Thought I was rooting... [solved]

[Guest BritishGent]

**Apologies for re-posting, but I've only just noticed this beginners area so I've edited my last post in the San Francisco area for deletion. Hope that's OK. Here is the text of the original post:**

After buying and unlocking an Orange San Francisco last week then reading up on rooting and stock roms on this site, I was preparing to do the deed, but hadn't plucked up the courage. Today I came across an issue of Micro Mart magazine with a detailed article on the phone and instructions for doing the whole thing. Decided to go ahead. Connecting the phone to the PC (Win 7 64-bit) highlighted missing drivers, but I found a ZTE Blade driver set that seemed to satisfy Windows and there were no yellow triangles after that. The rooting exercise used boot.blade.superboot.mcri.r3.img and appeared to go fine, but after rebooting I got a green man turning blue, a blue Orange logo, a brief look at my home screen and then black. Have to remove the battery to turn the phone off as the screen does not return, even when the power button is pressed.

Reading through this forum it's clearly down to the TFT screen my unit has, or at least I think it is. I've tried recovery image files, but with no success. What concerns me is that the problems I read about on here appear to be linked to flashing the ROM; I thought I was just at the rooting stage - ? Thoroughly confused and anxious right now. It goes without saying that I'm new to Linux and to Android, but I'm not entirely un-technical and I'm sure there's a solution to be had, just need to know if I do have a ROM issue to resolve now or if it's something else.

Advice greatly appreciated...

[Guest StevenHarperUK]

Hi Welcome to MoDaCo.

Unfortunatly the Superboot writes a non compatible (OLE only) Boot.img onto your devices boot partition.

You have 2 Choices :

• Install Clockwork
  
• Install a Custom ROM that replaces the bad BOOT.image on your boot partition.
  

  • Install a TPT ROM (Total Phone Transfer ROM) Does the above in 1 step
    

  However installing a TPT will change your System Partition down to 128MB - gives you more space for APPs. but means you have to put it back before you can install none 128MB Roms

  p.s. I removed your old thread for you

  This thread does really belong in the ZTE Balde main forum : Moving

[Guest StevenHarperUK]

So the

First choice : Follow Steps 1 & 2 in the main Guide

http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...and-other-roms/

But you must choose a ROM that includes a boot.img (do check this just unzip the Zip file and there will be a boot.img in there)

Japanese jellyfish has one of these

http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...01-13-oled-tft/

Japanese_Jellyfish_RLS7.zip

Second choice : scroll to the bottom of that same guide and follow the Total Phone Transplant

I recommend you do the Japanese JellyFish R7

http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...01-13-oled-tft/

(its the Japanese_Jellyfish_RLS7_image.zip one)

[Guest BritishGent]

Many thanks for this info. So far I've successfully installed Clockwork and used the options to clear the cache and data. I've also downloaded jellyfish r7 (image) and copied the file to my desktop ready to go. However, I've tried mounting/unmounting the SD card using Clockwork options and various reboots, but so far I haven't been able to get the card back as a drive to which I can copy the zip file. It is not mounting automatically when I attach it to the USB cable which it did before. Should I try the mount USB storage option or am I missing a step completely?

[Guest StevenHarperUK]

Many thanks for this info. So far I've successfully installed Clockwork and used the options to clear the cache and data. I've also downloaded jellyfish r7 (image) and copied the file to my desktop ready to go. However, I've tried mounting/unmounting the SD card using Clockwork options and various reboots, but so far I haven't been able to get the card back as a drive to which I can copy the zip file. It is not mounting automatically when I attach it to the USB cable which it did before. Should I try the mount USB storage option or am I missing a step completely?

If your going with option one you want the Japanese_Jellyfish_RLS7.zip file

not the _image one

You can mount the SDCARD in clockwork

Choose the Storage and Mounts (Home button is OK)

Then choose MOUNT USB

The SDCard will mount just like a USB pen drive (assuming you have it pugged into your computer via the USB cable)

Now Drag the file on, unmount, then install using clockwork.

[Guest BritishGent]

Done! Much obliged to you.

[Guest StevenHarperUK]

Done! Much obliged to you.

Sweet. Please add [solved] to your thread title.