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[the182nd]

Please, somebody help me!
I changed my ROM to the general 2.3.6 which I had downloaded from ZTE's official site. It worked well but I still could not unlock it. Then it turned out if I install the original ROM, then the phone can be unlocked with Furious-Gold.
So I thought I just start CWM and reinstall the ROM. Of course when I installed the general firmware, it reinstalled the recovery, so I had e3 recovery. It was kind of a problem because of turning off the script asserts. I could not manage to install CWM via command prompt (it told me it was installed but it still started e3). Never mind, I found a way to temporarily run CWM.
I succesfully installed my Virign-branded ROM with the temporary CWM, BUT: when I start the phone, it freezes at the ZTE logo.
What can I do with that? With e3 I cannot install any ROMs and ZTE's online updater tool (which works with FTM mode) says that there's no newer software for my device.
I have tried to wipe my phone, unsuccesfully. I have moved from the UK since then, but if it's the only option, I will send it back to Virgin for a software update.
Can you guys tell me something wise?
Thank you so much!

[usb3diva]

## Does any of this help your situation... http://www.modaco.co...dated-26-02-12/ ##

Let me know if it does. Check Part 9 of that link.

the182nd, on 17 November 2012 - 12:32 PM, said:

Please, somebody help me!
I changed my ROM to the general 2.3.6 which I had downloaded from ZTE's official site. It worked well but I still could not unlock it. Then it turned out if I install the original ROM, then the phone can be unlocked with Furious-Gold.
So I thought I just start CWM and reinstall the ROM. Of course when I installed the general firmware, it reinstalled the recovery, so I had e3 recovery. It was kind of a problem because of turning off the script asserts. I could not manage to install CWM via command prompt (it told me it was installed but it still started e3). Never mind, I found a way to temporarily run CWM.
I succesfully installed my Virign-branded ROM with the temporary CWM, BUT: when I start the phone, it freezes at the ZTE logo.
What can I do with that? With e3 I cannot install any ROMs and ZTE's online updater tool (which works with FTM mode) says that there's no newer software for my device.
I have tried to wipe my phone, unsuccesfully. I have moved from the UK since then, but if it's the only option, I will send it back to Virgin for a software update.
Can you guys tell me something wise?
Thank you so much!

After i first bought my Virgin ZTE KIS i downloaded the latest ROM/firmware or whatever you call it from zte's website, and i'm pretty sure i did it by placing it in the root of my sdcard, and via e3, since it's an offical ROM and signed, that should be possible for you yea?

Actually i could be wrong on that, maybe i did do it via the menu, obviously i wont be trying it now as i don't want to wipe what i'm working on.

I'd be interested to see what you have on doing stuff via the FTM mode, and unlocking it, since it seams virgin are useless at providing the unlocking codes at the moment. and probably forever, this is probably on purpose, all it takes is the right member of staff at Virgin to contact the right department at ZTE. That is a bit of an ask from big multinational companies nowadays i know.

Edited by usb3diva, 18 November 2012 - 12:34 AM.

[usb3diva]

Network/SIM Unlocking Question regarding ZTE KIS (Virgin) / Roamer etc, i'm assuming they're very similar...

Is there anyone up for trying to work out how to unlock the ZTE KIS, friends have this phone too, but after reading about problems unlocking direct from Virgin so we are all stuck, i'm not bothered so much as i've got Virgin's other services so i get all i could ever need on mobile data/texts/calls for less than £8 a month (basically half price).

Anything i've found online is full of broken links and not specific to our handsets, i would guess it's a pretty similar procedure.

Would appreciate the help, modaco appears to be the most clear cut website/forum for handset problems i've seen so far. though the anti-spam time between searches is a bit high, meaning it's very long winded doing  search on here before asking. Thanks

[usb3diva]

Ok, regarding the splash.img update, i did a simple modification of the immediate splash image to replace the Green Android after power on (ZTE KIS), that changed perfectly fine, but it still corrupts the battery charging animations.

I did a factory reflash from the blue (e3) to prove to myself that i can get myself out of a pickle in the event of a soft-brick where access to Android desktop via fastboot/adb would be impossible. This also helped to to work out at which point of my process the battery animation got corrupted. and this time very early on.

From what i can tell, the only file involved in the splash image change was 'splash.img' but i thought that was just a flipped image created in GIMP with a few advanced tweaks upon saving.

Now i'm thinking, maybe there's a bit more to the splash.img.

Luckily this time, the corruption is only a white partly chopped up image within a small square the same size as the original battery.

What else has to be done to splash.img to be correct.

Now i think i'm going to have to do another factory reflash, and work out how to pull the original splash.img

[Lost_Animal]

HELP

Where i can find the correct ZTE Firmware FLasher for P752T (AKA ZTE black Ice for WIND - Greece or Turkcell Maxi Plus 5) ???

I semi bricked my phone...
I have broken recovery and System..
I can ONLY boot and set the Phone on Download mode for Firmware flash but with USDL_P726CV1.00.00 (Blade FW Flasher) i can't do nothing.

I have the wrong image files and armprgZTE.bin and can't proceed to recover the recovery partition.

Tried also the QPST from Qualcom but no luck also.
I need the correct mbn files....

OMG ... first time i make too mane mistakes the same time and bricked my phone.

At least the Boot image working and i have download mode on the phone active....

[orfc]

usb3diva, on 15 November 2012 - 11:04 AM, said:

C:>adb reboot bootloader
>* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
>* daemon started successfully *

C:>fastboot devices
>ROAMER2 fastboot

Hi usb3diva, what drivers did you download to get this to work... as my attempt with the zte usb drivers borks at the "adb reboot bootloader" point, nothing happens and no fastboot devices are listed when i type the next command.

"adb devices" shows my phone up before then ok, and then after the adb reboot bootloader point (as someone else noted) the usb driver for adb disappears as well and I have to restart my phone by flicking the battery out and back in... sebastian above suggested separate fastboot drivers may be needed, so, while I'm waiting for santa. I'd thought I'd ask what drivers you used and where you got them :-)

Edit:  Yaaargh. Found a guide that mentioned installing fastboot drivers. ALL the blurb I find points to the ZTE windows driver package which I have as the ones to use. I switch on my phone in bootloader mode, attach the USB cable and my windows xp device manager picks up the phone as a disk drive - "ZTE Mass Storage USB Device" rather than the "Others- Android 1.0" device the guide says will happen. Trying to reinstall the device with different drivers (the zte ones) doesn't work, do it automatically and it says it can't find a better match, picking the zte drivers by hand just says the .inf file doesn't contain information about my hardware - uninstall the device and it gets re-recognised as a disk drive again.... Total dead end.

i have heard something about adding product/vendor ids to drivers to kid them into thinking its ok to run, so I might give that a try next... but still, am I going wrong somewhere to get to this stage? errr... help? :-) -

Edited by orfc, 31 December 2012 - 12:18 AM.

[mrfricks]

hi sebastian404

i'm new to android, the zte kis being my first smart phone.  i quite like the phone, but its tiny internal storage is quite challenging.

i followed your instructions and successfully rooted it and installed your debranded rom. it was a doddle on linux, thankyou.


this phone though is crying out for a super stripped rom, so is it possible to strip your rom even further, removing everything but the bare essentials?

i did have a go at manually editing the rom, but it didn't work.  there's obviously  more to it than unzipping and rezipping it with peazip


anyway thanks again



EDIT:  discovered the Android kitchen for linux so can now edit roms ....  just need a list now on what i can remove

Edited by mrfricks, 18 February 2013 - 06:52 PM.

[semaca40]

^{to Sebastian404!!!!!!! Hello!
I have a zte kis plus (cosmote smart play), I have rooted the device and after that I installed a custom rom "r0_de-branded_roamer2-update-signed.zip". I would like to come back the default rom (the official one from cosmote smart play) and I have failed, please help me!!!!! . I have tried all the official updates and the ones from zte official site and from other web pages and after that my phone indicates that now the model is zte kis and not zte kis plus. And after all these updates I can't start up the phone in FTM mode.
I want a link with the official rom and a way to install it from zero (a clean install) and a software and a way of doing it (like odin for Samsung phones).
thank you!}