yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] melcali:
Guys.. I gave my zmax to my mother and took back my Z ultra about 3 months ago. I'm totally missing the zmax. The amazing battery life without having to do any power saving tricks, the almost zero lag in everyday use, quick camera capture and decent pic quality... Miss it all. This thing beats out the moto G for best budget device minus the updates.

Anyways... I was looking into other ZTE phones and I think the zmax(including variations) is the only ZTE phone that comes with close to stock android? I think ZTE should do the same for all of their phones.

Sent from the my Xperia Z ULTRA
[General Questions and Answers] clockcycle:
Yes it is called ZTEOpen, I posted it earlier in the thread. It works with our phone.
[General Questions and Answers] Starflare5:
Ok, well then,

Now we just need someone to create a root and recovery package for the ZMAX using that. Hello, developers..... the ZMAX is calling, asking to be rooted!
[General Questions and Answers] mdabeezy:
You'd have to have the bootloader unlocked to skip security checks or else the files would have to be signed.
[General Questions and Answers] clockcycle:
Here it is again, in case anyone missed it..

Warning still applies...
[General Questions and Answers] Kahuna_Tuna:
Original post:

Does anyone have a more effective way to screen capture? I have trouble getting volume/power buttons to work. I few times the capture would have the volume temperature bar on capture.

Results:

Down & precise sync, worked. The buttons being in a case has made the down hard to click, but that tip, enabled me to key the down better, while in the case with precise synced power press, to capture screen.

Thanks for your tips.
[General Questions and Answers] Lesharoturbo:
Doing some feature surfing on line and some sites indicate that the SD card support is only for microSD and microSDHC, not microSDXC. The manual also does not list SDXC support.

Maybe this is the issue people are having with SD cards and not size?
[General Questions and Answers] shabbypenguin:
Its not that simple. lets say you had a tool similar to odin and could flash images to those partitions, in order to make a boot.img that allows root or a recovery so you can boot into it and then flash supersu I would need a copy of the stock kernel/recovery. How do you get that? all you need to do is use dd and be rooted to use dd to make dumps of the partitions.

So in order to give you guys a "rooting package" someone would need root first. you can compile recovery without that dump and just get it via trial and error but it takes a lot of work on older chipsets, newer ones now with DT.img would take even more work.

And this is of course all assuming that the program even lets you write to those partitions, considering the whirl 2/zinger (i dont recall which one is which) has a way to root but because of the bootloader checks and protection it cant use root to write the needed files to recovery. but in the off chance it does let you write to it i figured id post this as a warning so people dont start flashing random crap to their devices.
[General Questions and Answers] clockcycle:
ZTE support has our kernel source listed and available. You can also find mirror links in this thread, to both tmo and mpcs. As for recovery, no idea. According to other zte device documentation, there is root access via recovery, ftm and dfu modes, before boot. But someone else mentioned that there seemed to be a different level of security outside of thr norm. That's all beyond me, but none the less interesting.
[General Questions and Answers] shabbypenguin:
and thats great for creating a zImage, but you need the ramdisk, zImage, and device tree blobs all packed using the correct offsets and parameters. the kernel source just allows you to make the zImage and dtb's you still need the other half of the equation.

I'm not familiar with ftm, dfu modes so i cnat comment on those but there is no way you have root access via recovery otherwise youd already have root.
[General Questions and Answers] ubigred:
Sounds daunting
[General Questions and Answers] therealduckie:
Don't you also need the SBK?
[General Questions and Answers] shabbypenguin:
The SDK is for developing apps, its not needed for android modding outside of having adb/fastboot binaries.
[General Questions and Answers] therealduckie:
SBK is the secure boot key...not software development kit.
[General Questions and Answers] shabbypenguin:
Apologies figured it was a typo.

but yes in order to flash those images youd need their key or something. im not familiar with zte or their bootloader security so it could be something as simple as the data isnt being written "properly" all the way to you need ztes private key to sign it.

all i can say on the subject is they devised this system for a reason, no one invests and spends R&D and workers time making security for no reason. so chances are they will continue to give you the run around because it doesnt make any sense to then roll it back.
[General Questions and Answers] Kahuna_Tuna:
I was told that tonight on 611 to ZTE tech in India, that the bootloader unlock, would be done as a Over The Air update, as well

Lollipop 5 is too come too. It will be awhile, but both will come via OTA update.

Time will tell.
[General Questions and Answers] mingolianbeef:
Ah... Interesting. Would be unexpected but welcomed! Thank you for this info and I would proudly welcome this method
[General Questions and Answers] xdrc45:
Yes very interesting! I'd welcome both in and OTA update... Even a a simple ADB/Fastboot OEM umlock command and bring on the custom recoveries and ROMs and even OTA Updates. Really root access alone on this device would be great... But an unlocked bootloader and custom ROMs would be awesome!.

Sent from my Killer Whale
[General Questions and Answers] StonerSteve420:
Is anyone else having trouble with voice dialing with a bluetooth headset? It tells me to say a name and whenever I say it the app crashes
[General Questions and Answers] OHNONONO:
Okok..the update that we do not want, is labeled '''ZMAX SOFTWARE ENHANCEMENT''' ? I forgot.

The one pushed from tmo, recently.
[General Questions and Answers] Kahuna_Tuna:
I have that update downloaded and would like to find, but can't because we don't root explorer permissions or access.

I did get letter from TMO on my FCC complaint where they say they will not be unlocking bootloader. They say to get a ZMAX from ZTE direct to have a unlocked bootloader.

They seem to think their ZMAX will allow app to be moved to SD & used that defense for not needing to unlock. I have found the TMO complaint replybyo not be true. Non of downloaded apps had even the option to move to SD. SMH

I will refute their argument with another complaint, showing screen captures, showing apks couldn't be moved or run on SD.
[General Questions and Answers] therealduckie:
Only about 20% of Android users root their phones. If that.

There is no financial incentive for corporations to allow it.

Case in point: google had unlocked phones for sale in the play store. They did not sell well so they all got pulled.

Face it - We are a tiny minority.
[General Questions and Answers] Lesharoturbo:
Mine is working fine. No crashes at all with the app and headset. It does not rockhouse my voice so the time, but I think that is due to excessive background noise.
[General Questions and Answers] StonerSteve420:
So are you saying the guy that got a phone call from T-Mobile saying they are going to unlock the boot loader was lying?
[General Questions and Answers] OHNONONO:
Good question I was scared to ask!
[General Questions and Answers] therealduckie:
I don't think anyone is lying, but I'd rather a community root option than wait for TMO/Metro. That historically takes a lot longer.
[General Questions and Answers] ph37rd:
Many times people quote the information they know or have been given. Not everyone may have gotten the memo saying yea or nay...
[General Questions and Answers] Kahuna_Tuna:
I tried getting as much confirmation from the ZTE guy as I could.

He wasn't lying, if his information was accurate.

As far as the tmo rep at the CEO of tmo's office, we may consider her cc mail to me, was a official response to my complaint of unlocking bl and she was responding to the FCC on the complaint. Note it is dated back on Feb. 4, 2015 . I believe it was the same time as the other Executive Response email came from other user here. Also note I left her tmo ceo number showing in attached jpg of her email cc to me.

Here is her c.c. email to FCC attached.
[General Questions and Answers] mingolianbeef:
The road for the best things are always hard

Now I see how people with Verizon phones feel :p

Look guys, I'm not gonna sit here and say this is easy to accept, nor will I say it's going to be easy to work around, but this is the time to not get down in the dumps. I've gone back to trying out root methods (with every antivirus software available running lol), but I am reaching out to some old devs I used to be acquainted with in hopes of getting some answers and/or training in this. I'm not giving up on it, and I would be interested in learning a little more for android anyway. Thank you so much for all the work you guys have done, I know it can be daunting to get rejected time and time again, but if you stick with it, when you get it, it's going to be so rewarding!
[General Questions and Answers] stinkbud:
As a fan of Cleveland sports, I say that to myself all the time [emoji13] I have a feeling the ZMax will have root before one of the teams I follow wins it all.
[General Questions and Answers] mingolianbeef:
I'm a LeBron fan. I was a fan of him when he was at Cleveland the first time, I followed his career with the Heat, and now I root him on all the same now that he's back there lol.
[General Questions and Answers] John Laurinaitis:
Love the profile pic.. SMALL SOLDIERS FOREVER
[General Questions and Answers] Distant1:
Lmao
[General Questions and Answers] Velrix:
I got this same email in PDF form before the FCC complaint when I receive the true followup from T-Mobile via snail mail which takes 1-2weeks so roughly 1 week left, I will scan it and upload. I can promise you it will be happening and am actually waiting for the file from ZTE engineering department as we speak. I had a conference with ZTE's tech support and that department earlier today. As I said once and will say again, I have no reason to troll. I will say however if I get one more threat or accusation that says otherwise I will disregard this thread only reply to a few people in this thread that have been here with me from day one.

Also like to point out root has been obtained on this phone for over 3 weeks. The reason its still to be posted is it being worked into a app and its not perm yet. If you guys can't be patient and support the people fighting and helping you out do not comment or go buy a mainstream phone with more support.
[General Questions and Answers] Porky munoz:
Thanks for putting in the time and effort. I appreciate it and I hope everyone else does
[General Questions and Answers] laloufc:
I also want to thank you for the time and effort and we all patiently waiting you are appreciated thank you
[General Questions and Answers] Distant1:
Sounds good to me!!!
[General Questions and Answers] brandonlee96:
i dont get it
[General Questions and Answers] mingolianbeef:
Well then :) thank you sir!

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Okay so if I read that correctly and I'm not dreaming, we should have root and unlocked BL in the near future. So, ROM vote, what does everybody want? CM, PACMan, AOKP? (Or others, it doesn't matter lol)
[General Questions and Answers] OHNONONO:
R/W permissions, over clocking, a deadly kernel...efficient, powerful, fast.. In control, versatile.,, My ZTE sequent could do anything in the uhh 802.11..!!!

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[General Questions and Answers] Porky munoz:
Why not all of them :p:p:p:p
[General Questions and Answers] lmarisy:
Thats such great news! thank you so much for your time and effort!! god bless..

Louie
[General Questions and Answers] mdabeezy:
Thanks velrix
[General Questions and Answers] Kahuna_Tuna:
Welcome back Velrix!!!

The negative comments from participants here, was unfounded, as time will prove.

Sometimes, some people will "kill the messenger", even if the message is

"GOOD NEWS" & the gospel truth from the horses mouths..lol.

I am glad you survived that roasting & continued onward, despite the disrespect dished out to you.

People, including myself forget, it is often best, not to jest in written words to unknowns. Those loose words get misinterpreted.

I choose to believe the mean WORDS, may have been said in jest. The results can be misinterpreted & bad feelings created, none the less.

Please try to let it go. Let your good messages be heard & let them speak louder than anyone's bad words.

Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] Furik:
ROM wise I feel CM would be a good first step. It's nothing to extravagant and possibly easy to deal with.

It's been so long since I've had a rooted phone (my last phone was locked and the community gave up on it) so I'm not sure ROM wise what is available.

But I remember CM and PA being great ROMs.
[General Questions and Answers] mcknixy:
On a lighter note, I love my new home screen. It's Go Launcher with glasklart dock icons.
[General Questions and Answers] mingolianbeef:
Lol I doubt the 60GB partition I just added to my macbook pro can handle all that at once lmao. I was just saying I could build one to get the ball rolling.
[General Questions and Answers] therealduckie:
I'm less interested in ROMs - I am just looking forward to r/w access in /system/app, moving apps and data to SD, and the ability to install root-capable apps from the store.

To me, that's the real reason for root. Tinkering and playing in the core. The rest is just cake dressing.

You can get the same toys as almost any ROM by simply installing non-root apps like NOVA Launcher and Tasker.

The ONLY difference between ROMs is the kernel, most of the time. Sometimes ROMs don't even have a modded kernel. (See also: MIUI, et al)

That said, I'm curious: who is really here for access and who just wants to be able to make their screenshots look better? ;)
[General Questions and Answers] mcknixy:
Could care less about a ROM. I just want to install Viper4Android. And some other root-required stuff like Wanam Exposed and other exposed framework stuff.
[General Questions and Answers] Kahuna_Tuna:
Losing annoying sound logo

Nice looking home screen.

May you know if I can change or turn off the opening & closing logo sounds?

I can deal with the visual animation, but the sound mp4 is annoying, especially in a waiting room somewhere.

I found the mp4s for open or close, didn't try to replace it.
[General Questions and Answers] mingolianbeef:
Lol I'm a hopeless flashaholic, and I know ROMs lead to greater interest which leads to people with greater skill sets creating something I can't lol (I.e. the camera tweaks and things like that).

The biggest reason tho, I am a flashaholic, but I can quit when I want darn it!!!!!! [emoji12] [emoji16]

Oh and +1000 for Viper4Android
[General Questions and Answers] mhaner:
Great news. I would love a solid CM11 build, CM12 would be amazing but I know that would probably be a lot harder to pull off. I have gone back to using my 2013 Moto X for now but would go back to my ZMax in a heartbeat if I could root and rom it.
[General Questions and Answers] StonerSteve420:
We gotta have a liquid smooth ROM. Nothing tops those guys (Or just guy. Could even be a girl I don't know) I had it on my GS3 and it worked flawlessly.
[General Questions and Answers] mingolianbeef:
Lmao I'm a guy and I've actually never tried that rom
[General Questions and Answers] 4NDROID4LIFE:
So they're working on making it into an app? And it's not permanent so far only temp root? Didn't you guys have temp root months ago? Or was it a false positive root?
[General Questions and Answers] Vyrus69:
Gotta love impatient people.

As long as we can gain temp root with r/w capabilities, then it might be possible to install a custom recovery and achieve perm root?

Anything is possible, so be a little bit more patient, and the light is at the end of the tunnel.

As far as roms, I'm a fan of Beanstalk and Liquidsmooth myself.
[General Questions and Answers] ph37rd:
The main reason I would want root would be for backup. Most customization can be achieved with apps and launchers.

The only other reason I would want root would be upgrading. Right now, the only way for me to upgrade to Lollipop on my G3 is a custom ROM. Knowing that it's coming, I'm content to run stock. Once past End Of Life, upgrades mean custom ROMs.
[General Questions and Answers] Velrix:
Just so you know what I'm waiting on.
[General Questions and Answers] therealduckie:
Exactly. Us nerds just want root for tinkering and system access.
[General Questions and Answers] laloufc:
I just want to install custom roms and have root access to all my apps and get rid of all the junk apps can't wait to get root but I will wait as long as it takes this phone is amazing
[General Questions and Answers] StonerSteve420:
I'm thinking what makes the most sense is them updating to 5.0 lollipop via OTA. And while they are at it unlocking the bootloader in the same update. It is to practical and the easiest way to do it. Now its just a matter of the waiting game.
[General Questions and Answers] 4NDROID4LIFE:
Guess no one knows?
[General Questions and Answers] therealduckie:
Umm...what "junk apps"? This thing has like zero bloatware.
[General Questions and Answers] mdabeezy:
All the useless metro pcs apps
[General Questions and Answers] laloufc:
Exactly that's what I meant I don't use none of the Metro apps
[General Questions and Answers] 4NDROID4LIFE:
Can you disable them kind sir?
[General Questions and Answers] mingolianbeef:
Turn off your volumes before you shut down the phone
[General Questions and Answers] michael-m:
Can I walk into a MetroPCS store and buy this phone for $99 + tax with no strings attached or do I have to purchase prepaid service?
[General Questions and Answers] therealduckie:
You do not need root to remove apps. See?
[General Questions and Answers] Vyrus69:
Thats only disabled, not removed to open up the memory space on the phone.
[General Questions and Answers] Meep70:
As a matter of course, I remove apps that I do not use (including most of the Google stuff), and disable the ones that I use rarely from autostarting themselves and their services, neither of which can be done without root. Simply being able to disable an app is a start in the right direction, but it doesn't cure my itch to streamline how my device runs. That said, I am probably going to buy one of these, today, and hope that Root happens, soon.
[General Questions and Answers] Lesharoturbo:
As far as I know yes. But you will not be able to use it on any other network as it is sim locked to metro/ tmo. My son bought one without a contract.
[General Questions and Answers] laloufc:
I see thank you guys I would do that into I get root
[General Questions and Answers] 4NDROID4LIFE:
What about if you buy it at Walmart. Can you use AT&T sim or straight talk with big blue's service?
[General Questions and Answers] therealduckie:
Yes, and that is only about 40mb worth of space saved if you delete them. With 12gb usable, 40mb is hardly a backbreaker.

Also, disabling them also means they do not run or take system resources (I.e. CPU, memory, etc).

Finally, I cannot even count the number of threads on here begging for filed like this back. You never know when you need something.
[General Questions and Answers] Lesharoturbo:
That I do not know.
[General Questions and Answers] BigDaddyE40:
The Walmart one is locked to T-Mobile too, the family mobile plan uses T-Mobile's network
[General Questions and Answers] Kahuna_Tuna:
Mine is from Walmart and I know it can only use WMFO sim or TMO sim. Walmart will unlock the sim card for other carriers after 40 days of WMFP use, on request.
[General Questions and Answers] Hurricaine:
I bought my zmax from Walmart. It's a tmo phone in a Walmart box. I'm running it on metro $60 unlimited. I also had Walmart price match the $99 dollar price from metropcs. Best $100 phone I ever had. Lol
[General Questions and Answers] laloufc:
I bought my ZTE zmax at metro pcs for $99 and I unlock it for 8 dollars on eBay
[General Questions and Answers] 4NDROID4LIFE:
What seems to be the average price for unlocking sim? I know on eBay from unlockcellsolutions I paid $1.85 for LG G3 CODE. Check this out. I had to send it in to be repaired and guess what. I get it back and stick my T-Mobile sim in my phone (at&t phone) and it freaking asks for the sim unlock cuz they reflashed the software. I unroofed it but left twrp and they got rid of it. Thankfully I searched thru my email and found the unlock code and it worked again lol

Sent from my D850 T-Mobile SIM
[General Questions and Answers] laloufc:
This is where I got mine
[General Questions and Answers] mdabeezy:
I'm jelly I paid like $220 for mine! The pain of an early adopter lol
[General Questions and Answers] flablitz:
I just got this phone around a week ago, I have skimmed through this thread and and researched many more. I for one appreciate you and anyone else trying to get development to this phone. Just as any other phone I have had in the past, I always help people when I can and also ask for quite a bit myself. Once again, thanks for everything all the devs and other moral support and community in general for doing all you can to free our androids. I also recommend signing the petition to have the boot loader unlocked, I did at change.org.

Ps I see where you said you'd help the peeps from day 1, but please keep me in the loop. Lol up my profile on android forums and view post and or threads. I also try my best for the noob I am. Lol
[General Questions and Answers] Porky munoz:
Shoot man I got mine for almost 270 out the door :|
[General Questions and Answers] chickenmusket:
Did you turn down the tether agreement pop-up on the phone the first time and then try to do it a 2nd time? It did what you described to me (I said no, turned down first time, then tried a 2nd time and it wouldn't tether until factory reset).

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Updates as being a good thing is an illusion. Destroy your hardware with software designed for later devices (or designed to make your hardware sluggish so you'll buy a new one).
[General Questions and Answers] aSuperSaiyanG0D:
Walmart did that?

What all did you have to show them?

I'm surprised they didn't say "well that's with mail in rebate" lol

Sent from my LG Optimus L90 (D415)

I'm on YouTube,

(aSuperSaiyanG0D Gaming/Android)
[General Questions and Answers] DroidisLINUX:
Crosses his hands and waits patiently for an unlocked bootloader, or hacked root recovery.
[General Questions and Answers] Meep70:
By "not perm yet" I am guessing that root can be achieved, but that upon reboot, the access is lost. For me this would already be a HUGE step in the right direction, and one that I would tinker with, for sure.

I support your efforts, and I must ask why, if you or someone else has found an exploit, it hasn't been shared, so that this can be tackled as a community effort? If it is about the bounty, then give credit where credit is due, get the cash to the winner, then let's make some progress--as a community.

Again, I appreciate all that you are doing, I just want to understand how we can all help each other, since that is why XDA exists.
[General Questions and Answers] therealduckie:
It's because the less tech-inclined would swamp the thread with whining, complaining, and all manner of moaning for support from the devs.

It's not worth the headache to them and they are right not to release it, yet.
[General Questions and Answers] Lesharoturbo:
Same here. Got mine in October for 272 from tmo. Metro did not even have them yet

99 is a steal