Guest Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 (edited) http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/zte-blade-q-mini-4-1gb-ram-dual-core-1-3ghz-cortex-a7-59-99-10-topup-argos-sainsbury-1797580 This is very similar to the zte blade v except it is £30 cheaper and is dual core 1.3ghz instead of quad core 1.2ghz. It also comes with android 4.2 instead of 4.1.2. 4" 480x854 Mediatek MT6572 dual core 1.3ghz cortex a7 mali 400 gpu 1gb ram 4gb rom 5mp rear camera with LED flash vga front camera micro sd slot Specs: http://www.gsmarena.com/zte_blade_q-5825.php Amazing value 1gb ram phone considering it can be bought in the uk at this price with a uk warranty. Edited February 2, 2014 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest djfnz Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Not bad! :) But i think when the Desire 500 given 4.3 the Blade V coming to. ZTE Blade V have better performance! :) Buuutttt best buy in his class! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest targetbsp Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 (edited) That's a stunning buy! I don't think quad core is massively more beneficial that dual so I'd rather have the £30. Also, I think the Mali 400 is a better GPU than the Adreno 203. There's bugger all difference between the Android versions so that won't be a deciding factor. Edited February 3, 2014 by targetbsp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest targetbsp Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Better battery and a front cam on the Blade V though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Better battery and a front cam on the Blade V though. 2 cpu cores requires less power than 4 cores so the battery life should be similar. Android isn't well multithreaded at the moment so quad cores isn't going to be that helpful except for specific apps and games. It is an amazing 1GB phone for £60, hoping that a CWM and cyanogenmod rom will be made for this phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest djfnz Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 (edited) GFLOPS Mali 400 MP= 5 @ 500 MHz / Core Aderno 203= 8.8 @ 245 MHz / Core What is the better???? :D Aderno its a better!! Edited February 4, 2014 by djfnz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest djfnz Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 Here in Hungary the Blade Q Mini (unlocked) and Blade V (unlocked) has same price! (39 990 Ft = 104 £) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KonstaT Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 Not bad! :) But i think when the Desire 500 given 4.3 the Blade V coming to. ZTE Blade V have better performance! :) Buuutttt best buy in his class! There will never be Android 4.3 for Desire 500. There will never be any Android 4.1+ release for any of the Qualcomm Cortex-A5 devices (msm7x27a, msm8x25, msm8x25q). Latest release from Qualcomm is 4.1.2 from last june and these are what OEM updates are built up on. These platforms are EOL'ed and completely dead. It is an amazing 1GB phone for £60, hoping that a CWM and cyanogenmod rom will be made for this phone. Lol, not a chance. Blade Q has a MediaTek chipset which is a definite no for any AOSP based ROMs. With Blade V you'd at least have the possibility... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest targetbsp Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 Here in Hungary the Blade Q Mini (unlocked) and Blade V (unlocked) has same price! (39 990 Ft = 104 £) It has more or less the same RRP here too. It's just on a curiously insane sale. At RRP I'd have the Blade V. But at this sale price I'd have this if I were buying now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kashoggi Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 My next phone is gonna be a Nexus 5, i think. There are too many of these devices now for the devs to work on all of them with a custom rom, so the net best thing is to cough up and buy a Google supported one. Really like my Blade V, but really miss the days of the original Blade when there were new roms all over the place and it was as much fun installing them and seeing how much more the devs had squeezed out of them as it was actually phoning people on them. I had hoped that the Blade V scene would be like that, but there are just too many other options for developers now, and who could blame them! Still visit here 'JUST IN CASE' KonstaT or someone takes a fancy to throwing something out :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 (edited) My next phone is gonna be a Nexus 5, i think. There are too many of these devices now for the devs to work on all of them with a custom rom, so the net best thing is to cough up and buy a Google supported one. Really like my Blade V, but really miss the days of the original Blade when there were new roms all over the place and it was as much fun installing them and seeing how much more the devs had squeezed out of them as it was actually phoning people on them. I had hoped that the Blade V scene would be like that, but there are just too many other options for developers now, and who could blame them! Still visit here 'JUST IN CASE' KonstaT or someone takes a fancy to throwing something out :) The Faea F2S has an official cyanogenmod rom coming out from the manufacturer, the first ever phone to ship with cyanogenmod, it uses a mediatek mtk6589T 1.5ghz quad core cortex a7 processor, faea worked with cyanogenmod team to create an optimised kernel for it. You don't need a nexus 5 if you want a decent phone with cyanogenmod. Edited February 4, 2014 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KonstaT Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 The Faea F2S has an official cyanogenmod rom coming out from the manufacturer, the first ever phone to ship with cyanogenmod, it uses a mediatek mtk6589T 1.5ghz quad core cortex a7 processor, faea worked with cyanogenmod team to create an optimised kernel for it. You don't need a nexus 5 if you want a decent phone with cyanogenmod. Lol, you clearly don't have a slightest clue what you're talking about. There already is a phone that ships with CyanogenMod installed - Oppo N1, the first official CM phone. There's is not manufacturer in the world that can make an official CyanogenMod - only CyanogenMod themselves can. Custom firmwares are a big thing China (MIUI, LeWa, etc) and suddenly ability to have AOSP based firmware (CM, AOKP, AOSPA, Omni, etc) has become a competing factor for some Chinese manufacturers. Just because there's been some (pathetic) attempts from FAEA or Oppo (R819 - Omni) doesn't mean that anyone was even close to succeeding. Sharing sources only to select partners under NDA is just grotesque and goes against everything what open source is all about. One thing I can guarantee is that there will never be official CyanogenMod for MediaTek devices! CM is moving towards Nexus + recent Qualcomm hardware direction what comes to officially supported platforms. Even once so great OMAP's are becoming a pain to maintain and there's 'major' platforms like the recent octa-Exynos yet to gain support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest demario Posted February 14, 2014 Report Share Posted February 14, 2014 is there any way of rooting this phone ? looked all over the internet no hope (as the phone is still new) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest targetbsp Posted February 14, 2014 Report Share Posted February 14, 2014 There's a generic Android rooting tool in this thread that might be worth a shot? http://www.modaco.com/topic/365475-easy-root-tool-may-or-may-not-work/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest geefunk Posted February 14, 2014 Report Share Posted February 14, 2014 There's a generic Android rooting tool in this thread that might be worth a shot?http://www.modaco.com/topic/365475-easy-root-tool-may-or-may-not-work/ This worked fine for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest demario Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 Before i go to root my zte blade q mini i wanted to know how to get clockworkmod recovery (to backup up my rom) i tried the play store (ROM Manager) but it says there is no clockwork recovery made for my zte blade q mini is that true. If not plz can you share. thnx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest targetbsp Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 There hasn't been one posted on this forum. You might have more look on a Blade Q Mini forum if there is one out there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ryan06 Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 is there any way of rooting this phone ? looked all over the internet no hope (as the phone is still new) Kingo will root the phone. I bough one from Argos when it first hit the shops and was a nice looking/performing phone especially for the ££. I only took it back because at the time there was no unlock for it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest targetbsp Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 Kingo will root the phone. I bough one from Argos when it first hit the shops and was a nice looking/performing phone especially for the ££. I only took it back because at the time there was no unlock for it.. Virgin should unlock them for you over the phone - same as the Blade V. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ryan06 Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 Virgin should unlock them for you over the phone - same as the Blade V. Yeah, that's right. For £15 think there's a weeks wait while they send it out. A guy popped up on gsmforum and said his server could do the unlock for £8.30 but by that time I'd already taken the phone back.. http://www.tech-unlockserver.com/index.php Looks like he's well respected and no newbie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest demario Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 when do you think kitkat is going to come for the blade q mini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 when do you think kitkat is going to come for the blade q mini Why would you think it is coming out for this phone? I don't think zte have given out updates for previous blade phones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest demario Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 using the zte blade q mini i decided to root it using kingo root (suggested by another member on this forum) (enabled usb debugging) it said the warning that it will remove warranty etc it said it will download all the files and did for bout 15 mins its stuck on waiting for device but at the bottom is says "connected" help what should i do????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest demario Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 kingo root didnt work so pulled out the usb cable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest djfnz Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 Try this method -> http://www.modaco.com/topic/365228-recovery-clockworkmod-6036-for-zte-blade-v/ Not flash!! Use CWM via ADB (I do not know if this will work) !! Or try the Unlock Root software! ->http://www.unlockroot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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