigdaniel]

solidchips, on 13 July 2011 - 09:30 AM, said:

I got a new blade, ZTE T-U880.

Curious to inspect what's different in it.

The first thing i noticed it's running Android 2.2.2 and it's blazing fast.

Quick-sysinfo revealed the following details:

CPU :               Marvell 88SV331x rev 0 (v5I) @ 806 Mhz
RAM:           483MB (512MB for sure)
System storage:  200MB


I tried the pigfish utility on this device:

ram_console:     0x000..
system_console:     0x000...

I guess it's neither GEN1 nor GEN2.

I'm posting this bcoz i thought it might be helpful for the developers on the forum.

sounds to me like it may aswell be a completely different phone

[KACE_231]

I checked this out further, did you get it from the UK, and how much did it cost.


Some websites also show that it may have 720p video recording, it may be the next step up from the blade if it is roughly the same price. Also does the processor support Flash?

I think it also has WiFi b/g and n support

Edited by KACE_231, 13 July 2011 - 11:41 AM.

[The Soup Thief]

Welcome to GEN 3!
I think you're in China aren't you Solidchips?
Was it on sale to the public or a sample of some kind?
Googled it and found some pictures which looked very much like a standard Blade chasis, though my Chinese isn't so good so I can't be sure what they were describing
Looks very much like it is on sale - can any mandarin speakers have a crack at this?

[hedgepigdaniel]

Well its not like Gen1 or Gen2 - the hardware is totally different.

[Hans Gruber]

The Soup Thief, on 13 July 2011 - 11:52 AM, said:

Looks very much like it is on sale - can any mandarin speakers have a crack at this?

From that link it looks like it has a TV built in as well

[solidchips]

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I think you're in China aren't you Solidchips?  

Yea, i'm in china and it's on sale with the tag ZTE Blade T-U880 (T-CMDA/GSM).

From hardware point of view, it's quite different from the standard blade (marvell cpu). Chassis is almost very similar.

It has a built in Mobile-TV application, i did'nt tried it yet.

Right now, my biggest concern is to run "Market" on it. I tried many versions of market, it just splashes and then comes back to launcher's main screen.

Any suggestion regarding this issue will be warmly welcome.

[solidchips]

just to let you guys know, i managed to root it and ADB is working (no fastboot).

I tried GEN1/GEN2 recoveries, but the screen went black when i tried to boot into recovery.

Then i found a recovery version on chinese site, which is running on the device, in that recovery nandroid is not functional.

[Lew247]

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ZTE Product Highlights

Blade U880, one of ZTE's flagship smartphones, is powered by the Marvell® PXA920 and features a 3.5 inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen at a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, delivering exquisite pictures with rich colors and multi-touch. Other features include Android 2.2 support, a TD-SCDMA +WLAN dual wireless Web connection, WLAN-AP wireless routing, CMMB (MBBMS) mobile phone TV, a 5 megapixel auto-focus camera, 720p high-definition video, GPS/AGPS navigation and a 3D graphics processing accelerator.

Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) or UTRA/UMTS-TDD 1.28 Mcps Low Chip Rate (LCR),[1][2] is an air interface[1] found in UMTS mobile telecommunications networks in China as an alternative to W-CDMA.

It wont work in Europe as it doesn't have GSM or the version of 3G that we use.

[hedgepigdaniel]

Lew247, on 13 July 2011 - 01:27 PM, said:

Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) or UTRA/UMTS-TDD 1.28 Mcps Low Chip Rate (LCR),[1][2] is an air interface[1] found in UMTS mobile telecommunications networks in China as an alternative to W-CDMA.

It wont work in Europe as it doesn't have GSM or the version of 3G that we use.

From memory I think it has GSM, so it will work with 2g only everywhere else

[solidchips]

Wow, at last,  market is UP.


Here is the addon for installing market on ZTE T-U880 (flash using ClockWorkMod Recovery).

 addon_market_Zte_T-U880.zip   4.53MB   292 downloads

[iKrautDroid]

Ok, can we improve our  gen1/gen2 phones with this?

Edited by iKrautDroid, 13 July 2011 - 06:52 PM.

[hedgepigdaniel]

iKrautDroid, on 13 July 2011 - 06:51 PM, said:

Ok, can we improve our  gen1/gen2 phones with this?

no

[solidchips]

hedgepigdaniel, on 14 July 2011 - 02:19 AM, said:

no

Sure, you can improve it in some aspects.

It has few handful utilities which in my opinion are useful, (backup utility, new dialer,  etc)

i will upload soon.

Also, keep in mind that it only differs from the previous versions of blade in CPU/Gfx.

Maybe, developers can make use of its Wifi/RIL libs which i think are would be similar.

Edited by solidchips, 14 July 2011 - 04:06 AM.

[iKrautDroid]

Devs just love this libs!

[iKrautDroid]

Oh solidchips,how much did this superblade cost?

[Androiders]

u880 are only sold in china,so discussing it is meaningless

[solidchips]

iKrautDroid, on 14 July 2011 - 08:22 PM, said:

Oh solidchips,how much did this superblade cost?

It's around USD-170.

[lordofangels]

[quote name='solidchips' timestamp='1310703986' post='1759906']
It's around USD-170edit I have a U-V880

Edited by lordofangels, 16 July 2011 - 07:33 AM.

[solidchips]

lordofangels, on 15 July 2011 - 07:22 AM, said:

which Clockwork version did you use?

Well i tried to install clockwork GEN1/GEN2, didn't worked.

I found one version of clockwork on a chinese forum, it's working.

The only thing missing in that version of clockwork recovery is "nandroid", you can't make backups/restore.

I'm attaching it.

Attached Files

•  U880_recovery.img   1.68MB   205 downloads

Edited by solidchips, 15 July 2011 - 07:47 AM.