Guest randompunter Posted July 5, 2011 Report Posted July 5, 2011 Hi all, I bought an Orange San Francisco last week with the intention of unlocking it and installing a Gingerbread ROM. Unlocking and rooting were a doddle. Next I upgraded to Gen2 following the instructions here: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/ZTE_Blade...on_and_Recovery Then I installed CyanogenMod 7. This worked fine. For a couple of days I used this. The experience in general was great but the battery life was appalling - it would barely make half a day with very little use. This is where things started going wrong... I decided to try a different ROM and went for Ginger Stir Fry from here: http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...inger-stir-fry/ I rebooted into clockwork recovery, installed the update and then... disaster. Whatever I did, the phone would just get stuck at the big green android. I could not get to recovery - just the big green android. I found these instructions on using DFU: http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...-also-the-imei/ and managed to get the phone back to clockwork recovery mod. But that's all it would do. I tried various different ROMs, including various alleged stock ROMs, a number of different versions of clockwork recovery mod (3.1.4, 3.1.7, 4.0.5), but I can only get it to boot into recovery mode. In desperation, I managed to install the stock recovery console, but this would boot straight into FTM mode. From a PC, I tried installing a ROM, but the phone would still just boot straight into FTM mode. I managed to install a TPT image (with clockwork recovery mod installed I think) of a "stock ROM", but this still would not boot and would go straight into the recovery console (it obviously wasn't fully stock as it had clockwork recovery console). So, in summary, the current status is: With stock recovery: boots straight into FTM. Can get to recovery console using vol up/home/power, install a ROM (tried CM7 and ginger stir fry) but it will just boot straight into FTM. With clockwork recovery: boots straight into recovery console. I can install a ROM, but it just boots straight back into recovery console. Does anyone have any ideas about what is going on and how I can resolve this? Is there a fool-proof way to revert the whole thing to stock and start again? Finally, the boot into FTM pops up with a ZTE logo - is that what an unmodified Orange San Francisco does, or would this be obviously strange behaviour to someone if I took the phone back to Orange and tried to get a replacement (which I would hope not to brick)? Many thanks for any help anyone can offer.
Guest hedgepigdaniel Posted July 5, 2011 Report Posted July 5, 2011 OK I'm not sure what went wrong at the beginning but I have an idea for what is wrong now. Which set of files did you flash via DFU mode? FTM mode is what stock recovery contains. its used for flashing and backing up and restoring NV memory.
Guest randompunter Posted July 5, 2011 Report Posted July 5, 2011 OK I'm not sure what went wrong at the beginning but I have an idea for what is wrong now. Which set of files did you flash via DFU mode? FTM mode is what stock recovery contains. its used for flashing and backing up and restoring NV memory. I used this folder, I think, from v880_conversion_recovery.zip : Orange_GEN2_136mb_system_no_oem_15mb_cache Thanks for looking at this for me.
Guest randompunter Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 OK I'm not sure what went wrong at the beginning but I have an idea for what is wrong now. Which set of files did you flash via DFU mode? FTM mode is what stock recovery contains. its used for flashing and backing up and restoring NV memory. You dangled some tantalizing hope in front of me there... Can you, or anyone else, recommend some things for me to try out, or better yet a fool-proof get-out-of-jail-free-card for recovering a blade as messed up as mine? Cheers, Ashley
Guest swisstourist Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 You dangled some tantalizing hope in front of me there... Can you, or anyone else, recommend some things for me to try out, or better yet a fool-proof get-out-of-jail-free-card for recovering a blade as messed up as mine? Cheers, Ashley gingerbred has to be installed with TPT and no ZIP flash. ur phone is not bricked, a bricked phone is bricked when all is black!!! no light, nothing on screen. i would erase your microcard, remove sim, install gingerbread via tpt again. if not, revert back to Mod1, and reinstall clockwork, SS. i m not a specialist. it s ur problem if u screw more.ok?
Guest yug0 Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 yeah try tpt back to gen 1. bottom of post 1: http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...n2-tpt-upgrade/ if clockwork works then install a gen 1 rom again, swedish spring perhaps p.s hope you backed up your channel1.nvm file when you used the dfu method as you may have lost your imei
Guest Atomix86 Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 I would recommend a fresh install of the Gen 2 TPT only, then install GSF via .zip
Guest randompunter Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 gingerbred has to be installed with TPT and no ZIP flash. ur phone is not bricked, a bricked phone is bricked when all is black!!! no light, nothing on screen. i would erase your microcard, remove sim, install gingerbread via tpt again. if not, revert back to Mod1, and reinstall clockwork, SS. i m not a specialist. it s ur problem if u screw more.ok? Thanks for the suggestions. I downloaded gsf-blade-b9-tpt.zip from here: http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...n2-tpt-upgrade/ I unzipped it the image folder on a blank SD card. But I can't get it to run the tpt. With Vol+/Pwr or Vol+/Pwr/Menu, it goes to FTM...
Guest randompunter Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 I would recommend a fresh install of the Gen 2 TPT only, then install GSF via .zip Tried this one too: Gen2-to-Gen1-TPT-v2-stock.zip Same - just boots into FTM.
Guest yug0 Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 (edited) Have you tried flashing clockwork using fastboot? edit: I had difficult with the most recent version of clockwork, version 3.0.1.4 worked on mine. Edited July 7, 2011 by yug0
Guest randompunter Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 Have you tried flashing clockwork using fastboot? It will not boot into fastboot either. I will try updating to clockwork from update.zip. I know very little about the boot process: is a TPT update by clockwork?
Guest yug0 Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 (edited) had you removed the image file from sd before trying to boot to fastboot? (volume+ key held) should just sit at green android TPT stands for total phone transfer and replaces all phone partitions in one go. The Gen 2 to gen 1 does not include a rom. Clockwork is just an alternative recovery partition. Edited July 7, 2011 by yug0
Guest randompunter Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 had you removed the image file from sd before trying to boot to fastboot? (volume+ key held) should just sit at green android TPT stands for total phone transfer and replaces all phone partitions in one go. The Gen 2 to gen 1 does not include a rom. Clockwork is just an alternative recovery partition. With no sd card cannot get to fastboot with or without battery :-( Fastboot is actually part of the android os right? I don't think it can boot into any form of android. Or have I got the wrong end of the stick?
Guest randompunter Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 Should I be able to install clockwork recovery mod from update.zip? This just says "verifying update package... installation aborted."
Guest yug0 Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 Should I be able to install clockwork recovery mod from update.zip? This just says "verifying update package... installation aborted." how are you doing this?
Guest randompunter Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 how are you doing this? Downloaded this: http://www.mediafire.com/?7o510i7e9r50prs Renamed it update.zip and stuck it on the sd card. Booted into recovery partition, selected apply sdcard:update.zip. I am guessing that I am doing the wrong thing. Should I somehow be using FTM to install this from a PC? Ashley
Guest randompunter Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 OK, I made some progress: I used "OSF Flasher, patched by radmir" This got me a working clockwork recovery! I then rebooted with vol+ held down with the stock gen1 tpt image, and a load of green text came up - again, progress. But... still reboots into clockwork recovery. Ashley
Guest yug0 Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 (edited) Yeah that is what is supposed to happen as you have no rom currently. You need to put a gen 1 rom onto your sd card now, swedish spring perhaps and then from the clockwork recovery choose install zip from sdcard, then choose zip from sdcard as detailed in this thread in step 3 http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...zte-blade-gen1/ Edited July 7, 2011 by yug0
Guest randompunter Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 OK. So now I am trying ginger stir fry tpt. Green text came up and did its thing... Got the big green android for a while... Got the spinning green sparkly android thingy for even longer... Then it booted into Android!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wahay! Thanks for your help! I've looked really stupid to friends, family and colleagues for over a week now. But HA! I've shown them! Who's laughing now? Huh? Oh no wait... I was pretty stupid... and... er... they're still laughing... But hey, at least I have a phone that works now. :-) Ashley aka randompunter aka the stupid bloke who f****d his brand new phone and then took over a week to get it back again
Guest yug0 Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 Glad you got sorted eventually, takes a while to get your head around it all. Have you checked that ur imei is correct? settings>about phone>status scroll down and check that your imei matches that under your battery
Guest randompunter Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 Glad you got sorted eventually, takes a while to get your head around it all. Have you checked that ur imei is correct? settings>about phone>status scroll down and check that your imei matches that under your battery Hmm - no. IMEI is wrong. What difference does this make?
Guest yug0 Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 Hmm - no. IMEI is wrong. What difference does this make? Its a number which should be unique for each phone. I'm not sure if it will cause problems for you or not. Someone else might know more. Did you back it up before you flashed the firmware If you did you can restore it using the method described in the thread
Guest swisstourist Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 (edited) Its a number which should be unique for each phone. I'm not sure if it will cause problems for you or not. Someone else might know more. Did you back it up before you flashed the firmware If you did you can restore it using the method described in the thread can you send it to yourself on your gmail account, to be safe? is it really worth to go through all this process to get a back up of his MEI? Edited July 7, 2011 by swisstourist
Guest yug0 Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 can you send it to yourself on your gmail account, to be safe? is it really worth to go through all this process to get a back up of his MEI? It's not to get a backup, it is to restore it back to the correct one which was lost
Guest randompunter Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 Well, I have created a channel1.nvm with the correct IMEI in it, but I really would rather not go through switching back to a stock GEN1 ROM, restoring the IMEI, reflashing the correct IMEI, reloading ginger stir fry and hoping that it has the correct IMEI. Is there a way of editing the IMEI in situ with the current ginger stir fry rom?
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