ZTE Blade - From Bouygues Telecom

[Guest yens]

Hi,

i purchased my Blade in France from Bouygues Telecom.

Now i wonder if it is possible to use your ROMs with it. And, if so, how can i extract the Stock ROM from it? (In case i need to use the warranty i wouldnt want to hand in a ZTE with Orange branding :))

Thanks in advance.

Edited November 7, 2010 by yens

[Guest Spooke]

Hi,

i purchased my Blade in France from Bouygues Telecom.

Now i wonder if it is possible to use your ROMs with it. And, if so, how can i extract the Stock ROM from it? (In case i need to use the warranty i wouldnt want to hand in a ZTE with Orange branding :))

Thanks in advance.

What version of Android are you running? 2.1 or 2.2?

I cant help with your questions though :)

[Guest yens]

It's running 2.1 Eclair. But with some annoying Bouygues Telecom branding. :)

[Guest rjm2k]

It's running 2.1 Eclair. But with some annoying Bouygues Telecom branding. :rolleyes:

Do they sell spares, batteries?

[Guest idroid84]

Interesting, any shots on where this "branding" is?

[Guest yens]

Do they sell spares, batteries?

I don't think so. They aren't cheap either. I paid like 199€ for the phone (which comes without sim-card, but is simlocked, nonetheless :rolleyes:)

[Guest JHdD]

I don't think so. They aren't cheap either. I paid like 199€ for the phone (which comes without sim-card, but is simlocked, nonetheless :rolleyes:)

You should have bought the one with sim as that is 169 euro.

[Guest yens]

Interesting, any shots on where this "branding" is?

Well the symptoms are: Bouygues Telecom logo at boot and several apps. So i guess it is branded, isn't it?

Would it hurt if i tried to root it? I'm a little afraid of trying your roms, since i don't have any stock rom to go back to.

[Guest yens]

You should have bought the one with sim as that is 169 euro.

Tried to... they don't sell them in shops. :rolleyes:

[Guest goods]

Root it add clockwork and do a full system backup.

[Guest idroid84]

Well the symptoms are: Bouygues Telecom logo at boot and several apps. So i guess it is branded, isn't it?

Would it hurt if i tried to root it? I'm a little afraid of trying your roms, since i don't have any stock rom to go back to.

Before you touch it find out how to do a ROM dump! Get someone on here who started ripping this phone apart to give you a hand! It means we can see if there are any differences except the branding as there might be something worth having in there regards to apps.

Might be worth seein Seb or the one who created the MoDaCo ROM.

[Guest oh!dougal]

Well the symptoms are: Bouygues Telecom logo at boot and several apps. So i guess it is branded, isn't it?

Would it hurt if i tried to root it? I'm a little afraid of trying your roms, since i don't have any stock rom to go back to.

Beware, there are different Blades!

The Chinese one that yielded the pre-release 2.2 only has half the memory that the SF has.

What has yours? And do you have the OLED multitouch screen? Are there any known hardware differences between your Blade and the SF? (I think the SF is hardware identical with Orange France's "Tactile Internet 2" - due now or very soon.)

What does the phone say about its own firmware?

Settings then right at the bottom, About Phone.

There you'll find the Firmware, Baseband and Kernel versions and the build number.

Wonder what differences you might have?

I'd suggest that you'd be best to just wait awhile until one of the gurus comes past.

Have you tried sending a PM to Paul?

Shouldn't be any harm unlocking it to other networks, but there may be a preferred route to rooting before archiving your stock rom.

If you're PC is on Windows (not Linux), you could amuse yourself by making sure that you have usb drivers installed and working, because you'll be needing them!

Edited November 7, 2010 by oh!dougal

[Guest yens]

Beware, there are different Blades!

The Chinese one that yielded the pre-release 2.2 only has half the memory that the SF has.

What has yours? And do you have the OLED multitouch screen? Are there any known hardware differences between your Blade and the SF? (I think the SF is hardware identical with Orange France's "Tactile Internet 2" - due now or very soon.)

What does the phone say about its own firmware?

Settings then right at the bottom, About Phone.

There you'll find the Firmware, Baseband and Kernel versions and the build number.

Wonder what differences you might have?

I'd suggest that you'd be best to just wait awhile until one of the gurus comes past.

Have you tried sending a PM to Paul?

Shouldn't be any harm unlocking it to other networks, but there may be a preferred route to rooting before archiving your stock rom.

If you're PC is on Windows (not Linux), you could amuse yourself by making sure that you have usb drivers installed and working, because you'll be needing them!

well it is rooted now. i will try to dump the system using busybox.. dunno if this works, but i won't alter the phone anymore. :rolleyes: hopefully some "guru" comes past.

[Guest oh!dougal]

... hopefully some "guru" comes past.

I think the hardware spec and version info will be among the first things you will be asked for!

[Guest yens]

I think the hardware spec and version info will be among the first things you will be asked for!

Model number:

ZTE-BLADE

Firmware version

2.1-update1

Baseband version

P729CB01

Kernel version

2.6.29

zte-kernel@Zdroid-SMT

Build number

P729CV1.0.0B04

[Guest Azurren]

The "safe" things you could do would be to either:

Root via androot and use an app like Root explorer (Paid) or ES file explorer (Free) to delete the any branded apps

Or you could root and use ADB (If you know how)

You could also change the boot animation in the same way

http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...reens-download/

If anything differs here DON'T ATTEMPT IT

My advice would be NOT to try flashing anything.. Chances are it will work, otherwise it could perm-brick you phone

[Guest oh!dougal]

Model number:

ZTE-BLADE

Firmware version

2.1-update1

Baseband version

P729CB01

Kernel version

2.6.29

zte-kernel@Zdroid-SMT

Build number

P729CV1.0.0B04

The UK SF has Baseband P729BB01, and Build Number P729BV1.0.0B05 {EDITED to correct brainfade} (And of course Model Number is Orange San Francisco.)

Dunno the significance, other than that there are differences.

I've seen reports of the Bouygues Blade having the OLED screen (and having 2.1 despite rumours that it would have 2.2 -- perhaps ZTE were running late on 2.2 !).

If you have about 150mb (or more) free in "phone storage" then it looks (to me) LIKELY to be hardware identical to the SF ... but please don't take my word for it!

Edited November 10, 2010 by oh!dougal

[Guest yens]

150 mb it is.

[Guest Sebastian404]

In theory it sounds like the same phone, any of the ROMS here should work, but before you even think about it, it whould be a good idea to back up your phone, so you can at least restore it yourself...

- root using Universal Androot from here - this is the safest way, don't user superboot as it'll overwrite the kernel!

Can you connect to the phone using ADB? if not get a terminal app from the market place and run the following command:

cat /proc/mtd

Can you post the results of that output here. Next you need to find the 'boot' and 'recovery' partitions, using the SF you'd see: dev: size erasesize name mtd0: 00480000 00020000 "recovery" mtd1: 00480000 00020000 "boot" so you'd use the following:

dd if=/dev/mtd/mtd1 of=/sdcard/boot.img bs=4096

dd if=/dev/mtd/mtd0 of=/sdcard/recovery.img bs=4096[/code]




remember to change the mtd0/mtd1 part to match your phone's layout (if needed)



next type the following:



[code]cd /system

tar zcvf /sdcard/system.tar.gz .

You should end up with 3 files on your SD Card, can you upload them somewhere and let me know?

I should also say, don't start altering anything someone can verify you have a good backup.

Edited November 8, 2010 by Sebastian404

[Guest juggernauth]

Hi Sebastien404,

I'm new to this forum and also a new happy owner of an android phone a ZTE Blade one from Bouygues Telecom, the same as first poster.

I got the same info from my phone :

Model number:

ZTE-BLADE

Firmware version

2.1-update1

Baseband version

P729CB01

Kernel version

2.6.29

zte-kernel@Zdroid-SMT

Build number

P729CV1.0.0B04

Here is the output of cat /proc/mtd :

# cat /proc/mtd

cat /proc/mtd

dev: size erasesize name

mtd0: 00480000 00020000 "recovery"

mtd1: 00480000 00020000 "boot"

mtd2: 00180000 00020000 "splash"

mtd3: 00060000 00020000 "misc"

mtd4: 02940000 00020000 "cache"

mtd5: 0cf80000 00020000 "system"

mtd6: 0d020000 00020000 "userdata"

mtd7: 00180000 00020000 "persist"

I made the extraction of the 3 files you need to investiguate and emailed you links to retrieve them.

Hope this helps, this phone is very new here in France :rolleyes:

Regards,

P.S. : FYI, I managed to root my droid phone Universal Root and installed busybox, but then felt less pain to use adb shell :huh:

[Guest yens]

hi juggernauth

do you have a clean dump without having anything altered before? i have already installed superboot (and thus overwritten the kernel as it seems).

if so, could you send me the dump? pm me for my mail or post a link. that would be great. :rolleyes:

Edited November 8, 2010 by yens

[Guest Sebastian404]

I have made a stock recovery zip for use with clockwork recovery, it works fine on my OUK device, so I should assume the other ROMS on here should work, tho you will probably have to update the APN list to get 3G working.

I have to say from the quick look I've taken, Bouygues seem to of done a much better job of customization than Orange did, the wall paper is nice and clean they have gone berzerk with the home screen layout, but they have mostly kept the stock version of things like email, Market and Maps.

If you'd like to test it out:

BY_P729CV1.0.0B11_update_signed.zip - MD5 : e566127b01f1a3da800ca8394ca11a45

Edited November 8, 2010 by Sebastian404

[Guest oink1]

hi juggernauth

do you have a clean dump

*sniggers* - Sorry!

[Guest Sebastian404]

I've re-uploaded a slighty 'better' version of the ROM

BY_P729CV1.0.0B11_update_signed.zip - MD5 : e566127b01f1a3da800ca8394ca11a45

Can someone with a French sourced Phone test it out and let me know?

[Guest Sebastian404]

BTW, has anyone got any pictures of the phone? has it got a cheap and nasty logo on it like the Orange ones?