ZTE Merit/Avail/Z990/Z990G Developer Finally Emerges

That developer is me, I just had to write a title that will grab attention, or make it sound cool, Haha.

Anyways, For the longest time I've had this phone, and my Sony Ericsson Xperia x10 just sitting around, my Avail of course has a cracked digitizer, so touch doesn't work at all, but I ordered a replacement screen for it. I have seen many requests for people to port Jellybean to this phone, so that is exactly what I am doing. I am going to debloat it as much as I can, and kang the heck out of the rom. The phone has a Snapdragon S1, which we all know Cyanogenmod does not support 1st Gen chips anymore, but that doesn't mean development has to stop. This phone currently runs Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread, and I hear Kitkat is also making its way to many gingerbread devices, because Good Guy Google wants to update everyone up to at least 4.4.

With all of this being said, I can't wait for development to begin! I have already started the repos! and I would like to actually do more pay as you go phone Android developments, we shouldn't leave any man behind with Android!

I hope to also get my hands on a Samsung Galaxy Appeal (Ace q) and start cooking roms for it too!

Till next time, this has been Android Guru Guy; Dayton Thomas. Signing off.

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