ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco

The Sparrow · 28-04-2011 02:52PM

Does anyone use 3G Watchdog succesfully with this phone? I have it installed and it is saying that I have used only 79MBs of data. But when I log into 3 it says I've used 478MB! :eek:

I'm on prepay with 3 so I bought an addon with 500MB of data so that has been pretty much used up. Is there a better app for monitoring data usage on the Blade?

Mimikyu · 28-04-2011 03:01PM

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The Sparrow · 28-04-2011 05:16PM

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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Actually I might be looking at it wrong

The total that it says on 3 may be the amount I have left to use which is broadly in line with what 3G Watchdog says. I thought it was what I had used

heathersonline · 29-04-2011 07:04AM

Anyone using a decent divx/avi player? I'm heading away today and would like to watch a movie on the flight

Mimikyu · 29-04-2011 08:32AM

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LowOdour · 29-04-2011 08:47AM

havent received my blade yet....but there is a built in FM radio, correct?
The plan is to install froyo, will this cause any issues with the radio?

The Sparrow · 29-04-2011 10:10AM

LowOdour wrote: »

havent received my blade yet....but there is a built in FM radio, correct?
The plan is to install froyo, will this cause any issues with the radio?

That is correct. Radio works on Froyo. Install the Swedish Spring version of Froyo, seems to be the best.

shadowninty · 29-04-2011 10:49AM

heathersonline wrote: »

Anyone using a decent divx/avi player? I'm heading away today and would like to watch a movie on the flight

mobovideo or some name like that

irishpancake · 02-05-2011 01:54PM

The Sparrow wrote: »

I switched to Swedish Spring from Japanese Jellyfish a couple of days ago and the battery seems a bit better.

People should also try this app,

http://www.appbrain.com/app/battery-calibration/com.nema.batterycalibration

Need to be 100% charged.....it does appear to give more battery, although it is really just erasing the batterystats file, which will be re-generated by the OS.

There is a manual procedure, but the App above does it all.

irishpancake · 02-05-2011 02:00PM

heathersonline wrote: »

Anyone using a decent divx/avi player? I'm heading away today and would like to watch a movie on the flight

Yeah, MoboPlayer, free from Market, is very good.....

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.clov4r.android.nil&feature=search_result

Also, you could try Rock Player Lite, but Mobo is better, IMHO.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.redirectin.rockplayer.android.unified.lite&feature=search_result

Both play AVI with Divx/Xvid

shadowninty · 02-05-2011 02:12PM

irishpancake wrote: »

Yeah, MoboPlayer, free from Market, is very good.....

that's the one! its great..finally a decent .flv player

tman · 02-05-2011 02:14PM

irishpancake wrote: »

Yeah, MoboPlayer, free from Market, is very good.....

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.clov4r.android.nil&feature=search_result

Also, you could try Rock Player Lite, but Mobo is better, IMHO.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.redirectin.rockplayer.android.unified.lite&feature=search_result

Both play AVI with Divx/Xvid

Tried both of those with a 720p h264 and it was pretty much unwatchable both times... Guess they might be OK for a sub-standard def divx/xvid, but pretty useless for HD content on this phone

irishpancake · 02-05-2011 05:40PM

tman wrote: »

Tried both of those with a 720p h264 and it was pretty much unwatchable both times... Guess they might be OK for a sub-standard def divx/xvid, but pretty useless for HD content on this phone

With all due respect, I think you are looking for too much from a phone 480 x 800 device......

However, I am in no way expert in this field, but I do think expecting 720p (1280×720 non-interlaced) is a big ask for any device at this price point.

Blade has a 200 Adreno GPU.........600MHz ARMv6 Processor and 512 RAM....which is good spec for a device at this price.

There are lots of things it can't handle, to be expected, like Flash, due to Adode's lack of support, etc.

However, if there is another Player which can handle 720p on this device I would love to know it.

tman · 02-05-2011 06:25PM

All those apps seem to do is transcode on the fly, so it isn't totally unreasonable to expect this phone to be able to cope (I wasn't expecting full 720p playback!)
One of the big selling points of Android phones was not having to convert my flac/wma/ogg music files beforehand, so I guess I'm just feeling a little bitter that the same isn't true for video files

This is one of the reasons that I caved in and ended up putting in an order for a higher end phone... This is a damn fine phone to test the Android waters with, but the speed of the thing can really start to grate after a bit of use...

irishpancake · 02-05-2011 06:59PM

tman wrote: »

All those apps seem to do is transcode on the fly, so it isn't totally unreasonable to expect this phone to be able to cope (I wasn't expecting full 720p playback!)
One of the big selling points of Android phones was not having to convert my flac/wma/ogg music files beforehand, so I guess I'm just feeling a little bitter that the same isn't true for video files

This is one of the reasons that I caved in and ended up putting in an order for a higher end phone... This is a damn fine phone to test the Android waters with, but the speed of the thing can really start to grate after a bit of use...

I absolutely take your points on board, particularly the on-the-fly one re the Players.

This is my first Android, or even Smart phone, and I am simply amazed by the versatility and possibilities available, at 57 years old, it takes a lot to amaze me.

Just one point, I have enabled Hardware Acceleration, via Blade Buddy, free from Market.

And another, MoboPlayer now has specific codec for ARM V6 processors.

Hope these help.....cheers

Justin10 · 03-05-2011 07:33PM

I got this phone today, Im following the list things do later.
How do I put fastboot and recovery clockwork on to the phone??

Do I just place the downloaded folder on to the card??

shadowninty · 03-05-2011 07:37PM

Rochey18 wrote: »

I got this phone today, Im following the list things do later.
How do I put fastboot and recovery clockwork on to the phone??

Do I just place the downloaded folder on to the card??

I'd really recommended you just GEN2 TPT it and flash Swedish Spring, way simpler
You can check MD5 with Astro file manager

Never used fastboot myself, when I got the phone I put the TPT on the memory card, rebooted and TPT'd

Justin10 · 03-05-2011 07:46PM

Sorry that means nothing to me hahaha
New to all this. So i did the 1st part with the drivers?
So how do i go about doing what you suggested?

shadowninty · 03-05-2011 08:10PM

Rochey18 wrote: »

Sorry that means nothing to me hahaha
New to all this. So i did the 1st part with the drivers?
So how do i go about doing what you suggested?

basically you download the GEN2 TPT (thread is stickied in Modaco), unzip it to SD Card/Image/
Put the GEN2 Swedish Spring zip on SD Card wherever

Use Astro file manager on the phone or another checker from the PC to ensure the MD5 matches (to check file is not corrupted)

The boot holding Volume Up and Menu

no need for PC

strandroad · 03-05-2011 08:11PM

If you have SIM with data plan just follow this guide:
http://orangesanfrancisco.co.uk/
It takes 20 minutes to bring the phone back from the dark side

Justin10 · 03-05-2011 10:16PM

Thanks lads that worked great.

Im with meteor, if I change to their pay as you go plan of free texts & free internet the phones apps and stuff work grand?

shadowninty · 03-05-2011 10:24PM

Rochey18 wrote: »

Thanks lads that worked great.

Im with meteor, if I change to their pay as you go plan of free texts & free internet the phones apps and stuff work grand?

yup €20 a month get 250MB month and free meteor texts

I use Cabbage to webtext to non meteor peeps (app is much better on Android) and Traffic Monitor to watch data
Meteor have an app too

All 3 on Market, free

BTW worth the GEN2 upgrade for HSDPA

PogMoThoin · 04-05-2011 01:40PM

My brothers picking one of these up north today, whats the better rom to flash, Swedish or Cyanogen? What issues with either? Any other candidates?

ongarite · 04-05-2011 01:42PM

Swedish Spring RSL5. It just works..
Cyanogenmod for Blade is a work in progress.

shadowninty · 04-05-2011 02:48PM

CM has way cooler stuff... but yeah still few bugs left to iron out

Charlie Haughy · 04-05-2011 03:33PM

Hey where is the cheapest place or website to buy one of these new? Missed out on the amazon deal

shadowninty · 04-05-2011 04:21PM

Charlie Haughy wrote: »

Hey where is the cheapest place or website to buy one of these new? Missed out on the amazon deal

I got mine for £120 on eBay and that was second hand (but was perfect).. no regrets, so Amazon deal still is good

04-05-2011 04:24PM

Anyone have sound quality issues, when making calls with their OSF?

shadowninty · 04-05-2011 04:44PM

Moonbaby wrote: »

Anyone have sound quality issues, when making calls with their OSF?

mines grand (acceptable).. bad signal?

Ebbs · 04-05-2011 04:53PM

Any one have their OSF on Three?

No option to pick it from the menu when selecting which phone you have... I assume it'll still work fine?

ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco

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