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[Q] Cannot root my ZTE Blade

I'm following the guide on the wiki using ADB (I can't post links yet, so here it is, wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/ZTE_Blade_(Gen2):_Root_and_Recovery), but when i come to the port where it should say '#' in ADB Shell, it doesn't! I am doing exactly like it says and it's finding my device.
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List of devices attached
P729_GENERIC device
Could someone tell me what i'm doing wrong? I have installed the ZTE drivers that pops up the first time i connected my blade, but i had to reinstall it some minutes ago to make it show up in ADB.
One thing i should mention is that when i'm at the step when i should do "chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin", it doesn't say anything. Now, i assumed this was supposed to have happened, but am i doing something wrong?
Edit: I have a Gen2 blade and it's running on Android 2.3.5

metamist said:
I'm following the guide on the wiki using ADB (I can't post links yet, so here it is, wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/ZTE_Blade_(Gen2):_Root_and_Recovery), but when i come to the port where it should say '#' in ADB Shell, it doesn't! I am doing exactly like it says and it's finding my device.
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List of devices attached
P729_GENERIC device
Could someone tell me what i'm doing wrong? I have installed the ZTE drivers that pops up the first time i connected my blade, but i had to reinstall it some minutes ago to make it show up in ADB.
One thing i should mention is that when i'm at the step when i should do "chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin", it doesn't say anything. Now, i assumed this was supposed to have happened, but am i doing something wrong?
Edit: I have a Gen2 blade and it's running on Android 2.3.5
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Umm, you'll need to have root access to get to # (which is the root delimiter)
Anyway, if you're running 2.3.5 stock you don't have a gen2 phone, you have a gen3 phone (none of the methods for rooting it that work for gen2 will work for gen3 except windows flasher). If it came with that ROM stock you have a stock gen3 phone and you can forget about using gen2 tpt's on that, all that remains is to use the windows flasher for gen3. If you upgraded your phone to gen3 by installing any rom newer than Froyo then you can use any gen2 tpt.
To make sure, get blade checker from market and run it, tell me what gen you have.

Jinxxed said:
Umm, you'll need to have root access to get to # (which is the root delimiter)
Anyway, if you're running 2.3.5 stock you don't have a gen2 phone, you have a gen3 phone (none of the methods for rooting it that work for gen2 will work for gen3 except windows flasher). If it came with that ROM stock you have a stock gen3 phone and you can forget about using gen2 tpt's on that, all that remains is to use the windows flasher for gen3. If you upgraded your phone to gen3 by installing any rom newer than Froyo then you can use any gen2 tpt.
To make sure, get blade checker from market and run it, tell me what gen you have.
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Actually, it's a gen2 phone as i got it with 2.1 (or 2.2, can't remember), which i later updated as the 2.3.5 version got released. Ask Mr Pigfish says i have a gen2 phone.
Also, i'm rooting my phone using another guide, which is working so far. I will report back after i've finished this.
I'm using this guide: forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1319257
Edit: I have successfully installed ClockworkMod

It appears Ask Mr Pigfish doesn't support gen3 phones, so i used Blade Checker, which does say my phone is gen3. Does that mean i can't root my phone?

metamist said:
It appears Ask Mr Pigfish doesn't support gen3 phones, so i used Blade Checker, which does say my phone is gen3. Does that mean i can't root my phone?
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Only by using the windows flasher, the exploit available in the earlier gens isn't available for gen3 and that is a GOOD THING.
So what you do is that you head over to this thread: http://www.modaco.com/topic/339048-guide-flashing-firmware-to-bladelibra-via-windows/
Download the gen3 version and follow the instructions.
Rather than to download and install that old version of CWM though i suggest that you download mine from the thread in the development forum for blade.
It'll work just fine and then you can install whatever ROM you want on it, if you still want the original ROM only there is a way to do that too, get back to me if you don't want a better ROM than stock.
My recommendation is Swedish Snow RLS7 you can find it on Modaco, install by CWM. It's the closest you'll ever get to perfect on GB.

Jinxxed said:
Only by using the windows flasher, the exploit available in the earlier gens isn't available for gen3 and that is a GOOD THING.
So what you do is that you head over to this thread: [LINK TO GUIDE]
Download the gen3 version and follow the instructions.
Rather than to download and install that old version of CWM though i suggest that you download mine from the thread in the development forum for blade.
It'll work just fine and then you can install whatever ROM you want on it, if you still want the original ROM only there is a way to do that too, get back to me if you don't want a better ROM than stock.
My recommendation is Swedish Snow RLS7 you can find it on Modaco, install by CWM. It's the closest you'll ever get to perfect on GB.
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I haven't tested the guide yet because the clockwork recovery file says it's for gen2, would it work anyway? Also, the restore stock recovery files contains a gen1 and gen2 recovery file, but no gen3. Will gen2 stuff work the same with gen3, cause I don't want to end up with a bricked phone!

Well? Does those gen2 things work for my gen3 phone?

metamist said:
I haven't tested the guide yet because the clockwork recovery file says it's for gen2, would it work anyway? Also, the restore stock recovery files contains a gen1 and gen2 recovery file, but no gen3. Will gen2 stuff work the same with gen3, cause I don't want to end up with a bricked phone!
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Use Stock Gen3 (md5:3f3cc4b6b45fac19bdcbe3bd8b380445) in that thread and the restore stock recovery works fine.
The problem isn't with gen2 recoveries or roms bein incompatible, it's with partition layout being incompatible. That's why you should only use this method of flashing and only the Stock Gen3 (md5:3f3cc4b6b45fac19bdcbe3bd8b380445) package.

Thanks dude, I have successfully rooted my phone now!
I only have one problem, i'm not getting any service :/
I have seen people having problems with this as well, I know that it's something about the IMEI number, which is empty / "unknown".
Do you know how to fix this? :S
Edit: I'm pretty sure this is because Swedish Snow RLS7 is for Gen2, but I might be wrong about that. Is there a Gen3 Swedish Snow?
I'm using this rom, www.modaco.com/topic/350875-romgen2-swedish-snow-rls7-android-235/

Yeah, you'll need the mmhp gen3 patch. You can find it over om modaco.
Sent from my Blade III via tapatalk.

[Q] ZTE blade C / V807 / V889s root.Help needed!

Hello!
I recently bought the budget smartphone ZTE blade C.It is a great device for its price.Now,I am trying to root it.I have read literally millions of pages like these goo.gl/e9gYz4 and goo.gl/DmK3Vi .I have installed the drivers,the phone was "patched' successfully but I cant boot the phone to the recovery menu(vol+ and power buttons) so as to install superuser.It just doesn't boot recovery.It can boot normally to android perfectly although.I have tried to "repatch" it millions of times.I dont know what to do...
Can you help me?
Thanks in advance!

apple32 said:
Hello!
I recently bought the budget smartphone ZTE blade C.It is a great device for its price.Now,I am trying to root it.I have read literally millions of pages like these goo.gl/e9gYz4 and goo.gl/DmK3Vi .I have installed the drivers,the phone was "patched' successfully but I cant boot the phone to the recovery menu(vol+ and power buttons) so as to install superuser.It just doesn't boot recovery.It can boot normally to android perfectly although.I have tried to "repatch" it millions of times.I dont know what to do...
Can you help me?
Thanks in advance!
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I'm with the same problem in Engage model. And I'm noob. Have you already tried this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1319257

Try this VRoot an apps which works well but you must get stock recovery back in your partition

Official ROOTED multi-lingual ROM
apple32 said:
Hello!
I recently bought the budget smartphone ZTE blade C.It is a great device for its price.Now,I am trying to root it.I have read literally millions of pages like these goo.gl/e9gYz4 and goo.gl/DmK3Vi .I have installed the drivers,the phone was "patched' successfully but I cant boot the phone to the recovery menu(vol+ and power buttons) so as to install superuser.It just doesn't boot recovery.It can boot normally to android perfectly although.I have tried to "repatch" it millions of times.I dont know what to do...
Can you help me?
Thanks in advance!
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Try official ROOTED ROM - needrom.com/mobile/zte-v889s-official-multi-langual/ :laugh:
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Shuttdown the phone
place update.zip to the SD card - insert card
Touch and press vol+ and Press the power button
select update from sd card, select update.zip ......

If u want to boot into stock recovery its vol- and power
trinidys_zte_Mt_n8000_rooted_stock mod stripped rom

trinlu27 said:
If u want to boot into stock recovery its vol- and power
trinidys_zte_Mt_n8000_rooted_stock mod stripped rom
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I just got one of these and it was already unlocked and rooted but when I use the vol - and power buttons the stock recovery comes up in freaking Chinese .... But when I use MtkDroidTools to reboot to recovery it comes up in English and shows version 3e
It doesn't have too much bloat (Looks like mostly stock AOSP stuff to me) that can't be removed but I'd still like a better recovery and then repartition the storage from 512MB to 2 GB and the FAT partition to 512MB
Does anyone know if there is an easy way to redirect the photos so they go to the external SD card instead of the (hopefully soon to be) 512MB FAT partition?

longjohn119 said:
I just got one of these and it was already unlocked and rooted but when I use the vol - and power buttons the stock recovery comes up in freaking Chinese .... But when I use MtkDroidTools to reboot to recovery it comes up in English and shows version 3e
It doesn't have too much bloat (Looks like mostly stock AOSP stuff to me) that can't be removed but I'd still like a better recovery and then repartition the storage from 512MB to 2 GB and the FAT partition to 512MB
Does anyone know if there is an easy way to redirect the photos so they go to the external SD card instead of the (hopefully soon to be) 512MB FAT partition?
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I just wanted to add I managed to make a custom CW recovery with MtkDroidTools and repartition the storage with Mt657xRepartition_EN.apk
Thing I was wondering is this ..... Since I repartitioned the storage shouldn't I create a new CW recovery with the new partition tables? It seems to me that current one would now be broken .... and would likely soft brick the phone if I tried to use it

I rooted my blade C
Well it took time to root but finally i found it was easy..just search for vroot on google and download it then plug your phone and run vroot(programmed especially for chinese apps) it will install your drivers then root it in about 10mins the catch is there is no superuser but a chinese app in its place then you can search on youtube how ti replace this chinese app with superuser which is quite easy and u can freeze the chinese app with titanium backup

ZTE Blade C V807
I tried rooting my ZTE Blade C V807 device with framaroot (tried all versions 1.9.3 downwards) Please - would some one here on XDA please help me with this rooting issue. If an XDA developer can include a Framaroot version that can successfully root ZTE Blade C V807 device ---- I will be very thankful for that.!!! Thanks!

ADB for ZTE V807
How can I get the ADB for ZTE BLADE C V807 Model?
Please help.. I'm new to this group

[Q] Putting a ROM on a very strange Blade

Hi Everyone,
I am hoping someone can help me with a very strange ZTE Blade.
First of all I'm not quite sure what kind of Blade this is. It is definitely a v807 (v889s?), but both "Blade Checker" and "PigFish" are drawing a blank and can't recognize it. Fastboot doesn't recognize it, it just gets stuck at "waiting for device." ADB connects just fine but without Fastboot I need the bootloader. The bootloader interface is in Chinese so I can't even try and do it manually. Also, ClockWorkMod ROM Manager says it is unsupported so I can't approach the problem from that angle either. I managed to coax the following info out of the bootloader:
BB chip: MT6577
MS Board: P177E01
I don't know if that is helpful.
My goals are:
1) find out what exactly this phone-beast is
2) find a translation (text, screenshots of an english version) for the bootloader
3) find a compatible recovery rom
4) find a compatible Android ROM (anything above 4 will do, but I'll settle for anything that isn't from ZTE)
I want to use the phone for development and testing, and the current ROM shuts down all background services when the screen is locked. Great. I'm hoping this is in SW and not HW, and that putting a custom ROM on the phone will solve this.
Any help anyone can give me would be a greatly appreciated.
Cheers

Rooting: Vroot works
Clockworkmod: Use MTKDROID ROOT & TOOLS
Roms: head over to needrom.com and search for v889s/v807. there are a couple of stock and custom rom for our device. I have already tried the MIUI V5 and it looks great.
Sent from my ZTE BLADE C using XDA Free mobile app

Need your help
OP: The device you are using is ZTE Blade C / ZTE V889s / ZTE V807
Folks, will you help me out with one thing: Would you retrieve Block map for this device (ZTE Blade C / V889s / V807). This can be done by Selecting Block map/ scatter option in MTKDroidTools. This map describes various partitions and their storage space on device. Here is the thread to my problem.
Also, please don't use Mt657xRepartition_EN.apk to increase app storage. You may soft-brick your device. If you already have used it successfully, please tell me how you achieved the same.
Thank you guys.

[HELP] rooting zte blade a430

Hi everyone ... this is my first post here so I hope I'm not doing anything wrong.
I'd like to root my ZTE Blade A430 with build number TIM_IT_QB18S_P632A10V1.0.1.
I've seen How to root your ZTE Android device but it looks pretty old, not sure if I can use that on new devices running android 4.4 ?
Also could not find ClockworkMod for my specific device not sure what I should use on my device ?
I'd be happy with TWRP for my device too as long as it works fine on my device.
I was wondering: If I'm willing to sacrifice anything that I've installed on my phone can I just update using the superuser.zip update package with the stock recovery system ? or wil it fail sig check or even damage the system ?
If something goes wrong can I still use the stock recovery system to reset to factory ? will it read data from an internal partition or does it
require the stock update.zit with the original firmware in the SD ?
ATB
David

Open in chrome.
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http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=668222

I realise I'm far too late with this answer, but maybe someone else will be searching for the same thing.
I used Kingo Root, on my ZTE Blade A430. Apart from notifications about it being dangerous, advising me to uninstall it, it's been fine for some months, now.
FWIW, mine came with KitKat 4.4.4 installed.

[HELP] ZTE Blade Q Maxi stock rom

Hi guys, after a year and a half of running custom roms, I am sick of it. My main problem is that I do not receive SMS messages when they should arrive. I receive them hours after they have been sent. Another problem is that sometimes, I can't be called. My phone doesn't display a call, or being called at all. But somebody is calling me and my phone doesn't say anything. So this is very frustrating because you can miss important calls without you even knowing. And this has been happening to me almost on every rom tried. They all work well for some time, but after they start to screw around and not be consistent.
My question is, how can I install the stock rom from Orange Reyo Romanian (ZTE BLADE Q MAXI) so that my issues will go away? I have cwm, but it seems that the firmware at the zte site is only installable with the stock recovery, not with a custom recovery like CWM or TWRP.
So yeah, any help would be much appreciated.

just copy the update .zip from zte syte on your sdcard and then install with twrprecovery!
i test it and it work
or you can download a stok backup for spflashtool posted by me on xda for restoring the phone stok rom
search it 2-3 pages back
it has a recovery stok too included
http:// http://forum.xda-developers.com/zte-blade/general/orange-reyo-stok-rom-backup-t3154351

Thank you! But what drivers do I need to install? SP flash tool does nothing when I connect the phone to te pc

Can I install it with CWM? As i have not installed TWRP on my phone

deepside_dj said:
Thank you! But what drivers do I need to install? SP flash tool does nothing when I connect the phone to te pc
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did you conect the phone OFF?
and the spflash tool doesnt start ?
Sent from my ZTE Blade Q Maxi using Tapatalk

The phone is off. The sp flash tool starts. But after I click download, and connect the phone to the pc, nothing happens. The SP flash tool says nothing.

deepside_dj said:
The phone is off. The sp flash tool starts. But after I click download, and connect the phone to the pc, nothing happens. The SP flash tool says nothing.
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yea! loks like a drivers problem.
make a serch on google after "Zte handset usb driver" and install it.
the pc see your phone if turned it ON?
what windows do you have?
Sent from my ZTE Blade Q Maxi using Tapatalk

I have installed the drivers. But still doesn't work. Even when the phone is on, SP flash tool doesnt see it. I have windows 8.1. I run your zingerone rom. Maybe it is the problem that even when my phone is on, when I connect the phone, the pc doesnt see it? The pc doesnt see it at all, when i have the zingerone rom installed. SHould I install other rom and then try SP flash tool?
The backup cannot be installed with CWM?

Now, after installing drivers, i get another error. After i click download and connect my phone to pc, SP flash tool sees my phone, but de download bar is red, and after 3 seconds my phone disconects and i receive the error: PMT has changed; it must be downloaded. I have no idea what this means.
EDIT: IT WORKS! I managed to make SP flash tool see my device by flashing it. But, by flashing it, it bricked my phone. So I thought I'm screwed. But I installed the stock recovery from @vaserbanix and at least got the phone to boot, but it was stuck in bootloop. So i downloaded the update.zip from ZTE site and put it on my sd card, got into the stock recovery and managed to install the update.zip. And now my phone has the stock rom and is working flawlessly.
Thank you @vaserbanix my friend for your help. Also, how is your health? Are you feeling well, my friend?

Hi @deepside_dj,
Glad to know that you solved out your problem. I want to ask you, if you don't mind, do you have that problems regarding SMS messages and phone calls before you start installing customs ROM's? I have to ask you this because I received a Orange Reyo(Blade Q Maxi) branded by Orange, with exactly the same issue. In the company were I work, the phone was used internally, for GSM testing especially. And I understand from the test user that was using the phone, that, even if the phone was having the stock ROM on it, was having exactly the same issues sometimes.
For examples, some text messages were received just only when the phone receive a call, even if the message have been send with a few hours before, or something like this.
So, in this case, I'm wondering if actually the custom ROM's are the root cause.
Right now, I'm using the phone for test software development and also as a spare phone. And because of this, even if @vaserbanix have done a great job porting other ROM's for this phone, I already start working on a custom ROM for me to use that is going to be based on the stock one, but much more smaller and without that bloatware preinstalled on it. So I have to know at what to look after. Maybe is not the custom ROM's fault, but just an update or a wrong placed internal command that is interfering with the RIL normal execution with the radio hardware.
Best Regards,
DarKay

DarKay said:
Hi @deepside_dj,
Glad to know that you solved out your problem. I want to ask you, if you don't mind, do you have that problems regarding SMS messages and phone calls before you start installing customs ROM's? I have to ask you this because I received a Orange Reyo(Blade Q Maxi) branded by Orange, with exactly the same issue. In the company were I work, the phone was used internally, for GSM testing especially. And I understand from the test user that was using the phone, that, even if the phone was having the stock ROM on it, was having exactly the same issues sometimes.
For examples, some text messages were received just only when the phone receive a call, even if the message have been send with a few hours before, or something like this.
So, in this case, I'm wondering if actually the custom ROM's are the root cause.
Right now, I'm using the phone for test software development and also as a spare phone. And because of this, even if @vaserbanix have done a great job porting other ROM's for this phone, I already start working on a custom ROM for me to use that is going to be based on the stock one, but much more smaller and without that bloatware preinstalled on it. So I have to know at what to look after. Maybe is not the custom ROM's fault, but just an update or a wrong placed internal command that is interfering with the RIL normal execution with the radio hardware.
Best Regards,
DarKay
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When I first got the phone, obviously, it had the stock rom. I used the stock rom for months on end, up until @vaserbanix ported the first rom for this device. While using a fresh stock rom, fresh as in directly from the factory, I didn't have any issues with calls/SMS. All came when they were supposed to. Even after using custom roms, for some time, i haven't encountered deal-breaking issues. Clearly not something as big as missing calls, that don't appear when they should etc. Well, all went good until all of a sudden I didn't receive calls. I was using the MIUI v5 rom, which is my favorite rom. I thought it might be a bug, so I flashed the rom again, but nope, the problem still persisted. Which was odd, since I was using that specific rom for months. After that, I tried many other roms ported by the one and only @vaserbanix until i settled on the Zingerone rom. This was the fastest and most clean looking rom for me, and I was happy that it ran good. Until, the issue with calls/sms not being received reappered. Which really frustrated me, because I lost an important call, without me even knowing it. That is when I had enough, so I installed the stock rom again, with a bit of work, but in the end the install was good.
So now I am using the stock rom, it has been only a day since I installed it, but it seems solid. Only time will tell. If I encounter the same issues, be sure I will report it here!

OK, thanks for the information. I wanted today to take the SIM card from the test operator to make some tests on the phone, to see if I can find something wrong with the card or the phone or at least, reproduce the issues, and found out that the SIM card was replaced. It looks like on another phone was still having the same issues. So in this case, it seems that the problem was with the SIM. I will make some logs on the phone to see if the problems resides also on it, especially now, because I modified and installed one of the custom ROM's build by @vaserbanix. Only the time will tell.
In the mean time, I have a new "toy" (Blade Q Maxi ) so I have to play with it a little bit, but I will let you know if the problems returns, or at list found the root cause of this, because I think you are going to get bored real soon of the stock ROM. See you soon.

I find Stock rom for ZTE Blade Q Maxi on this Site
kinotube.info/channel/watch/lOg52L-wBsQ
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mega.nz/#!w8x3iADC!OsNuOELkG5SE9z5cu-gvyaIQxqFCssMmc4_GxR1W-BI
pass __ gem-flash
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There is stock rom for ZTE Blade Q Maxi with which can move apps from phone to SD card.
But it's a full of Viruses, adware, malware and hijacking trojans.
If someone know how to remove viruses and others stufs. Or find what was change in android to be able move to SD Card, and put that change in regular clear stock rom?