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[General Questions and Answers] JoePUNK:
In reality. Kate Upton rooted my phone for me.

As a dream. Is it me or does the battery life thing seem to be fading sfter using it for a week. I seem yo be back to fighting for power again. Better than before. But not as good as it was out of the box. And its not an app thing i did a factory restore on it (for the 5th time after trying a bunch of rooting mechanisms)
[General Questions and Answers] seven5suited:
Hey Guys,

I still have my OTA update pending. I am afraid that if there is a chance of root, installing the update will ruin it. Have any of you installed the update? Should I?

Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] recepo1:
+1...
[General Questions and Answers] RaiderWill:
You're Safe.. :cool:

There are no guarantees that we will ever see root at this point... ( I'm sure one day it will be blessed.. but, that could be a month or two off ) so take your update and enjoy your device..

Don't wait on root. :cool:
[General Questions and Answers] nikkdotcom:
If we are all having fun, awesome.

I did not mean to step out of line here guys. Just frustrated. I want this thread to be taken seriously too.

On another note, I'm getting an NFC chip from a company called "Dangerous Things" and I'm going to inject it into my hand. Its $100 and comes preloaded in a syringe ready for injection into your hand.

Oh the possibilities! I'm going to be a #cyborg :laugh:
[General Questions and Answers] mingolianbeef:
Yoooo that's dope!!! I have a regular TPU case (black with a smokey grey back) and a screen protector that doesn't cover the cam, speaker or gyroscope.
[General Questions and Answers] loonycgb2:
working hotspot on metropcs 60$ plan!

I finally got hotspot working on the 60$ plan on metropcs :) now to see if i can find a root method to work :(..

Dont know if anyone has got it working too:
[General Questions and Answers] mdabeezy:
That gameboy case is the beezneez
[General Questions and Answers] Vee63b:
If only i can find a good gameboy color emu with a themed background! Lol

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I'm still looking for a good screen protector
[General Questions and Answers] John Laurinaitis:
What did you do? I got mines today instore and added the hotspot service lol
[General Questions and Answers] loonycgb2:
60$ plan has hotspot option????

I thought it was not allowed as it is an unlimited service.

1. Install an app that creates activity shortcuts

2. Locate settings drop down in activity shortcuts app and find advanced ap settings

3. change hotspot settings (ssid and passcode for ssid encryption)

4. Download foxfi and have installed and ready.

5. Go to widgets and add the hotspot widget and click icon to turn hotspot on. (it will not check for account status)

6. While hotspot on go into foxfi and disable then re-enable hotspot

(if you connect to hotspot before doing all steps then nothing will load on connected device. Also doing this step will bug out the hotspot code)

7. Click hotspot widget on homescreen to disable hotspot.

8. Now if you enable hotspot from drop down menu in status bar it will allow all devices to connect to the internet at full speed.
[General Questions and Answers] John Laurinaitis:
Thank you for the guide I'll be trying it when i have time, What activity shortcut would you recommend? I am using the $60 unlimited (temporary deal $50 unlimited) data. The Metro worker told me something about the hotspot not being unlimited, If i remember correctly.. i was told it was half a gig. It works fine and i don't have to use anything special like a UA switcher. Does your method require that?

Edit: You are given 2.5gb of tethering data
[General Questions and Answers] loonycgb2:
I used quickshorcutmaker off the playstore.

And it depends like any other hotspot bypass. If you use any apple or android or linux products then no, but if its windows i would recommend fiddler2 which will change the useragent to everything on your pc so you can just start it up and forget about it.
[General Questions and Answers] clockcycle:
Its evocel, they have the dual layer in several colors, and this tpu in 3 colors.

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I use xtremeguard full body. They always have 80-90% off so check for cupons. Ive used them on all my devices.

Edit: current promotional coupons are Xtreme90 for 90% 2+ items or 50off 50% 1+ items.
[General Questions and Answers] Distant1:
Thank u velrix
[General Questions and Answers] clockcycle:
Looks nice, but doing an image search, it seems to be a sticker, reviews say it looks even better than the pictures tho.

Im usually a case hoarder.. Ultra feather lite snapon clipon, driztronic ect..

Edit: found a liking to this e-time on amazon, customer posted pictures of it installed.
[General Questions and Answers] bhood:
Those three colors on Amazon are some ugly pastels. :)
[General Questions and Answers] graysooner:
Me too! Thanks for the tip.
[General Questions and Answers] therealduckie:
Even if, and that has always been a huge 'if', TMO and ZTE offered an unlock it would not happen quickly and it is also not the same thing as root.

We need to stop pestering devs and each other and BE PATIENT. Root will come.

For crying out loud...this phone is barely 2 months old in the US market. Did you think a magic fairy was going to root it in a day? Its not as popular as you think. Just because we own one doesn't mean it is popular.

So relax, please. Get to know your device. Play around with it until a solution comes. The more you complain, the longer it will take.
[General Questions and Answers] btzte90:
lollipop update

Found this:

Upgrade-lollipop.org/mp3-0/zte-zmax-6697.html

Has anyone tried this?

Does anyone think it's a bad idea? If so, why?

I might contact ZTE and see if they advise for or against...I bet I can guess their answer, but maybe they'll offer an official release if enough customers request it.
[General Questions and Answers] Kahuna_Tuna:
I just had a online chat with help at ZTE RMA link. The chat circled to, I think, my getting unlock of sim carrier, before bootloader can get unlocked.

Problem is they seemed to indicate that the TMO carrier would do bootloader unlock.

That's not what has been shared on this thread so far.

I will attempt to get TMO or Wally Worlds Family plan to unlock cells sim carrier & post any progress.
[General Questions and Answers] nobreak1970:
Fake site.
[General Questions and Answers] btzte90:
Thank you for the response. Seemed pretty fake to me, especially the comments...a modified code with no bugs, something seemed a bit odd about that. Hopefully ZTE is working on an official upgrade for this phone.
[General Questions and Answers] jc33777:
I have a mini beats pill and it connects Bluetooth no problem
[General Questions and Answers] mhaner:
I connect with a ton of devices without issue. Kinivo Bluetooth adapter in one car, Pioneer Bluetooth head unit in another, Pyle Bluetooth speaker, "magic box" jambox clone from Amazon and paired with my LG G Watch. No issues here at all.
[General Questions and Answers] treezy26:
Hey guys I know this is off subject, but who here uses T-Mobile refill cards? And if so, does refilling my account before due date bring my data back to normal? You know once you reach a certain GB it slows down.
[General Questions and Answers] DroidisLINUX:
Does not not unless you upgrade your plan

The $80 plan has unlimited 4g LTE. Get that its the best
[General Questions and Answers] zmaxfrankie:
root pls ZTE zmax Kit Kat 4.4.4 kernel 3.4.0

Metro pcs unlimited ZTE zmax 127$ brand new awesome deal I e-mailed geohot@gmail.com to see if I could get an exploit code for towel root.. I tried all root out there none working yet... I'm trying to root to get my wifi hotspot unlimited and overclocking.. 127$ I'm not worried about bricking my phone I got insurance I'll stomp on it pay 40$deposit for fresh one if that happens lol BUT PLEASE I NEED ROOT SO BAD. run this puppy as home internet lol
[General Questions and Answers] ubigred:
Geohot works for Google now. Look elsewhere for help

Sent from my SM-N910P
[General Questions and Answers] treezy26:
Has anyone been able to get a 64gb SD card to work with this phone? I have formatted it and tried different ways of formatting but nothing works. Any ideas?
[General Questions and Answers] Lesharoturbo:
Phone specs indicate a 32GB card can be used. I had no trouble with the 32GB. Why are you using a 64gb again?
[General Questions and Answers] mdabeezy:
It's not compatible with 64GB cards...
[General Questions and Answers] Porky munoz:
My SD card is compatible :)

64 gb format to 32 fats
[General Questions and Answers] Distant1:
I've seen a few people on here say they used 64gb just fine
[General Questions and Answers] treezy26:
What kind do you have? I have a 64gb sdxc I believe. Its red. I've formatted it to 32 fats and it won't recognize it.
[General Questions and Answers] Lesharoturbo:
It may also be helpful to include the brand of card, the category as well as the size and type.

Has anyone tried the official SD card format available from the SD card foundation? I know that the Nintendo DS/3DS will not recognize the full card size unless formatted with that format tool.
[General Questions and Answers] treezy26:
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Mobile-MicroSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B0081EAK34

Its this one.
[General Questions and Answers] stinkbud:
I have that one and it works
[General Questions and Answers] JSCinSK:
I have this card (same item, Samsung 64GB Evo):

Best Buy Link

Amazon Link

I popped it into my phone, straight from the packaging. IIRC, the phone said it was unformatted and asked if I wanted to format it. I pressed OK and voila... it works fine.

Using a file manager, I see Android automatically created 11 folders on the card. In the Settings > Storage area, it shows 58.45 GB of total space.

I haven't really copied anything onto the card personally, but I have no reason to believe that everything is normal.
[General Questions and Answers] mdabeezy:
After a while it will trip out
[General Questions and Answers] Kahuna_Tuna:
This setup worked for my Sandisk 64gs SD. I only used the part 1 section, partition SD, with partition ratio modified for different partition sizes.

If I recall I made the last partition, Linux Swap, at a larger size of 4gb.

My z970 ZMAX, locked BL, not rooted, recognised the two main partitions.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=37405779

[GUIDE] [FAT32] [EXT4] [SWAP] [2.3+] How to Partition your Android MicroSD Card

***I used the free prescribed Mini Tool Partition Wizard, my favorite.

http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
[General Questions and Answers] treezy26:
So what did y'all do to get it to work cuz I can't for the life of me get it working. Idk maybe I'll try that program someone mentioned earlier.

Edit: Idk I give up. I cannot get any sd card to read now. It keeps saying "blank sd card" and "the sd is either blank or unsupported file systems" Idk whats going on...
[General Questions and Answers] DroidisLINUX:
My 64 GB class 10 works fine
[General Questions and Answers] Lesharoturbo:
Treezy,

Try removing the SD card, turn phone off, install SD card and then turn back on. I had a tablet that would not recognized the SD card unless it was booted with it inserted.
[General Questions and Answers] Porky munoz:
I have a sandisk
[General Questions and Answers] therealduckie:
So, will it rake root to force the phone to use the SD for apps?
[General Questions and Answers] treIII:
This is an excellent 100 to 200 dollar phone as its sold. Without root compared to other phones of the same price especially with the hardware it contains such as the huge screen and battery life. Al's it appears that it is going to receive some os updates. I'm not sure if I've ever owned another 200 dollar device that has received an os update. Root would be nice but no one has spent bad money purchasing this phone. Mine performs as intended and its the Walmart variety.

Sent from my Nexus 6 using Xparent Blue Tapatalk 2
[General Questions and Answers] zmaxfrankie:
root pls

Root pls
[General Questions and Answers] Velrix:
Sure thing go exploit it.
[General Questions and Answers] clockcycle:
Beware of fakes. I have this one as well, has worked on all my devices.
[General Questions and Answers] Ra.burt86:
Has anyone had problems with call quality over WiFi calling? How about Google Play Music accessing your tracks on SD card?

I had one occassion of two system apps closing for no reason. Other than that, phone has been rock solid.
[General Questions and Answers] crewdawg:
My call quality is very echoey, anyone else have this problem and were you able to find a fix? Using my hands free BT removes the echo.
[General Questions and Answers] alexriio:
^ Same problem
[General Questions and Answers] Lesharoturbo:
If you turn off the Dolby sound, it gets better. I do not think it does anything but make the phone louder and more tinny sounding.
[General Questions and Answers] John Laurinaitis:
Here is my small review: After testing out the device for a few days, i can really say I like this phone... the first thing i did was disable all the apps i know i wouldn't need (Disabled only because we can not fully uninstall since we don't have root yet) It's really great for the typical busy person, the GPS is great, (using the Los Angeles MetroBus app and Google Maps daily) the battery life is amazing, From about 8am to 6pm with my brightness all the way to 100% and 80% screen usage i have around 60% Battery :) I'm almost always browsing using Chrome and using apps like Ebay and Amazon (Multitasking is great thanks to the 2gb's of RAM!). I did notice it does kinda lag while charging. (Guessing because they don't want us using the device while charging? idk)

Also, if you're a gamer, i wouldn't recommend this phone, I tested out Sonic Dash and GTA San Andreas and they both ran horribly!(I'd say the screen resolution is just too high for the specs) but strangely emulators such as Nintendo64 ran perfect! (Used N64oid 2.7 and played some Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64) I didn't really play any 2D games but i did try out Terraria which ran well! Since i'm not much of a gamer, i don't really mind those few flaws

In short, Great at anything but 3D games!

Also if you don't own this device yet, i'll test things out for you such as apps and games etc...
[General Questions and Answers] DroidHackalot:
Maybe it's the NSA spying on you?.. Lol

THE ZMAX WILL RISE!!
[General Questions and Answers] ubigred:
Doubtful.
[General Questions and Answers] Kahuna_Tuna:
Pls forgive this side topic of a one day sale for 64g class 10/UHS micro SDs.

If you are thinking of buying one, I ordered a 3 this morning, liked the reviews & have had good sales with company before.

http://www.usadiscountwarehouse.com/product/new-64gb-micro-sd-card-sd-adapter-free/

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I want to do the same with app links to SD.

The Link2SD & A2SD linking apps both require a rooted device.

So I am understanding that root is required.

Update: I got my cards today via USPS, in just 3 days. The cards are in cheap knock off China made packages.

I quickly put it in. Tried to view with A-partitioner or another SD program after ZTE formated the 64g to 63g. Those programs crashed & were uninstalled.

ZTE ZMAX did a good format. I ran a write read speed test and got good results shown on captured pic.

https://imageshack.com/i/p5VGcpuPp

Now hopefully it will last as long as ZMAX.

I have ZMAX permission to write from esExplorer, that is not being allowed, that another mentioned in our thread here.

https://imageshack.com/i/f0WiHeQJp

Any tips on permission to write from esExplorer app?
[General Questions and Answers] ubigred:
+/- 2 months before crapping out?
[General Questions and Answers] Vyrus69:
When it comes to SD cards and micro sd cards, I've been screwed over more times than most. Just go to tiger direct, or new egg. Or the big box store and spend the money for a quality brand version. Thats the only way you know you're getting something real.

I bought a "kingston" SD card on ebay one that was 32gb and when I formated it, only 8gb was useable.
[General Questions and Answers] 4NDROID4LIFE:
Guess that guy lied about talking to zte and T-Mobile. Whatever
[General Questions and Answers] 4NDROID4LIFE:
Where's that one guy that said hed hunt him down lol. We'll give him some more time cuz he hasn't lied yet maybe
[General Questions and Answers] mingolianbeef:
Everyone needs to understand that we aren't dealing with mom and pop companies here. These are multi billion dollar corporations. People, myself included, said that we were emailing about kernel source for months, did you all break out the pitch forks when it didn't happen when you wanted it to? No. Give him a break. I doubt any of you got as far as he did in terms of getting a response, and he did this with his own time, so don't give him all this flack because it makes people not want to work on behalf of you, which is the opposite of what XDA stands for.

He gave us a screenshot of his email to them. Could he have faked it? Maybe. But for what? I have faith in him, and if they put in the letter that they can't do it, then so be it. It just lights more fuel for us to use to fight for what we want like the petition did. We got kernel source, which is the absolute hardest thing to get from an OEM. BL is just going to require some patience. I don't know how much root is riding on the bootloader unlock, but if it's anything like HTC, meaning you had to unlock your phone through htcdev.com in order for root programs to work, then Root will follow. [emoji2]

Last thing, it is likely that ZTE (or T-Mo) is having to concoct a method to unlock the bootloader in the first place. NO button combination gets us to it, which means its registered as a low level mode that only they probably have access to. They'd have to set up a user friendly way of doing it, kind of like HTC does (using them as a reference again), and even the way devs manipulate Samsung Kies to flash rooted firmware. Its better than nothing. This is not over night. I've only written a script once and it was a headache inducing process. Can you imagine having to reposition employees and dedicate them to creating a GUI for a bootloader unlocking program (or even a website), something I'm sure they didn't factor in at the board meetings, whether its T-Mo or ZTE producing it, just to satisfy customers. They might not be perfect, but they have your money and they have waved the white flag with the kernel source, which shows us they can cooperate. Give them, the FCC, T-Mobile AND ESPECIALLY the guy that even brought these two conglomerates to the table a break will ya? He doesn't deserve all this doubt, nay say and threatening, because he doesn't get a dime from this unless you find it in your heart to buy him a beer.
[General Questions and Answers] therealduckie:
It's sad we keep having to remind selfish and impatient people to calm down and have some respect.
[General Questions and Answers] 4NDROID4LIFE:
Funny thing is I don't even have this phone lol
[General Questions and Answers] Furik:
How do you know?
[General Questions and Answers] therealduckie:
The phone you are using to post from has 3 times the specs of the ZMax. So are you just here to troll and cause drama because you think it is funny?
[General Questions and Answers] mingolianbeef:
That's just... Pathetic. Where's my Troll-Be-Gone. I left the can sitting somewhere...
[General Questions and Answers] stinkbud:
Mods, maybe its time to clean this thread up.
[General Questions and Answers] Starflare5:
Back to the task at hand.....

Hey guys,

I have discovered a few things about this phone that might be helpful....

First of all, if we can find the software, it looks like the ZTE FTM Mode is something similar to Samsung's Odin, however, of course, you may already know this, the Odin software does not work on it, however, I would suspect that there is something out there that does like Odin. If this is found, possibly that software can be used to unlock the boot loader and root the device, and/or install a custom recovery like we already can on Samsung devices. This device also has the basic android recovery on it, so, I would figure that it would not be that hard to write a CWM for it as well.

Anyway, that is just my opinion and, although I'm not a developer, would hope that the developers here would look into this because, I suspect, that is our doorway to rooting this beast.
[General Questions and Answers] Summatyme:
Some of you guys' behavior has gotten ridiculous. To think its funny to trash talk a guy who dedicated his time for free to get a breakthrough with ZTE and T-Mobile, not just for himself but for ALL of us, is plain pathetic. Trash talking someone who tried to help because you didn't get results quick enough is akin to an impatient 6 year old throwing tantrums. And the mods need to swarm all over this thread because I've seen threats of harm to person and property, as well as unnecessary racial slurs.... Over receiving charity. Its become beyond annoying that some of you can't calm yourselves down and chill out over a $99 phone. All of the above is WAY uncalled for.
[General Questions and Answers] OHNONONO:
O....k. Baaaack to worrrrk.
[General Questions and Answers] StonerSteve420:
I just wanna see root haha idc just as long as it happens. Am I losing faith eh yeah a little but I'll never fully loose faith . I didn't really realize how new this phone is.
[General Questions and Answers] therealduckie:
I said it earlier in this thread...

Root does NOT happen overnight. Especially when a device is so new. Pay attention and you will see that those working on root stated it has read/write issues which compound it.

Seriously, the level of impatience is astounding. We are such spoiled rotten brats that we demand anything we want has to be immediate.

How about, instead, we thank those who are working on it and relax?
[General Questions and Answers] Kahuna_Tuna:
Does anyone have a more effective way t o screen capture? I have trouble getting volume/power buttons to work. I few times the capture would have the volume temperature bar on capture.
[General Questions and Answers] BigDaddyE40:
Do you happen to have little hands? Lol

All I can say is try to synchronize as best as you can
[General Questions and Answers] mingolianbeef:
I had the same problems. My advice is A) take the case off if you have one on and do it, as cases interfere with the button's clickiness. B) press the very bottom of the volume button, not the center of it. Hope this helps lol

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I thought this after I saw that ppl used FTM to flash another ZTE phone with this update software they have on the ZTE website (comparable to an HTC Ruu or, like u said, an Odin package). I'm glad I wasn't the only one, great find man!
[General Questions and Answers] DubL~D:
32Gb User

I have a 32 GB card in mine. And its write access particulars make little sense to me. I say that because I can write any file to my sdcard, but once the file is there I'm restricted from renaming the file. Just seems to be a little nonsensical. I'm only trying to root it because I have a 100 to 200 GB mp3 library that is in some serious need of an Auto Tag Editor. I don't know the facts on all the music I have, but I do know enough to know if an Auto Editor has it right, when I see the tag after edit. And because the Auto Editor that I end up finding (that actually works on multiple files at a time) can't make the improper information on the tags any worse, it database necessarily have to be the most legitimate database source.
[General Questions and Answers] StonerSteve420:
In what way shape or form did I sound impatient lol. You just like to get on peoples cases huh?
[General Questions and Answers] therealduckie:
Your words. Can we just get back on track now?
[General Questions and Answers] StonerSteve420:
Followed by "I'll never fully loose faith". You need to get back on track :)