[Blade General] aashishkul:
Hi,

I recently bought Idea Blade which is a chinese blade distributed by Idea and called Idea Blade. I saw that some other people have been able to use CWM successfully on this device but it looks like there is some difference in the device received by me and hence unable to use CWM on my device.

I have tried numerous versions of the recoveries on CWM and all have the same problem including latest ClockworkMod Recovery v5.0.2.0.

I have been able to capture the log and presenting it for your reference.

Starting recovery on Tue May 15 07:41:49 2012

framebuffer: fd 4 (480 x 800)

ClockworkMod Recovery v5.0.2.0

recovery filesystem table

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0 /tmp ramdisk (null) (null)

1 /boot mtd boot (null)

2 /cache yaffs2 cache (null)

3 /data yaffs2 userdata (null)

4 /misc mtd misc (null)

5 /recovery mtd recovery (null)

6 /sdcard vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /dev/block/mmcblk0

7 /system yaffs2 system (null)

8 /sd-ext ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 (null)

I:Completed outputting fstab.

I:Processing arguments.

E:Can't find misc

E:failed to find "cache" partition to mount at "/cache"

E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/command

E:Can't find misc

I:Checking arguments.

I:device_recovery_start()

Command: "/sbin/recovery"

Whenever I try to use any option, it shows me-

E:failed to find "cache" partition to mount at "/cache"

E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/log

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log

E:failed to find "cache" partition to mount at "/cache"

E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log

E:Can't find misc

E:failed to find "cache" partition to mount at "/cache"

When I tried to backup-

SD Card space free: 6135MB

Backing up boot image...

error scanning partitionsError while backing up boot image!E:failed to find "cache" partition to mount at "/cache"

E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/log

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log

E:failed to find "cache" partition to mount at "/cache"

E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log

E:Can't find misc

E:failed to find "cache" partition to mount at "/cache"

W:Can't unlink /cache/recovery/command

My device is surely rooted as I have been able to uninstall stock bloatwares by Idea. Also, superuser asks for my permissions whenever a new application is requesting root access. I have tried flashing recovery using fastboot too but with exactly the same result.

Some of the strange observations are:

1. When I try to cat /proc/mtd

dev: size erasesize name

It returns blank table.

When I try to do the same from normal boot, it shows me following correctly-

cat /proc/mtd

dev: size erasesize name

mtd0: 00500000 00020000 "recovery"

mtd1: 00500000 00020000 "boot"

mtd2: 00180000 00020000 "splash"

mtd3: 00080000 00020000 "misc"

mtd4: 02580000 00020000 "cache"

mtd5: 0dc00000 00020000 "system"

mtd6: 0a280000 00020000 "userdata"

mtd7: 01500000 00020000 "oem"

mtd8: 00180000 00020000 "persist"

mtd9: 00f00000 00020000 "fota"

Does that mean, I won't be able to use CWM?

Also tried Amon's RA recovery with exactly same results.

Does that mean, ZTE has blocked something to cause this fate?

Your valuable comments and reply are eagerly awaited so that I can get started with custom ROMs on my device.