[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chinapneuk2014:
More ERBs, lol

My wife is annoyed that I am spending so much time on these Chinese phones, she doesn’t understand the challenge, lol

OK, let me tell you my wasting time with Chinese devices (about 2 months or so experience, a newbie), lol

I have been thinking for a while to buy an Android Dual SIM phone. So when I managed to sell my Nokia Asha 202, I purchased THL T5 in rush for £60 after someone mentioned that they are “good Chinese” brand.

Whilst I was impressed by its stability and functionality, I really wanted a larger screen (to read pdf books), quad core and at least 1GB RAM phone. So bought Cubot S222 for £100 (compared between S222 vs S208 vs S308). This is when I discovered about the fact that you can increase the size of data partition (files are attached – in case it helps you further, lol). However, S222 phone had a serious issue with battery life (you can see charge dropping within 1 minute or so from 100% to 70% - in effect, as long as you don’t use it, then its fine, lol) so ended up returning it to the ebay seller at their cost, lol. Cubot VS THL – THL way better phone.

Then decided to buy Doogie DG310 which is not a bad phone for £60. If we compare between THL and Doogie, THL is better phone in terms of quality (for example: the touchscreen) and even when you restore from Backups, it actually restores IMEI numbers as per box (I think Doogie use generic number for all their phones).

I used to own a “Dell Inspiron Duo convertible Tablet 1090” which I installed Android X86 on which my daughter used to use it (she has a laptop as well, only 6, lol, so never use to use Windows 8 on Duo). Then I thought maybe I should sell the Dell Inspiron Duo as it is bit bulky and buy her an Android tablet. So when I managed to sell the duo, bought a Chinese Tablet 10.1 inch ATM7029 Quad Core Tablet PC, again in rush as she was pressurizing me, lol (same week I bought THL T5). That was a mistake as it was slow like hell despite all sorts of optimization. Never again a chinese no brand chipset. So sold that as well, lol.

Then purchased “Asus MT8125 me173x” (again in rush as daughter was keep reminding me, lol) which looks to be a good buy. It came with all Internal Memory (8GB) and I did not do anything yet (partly because could not do a proper backup like you do on THL and Doogie using MTK Droid Tool). The ERB1 , MBR & Scatter files are attached.

Now we come to ZTE. I had ZTE Blade which was a good phone but I think at the end gave it to someone…..Then there was a good offer and purchased 2x ZTE Blade V (Qualcomm MSM8225Q Snapdragon – I wish there was a mod for increasing data partition) £60 each. One of the unit I managed to brick within 7 days, lol, but managed to get a replacement: ZTE Blade Q Mini which in effect cost me £20 (they did not have Blade V in stock so settled to give me £40 refund + the phone), lol. By sheer coincidence it’s the same chipset as THL. Now with the knowledge that you can increase the size of data partition, decided to have a go as I don’t like the Link2SD solution as I think it slows the boot process...The phone serves my wife well, lol (WhatsApp, Calls & few small games) - she simply does not understand why I am wasting time, lol . As thing stand, I have set her up without Link2SD solution and have a ClockworkMod backup that works

I think ZTE would be a tough cookie, lol. As mentioned before, your mod works (it recognizes the partition) but there is something else needs changing. I had a look at the Boot file (extracted one here http://ge.tt/7BsWdd02/v/0?c) but have no idea what needs to be changed.