newbie stupid question: where's located the rom?

[Guest maranric]

Hi!

Sorry for the stupid question: The ROM loaded by ZTE Blade, is located into the MicroSD memory OR into the embedded flash memory?

I want to load Froyo g2 2.2 because my Cyanomod 7 Rc3 have some problem (wifi stuck, rebooting and terrible battery drain..i've to charge 3 times a day)

and i thought i could buy a new microSD card to put it in..without destroying the actual Cyanomod rom...

Other question : if i compare a ZTE Blade with a PC:

PC have BIOS (memory of the mb) and then operative system (located in the hard disk)

The ZTE Blade how does it work? BIOS is not the rom...isn'it? And : if this "bios" is not the rom, what is its name?

Thanks, i've the blade by only 3 days :D

Riccardo

[Guest Michealtbh]

Its on internal memory

[Guest Lew247]

Think of it like a computer, you have the install disc as a dv/dvd or you can even have it on a USB stick if you know how

You install it on the computers hard drive and the computer works

The blade you have the rom you want to upload into the phone on the SD card - then you flash the phone and it puts it on the phones internal memory

Similar as installing windows onto your hard drive.

You can install different roms, but you have to overwrite or wipe the one you have while doing it

the same as you would so if changing from windows to Linux, or from XP top Vista to Windows 7

You can have one active at any one time but to put another on you have to install it.

However - seeing you have clockwork installed, try this

Put the new rom file on your SD card ready to flash

Boot your phone into clockwork as if your going to flash the new rom

Instead of flashing the new rom go into backup and restore - press backup and backup what you already have

This takes a "snapshot" of your phone exactly as it is and saves everything onto a file on your SD card and as long as you don't tamper with that file not even renaming the files in it you can then restore your phone within a couple of minutes to exactly as it was when you took the backup

So for instance you could try several roms and see which one you like best, if you dont like any or want to go back to the CM7 at any stage simply go into backup and restore and restore it

All you have to do is keep a record of the time and date you did the backup to get back to it

Each backup is stored by it's time and date - not rom name - so just make sure you select the right backup and you'll have no problems

If you do have more than one backup and restore the wrong one, its easy just go back into it and select the right one.

[Guest maranric]

Instead of flashing the new rom go into backup and restore - press backup and backup what you already have

This takes a "snapshot" of your phone exactly as it is and saves everything onto a file on your SD card and as long as you don't tamper with that file not even renaming the files in it you can then restore your phone within a couple of minutes to exactly as it was when you took the backup

If you do have more than one backup and restore the wrong one, its easy just go back into it and select the right one.

Thanks. HOW Do i do the Wiping operation? i didn't find a wiping option into clockworkmode...and this "wipe" is a wiping of the internal memory, isn'it?

If all the program are internal memory resident, how is possible to "wipe"?

It sounds like a format c: with che command launched from c:\ prompt...and it's not possible....

Thanks for patience

[Guest Lew247]

It sounds like a format c: with che command launched from c:\ prompt...and it's not possible....

Because it's not Windows. You hve to forget everything you know about windows when working on the blade

However Android Commander for Windows works beautifully for when you want to transfer files/copy files add remove files making backups of apk files and so on,

There are wipe options in clockwork - look again

From memory - there may be more.

There is wipe data/factory reset

There is also wipe cache partition

and in advanced there is also wipe dalvik cache