ZTE Blade here in Finland, 96€!

[Guest gurmukh]

Hi Guys

I've just bought a ZTE Blade here in Finland and am hoping to root it. It's not got the Orange bloatware etc on it. Will the rooting process still be the same?

Just thought I'd check before I may brick it!

Thanks guys!

http://www.tele.fi/liittymat+ja+puhelimet/...limet/zte+blade

[Guest ergo911]

Hi Guys

I've just bought a ZTE Blade here in Finland and am hoping to root it. It's not got the Orange bloatware etc on it. Will the rooting process still be the same?

Just thought I'd check before I may brick it!

Thanks guys!

http://www.tele.fi/liittymat+ja+puhelimet/...limet/zte+blade

Is it 3.2MP? And TFT?

Something new? How much RAM?

Thanks.

[Guest Lew247]

From the specs on that website

Näyttö: 3,5 kapasitiivinen kosketusnäyttö (TFT 800x480)

So there ARE versions of this phone wwith TFT screens

still 3.2MP camera though and not 5

Edited December 3, 2010 by Lew247

[Guest GraviticVortex]

So all major Finnish carriers have Blade now?

Elisa/Saunalahti and Sonera/Tele, too it seems...

Edited December 3, 2010 by GraviticVortex

[Guest gurmukh]

Yes, its a bargain from Tele for 96 euros!

It's a 3.5" TFT Screen

Memory: 100 MB of internal memory, and the sales package includes 2 GB of memory, also supports up to 32GB of microSD memory cards

http://www.tele.fi/liittymat+ja+puhelimet/...limet/zte+blade

[Guest kallt_kaffe]

Hi Guys

I've just bought a ZTE Blade here in Finland and am hoping to root it. It's not got the Orange bloatware etc on it. Will the rooting process still be the same?

Just thought I'd check before I may brick it!

Thanks guys!

http://www.tele.fi/liittymat+ja+puhelimet/...limet/zte+blade

Do not use the superboot method as it means flashing an Orange San Francisco boot image to your phone. That means you'll get a kernel and startup scrips that isn't designed to work with the rest of your install.

Universal Androot is propably a safer method.

An alternative method would be to flash Clockwork recovery and reflash with a pre-rooted custom ROM. My latest ROM (Finnish Fillyjonk) will propably work and also ROMs based on the Hungarian ROM could work too.

[Guest GraviticVortex]

Ah, that shows whatta noob i am ;)

I always assumed phone needs to be rooted in order to flash Clockwork recovery...

Silly me.

96€ price is on contract i assume?

As with Saunalahti where its 189€ for everybody and 117€ on contract.

Edited December 3, 2010 by GraviticVortex

[Guest gurmukh]

Do not use the superboot method as it means flashing an Orange San Francisco boot image to your phone. That means you'll get a kernel and startup scrips that isn't designed to work with the rest of your install.

Universal Androot is propably a safer method.

An alternative method would be to flash Clockwork recovery and reflash with a pre-rooted custom ROM. My latest ROM (Finnish Fillyjonk) will propably work and also ROMs based on the Hungarian ROM could work too.

If I installed the Clockwork recovery app, is it possible to brick the device by installing the wrong roms?

[Guest gurmukh]

From the specs on that website

So there ARE versions of this phone wwith TFT screens

still 3.2MP camera though and not 5

BTW interestingly, this other Finnish network operator has the 5MP camera:

http://saunalahti.fi/puhelimet/puhelin.php...pe=handsetmodel

[Guest kallt_kaffe]

If I installed the Clockwork recovery app, is it possible to brick the device by installing the wrong roms?

Not asfaik. You could of course end up with a non-booting phone but as long as you can enter "bootloader"-mode (volume up) or recovery-mode (volume down) it can be fixed by reflashing a working ROM.

I guess there is a chance that your phone have a more recent ROM than the other finnish blade so maybe you should look into dumping the original ROM first. That also makes it possible for someone to create a recovery ROM. Get in touch with sebastian404 who manages this thread: http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...239/stock-roms/ and try to get the ROM dumped.

[Guest ergo911]

Can you please check your rom version(build nr) from About Phone. And yes, maybe you can dump it if its newer.

Thanks ;)

[Guest gurmukh]

@GraviticVortex - The phone is free on a 24 month contract. The monthly contract price is 4 euros. So if you pay the 96 euros upfront, the phones yours!

@Kalt_kaffe + @ergo911 - My phone is in the post, so as soon as I get it, I'll do as you said :-)

[Guest froschke]

96 euro? this is way too expensive ...

... in switzerland you get for 84 euro without any contract ;)

http://okmobile.ch/de/mobile/index.php?id=smartphone

phone (100 CHF) + prepaid sim (10 chf) = 110 CHF / 84 Euro

[Guest ale_syrj]

96 euro? this is way too expensive ...

... in switzerland you get for 84 euro without any contract ;)

http://okmobile.ch/de/mobile/index.php?id=smartphone

phone (100 CHF) + prepaid sim (10 chf) = 110 CHF / 84 Euro

Everything is expensive in here. I think this other operator had a better deal though, 6,9e x 24 = 165,6e, including unlimited data for two years. (though I'm sure they offer this for a limited time only)

It's interesting that there are both 3,2mp and 5mp cameras here! Didn't know that until now.

Edited December 3, 2010 by ale_syrj

[Guest markusj]

96 euro? this is way too expensive ...

... in switzerland you get for 84 euro without any contract ;)

Sounds good, in Hungary it's 137€ without contract...

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Sounds like you need a hungarian-style rom.

(Hungarian Hedgehog, bladeVillain, etc.)

[Guest ballist1x]

a contract for £4 a month?!?!

[Guest Paul]

Hi Guys

I've just bought a ZTE Blade here in Finland and am hoping to root it. It's not got the Orange bloatware etc on it. Will the rooting process still be the same?

Just thought I'd check before I may brick it!

Thanks guys!

http://www.tele.fi/liittymat+ja+puhelimet/...limet/zte+blade

Root it with VISIONary R14 (temproot only) would be my advice, then use the 'cat' command to dump the MTD partitions (view the partitions by doing 'cat /proc/mtd' then do cat /dev/mtd/mtd1>/sdcard/mtd1-partitionname.img), thereby giving you a 'safety net'.

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