ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco

MC_G · 16-01-2011 01:56AM

seanin4711 wrote: »

got a number but doesnt match what is in the tutorial

I edited the last post I did, you need to check it from where you dl'd clockwork from. if it's the link I posted the number is

cae9935b88359dc96859d39f20d8a821

seanin4711 · 16-01-2011 01:58AM

thanks for the help
c u tomorrow

Ardennes1944 · 16-01-2011 04:40AM

got my sf today! well my bro did in london. 120 quid though so bout 140 yoyos:( better be worth it as its an impulse buy!

zing · 16-01-2011 12:17PM

JJ RLS 7.5 out now - seems to fix a few things. Trying it out atm. Has reverted to the stock dialer which I prefer (or what I presume is the stock dialer as it's what on my N1). This is a testing version before RLS 8 so may not be for everyone.

Ardennes1944 · 16-01-2011 07:29PM

can i update to the latest firmware or do i have to do it step by step?

harpstilidie · 16-01-2011 08:52PM

Really really liking this phone. Only for you guys I would never have noticed it. Only problem is the battery, goes down so fast.

Somehow managed to de-brand it, don't know how but I did it. Phone runs much much better. Think I'm just going to leave the 2.1 version on it for a while and see how it goes.

Is flash player only available to download on 2.2?

zing · 16-01-2011 09:27PM

harpstilidie wrote: »

Really really liking this phone. Only for you guys I would never have noticed it. Only problem is the battery, goes down so fast.

Diff firmwares seem to have some battery issues i.e. people reporting battery lasting a lot longer on some that others. Also it's a smartphone so odds are you're going to be charging it daily anyway.

Is flash player only available to download on 2.2?

IIRC - Yes

The Sparrow · 16-01-2011 09:31PM

zing wrote: »

Diff firmwares seem to have some battery issues i.e. people reporting battery lasting a lot longer on some that others. Also it's a smartphone so odds are you're going to be charging it daily anyway.

Interesting. Which firmwares seem to be best/ worst for conserving the battey?

zing · 16-01-2011 09:43PM

Couple of people over @ modaco suggesting flb pretty decent battery wise. I've not had any given rom on the phone for long enough though to be able to confirm

bogman · 16-01-2011 09:59PM

Running flb-froyo-blade-r5, battery is at 93% after 10 hrs, didnt use phone much today

Chet T16 · 16-01-2011 10:15PM

I switched the wife to FLB r6 a while ago from JJ and it seems more stable and batterylife is improved (maybe, hard to tell)

Khannie · 16-01-2011 10:22PM

Deutschlandfürimmer7 wrote: »

got my sf today! well my bro did in london. 120 quid though so bout 140 yoyos:( better be worth it as its an impulse buy!

Honestly, I think it's a steal at that price. So happy with my SF.

charlesh · 16-01-2011 11:46PM

wrong forum

MC_G · 17-01-2011 02:29AM

Khannie wrote: »

Honestly, I think it's a steal at that price. So happy with my SF.

An absolute steal imho!

And here's something that may make it a little better for those just getting on the bandwagon:

Blade Recovery Manager Beta by Seb404

Install this app and two apps from the market, and it should really help anyone who's command line/flash/clockwork phobic get off of the crappy stock rom without any trouble. Still in Beta, but worth a shot for anyone having difficulties

charlesh · 17-01-2011 03:42AM

MC_G wrote: »

An absolute steal imho!

For what you get it IS a steal.
My brother and his wife got one each.
They ave them to me - since i "know computers" - and they are ready to run now.
Debranded and unlocked.
2.2 FTW

amazing piece of kit for the price.
highly recommend them.

anyone looking to get an iphone and hestitant about the price of iphones - get one of these you wont regret it.

Vego · 17-01-2011 03:32PM

huzzzaaarrrrr !!!!!! im now on jellyfish

seanin4711 · 17-01-2011 03:37PM

Got san fran unlocked,debranded and running froyo all thanks to help from this forum!
Special thanks to Paul at modaco also.
Best performing froyo Rom atm???

gnolan · 17-01-2011 03:55PM

If people here had to choose between the Galaxy S and the San Francisco which would you go for assuming they were the same price?

looder · 17-01-2011 09:31PM

seanin4711 wrote: »

Best performing froyo Rom atm???

I'm also wondering this too. I want something stable, that will last. I don't think I fancy changing the Rom every few weeks (I may be picky but I want 2.2, and not 2.1)

I bought my San Fran on Ebay with Froyo 2.2 installed. I'm not 100% of which version is installed though. Anyone know how I'd find out what version I'm running?

System details is telling me the Kernel version is 2.6.32.9-perfluwenjun@localhost #2 and the Build number is FRF91. I've looked on the memory card but don't really know what I'm looking for to be honest.

t0mm13b · 17-01-2011 10:06PM

Am on Modaco ROM 10 (baked from kitchen!) :P

Best rom have seen in a while....

Khannie · 17-01-2011 10:30PM

gnolan wrote: »

If people here had to choose between the Galaxy S and the San Francisco which would you go for assuming they were the same price?

No brainer. Same price I'd go with the galaxy S.

MC_G · 17-01-2011 10:44PM

gnolan wrote: »

If people here had to choose between the Galaxy S and the San Francisco which would you go for assuming they were the same price?

On specs alone, I'd have to say the sgs with the hummingbird, min 8GB internal storage, etc etc.

However, nearly every app I see in the market has people complaining that it doesn't work on the sgs (NFS Shift for example among a lot of others)

I suppose a lot depends on the custom firmware scene for the sgs and how much of Samsung's crap customizations can be fixed of which I honestly have no idea.

I can honestly say that if someone wanted to do an even swap for my san fran I'd seriously consider turning them down until I was sure that I could find and install firmware equal to what I have now. (or swap immediately and put the sgs on adverts to buy a new sf and pocket 200 quid!)

Didn't bother wasting my time searching because I couldn't get them for the same price!

Also everyone asking about 2.2 ROMs, I've been on seb404's de-softened r0.3 and have absolutely no complaints or issues. There are some small bugfixes in the thread, but I haven't had any of the problems they're supposed to fix so I'm either lucky or they've done something wrong!!

It doesn't offer the facebook sync thing that a lot of roms are trying (poorly it seems) to implement but I couldn't give a ****!

I think I'll probably flash Paul's tomorrow to see if there's any reason to be on that ship, but am pretty certain I'll reflash my backup and be using de-softened before dinner!

MC_G · 17-01-2011 10:54PM

looder wrote: »

System details is telling me the Kernel version is 2.6.32.9-perfluwenjun@localhost #2 and the Build number is FRF91.

How long ago did you get it?

It's not Seb's or FLB, when the gf get's home I'll check her MCR Froyo. Not that either

If it was shipped to you longer than a week ago I'd have to assume it's the Jellyfish though because Paul has only had ROMs on the 2.6.32.9 kernel for less than a week.

edit: I think it's safe to say it's JJ but which version?? Look for posts in the JJ thread around the day it was shipped and you may get an idea of how old it is.

t0mm13b · 17-01-2011 11:20PM

t0mm13b wrote: »

Am on Modaco ROM 10 (baked from kitchen!) :P

Best rom have seen in a while....

Right.... have discovered a major show stopper

This happens in MCR ROM 10, USB tethering, checking and unchecking this in Settings > Wireless & Networks, freezes the handset and reboots....

Have posted on Modaco forum about this.

t0mm13b · 18-01-2011 01:51PM

Still no help or suggestions on getting this to work under XP... either the kernel is panic'ing as it attempts to iterate through the list of network devices and fail...

Anyone here know of a solution to USB Tethering under XP.... (not Win7 please :P)

Mark Hamill · 18-01-2011 04:12PM

MC_G wrote: »

How long ago did you get it?

It's not Seb's or FLB, when the gf get's home I'll check her MCR Froyo. Not that either

If it was shipped to you longer than a week ago I'd have to assume it's the Jellyfish though because Paul has only had ROMs on the 2.6.32.9 kernel for less than a week.

edit: I think it's safe to say it's JJ but which version?? Look for posts in the JJ thread around the day it was shipped and you may get an idea of how old it is.

Googling FRF91 and it says that its a Nexus 1 rom....

MC_G · 18-01-2011 05:12PM

Mark Hamill wrote: »

Googling FRF91 and it says that its a Nexus 1 rom....

That's obviously a changed fingerprint used by some of the devs to get access to other goodies in the market.

Maybe even the ebay seller changed build.prop themselves to get that.

Anyway, before getting to into installing apps etc on a build that isn't easily identifiable, it may be a good time to upgrade with a full wipe to a more recent firmware. It seems the most recent releases by Paul and Kallt_Kaffe require a wipe to gain the new functionality and avoid fc's anyway.

Vego · 19-01-2011 01:45AM

using jellyfish and my batt is lasting longer than the stock

The Freeman · 19-01-2011 12:44PM

hey guys,

just unlocked it/rooted it and put a new rom on it, its this jellyfish one here, it is unstable.
could you guys tell me what rom you are using please?

http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blade-roms-rom-customisation/327579/rom-froyo-japanese-jellyfish-rls8-2011-01-18-oled-tft/

i installed it using this, more recent method also...

http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blade-blade-modaco-com/329073/18-jan-guide-how-to-install-a-custom-rom-on-the-zte-blade/

The Sparrow · 19-01-2011 12:52PM

The Freeman wrote: »

hey guys,

just unlocked it/rooted it and put a new rom on it, its this jellyfish one here, it is unstable.
could you guys tell me what rom you are using please?

http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blade-roms-rom-customisation/327579/rom-froyo-japanese-jellyfish-rls8-2011-01-18-oled-tft/

i installed it using this, more recent method also...

http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blade-blade-modaco-com/329073/18-jan-guide-how-to-install-a-custom-rom-on-the-zte-blade/

I'm using Japanese Jellyfish and it seems fine. No problems since I installed it on Friday and as the phone is new, I've been using it quite a lot.

What problems are you having?

ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco

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