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As i wrote in the title GEN 3 is not clear for me. Is it avaible for the Blade? What does it contain? Is it worth it? Can someone explain it for me? Sorry for my horrible english :(

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Is it a retarded question or no one knows the answer? The only thing i know so far that GEN 3 2.3.5 and it contains speed improvements. Now the only question is that is it for the Blade or for Libra??

Guest targetbsp
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To an end user, the gen pretty much solely dictates what roms you can run on your phone and that is all. So until a rom developer tells me I need to be Gen3 to run a rom, I'm not personally interested in it!

If you're after that new rom, there are already roms based on it for Gen2. Here's one: http://android.modac...s2-android-235/

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Its for 512/512 meg libra's and blades

but the blade has to have been updated with the windows updater to gen 2 or be a gen 2 from the factory

to be able to update to gen 3

in the case of wbaw tpt to gen 2 you have to revert back to gen 1

then update to gen 2 with the windows updater before you can go gen 3

Is it a retarded question or no one knows the answer? The only thing i know so far that GEN 3 2.3.5 and it contains speed improvements. Now the only question is that is it for the Blade or for Libra??

Guest hecatae
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As i wrote in the title GEN 3 is not clear for me. Is it avaible for the Blade? What does it contain? Is it worth it? Can someone explain it for me? Sorry for my horrible english :(

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I think its the best build by far from zte

and some people have said it does hsupa

but i cant confirm that due to my mobile provider

Also you can tell a oled device

as the boot zte logo is red on an oled device for the first second

but blue on lcd's

Guest hedgepigdaniel
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I think its the best build by far from zte

and some people have said it does hsupa

but i cant confirm that due to my mobile provider

Also you can tell a oled device

as the boot zte logo is red on an oled device for the first second

but blue on lcd's

I have an OLED Blade and the logo was turquoise for the first second?

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Odd

My OLED the zte logo is red the first second then blue

My LCD the zte logo is blue the whole time

I have an OLED Blade and the logo was turquoise for the first second?

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Guest hecatae
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I have an OLED Blade and the logo was turquoise for the first second?

turquoise may be more apt a choice, looked burgundy to me

Guest hedgepigdaniel
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I took a video of the red logo

Its still processing shouldnt be long

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=idjvsAW51G4

interesting - did you install the ZTE Stock ROM? I installed the mod that is floating around here, and dont see the ZTE logo that appears for you before the android. the android is the first thing I see. first in turquoise, then in the usual green, then the animation comes up.

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looks good.. will CM support it? Should I go for GEN 3 or wait a little?

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Thats due to yours still being Gen 2

Mine are Gen 3

interesting - did you install the ZTE Stock ROM? I installed the mod that is floating around here, and dont see the ZTE logo that appears for you before the android. the android is the first thing I see. first in turquoise, then in the usual green, then the animation comes up.

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I did a full upgrade to gen 3 with the zte bin like so

1 wbaw Gen 2 - Gen 1 TPT V2

2 OUKB20 TPT

3 Blade Gen 1 - Gen 2 Windows Update

4 Ginger stir fry b27

5 ZTE Blade Official 2.3.5

6 Flash Clockwork Mod 5.0.2.0

7 Flashed My Mod Rom

interesting - did you install the ZTE Stock ROM? I installed the mod that is floating around here, and dont see the ZTE logo that appears for you before the android. the android is the first thing I see. first in turquoise, then in the usual green, then the animation comes up.

Guest hedgepigdaniel
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I did a full upgrade to gen 3 with the zte bin like so

1 wbaw Gen 2 - Gen 1 TPT V2

2 OUKB20 TPT

3 Blade Gen 1 - Gen 2 Windows Update

4 Ginger stir fry b27

5 ZTE Blade Official 2.3.5

6 Flash Clockwork Mod 5.0.2.0

7 Flashed My Mod Rom

OK think I've worked it out.

I flashed the Gen3 firmware files but I didn't include the new splash image, instead I included the usual green one. Since you flashed the ZTE bin, you flashed their splash image, which is the ZTE logo.

Taking into account our observations, it looks like the following happens on bootup:

1. The splash image in the splash partition gets displayed for a few seconds

2. The ROMs boot animation is displayed. The green android that then gets displayed is probably part of the ROM. I imagine if we flashed some other Gen2 ROM the green android would never appear if you left the ZTE logo as the splash image

as for the colour, perhaps Gen3 uses a different image format - I notice the new splash image is 990KB rather than the 751KB of Gen1/2 - and consequently the old ones don't get rendered properly.

Guest KonstaT
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Taking into account our observations, it looks like the following happens on bootup:

1. The splash image in the splash partition gets displayed for a few seconds

2. The ROMs boot animation is displayed. The green android that then gets displayed is probably part of the ROM. I imagine if we flashed some other Gen2 ROM the green android would never appear if you left the ZTE logo as the splash image

That green android that you're talking about is a kernel logo. During boot images are displayed, splash image -> kernel (branding logo) -> bootanimation.

That image is in kernel ramdisk and it's called logo.bmp. I think you can find it in /logo.bmp from your booted machine, but to change (remove) it you have unpack the ramdisk. It's usually some operator logo. In this Moldovan generic ROM it's green android logo, in saunalahti 2.2 stock ROM it was huge ZTE logo and in saunalahti 2.1 stock ROM it was saunalahti logo.

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Guest swukjay
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hi can one of you geniuses on here please make a post explain fully the upgrade procedure like steven harpers guides which are bloody excellent! Also does anyone know if there are any bugs in the "official " rom and also explain if its possible to go back to gen 1 or 2 after doing this if you wish, thanks in advance for all your help guys :-)

Guest hedgepigdaniel
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hi can one of you geniuses on here please make a post explain fully the upgrade procedure like steven harpers guides which are bloody excellent! Also does anyone know if there are any bugs in the "official " rom and also explain if its possible to go back to gen 1 or 2 after doing this if you wish, thanks in advance for all your help guys :-)

http://android.modaco.com/topic/339048-guide-flashing-firmware-to-a-stock-or-windows-upgraded-gen2-blade/

Just flash the Gen3 package and then install a Gen3 ROM. you can go back to Gen1 or Gen2 the same way, or to Gen2 by flashing the Gen2 TPT from here:

Guest swukjay
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Hi thanks for the reply, So is the term gen 3 in a way not quite true as it would appear that this is actually gen 2? or is that wrong.

Guest hedgepigdaniel
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Hi thanks for the reply, So is the term gen 3 in a way not quite true as it would appear that this is actually gen 2? or is that wrong.

I think Gen3 has the same memory layout as Gen2, but the radio layer is incompatible. So Gen2 ROMs will boot on Gen3 and vice-versa, but the radio won't work. They both accept image.bin TPTs

Guest swukjay
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wow lol after seeing all that it seems extremely complicated lol think i will give that a miss until someone who is really clever makes a one click way like that tpt thing lol , Doing all that is way over my head!

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