BLU Dash

  • Released 2012, March
    96g, 12mm thickness
    Android 2.3
    512MB 256MB RAM storage, microSD slot
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  • 2.8"
    240x320 pixels
  • 2MP
    Video recorder
  • 256MB RAM
    MT6573
  • 1110mAh
    Li-Ion

BLU Dash - Specs

Network Technology GSM / HSPA
2G bands GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
  GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM 2 (D130 only)
3G bands HSDPA 850 / 1900
Speed HSPA 7.2/5.76 Mbps
Launch Announced 2011, December. Released 2012, March
Status Discontinued
Body Dimensions 103 x 56 x 12 mm (4.06 x 2.20 x 0.47 in)
Weight 96 g (3.39 oz)
SIM Dual SIM (Mini-SIM)
Display Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 256K colors
Size 2.8 inches, 24.3 cm2 (~42.1% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution 240 x 320 pixels, 4:3 ratio (~143 ppi density)
Platform OS Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
Chipset Mediatek MT6573 (65 nm)
CPU 650 MHz Cortex-A9
GPU PowerVR SGX531
Memory Card slot microSD, up to 32 GB (dedicated slot)
Internal 512MB 256MB RAM
Main Camera Single 2 MP
Video Yes
Selfie camera Single Yes
Video
Sound Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
Comms WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth 3.0, EDR
GPS Yes
Radio Stereo FM radio
USB microUSB 2.0
Features Sensors Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
 MP3/AAC/WMA/WAV player
DivX/XviD/MP4/H.264/WMV player
Organizer
Document viewer/editor
Photo viewer/editor
Voice memo/dial/commands
Predictive text input (Swype)
Battery   Removable Li-Ion 1110 mAh battery
Stand-by Up to 800 h (2G) / Up to 600 h (3G)
Talk time Up to 20 h (2G) / Up to 10 h (3G)
Misc Colors Black, Blue, White, Pink
Price About 70 EUR

BLU Dash - User Reviews

  • I own a dash l2 and out of the blue turns itself off. Does any one know how to remove scheduled power off/on from it?

  • I got my Blu Dash L2 as a gift, and it worked fine for the first few months. Now it turns off randomly, disconnects with the wifi, moves apps from the SD card to internal storage (no matter how many times I move them back to the SD card), and sometimes stops working altogether (so I have to take out the battery, let it sit, and then reinsert it). It is incredibly frustrating and I would not recommend Blu products to anyone.

  • I think you have to download a 3rd party rotation app. Very poor design decision. I also have trouble with the speaker being to quiet.

  • My mom got me a blue L2 dash and I can't rotate it sideways can anyone tell mW how to enable it?

  • Please help me I have horizontal lines on my screen how to fix this??? Please help!

  • I truly agree with you. My cousin bought me the BLU Dash 5.5 phone and within s month had problems with it like volume levels and watching streaming videos. I can't even update wireless new version unless I set my phone back to factory mode. My last phone was from Virgin Mobile which I had for five years and never had any of the problems like with the BLU Dash phone. Heck the volumes was fantastic and watching streaming videos was fabulous. Was told by the store clerk my BLU phone came ftom that O should go online to buy the headphone yo hear better. Forget it going back to Virgin Mobile.

  • BLU Dash X is a good phone... for about 3 months... Now its becoming a nightmare... Battery drains fast, like 8 hours standby mode... And the worst is what is happening now: The phone goes in lock mode and then it's impossible to unlock it up, the button just seems to stop working.. So I have to take the battery out and restart the damn device, the lock button works to turn the phone on and to lock it up, but once its locked it will never come back again... The BLU support website is just shitty, DONT BUY THIS DISPOSABLE PHONES

  • I have a BLU Dash X Plus for two weeks now and i have not been able to make even calls. It is my first time using a BLU phone and the screen keeps going off by itself even if it is fully charged. always upgrading apps. What do i do?

  • I have a blu studio 2 and it flickers so it's normal??

  • I have a blue dash 5.5 it takes lousy pictures, I download games and it just shuts the game off while your playing. The screen flickers all the time the volune is terrible, DONT BUY THESE PHONES! they are no good.

  • Where did you go to put up the volume

  • I had one to crash got another one and well let's just say this one is not the best. I still have the one crashed and hasn't even been a year and crashed just wouldn't come back on!!!

  • My screen is flickering. I have s blue 5.5 phone. How do you fix it.

  • My screen is flickering. I have s blue 5.5 phone. How do you fix it.

  • My dash 5.5 had low volume with headphones and speaker mode. I got into the settings and I tweaked up the volume to 160 which is the max. Now it sounds so much better.

  • When you add a contact.. upon entering contact number choose cell phone option, it should give you access to other options. Home phone, I'm, cell, other..hope this helps.

  • What did you do exactly, to stop your phone from flickering? I'm not techy unsavvy but definitely not cell phone savvy. Would "rooting" my cell phone stop my flickering problem. If not, could you give me directions how to fix the problem?

  • I have problems with flickering... at some point i found a developer app to download that fixed the flickering intermittently.. had to do factory reset now can't find it again. The flickering starts as soon as you download google or google play from what i can tell. After the factory reset, i had to set up my gmail account again, the phone updated google and google play and the flickering started. I know it's something to do with googles own product but i can't figure out how to stop it. Supposedly the screen is supposed to flicker if a long process is occuring on your phone in the background so, what exactly is google doing out there i have to ask because it certainly isn't intermittently flickering - it flickers more often than it doesn't.

  • I googled "problems with android 4.2" and there are a million links to choose from can you please provide the link that worked for you because i have now read 3 pages of stuff none of which applied to screen flickering?

  • Go to "Settings" Then to "Accessibility" Check line 6 "Auto-rotate screen" make sure there is a check mark in that box. Good luck!

  • I have a blu dash 5.5, my touch screen works but I don't see nothing.

  • How on earth do you remove SIM 2 from the slot? SIM 1 is easy, but the second one is so jammed in there and I can't get it out!

  • I have a blu dash 5.5 and I had it for about 4 months my screen has been flickering then I deleted apps but it still said I have insufficient space so I went to my file management and cleared it and it deleted my photos and I need those back

  • I bought my blu 5.5 dash two days ago an my phone will not rotate for nothing . why it doing that

  • My phone is the Blu Dash 5.5 and I have had it for 3 months now. When I first got the phone I had put in my headphones and the sound was not very pleasing to me. I have tried many headphones for this phone and every pair has ended up with a trip to the trash can. I hope you can find away to fix the problem because I don't want to be in the store because I have to buy a new pair of headphones.

  • There is a message keep coming up on my screen saying : Internal storage is running out, the application has been stopped. please free up some space and try again... I free up all the space on the device and the message keep coming up

  • mines is doing the same thing

  • My 5.5 is flickering what do I do

  • I fixed my blue studio 5.5 from the screen flickering problem.It's not the phone its the Android 4.2 operating system.Google problems with Android 4.2 and it will walk u through the steps. It fixed my phone.

  • I have a blu dash and its stupid it dont have any space on it i only download one app it has short battary life i can go on and on

  • Hi . I got my dash 5.5 last month and my screen just started flickering this month in march . I haven't dropped it or nothing . at first I thought it was my game but I deleted , and it still does it . I like my blu also but it seems like every week there is a problem and I have to take it in to get looked at . I am really starting to get mad , and I don't even own it , I am renting to own from showplace .

  • How does one store more than one number to a contact with a BLU dash 5.0+?

  • I bought my blu dash 5.5 end of November 2014. After about a week the screen started flickering every once in a while. It seems to be getting more often. Now I am worried. I actually love this phone, and if it turns out to be a dud I will be so upset. Also it says 4 g phone, but 3 g on my top bar? Any help would be awesome!

  • I have a blu Dash phone for about 2 yrs now.it was a very good brand.my problem now is that.my phone is locked and i have deleted all the staff inside including the my contacts. i try to go my yahoo account but it keeps asking for the ANDROID PLEASE HELP ME TO ACCESS MY YAHOO ACCOUNT.

  • You need to go in their website(bluproducts) contact-service then submit your information and they will contact you

  • You need to go in their website(bluproducts) contact-service then submit your information and they will contact you.

  • Got a BLU Dash 5.5 just today. I have just one AT&T SIM card in it in slot 1. It does not show connected while my old Motorola phone has 4G coverage here. When I try to dial a call it says I need to take it out of airplane mode but it is not in airplane mode. Any ideas?

  • Bought a dash5.5aug 21 had it until sept 13,then it stopped getting service, always has a network.error,called metro pcs they tried everything 2 different tech support personal, 3 different SIM cards and now it's October 20 and still no help,blu support and their warranty are no good I was given the run around every time I call,they put me on hold for 29.5 min then when someone came on the phone they hung up on me, then called back and I was on hold for 35.6 min then they told me to fax the receipt for the phone but gave me the wrong fax number, this company is really bad I'm trying to find the number of the better business bureau, because I'm paying for a phone bill from metro pcs and I haven't even had a phone for a monthDONT BUY A BLU CELL PHONE

  • Have the same prob ?

  • I bought a blue phone 4.0 on 25-9-14 It not charging on 30-9-14

  • I purchased the Blu studio 5.5 in July the screen has been flickering please help!

  • i have the sam problem wont come on

  • hey i purchased my blu dash 5.5 about two weeks ago an one night i use it an fell asleep when i woke up itit wasnt coming on. i thought the battery was dead but wen i charge it nothing appears on the scren help me plzz

  • My dash 5.5 restarted on its on idk y the DA dead android with a triangle appears then it flickers like can any help me put with this problem if anyone is going thru what I'm going thru

  • I purchased Blu Dash 5.5 Less than 1 wk ago. The Bluetooth will not stay connected. Anyone have a fix?

  • I have the same problem, but haven't found a solution.

  • Have some one the stock rom of this device? i can not find it in anyware!! please!!!

  • My blue studio 5.5 keeps flickering.. I just purchased it on 4.29.14... Anyone has the same problem and found a solution please help....thx

  • My blue studio 5.5 screen keeps flickering anyone might know why.?

  • It restarts automatically so the operation stops. How can I address this? Please help!

  • Download z4 root on your dash install it Select root everything else is automatic

  • how did you root your dash?

  • hi. i have a problem that the cell is go on mute. I have an BLU DASH 4.0 can anyone help ?

  • How did you install a swap app without rooting the phone?

  • Sorry, wrong model - I meant to review the Dash 4.5.

  • not open menu

  • the applications on my phone is uninstalled and i really need your help to restore it cos i would like using the facilities of the phone

  • My Dash Phone has a problem with the calendar, i setup an activity in the calendar, everything seems fine, but after restarting the event has gone. Maybe i could load down a new calendar, but don´t know where to download from. Please help

  • You should have BLU tech support help you with that. Their contact information is [email protected]

  • how do I wipe my phone?

  • i press and hold down the screen but aa the top it says screen lock...HELP MEEEEEEE?

  • Wow,i'm experiencing the same problem please give an update if you find any solution...Help Is Needed!!! I'm phoneless atm my other android has been locked due to the pattern being entered to many times...I really need this problem to be resolved

  • my blu dash 3.5 must be defective. this is the second time it has happened in the last two weeks of purchase of this phone. it worked fine at first, downloaded apps and an antivirus and all was well. turned it off to charge it, it finished charging and then i put it on. the blu products splsh screen appears then the screen starts to flicker and it does not load. took it back to the merchant and he apparently flashed it cause all my apps were gone and i he did it in the back room so i didnt see what he did. phone worked fine again, got back all my apps. now i turn it off to reboot it as an app seemed to crash and i thought it would help if i rebooted it. same flickering screen.HELP?

  • Good phone for what it is, and the price. Purchased 10/2012. I did root it, and made changes to system files. An external SD should be considered necessary. I added swap to compensate for the 256 ram. Added link2sd to free up internal SD card. I edited /sys files to stop jingly start-up music. I found the 2 lines easy to set up. I am a technician, and recommend the average user to not make some of these mods.(This was not my 1st system mod.) Once set up, excellent, smooth, and pretty in pink. 8 out of 10.

  • kookie, you've probably resolved this already. I fixed it by 1. On another device use play store to send/download any launcher to the Dash. 2. Using wiped Dash now, run setup. It will download launcher as soon as you enter the email to associate it with. Not the original launcher, but I already used Go Launcher Ex anyway. I did this to my phone as well. As a techie I fixed it myself in about 5 minutes.

  • I need to unlock my new blu dash 3.5, I turn it on and I keep getting a lock on the screen.

  • i just bought a blu dash 3.5 , but i am unable to use it because there is a lock picture on the phone. how do you remove the lock. or how do you unlock it ?

  • what she did was press vol down and power on the same time and got into factory mode menu and pressed "clear flash" which will erease everything, no solution for now, :(

  • How to unlock a blu dash phone

  • How to unlock a blu dash phone

  • How do I get my menu back of my screen?. My sister took my SD card out and put it back. When did that and I turn the phone on it was blank. Please help me.

  • Hello, I have both the blu dash and the blu dash 3.5. while the 3.5 makes life a lot easier when texting, the dash with the smaller screen outperforms the 3.5 in data transfer rates. I have been tethering with both and the blu dash is awesome. With only one or two bars the blu dash is lightning fast compared to the 3.5. I do not know if they have just put too much crap on the 3.5 for it to work as well or if it has inferior hardware. And to answer the guys question both can be used as hotspots.

  • Glad you like the Blu Dash. Tell me if you know...can you use it as a wifi hotspot for a laptop to access the internet via the Dash's data plan? Thx!

  • I m loving it!

  • phone wont stay on, it keeps saying plug in charger even when the charger is plugged in, shows charging status when off an charger is plugged in but after hours it still has no charge :( very disappointed at phone that has great potential

  • will not come on

  • Crappy phone! Keeps restarting... How do I stop that? Anyone pls help!

  • my phone is stating that i have an error - 120. what am i to do?

  • Battery 12 hours up time. :(

  • I bought this phone just for trying, and I'm really impressed, the battery lasts longer than 2 days with 2 SIM Card, (no data plan logically). recommend