Modding Androids, continued.

So, should you ever brag to your relatives about modding your phone you should be prepared to mod theirs too. Of course. :P

Today sees me having a ZTE V9 Light in front of me; a tablet with pretty modest hardware specs (600MHz single core CPU, 512MB ROM/RAM, etc).

So, modding... How to root a ZTE V9? A short Googling later I'm installing the Android SDK, Java 7 JDK, etc crap on my Ubuntu 12 laptop. Much fiddling later (remember to turn on "USB debugging" kids!) I'm pushing the so called hack on the ZTE only to see it fail time and again.

Great. What now?

Hmm... I have the SuperOneClickv2.3.3 left over from my GT-5500 rooting so I might as well...

I install the ZTE USB drivers (from the tablet itself, thankyou kindly ZTE) and hit "root".

"Your device seems to be rooted already, do you want to continue?"

Huh?

The hell it is. Carry on SOC!

A little while later I'm booting into the stock, but rooted, V9 with "OneClickRecoveryV9-4.0.0.5.apk" (read: Clockwork Recovery) copied on the SD card. Next, I install AppInstaller, and install the OCR for V9 and boot into recovery to install the latest stable CyanogenMod 7 for the V9.

Only trouble I had was with the Google Apps (gb) -package - for some reason the newest 28/08/2011 package didn't install Play store but the one before that seemed to work just fine.