Root Orange San Francisco 2 (ZTE Blade 2): All Things Root Guide

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Orange San Francisco 2 (ZTE Blade 2): All Things Root Guide

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General Information

• Root Terminology
• http://androidforums.com/faqs/443432-what-root-being-rooted-mean.html
• You've went and rooted the phone. Now What???

Guides

• [HOW TO] Rooting Unlocking and De-Branding your ZTE Crescent [Updated Now Complete] - Android @ MoDaCo
• Unlocking ZTE Crescent
• Unlock Orange Monte Carlo (ZTE Skate) free - The giffgaff community - Video for Orange Monte Carlo unlock but shows the underlying principle for the SFII.
• un-rooting guide
• removing apps guide / safe apps to remove
• [Recovery] ClockworkMod Recovery 5.0.2.7 - Android @ MoDaCo
• Tutorial - Get your MAC Address if you already unlocked - NOW UP! - Android @ MoDaCo

ROMs

• [ROM] <<< Fish'N'Chips >>> (Nemus,Lpro,Zeam,stock) - Android @ MoDaCo
• [ROM] : de-branded ROM for ZTE Blade 2/Orange San Francisco II/T-Mobile Vivacity [gingerbread] - Android @ MoDaCo
• [ROM] FLB2 - Completely Debranded GB ROM r2a - Android @ MoDaCo
• San Francisco II/T-Mobile Vivacity TPTs - Android @ MoDaCo
• [ROM] : Stock ROMs for ZTE Blade 2/Orange San Francisco II/T-Mobile Vivacity - Android @ MoDaCo

Themes

• [HOW TO] Easy Theming
• Theming tutorial
• Ultimate Online Theming Kitchen

Overclocking / Underclocking / Undervolting

• Overclocking is a work in progress, it allegedly works on the Vivacity currently around a little over 1 gig. But this needs confirming and further work on the SFII as the kernel is different, using the stock kernel does not make it work on the SFII just now. See more info here on page 3, post #50 onward: http://android.modaco.com/topic/348964-kernel-source-for-crescent/page__st__40
• underclocking
• undervolting
• related apps

Kernels

• None as of yet

Radios / Basebands

• None as of yet

Tools & Utilities

• ADB (Android Debug Bridge)
• MD5 checksum verification
• Titantium Backup / Titanium Backup Tutorial
• Root Explorer
• Odin / RUU / RSD Lite / etc.

Downloads

• Google Apps Package
• Android SDK