Why my blade system only has 167.45M RAM ?

[Guest alaxiantao]

Dear Tom G,

I have a blade system which is called v880 in China. After checking the system info, I found my system only has 167.45M RAM and 166M ROM? I remembered someone in the forum mentioned, users can unlock the ram to 256M or 512M, Could you provide the instructios about howto ? I also read the thread http://android.modaco.com/topic/327684-28mar-guide-update-to-unlock-256mb-devices-to-512mb-gen1/ ,but seems it only works for Gen1 device, unlucky me has a Gen2. Thanks!

Xiantao

[Guest doogsville]

Unfortunately the Blades we have here in China do only have 256 MB of memory, so there's no extra memory to unlock. Trying to use TPT to do that is likely to brick your phone. Personaly I've not had any issues with the smaller amount of memory, but then I've never used a phone with the full 512 to compare it with.

[Guest iKrautDroid]

Really, thats a shame...

[Guest Chabal]

mine is one of those too, any gen2 rom it works? and what method should I use, clockwork? I made a romdump, someone could create recovery.zip stock? Very Very Thanks.

http://hotfile.com/dl/138109306/d3d1447/romdump1.zip.html

Brazilian version without carrier, unlocked, here is the summary of androidsysteminfo:

OS

Browser UserAgent : Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2.2; pt-br; ZTE V880 Build/FRF91) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1

Android ID :

Uptime : 0 days, 5 hours, 13 minutes, 5 seconds

Uptime (without sleeps) : 0 days, 1 hours, 7 minutes, 38 seconds

BuildInfos

Android version : 2.2.2

Release Codename : REL

API LEVEL : 8

CPU ABI : armeabi

Manufacturer : ZTE

Bootloader : unknown

CPU ABI2 : unknown

Hardware : blade

Radio : unknown

Board : blade

Brand : ZTE

Device : blade

Display : P729_OIV1.0.0B01

Fingerprint : ZTE/P729V/blade/blade:2.2.2/FRF91/20110816.014559:user/release-keys

Host : zhangchun-desktop

ID : FRF91

Model : ZTE V880

Product : P729V

Tags : release-keys

Type : user

User : unknown

Battery

Discharging...

Level : 23 %

Technology : Li-ion

Temperature : 35.0 °C (95.0°F)

Voltage : 3736 mV

Memory

Download Cache Max: 37,48MB/ Free: 36,36MB

data Max: 162MB/ Free: 24,89MB

External storage Max: 1,86GB/ Free: 1,43GB

Total RAM: 166MB

Free RAM: 74,68MB

Threshold RAM: 16,00MB

Low Memory Killer Levels

FOREGROUND_APP:__ 6,00MB

VISIBLE_APP:_________ 8,00MB

SECONDARY_SERVER: 16,00MB

HIDDEN_APP:________ 20,00MB

CONTENT_PROVIDER: 22,00MB

EMPTY_APP:__________ 24,00MB

...

CPU

Processor ARMv6-compatible processor rev 5 (v6l)

BogoMIPS 599.65

Features swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp java

CPU implementer 0x41

CPU architecture 6TEJ

CPU variant 0x1

CPU part 0xb36

CPU revision 5

Hardware blade ZTE handset

Revision 0000

Serial 0000000000000000

Freqency range: 122.88 -> 600.0MHz

Current Frequency: 600.0MHz

Frequency Stats (time):

- 122.88 MHz 0.0% (0)

- 245.76 MHz 21.57% (87504)

- 320.0 MHz 1.35% (5486)

- 480.0 MHz 2.41% (9777)

- 600.0 MHz 74.66% (302818)

...

Screen

Resolution: 480 x 800

Refresh Rate: 0.102

X factor for DIP: 1.5

Density: 240 dpi

Pixel per inch X: 160.42105 dpi Y: 160.0 dpi

OpenGL

OpenGL Version supported : 2.0

OpenGL Version supported : OpenGL ES-CM 1.1

Vendor : Qualcomm

Renderer : Adreno 200

Extensions :

GL_AMD_compressed_3DC_texture GL_AMD_compressed_ATC_texture GL_ARB_texture_env_combine GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object GL_ATI_compressed_texture_atitc GL_ATI_texture_compression_atitc GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate GL_EXT_blend_func_separate GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_blend_subtract GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_OES_EGL_image GL_OES_blend_equation_separate GL_OES_blend_func_separate GL_OES_blend_subtract GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture GL_OES_compressed_paletted_texture GL_OES_draw_texture GL_OES_extended_matrix_palette GL_OES_framebuffer_object GL_OES_matrix_palette GL_OES_point_size_array GL_OES_point_sprite GL_OES_read_format GL_OES_stencil_wrap GL_OES_texture_cube_map GL_OES_texture_env_crossbar GL_OES_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_OES_texture_npot

Sensors

AKM Compass: 20.0 mA by Asahi Kasei Corp.

AKM Compass Raw: 20.0 mA by Asahi Kasei Corp.

Accelermeter Sensor: 20.0 mA by Intersil Corp.

AKM Magnetic Field: 20.0 mA by Asahi Kasei Corp.

Ambient Light: 20.0 mA by Taos Corp.

proximity: 20.0 mA by Taos Corp.

Environment

Root Directory: /system

Data Directory: /data

Download Cache Directory: /cache

External Storage State: mounted

External Storage Directory: /mnt/sdcard

Medias Directories

Alarms: /mnt/sdcard/Alarms

DCIM: /mnt/sdcard/DCIM

Downloads: /mnt/sdcard/Download

Movies: /mnt/sdcard/Movies

Music: /mnt/sdcard/Music

Notifications: /mnt/sdcard/Notifications

Pictures: /mnt/sdcard/Pictures

Podcasts: /mnt/sdcard/Podcasts

Ringtones: /mnt/sdcard/Ringtones

Features

android.hardware.wifi

android.hardware.location.network

android.hardware.telephony

android.hardware.location

android.hardware.touchscreen.multitouch

android.hardware.sensor.compass

android.hardware.camera

android.hardware.bluetooth

android.hardware.sensor.proximity

android.hardware.sensor.light

android.hardware.microphone

android.hardware.location.gps

android.hardware.camera.autofocus

android.hardware.telephony.gsm

android.software.live_wallpaper

android.hardware.touchscreen

android.hardware.sensor.accelerometer

glEsVers=2.0

JavaProperties

java.vendor.url: http://www.android.com/

java.class.path: .

java.class.version: 46.0

os.version: 2.6.32.9-perf

java.vendor: The Android Project

user.dir: /

user.timezone: null

path.separator: :

os.name: Linux

os.arch: armv6l

line.separator:

file.separator: /

user.name:

java.version: 0

java.home: /system

[Guest hedgepigdaniel]

Dear Tom G,

I have a blade system which is called v880 in China. After checking the system info, I found my system only has 167.45M RAM and 166M ROM? I remembered someone in the forum mentioned, users can unlock the ram to 256M or 512M, Could you provide the instructios about howto ? I also read the thread http://android.modac...-to-512mb-gen1/ ,but seems it only works for Gen1 device, unlucky me has a Gen2. Thanks!

Xiantao

It is normal for the system to report less RAM than the actual amount (some is reserved for low level software before it is measured). If it sais 166MB, then you have 256MB. Unfortunately the Chinese v880 and Russian RTK v8 only have 256MB and there is no spare RAM to unlock. Trying to do so is likely to brick your phone.

The Brazilian model I am not sure about, but take extreme care or you will have a brick. For those with compatible phones, these are the best instructions to unlock RAM: http://android.modaco.com/topic/339048-guide-flashing-firmware-to-bladelibra-via-windows/.

[Guest Piscium]

come on guy, our V880 is physical 256RAM, what your've seen 167.45M is because the phone took a part for basic system working.

Nevery try to unlock RAM to 512M, as hedgepigdaniel said, here we have a Russian friend brick his blade with same attempt like you.

However, we can adjust the free rom space, enlarge "data" space to 260M or bigger.

Go http://bbs.hiapk.com and found the V880 BBS, read more and learn more before starting a new tip.

[Guest unrandomsam]

It won't brick you can still TPT again as it is before appsboot.

You can if you want use european cefs.mbn and amss.mbn but you need chinese appsboot.mbn

(Only way to brick is really bad combinations (i.e mixture of gen1/gen2 maybe chinese and european) of the bootloader stuff oemsbl / partition.mbn)

[Guest hedgepigdaniel]

It won't brick you can still TPT again as it is before appsboot.

You can if you want use european cefs.mbn and amss.mbn but you need chinese appsboot.mbn

(Only way to brick is really bad combinations (i.e mixture of gen1/gen2 maybe chinese and european) of the bootloader stuff oemsbl / partition.mbn)

You can't TPT it back if you don't have a copy of the original firmware. Sure its likely that it will work using some combination of the firmware we have on this forum, but there is a chance that it won't.