ZTE System Help

Meamia524 · February 2nd, 2013, 08:35 PM

Hi, everyone my name is Tamia and I have a few questions about my Merit and hopefully someone can answer.

1. Is there any possible way to do a system update from gingerbread?

2.Is rooting possible for the Merit, and if so has it been successful?

3. Where is the image directory on my SD card?

4. Everytime I try to connect my phone to my computer it doesn't work and just turns the computer black, I have Windows Vista.

Hopefully some to all of these questions can be answered, thanks so much

out of ideas · February 2nd, 2013, 11:46 PM

Hi. Welcome to the merit.

1. Not yet. There are some different ROMs in the all things root section if you want something different, but no 4.0 yet.
2. Yes. It is now very simple. Check out all things root, flash a zip with super user and you are good to go.
3. DCIM/Camera.
4. No idea. I've used it on xp and 7 fine.

kingmt · February 3rd, 2013, 09:08 AM

I'd remove your drivers & try to reinstall them. Check out Android Area51 also. We have a IRC channel for free live tech support.

nickdalzell · February 3rd, 2013, 08:51 PM

1. the real 4.0 would suck balls on this phone (it only has a 600 MHz CPU, no GPU, and very little RAM) though Out of Ideas has a very fast lookalike that is so close you'd have to really dig deep to know it was still Gingerbread!

2. Rooting is easy. the ICS lookalike can be flashed as an update.zip and then self-roots the phone

3. what the last person said. under DCIM/camera

4. there should be a USB icon on your phone's status bar and/or a screen to enable 'USB transfer' should show. if it causes Vista to reboot or BSoD something is wrong with your computer, not your phone.

kingmt · February 4th, 2013, 05:02 AM

Check the format of the card. It is very unlikly that it isn't FAT32. If it is ext windows hates it & will go into safety mode which is what sounds like what is happening.

nickdalzell · February 4th, 2013, 07:05 AM

usually the wrong filesystem type on an SD card will just give Windows a reason to tell me it cannot read it and that it needs to be formatted. it was the same if you had formatted a floppy disk as ext2 in Linux and booted back to Windows 95 and tried to access it. you'd get a 'this disk is not formatted properly, do you want to format it again?' prompt. Windows should not BSoD or self-reboot because you inserted a SD Card with the wrong filesystem type into it.

kingmt · February 4th, 2013, 07:10 PM

Vista is a different beast. Maybe it isn't all of them but the one I had freaked out if I out a SD with exr3 on it in the reader.

stayboogy · February 4th, 2013, 07:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Meamia524

Hi, everyone my name is Tamia and I have a few questions about my Merit and hopefully someone can answer.

1. Is there any possible way to do a system update from gingerbread?

2.Is rooting possible for the Merit, and if so has it been successful?

3. Where is the image directory on my SD card?

4. Everytime I try to connect my phone to my computer it doesn't work and just turns the computer black, I have Windows Vista.

Hopefully some to all of these questions can be answered, thanks so much

[ROOT] update.zip [ROOT]

download the zip and follow directions in the thread to root your phone instead of installing a full rom to do it.