Unable to flash any Cyanogen ROM to Gen1 Blade

[Guest ChromeNewt]

Hi folks. I have a bit of an issue which I'm scratching my head with. Since the white notification bar seems to be burning into the screen I decided I really need to change that to a black or at least a darker colour. Cyanogen mod seems to do that according to the description, so off I toddle and using ROM Manager I download and try to apply it. I do backups etc but when the ROM is applied I get the repeating load up screen at best, at worst when I try to apply the ROM or use the power+down volume key the android logo seems to de-rez and then go straight into a normal boot, sans Cyanogen. Any ideas?

For consideration, I haven't wiped the cache since I've not got much confidence (yet) with this. I've flashed the phone with the very old first method, not ROM manager, with the Modaco ROM. It's Gen1 AFAIK since I bought it back in October.

Please help me save the screen on it. I love this phone dearly. :unsure:

[Guest Amphoras]

Which version of CM are you trying to install? Only Nightly 39 and earlier work on Gen 1, so if you're trying to flash one of the later ones it won't work. If you want to use one of the later ones, you can convert to Gen 2 by following this guide http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...n2-tpt-upgrade/ and then install the ROM.

[Guest ChromeNewt]

Ah, that would explain it then. Sorry about the late reply btw. I'll take a look at that.

[Guest Mushroom_Lord]

Visit the unified theme thread in the themes (including dark notification bars) and design sub forum and notice there are themes for:

SS

FLB

MCR

JJ9

aswell :unsure: