[General Questions and Answers] cyberken:
Hi

Apologies for the longwinded explaination of my problem but I wanted to be thorough and to let you have as much info as poss to know what I have tried and I think I have it mostly down here..

I recently sucessfully (I think) rooted my i9100 with Neat Rom 4.4.2, which seems very nice :)

I also have two ZTE Kis phones (via Virgin) which I thought I would try to revive.

I managed to flash one with Firefox OS and it seems fine for the most part although it flickers occasionally :)

The other one that I had rooted ages ago I eventually managed to reset my recovery via a terminal emulator and flashed a Rom back to its original state except with an unbranded rom courtesy of http://blog.podtwo.com/android/rom/de-branded ROM for ZTE Roamer2 [gingerbread].html THANK YOU SEBASTIAN :)

As this was not ideal as the storage space quickly disappears I though I would try to flash it with something else... and after some looking around I went here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_DJhaNH14o and downloaded the miscellaneous files attached (first dumb move)

I then tried to flash each of these Roms in no particular order and finally got one of the Xperia Roms to take me to the install stage (2nd dumb move) I was working on some other stuff and yessed away in my own smugness only to find that the rebooting phone showed a green android that gradually faded to a blueish whiteout...

It also would not boot to recovery! power + volume = same android fading away...

It also would not boot to FTM

My main OS - OSX could not recognise the phone via adb/fastboot etc so I decided to try Win 7 (3rd or possibly a lot more by now dumb move)

so I booted to windows and low and behold... adb/fastboot could not see the device upon opening my Browser to try to find a solution I discovered that my Browser had been taken over by Conduit... (I am certain it was not before attaching the Kis and the suspect rom) and I was bombarded by a number of options to remove malware threats and virus' etc.. figuring something was wrong (first smart move) I switched operating systems back to OSX and ran Clam scan and Sophos scan of Windows drive (infected with something in the region of 40 nasties) I quarantined and deleted all the nasty infected files. I booted into Linux and ran ClamTK scan of the windows drive which found something in the order of 1200 threats.. some of which were standard methods used by programs but I spotted a few trojans I think amongst the readout.

I have deleted the Rom files and formatted the SD card that it was on.

Neither ADB nor Fastboot sees the infected/soft bricked Kis device from any OS

I have discovered too that the infected Kis does actually do different things when volume buttons are held down in conjunction with the power button (I am guessing that although the rom was corrupt - or perhaps not meant for my device) the phone is still trying to enter FTM mode as it just boots to a red light on.

From Linux in terminal (lsusb, usb-devices and dmesg | tail) all identify the device - attached file which has a different device id depending on the "mode" it is in when I attach it - Vendor ID is always 19d2, but Device ID is either 1353 or 0112 (the latter is when it is in FTM? mode - Vol down, power on , red light constant)

OS X also see the device: when the device ID is 1353 it identifies it as ZTE HSUSB Device, serial no ROAMER2, version 2.29, ZTE Incorporated. Whne device ID is 0112 it identifies it as ZTE WCDMA Handset Diagnostic Port

Win 7 sees it in "FTM" mode as ZTE Handset Diagnostic Interface (DSU)

Now I have... (mainly from OSX and more recently unbuntu 12.04) with my limited intellect and even more limited knowledge of programming and restricted understanding of terminal commands tried to have tried to cp files directly to the device, I have looked to try to boot from an sd card, I have tried to go into the recovery mode even though I can't see the screen and navigate blindly to the update.zip or recovery.img etc --- I have put them all on the card. I tried to do this http://linux-sunxi.org/Boot_Android_from_SdCard - but got a failure around "awutils, make" I have looked at Odin, Heimdall options, I have tried to adapt other solutions for different phones to mine (which was how I somehow or other managed to recover my CWM through terminal emulator in the first place). I have tried through ZTE to get thir automatic update program/instructions.zip (which despite being on broadband was proposing to take something in the region of 2 to 3 hours to download 136MB....! made me think that that might be how long it might take to copy my 4 and a half ish Terabytes of data... (paranoid now? MAYBE) so I cancelled the download and rebooted to Linux where I feel comparatively safe!?

BUT NOW I AM STUCK

I have the Unbranded rom and CWM recovery I can see the device but I don't know how to force the two together... can anybody help me (I have just tried very hard to resist an Obi-Wan-Kenobi joke)

I hope someone can help :)