ZTE GEN

[Guest fortune2k79]

Hello,

my friend put pattern lock on ZTE blade SF and cant unlock it anymore becouse gmail acc is needed, he dont have any gmail acc and on phone wasnt used market. so i consider do factory reset, but need to know which GEN is used. Read some guides how to reflash, but need know that GEN. I tried through ADB console put off patterns but phone is locked.

phone model

ZTE P729V

thanks for any advice

[Guest t0mm13b]

Hello,

my friend put pattern lock on ZTE blade SF and cant unlock it anymore becouse gmail acc is needed, he dont have any gmail acc and on phone wasnt used market. so i consider do factory reset, but need to know which GEN is used. Read some guides how to reflash, but need know that GEN. I tried through ADB console put off patterns but phone is locked.

phone model

ZTE P729V

thanks for any advice

If you can access it through adb - then you can poke around in the /proc directory and look at the last_kmsg file as root, like this,

cat /proc/last_kmsg | grep ram

If the line(s) appears

[01-01 00:00:00.220000] [1: swapper]ram_console: got buffer at 2500000, size 100000

[01-01 00:00:00.220000] [1: swapper]ram_console: found existing buffer, size 97231, start 97231

[01-01 00:00:00.230000] [1: swapper]console [ram-1] enabled

[01-01 00:00:00.230590] [1: swapper]Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...

[01-01 00:00:00.590001] [1: swapper]FrameBuffer[0] 480x800 size=1536000 bytes is registered successfully!

ramdisk @ 3600000 (1410390 bytes)

booting linux @ 0x2608000, ramdisk @ 0x3600000 (1410390)

That's a Gen2 device.... as ram console starts at 1000000 less than the base address at 2600000 and also the 'booting linux @ ' address starts with 0x26....

Gen1 has ram console @ 2900000 and boots from address starting with 0x2A... :)

Edited September 20, 2011 by t0mm13b

[Guest fortune2k79]

when i write in to cmd

adb devices

List of devices attached 

P729B_ORANGE_SK	offline

what is exactly command for

cat /proc/last_kmsg | grep ram        

i am not pro in adb :)

thanks

[Guest t0mm13b]

when i write in to cmd

adb devices

List of devices attached 

P729B_ORANGE_SK	offline

what is exactly command for

cat /proc/last_kmsg | grep ram        

i am not pro in adb :) thanks

Ahhh... mea culpa! Should have stated you enter this command first:

adb shell

Then enter that command to look for the clue to tell you what GEN is used

cat /proc/last_kmsg | grep ram

Then to exit from the shell, enter this

exit

or hit Ctrl+D.

B)

[Guest fortune2k79]

Ahhh... mea culpa!

Should have stated you enter this command first:

adb shell

Then enter that command to look for the clue to tell you what GEN is used

cat /proc/last_kmsg | grep ram

Then to exit from the shell, enter this

exit

or hit Ctrl+D.

B)

i got error: device offline

[Guest t0mm13b]

Uhmmm.... Okie... that's epic fail there... might as well and go ahead and flash TPT - does not matter how many times you do it - in fact, am on Gen2 myself, and use the TPT more than once without any ill-effect.... :)

[Guest fortune2k79]

Uhmmm.... Okie... that's epic fail there... might as well and go ahead and flash TPT - does not matter how many times you do it - in fact, am on Gen2 myself, and use the TPT more than once without any ill-effect.... :)

ok, so i will try flash TPT by

method 3

thanks for now, i will try it tommorow

[Guest mcfischsam]

Just use an app: AskMrPigFish

it will tell you if you have a gen1 or a gen2 device

that way is much safer than just doing TPTs again and again.

[Guest fortune2k79]

Just use an app: AskMrPigFish

it will tell you if you have a gen1 or a gen2 device

that way is much safer than just doing TPTs again and again.

but i cant run any program on SF, becouse gmail acc is needed

and i tried TPT and got green txt msg.

Update from T-Flash card!

error !

error !

error !

error !

error !

error !

error !

tried GEN2, and only Image dir is on card

[Guest fortune2k79]

i looked on GEN1 and there is Image directory contain few *.img files , but

GEN2 contain only 2 files image.hash and image.bin

its ok ?

[Guest fortune2k79]

Everything works, i did TPT gen1, after gen1 to gen2, and cyanomod7 installed. done. thanks for help