850 Mhz (Gen 2?)

[Guest zomgbugs]

Does anyone know if the current ZTE Blades for sale have the 850 mhz band enabled? I read a lot about upgrading an old Gen 1 phone with new software (although the consensus seems to be this doesn't enable it), but didn't see anyone mention if the currently-for-sale phones have it enabled by default.

I am traveling over to Spain in a week and want to buy a cheap Blade through that Yoigo offer I've read about, but I want that 850 mhz band since I live in the US.

Thanks in advance!

[Guest Ralph Martin]

See the other threads. There's no 850MHz for GEN1 or GEN2.

That may change if a Blade variants gets made for the US market.

Edited August 5, 2011 by Ralph Martin

[Guest Stuart_f]

The definitive thread is here.

In short, the chips in the phone can support 850MHz but none of the additional radio hardware needed for 850MHz is present. There is no chance of getting this band on any existing Blade/Libra.

Edited August 5, 2011 by Stuart_f

[Guest unrandomsam]

Does anyone know if the current ZTE Blades for sale have the 850 mhz band enabled? I read a lot about upgrading an old Gen 1 phone with new software (although the consensus seems to be this doesn't enable it), but didn't see anyone mention if the currently-for-sale phones have it enabled by default.

I am traveling over to Spain in a week and want to buy a cheap Blade through that Yoigo offer I've read about, but I want that 850 mhz band since I live in the US.

Thanks in advance!

You can 850mhz 2G if you use chinese cefs.mbn afaik

[Guest bboyzell]

Me and a Mate have been looking in to it for the last couple of days now.

We are trying to get my blade to connect on to "telstra Next G" UMTS 850 in Australia.

we believe we are slowly making progress (we never done anything like this before but its pretty fun)

Here is some small info of our findings And Research links

My link[REF] Coorelation between radio image and libhtc_ril.so [Archive] - xda-developers

These Two Roms Below We have had read info relating to them which may hint to them possibly having the UMTS Band

Swedish Stock Rom

CSE_P729VV1.0.0B04

ro.build.version.release=2.2

ro.build.date=Thu Feb 10 04:30:29 CST 2011

ro.build.sw_internal_version=CSE_P729VV1.0.0B04

ro.build.display.id=CSE_P729VV1.0.0B01

ro.com.google.gmsversion=2.1_r9

Doesnt Connect to Any Form of Networks :( But is progress non-the-less

China Unicom (China): V880

UNI_CN_P729CUV1.0.0B13

ro.build.version.release=2.2

ro.build.date=Tue Nov 16 16:18:16 CST 2010

ro.build.sw_internal_version=P729CUV1.0.0B07

ro.build.display.id=UNI_CN_V880 1.1

When using this stock rom from china, my phone connects to "G" which being my sim only connects to 850mhz its showing hints of working

But after about 4 seconds i drop to no signal and nothing

In Summary: We Belive that it maybe possible to get UMTS 850 on the ZTE Blade Purely because of the ZTE Racer Has this Band and Is using the Exact same Radio/Chipset!

And there is a Link Between the following files:

These 3 files are RIL (Radio Interface Layer)

libril.so

libril-qcril-hook-oem.so

libril-qc-1.so

&

amss.mbn [belive this to be kind of a Hardware Driver for the Radio)

Anyway Just Throwing out findings out there.

If we have any luck will let you know