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[General Questions and Answers] Lightfeather:
I just upgraded to the ZTE z970 from the LG Motion. Almost double the screen size! My old phone is like a tic-tac compared to this one and I love it. However, with all the research I did about camera quality and other internal hardware specs, I never bothered to see if I could root it or not. I figured it had been out long enough that someone must have figured something out...

Much to my distress, this is not the case.

I feel in limbo between two phones. One, that is rooted and has xprivacy installed so I can hamstring all the privacy hogging social media apps and games I like to use. (Why the hell do they need access to half the stuff they ask for when they can run perfectly fine without it?!? There's no reason my child's coloring app needs access to my contact list or my camera and microphone. That's just ****ing creepy. Anyhow...) And the other, which is far superior in every way, save for the fact that I can't install most of the apps I like to use on it due to their liberal use of permissions that I do not want to give.

I know there's nothing to be done but wait for some kind and generous soul to donate their time and expertise in order to crack this nut, but I just wanted to throw my hat into the ring as someone who is eagerly waiting for root.

I've been looking for a permission controller that doesn't require root, and I can't seem to find anything. It's pretty frustrating.

http://www.xda-developers.com/protecting-your-privacy-app-ops-privacy-guard-and-xprivacy/
[General Questions and Answers] rumitg2:
Is anyone having lots of crashes on the device? YouTube and twitch force close on me multiple times a day, mangafox hangs on animations frequently, music apps are unresponsive. Its gotten so bad that I'm back in my nexus 5. I've tried doing a reset but to no avail. Anyone else having similar performance?
[General Questions and Answers] BigDaddyE40:
I've had none except for the music becoming unresponsive for some seconds.....but that's probably because of my 850 songs
[General Questions and Answers] tech_yeet:
There is a app that controls the permission of a app with out root its called Lucky patcher it but its consider a BAD here on XDA app because it let's people steal IAP's on most games and that's bad for developers...
[General Questions and Answers] Lightfeather:
I really don't want to use anything other than xprivacy, mostly because it took me a while to really get to know it, and now that I do I really want to stick with it. It has amazing and robust controls. I always start out blocking all permissions and then launch the permission-laden app. Of course it doesn't launch but I pop into xprivacy and see all the ways it tried to access the phone and internet and slowly start releasing innocuous permissions until the program runs fine.

I bought so many apps that I can't install because of the rootless nature of my new phone. I do love it though. It's nice to hold and I love watching Netflix on it. The processing power is so much better than my old phone... I just feel, incomplete, without root.

I'm tenacious though. I'm sure it will be rooted soon. Now that more carriers are supplying this phone, it will increase the pool of people pushing for a solution. Though, I'm also prone to wishful thinking...
[General Questions and Answers] kardeef:
I used to do a lot of coding. Mostly in C and a lot to C++ even a lot of scripts in Have. I have made a lot of Dos and Windows utilities some system level. I haven't done any coding in like ten years. I would like to start again , to make apps or something to root my ZMAX. Could someone point me in the right direction or recommend some books . I want to learn the same execution order and flow for the android phones. Everything I have seen looks like Java is the way Togo, but can you write apps in C or C++ ? Thanks in advance for any info you can throw my way. If you do not want to post anything my mail address is kardeef@yahoo.com .

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That should had bee "scripts in Java" not "scripts in have" , I hate the autocorrect sometimes , lol
[General Questions and Answers] Exconvict:
Anyone tried "eroot"

I would but don't have a windows computer
[General Questions and Answers] 4NDROID4LIFE:
They've tried everything and nothing works and no app like that will ever work. Someone has to find am exploit and build off that. Thank you milady have a great night beautiful.
[General Questions and Answers] mingolianbeef:
Have you ever looked on stackoverflow.com? Or even the Development forums on here. Its just a start but I learned a lot on here and I'm no where near where you are. I'm sure there are books that give far greater detail, but XDA is vast with knowledge on the Android specific level.
[General Questions and Answers] brandonlee96:
it did not work just tried i got this error that i dont understand
[General Questions and Answers] mingolianbeef:
If its anything like the other Chinese program, it probably says something along the lines of "Your phone is unrootable" or "root failed". I know that comes off a bit satirical, but seriously, I used the camera feature on Google translate, and I think it was Kingo root that said the first one.
[General Questions and Answers] auburn2eugene:
I have a family plan with T-Mobile. My wife had the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, and jumped into the zmax. I myself chose the HTC ONE m8. My wife loved her phone, so after my 6 months with the m8, I jumped into the zmax myself. We both love it. We have not had any issues at all with the device.

The same day I got my zmax, we also left with a free tablet. At first the tablet was never used, because well, I love my phablet. Then I started looking into rooting everything. I rooted both my kids tablets, my sons Galaxy SII, and the Alacatel tablet I got for free the other day. Imagine my surprise when I discovered our phones can't be rooted...

I really REALLY hope someone will come up with an exploit so we can get this guy rooted. I would do it if I had ANY knowledge of how Android works...
[General Questions and Answers] brandonlee96:
I noticed you are useing google drive for your cloud storage which only give you 15 GB for free.I just want to let you know of a better cloud storage service called mega which gives you 50 Gb for free. very great cloud storage service!!!!
[General Questions and Answers] mingolianbeef:
This is old news at this point but hopefully it can help someone. If you are a student like me, and your school uses Google appa for education, then you get "unlimited" cloud storage (10TB is the cap based on my Drive for OSX app, yes that is terabytes) with your .edu email with no work on your end. Already got 60GB worth of stuff on my Mac backed up ??? Just a tip for anyone with a college email address who didn't want to shell out money for lots of cloud storage!
[General Questions and Answers] kardeef:
Didn't know about stack overflow.com..lol didn't even think to look here . thank you :)
[General Questions and Answers] jc33777:
I connect my phone via usb and use pdanet+ and on my computer I use firefox and have a ua switcher that's a firefox extension and I go into the switcher and delete everything in all the fields and use it that way and it's fully unlocked and lte speed
[General Questions and Answers] StonerSteve420:
It seems that the possibility of root for us is withering away. Is anyone even trying anymore? Jcase hasn't responded to the recent people who have said they where told T-Mobile or zte will not unlock the boot loader and the gentleman still hasn't posted a picture of the letter in the mail. I'm so sad. All I want is lollipop :( CM12 looks amazing
[General Questions and Answers] DroidisLINUX:
I think the same, I bought this phone hoping it had root specifically, cause of the size and battery life so good I hope someone finds something
[General Questions and Answers] smilesintears77:
How do you turn off connection vibration? it's driving me nuts.! it vibrates once every time when my phone connects and disconnects...
[General Questions and Answers] StonerSteve420:
Has anyone figured out or know of a way to add an app to the blacklist for the task manager so it doesn't close the app when I hit close all. Messes with my lock screen app.

Or maybe a different task manager app that doesn't hog memory or fish through my personal stuff lol

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I've been looking to no avail
[General Questions and Answers] brandonlee96:
what close all button.how do have a close all button in app switcher
[General Questions and Answers] StonerSteve420:
In the built in task manager app my friend
[General Questions and Answers] brandonlee96:
wow im stupid
[General Questions and Answers] mingolianbeef:
If you are a Google Play Music user, you can now upload 50,000 songs instead of 20,000!
[General Questions and Answers] Exconvict:
D fuq? Mediatek low quality phones that arent even available in USA (kazam phones) get their own forum but zmax doesn't?! WOW
[General Questions and Answers] tech_yeet:
It be like that some times...
[General Questions and Answers] mingolianbeef:
Lol this isn't the same mediatek they were. Back in my day, MTK was the evil villain of the Android world. Then, they found the GPL God lol. Now they have root kits, kernel source, and a thriving community lol
[General Questions and Answers] flablitz:
I am looking for the same thing. Everything I make a phone call and when the person answers or the voice-mail picks up it vibrates. It is annoying to me and the person on the other end. Not sure, but it seems to make the call drop too. That's another issue I am having is dropped calls, mostly at the beginning, like mentioned above. I've had reports of people calling and going Strait to VM when the phone is right by me with full lte and full bars. I mean there are quite a few bugs on this phone to warrant a update of some kind. Which I guess firmware is fully updated and only update we would get would be L? (Which we know that's not gonna happen carrier or manufacturer.) I don't know how that stuff works.

With all that rambling, back to my main reason for posting. Is there a way to disable this? - "I am looking for the same thing. Everything I make a phone call and when the person answers or the voice-mail picks up it vibrates. It is annoying to me and the person on the other end."

Which while posting made me think of the call dropping or going Strait to VM issue. Anyone else experiencing the same? Fixed it? Maybe PRL update?

Overall though, I like this phone and even without development it works pretty good and battery life is awesome. I, like everyone else, would love root for the full greatness of the phone. Kinda hard to believe, especially a steal for 99$, that there isn't much. I'm sure lots of people have this phone. Can GravityBox and Xposed work with this phone? I'm sure we can find some tweaks and make some positive and fun progression in this thread till root.

*rambled again* lol

Thanks to all the Devs and all the people that do what they do!!

*edit* I have a fairly decent smart TV. I can hook the tablet up and go right to smart share and played file, but the ZMAX won't because of modes. Tablet you can manually turn on mass storage, but ZMAX does mtp and no mass storage screen/options. Mtp connect be won't work at all. I've looked for apps. Anyone else know a app or work around please. I have to keep switch SD cards between those 2 devices.
[General Questions and Answers] DosCadenaz:
Honestly I hadn't noticed that it vibrated when calls connect and disconnect until y'all brought it up
[General Questions and Answers] Planterz:
Xposed requires root. I'm surprised you don't know this.
[General Questions and Answers] flablitz:
I was pretty sure, just didn't know if there was a modded or light version or maybe a community member knows a alternative app or method. Thanks for the quick reply.
[General Questions and Answers] DosCadenaz:
I'm with MetroPCS. Does anybody know how to get tether to work on PS3? I get no internet connection and when I go to the browser the upsell page comes up
[General Questions and Answers] flablitz:
I added the mobile hot-spot to my plan for now. Mainly to test some stuff out with TV connections ect. Hot-spot doesn't last one to be honest cause you'll need to top up before you know it. I wish I knew a wireless way my self. You on other hand maybe able to easy tether to PC and run Internet via ethernet or router and not get throttled. I don't know. Good luck and let me know how it goes because I'm trying some different connections myself.
[General Questions and Answers] Lightfeather:
Is there any legitimacy to the claim on this site to have unlocked the bootloader?

Edit: apparently since I don't have ten posts I can't post the link. It's at unlock-bootloader .info

And here is the rest: /mp3-0/zte-zmax-6697.html
[General Questions and Answers] SweetBearCub:
Seeing as people in this thread would be all over that if we could unlock the bootloader and/or upgrade to Lollipop (as the site supposedly talks about), I'm going to say no.

These sites are blatant click-bait with cut/pasted phone models. Notice how they say at the beginning that they took this info from XDA, yet notice how they do not link back to it. That's because, as far as I know, such information does not exist for this phone yet.
[General Questions and Answers] Lightfeather:
I see. =( I figured as much but was desperately scrounging for any new info. I love this phone but lack of root is driving me nuts. Sorry for the dead end.
[General Questions and Answers] DroidisLINUX:
The Zmax has cast screen under display, in your settings check it and it should connect to your smart tv.
[General Questions and Answers] Vee63b:
Dunno if this'll work on MetroPCS, but on T-Mobile it does. I had hit my Hotspot cap of 5gb and was gonna bypass the upsell my usual method.

On T-Mo models, it seems that the Native Hotspot app on the ZMAX takes the usual route and defaults to the APN "pcweb.t-mobile.com", so I figured for $#!ts and giggles I'd add some different "APN TYPES" so I could set up my VPN network. Needless to say, I did; but forgot to set up the VPN before I started my hotspot. To my surprise full inter-webz and no upsell page. I even tested the 360 to see if it would work and it did. So in theory, on the ZMAX, the native hotspot app defaults to the pcweb APN when and IF the APN TYPE doesn't specify to use "fast.t-mobile.com".

This is what I did:

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1: Turn off Data

2: Go to settings > mobile networks > APN/Access Point Name

3: Click on your one available APN and copy all the fields and their values. I just screenshot them personally.

4: Create a new APN with all of the same info, but make sure to update the "APN TYPE" field to: "default,supl,mms,admin,dun"

See screenshot below.

5: Select the newly created APN.

6: Reboot and double check the APN is still selected.

7: Start up the Native Hotspot.

8: Enjoy!
[General Questions and Answers] Meep70:
I just gave it a quick test on my MetroPCS version, and it works, as far as I can tell.

Pertinent changes from your screenshot, for MetroPCS:

APN

fast.metropcs.com

MMSC

http ://metropcs. mmvno. com/mms/wapenc (remove the spaces, of course)

APN type

default,supl,mms,hipri,dun
[General Questions and Answers] tech_yeet:
best camera for the zte z max is the CyanogenMod camera!

The auto focus is way faster then the google camera and you get more features then the stock one.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-gILDzs5fkbbk9kN0dMblJRazA/edit?usp=docslist_api
[General Questions and Answers] brandonlee96:
thats nice great find sir im useing it?
[General Questions and Answers] tech_yeet:
So nobody has this problem? Where the Z max heats up like this and which to 300MHz on all cores? It happens for like 10 minute and the phone is slow as hell!

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-gILDzs5fkbSlhMUk44bGl0VmM/edit?usp=docslist_api
[General Questions and Answers] DroidisLINUX:
https://sites.google.com/site/zteopenfirmware/download-mode

So no one has tried this yet, and if not a Dev and knowledge don't try, also would probably need more info on the ROM you flash the one in the post is for a different phone, but the phone in the post also has a locked boatloader. And yet they have achieved root threw FTM or (field test mode) we have field test mode so I was just thinking we might be able to achieve root threw it
[General Questions and Answers] John Laurinaitis:
I had experienced the same thing as you
[General Questions and Answers] johnb380:
I'm starting to hear rumors that the next Nexus may come from maybe ZTE or a big Chinese phone manufacturer!

That would be amazing to see a ZTE Nexus!

http://m.pocketnow.com/2015/02/26/chinese-manufactured-nexus

Anyone else think that'd be awesome?
[General Questions and Answers] 4NDROID4LIFE:
Xiaimi>ZTE
[General Questions and Answers] mdabeezy:
You mean Xiaomi?
[General Questions and Answers] tech_yeet:
I knew i could not be the only one....
[General Questions and Answers] nobreak1970:
Huawei baby!! ;)
[General Questions and Answers] tech_yeet:
Can someone optimize this camera app for the ZTE because this app can take some very good pics it's unstable as hell tho. http://d-h.st/gDu
[General Questions and Answers] DroidisLINUX:
https://sites.google.com/site/zteopenfirmware/download-mode

So no one has tried this yet, and if not a Dev and knowledge don't try, also would probably need more info on the ROM you flash the one in the post is for a different phone, but the phone in the post also has a locked boatloader. And yet they have achieved root threw FTM or (field test mode) we have field test mode so I was just thinking we might be able to achieve root threw it

Anyone?
[General Questions and Answers] Mizoah24:
Hey, I just got this phone a few weeks ago after my Nexus took a nosedive after an unfortunate tailwhip from the dogs. Anyway, I've been following this post for a few days now and I'm just as anxious as everyone else at the possibility of rooting this phone. I did see one person ask about a waterproof case and I couldn't find a good one, however, the case I ordered from amazon (I can't post the link but search for MPERO IMPACT X Series Kickstand Case for ZTE ZMAX - Glow in the Dark Green) is durable and the glow in the dark makes it quite handy to find at night. It also makes the buttons waaaaay easier to push. The few days I had without the case I felt the giant thing was going to fly out of my hands because of how slick it was. Anyway, for $11, it's hard to beat this case. Also...

I got this camera app and it is considerably faster than stock. I've had a lot of problems before with the camera, especially in lowlight, with graininess. I noticed it did help to keep the ISO high in low light. Stay away from Google's camera app if you can. I couldn't ever get it to focus on the right things.

I haven't had this happen before. Even while playing heavy graphic games for an hour or longer. Do you have the T-Mobile or Metro PCS version? Have you noticed it doing that at specific times?
[General Questions and Answers] tech_yeet:
While I'm useing it on the charger... Oh yeah and it's the T mobile version...
[General Questions and Answers] javelinanddart:
Has anyone seen this?

http://theunlockr.com/2015/01/20/how-to-root-the-zte-zmax/

Does it actually work???

I highly doubt it from what I've read in this thread but is it worth a shot to try again
[General Questions and Answers] clockcycle:
Fake. Towelroot does not work on our device.
[General Questions and Answers] Mizoah24:
Oh, yeah that could cause a problem. I read somewhere a while back that a few people have had cell phones way overheat while they talked on the phone and charged it at the same time. I always charge it up before doing something that is processor heavy because of that and I've had no issues, even with the big case. I don't think every phone has this problem but it sounds like this one probably does.

Also, to javelinanddart (sorry, I am adding this and couldn't figure out how to quote you properly), I tried all the mainstream roots and like what has been said, none work. It just says "device not compatible" or something to that effect. Is there anyway to ask cyanogenmod to look at making the ZTE compatible?
[General Questions and Answers] StonerSteve420:
Well that's why. When the phone is charging the processor can't preform like usual due to the electrical current running through it. Every phone I've had lags like **** while charging.
[General Questions and Answers] tech_yeet:
My moto g and Lumia 630 did not do that at and they had the same chip set aswell....
[General Questions and Answers] Mizoah24:
I think it really depends what you are doing while it is charging. Web surfing and other low processor type actions will be just fine but starting up GTA while charging is probably going to be a different story. At least, that's what I've noticed with this phone and the Nexus 5 (which would overheat for me while charging if I tried to do anything fancy).
[General Questions and Answers] StonerSteve420:
My gs3 lg g2 tablets I've had lg optimus all of them have lagged while heavily using while charging
[General Questions and Answers] Summatyme:
Can we please stop posting links and promoting the fake rooting sites for others to fall prey to? Do your due diligence in research folks, and you will see that they have been covered on this thread many times already and none of them work. If anything DOES work, it would be breaking news and will likely come from here anyway. Pumping those links drives them more traffic and is tantamount to spam.
[General Questions and Answers] Mizoah24:
I am curious if anyone has been able to find a good, working lockscreen for this phone. I miss having the notifications right there on the lock screen. I have to admit that I hated the press to unlock but it has sort of grown on me lately. it's a lot easier than sliding for how big the phone is. I tried Echo but it glitched out a lot and didn't seem to work well. Also, I started using Nova Launcher (just the free version) and I swear the phone runs smoother. I'm not really sure how that is possible, but it does. The color notifications was an interesting app but with no way to make it translucent at the top kind of ruined it for me. Plus the other notification drawer is still there just waiting to be called down which glitched out for me a few times.
[General Questions and Answers] StonerSteve420:
Try snap lock or L Lockscreen
[General Questions and Answers] tech_yeet:
The SGS 3 all ways lags LOL.
[General Questions and Answers] Exconvict:
Try Hi locker
[General Questions and Answers] Planterz:
Thermal throttling. You're charging and discharging at the same time. Creates a lot of heat. The processor automatically throttles itself to prevent overheating. Either play games off the charger, or only play it for a bit at a time. It's also very bad for the battery. Keep it up and soon your phone will have a bulge where the battery is expanding. On my old Droid Razr Maxx, the battery expanded so badly that not only did it bulge out the kevlar back, it pushed the screen off; it was literally hanging on by the digitizer cable and a bit of glue. The warranty replacement soon had this problem too, but I got it replaced before the screen popped off. All from playing games while charging. Wifi tethering too. I just replaced the battery in my Galaxy Light because it started expanding because I torrented and wifi tethered too much. If you need to tether and use a lot of data, it's best USB tether - this doesn't take a lot of juice and won't heat the phone up.
[General Questions and Answers] vayiayia:
Syncing Facebook to Phone Contacts

Greetings,

I did a search to see if this topic was covered and came up with nothing.

Has anyone had success with syncing their Facebook acct to their phone contacts? The thought of adding photos to my large phone contact list seems daunting. The phone's contact directory is quite boring.

I've looked through every possible menu on my ZMax and even attempted from Facebook while logged-in on my phone.

Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] treezy26:
Has anyone been able to use the tmobile zmax on metropcs? And if so, how?