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CyanogenMod 7 Brings Android Gingerbread Goodness To ZTE Blade/Orange San Francisco

Posted by in Blade, Development, News, Orange, ZTE

Having your phone model supported by CyanogenMod's community is quite an honor nowadays, and for many people it's a deciding factor when picking up a new phone. CM usually stays ahead of the curve and is likely to support your phone well after manufacturers and carriers stop showing any interest.

Therefore, ZTE Blade/Orange San Francisco owners should be feeling quite ecstatic right now, as the world's largest ROM community announced its official support of this device (see Cyanogen's commit here).

Check out our ZTE Blade review: ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco Review: Two-Thirds Of A Nexus One For One-Third The Price

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There are no final builds just yet, but you are free to download and flash the CM7 Release Candidate from here. Nightly builds should start showing up there shortly as well.

Further discussion about CyanogenMod on the Blade should happen in the official ZTE Blade CM forums right here (specifically, go say hello in this welcome thread).

This article deals with a couple of advanced topics. If you’re unfamiliar with some of the terms, hit up our primers here:

Congratulations, Bladers!

Source: CM Forums

Thanks @kinesthesia

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  • Thanos

    Awesome news! My ZTE Blade has android 2.1 right now and to be able to use a good android 2.3 rom like cm7 is very nice. Thanks cm developers :)

  • jskind

    Droped cm7 Rc on my blade yesterday and it's running great, thanks CyanogenMod.

  • Rotmann

    CyanogenMOD 7 + Blade = FTW!!! Gingerbread 2.3 + CM7 flavor AWESOMNESS!!!

  • Tim Buhain

    Hi I got the mod running but I have not got the market. Do I need to enable it?

    Thanks in advance...

    • http://www.AndroidPolice.com Artem Russakovskii

      I think you need to download gapps for this (Google Apps). Cyanogen is forced to provide it separately. But I'm not sure - I don't use CM.

  • Mahendra Soni

    I just upgraded my San Francisco from Stock 2.1 to CyanogenMOD 7 Gingerbread 2.3.2 and its running great gun!!! Awesome :)

    • Asad Akbari

      can you please tell me hown to do it im having problems plzzzzz start from step 1 and ive got android 2.2 on it.

  • Mark Hawksworth

    Just a quick note to thank everyone who has been involved in the development of this release. It is light years ahead of the stock 2.1 and 2.2 I flashed to my ZTE keep up the good work

  • Ajay

    yea its all great but its only a trail as the cyanogen website has not got a stable version of it. so the app market and all the godies ar not there, :'''''''{

  • Fabio

    Im having a problem with this rom, the market app doest apear.
    Can anyone help :)
    thanks

    • http://www.AndroidPolice.com Artem Russakovskii

      Have you downloaded and flashed gapps? The Market won't appear until you get gapps. See the link to gapps in the post.

  • ciroweski

    please help i am new to android ... step by step explanation how to install

  • raydroid

    Is there any CDMA version for this awesome CM7? I got ZTE Blade but n880 series (CDMA).

  • San Francisco User

    I've installed CayanogenMod 7 on my Orange San Francisco quite recently. The only problem (that is quite annoying) is that it shuts down when it is when placed idle during charging. It doesn't shut down when it is in use during charging.
    Moreover, it doesn't boot up again by pressing the power button. You have to unplug the charging cable to reboot it.
    This happens almost 100% of times.
    The occurrence of this issue doesn't follow a fixed pattern either (can occur anytime during charging and regardless of the battery state, and the apps loaded).
    The version is 2.3.3.

    This issue didn't use to occur on the original build (Froyo 2.1).

  • Mr Wolf

    yeah, my Orange San Francisco with cyanogen mod 7 does exactly the same thing.

  • San Fransisco User

    CyanogenMod 7.1.0 RC1 (for ZTE Blade) has solved the charging issue. Though it is a Release Candidate, I haven't seen any major issues as such. It has solved the annoying charging issue though so I am keeping it! :)

  • Mr Wolf

    Excellent. I will give it a try.

  • sudhu

    cyanogenmod 7.1 made my blade working awesome

    • Rumit

      i have installed CM7.0 RC1 and i am having issue of charging as mentioned in the other posts and also facing the issue of not getting screen on after disconnecting calls. i need to give a miss call from other phone to turn the screen on.
      Also, Now i am trying to upgrade it to CM 7.1 but after flashing 7.1, somehow phone is not even getting boot.
      Please help me to resolve the issues.

      Thanks In Advance

  • ninegreenstar

    Is there any cyanogenmod for zte blade cdma ?

  • Silver_fox

    Just fixed my phone, 'orange sanfrancisco ZTE BLADE'.

    Now running update-cm-7.1.0-Blade

    --
    Took me a while to sort it, flashed Gen1BaseGen2 first, then go into clockwork mod and wipe all data/cash then flash the updatecm-7.1.0-blade zip, then flash Gapps-gb-20110828 (google apps) zip.

    All Best, new mod looks way cool! Android version 2.3.7

  • shabahat

    I'm having issues installing cm7. I'm using rom manager to install it. but when it reboots to go in recovery mod its stuck up with. dell logo (Indian version of blade). I think its unable to boot in recovery mod .help me plz