does a Free Clockwork Recovery exist anymore?

[Guest Nathair Glas]

I am trying to revert to stock orange because the battery cannot hold a charge, even when I bought 2 genuine ZTE batteries. So it has to go back to the shop under the warranty.

I looked on the market and appbrain's market for a free version then browsed to the official site using Opera Mini http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager

Downloaded ROM Manager and when I when open it using Opera Mini and ES File Explorer. Both times an error shows saying "Parse Error - There is a problem parsing the package"

I have used Clockmod Rom Manager before but I was rushing one day and accidentally uninstalled it.

Any help?

To revert to orange I am following this thread, hoping this works, and that I rooted the phone wont be detected (unless I can unroot it, which I doubt)

http://android.modac..._1#entry1651134

Edited February 1, 2012 by Nathair Glas

[Guest Davidoff59]

There is a free version. and a paid version, both are on android market and I just verified that both are still there.

Its possible that it was a bad download. Its also possible that some bits are left over from the old install that may be causing issues, as I have noticed recently that uninstalling an apk still leaves files on the SD card.

[Guest Nathair Glas]

There is a free version. and a paid version, both are on android market and I just verified that both are still there.

Its possible that it was a bad download. Its also possible that some bits are left over from the old install that may be causing issues, as I have noticed recently that uninstalling an apk still leaves files on the SD card.

i see, any tips on what to look for on my SD card? or is there an app cleaner about?

update:

also I just found a clockworkmod folder on my sd card, i deleted it then I tried to install ROM manager then I re-downloaded the apk again and still the same error

Edited February 1, 2012 by Nathair Glas

[Guest Davidoff59]

did you try the download from market?

have you ticked the option to allow non market installs? That could be the issue if you didn't download from market

[Guest Mesaj]

I dont know you mean that but you can install cwm just by googling .img file for blade, placing it on sdcard then flash with terminal emulator with rooted device via

$ su

# flash_image recovery /path/to/recovery.img

I've never used rommanager to do so I don't know how to resolve your problem. Maybe its just build.prop error, like Cheatmodel manufacturer changed ZTE to HTC to make some games working

[Guest Nathair Glas]

I have used rom manager to install 'de-oranged r8' from http://android.podtwo.com/roms/

so I have ticked "Unknown Sources", this time I have tried to download from the free one from market but I cannot find it, i tried going via Opera Mini to download it but that doesn't even download. With the £3.99 one I wouldn't want to waste money buying an app that doesn't work.

Are there any other free alternative apps for installing the B20 orange stock ROM on a blade? unless Mesaj's method has a backup in case the ROM makes the blade just show the android logo and then i can't do anything.