yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] ottisdwood:
Picked up this phone around x-mas. Put it to the test everyday and never have more than a small keyboard lag. I didn't like the fact of limited sdcard use until I figured out how to manually move movies, pictures, songs to SD.:mad:... Love 5.7 inches any day, the hotspot and tether but the battery life on high demand functions is what makes this phone a great bang for your buck. No reason why this phone wouldn't be better with root and I for one thank any person that work on bootloaders, unlocks, roots for no pay. Its a lot of work and endlessly repeating the process on new phone for ppl that want, no... Ppl that need the most out of their phones. Hope you guys are making progress. I'll be willing to put some $ on the cause or my phone to test. Good luck

Sent from my Z970
[General Questions and Answers] treewalkr:
zmax

this is late, i know, but dont forget the gorilla glass...i spent a week looking online for a screen protector and finally ended up on a site where they chat with you,and they informed me that the gorilla glass is so strong u dont need one..

im ALSO looking for a way to root the phone (warranty be damned) and i had a conversation with a tech guy from tmobile about it and he said it can be rooted, just didnt divulge the information about it, just went in to the whole it will voind ur bla bla bla..i hung up on him..if u have come across a way to do it id love to know
[General Questions and Answers] therealduckie:
Can I just say, again, how much I miss when this site was smart people and users with manners and not permeated by selfish 15 yr olds who demand instant gratification?

RIP good ole days
[General Questions and Answers] Furik:
We don't need another thread at all - this one just need heavily cleaned up.
[General Questions and Answers] Shlickwilly:
Please please please stop quoting starflare...... He is completely ignorant about the way an android OS is layer out and has nothing to contribute.
[General Questions and Answers] hroark13:
So I take this as meaning that the recovery.img does not have to be signed to boot on this phone, and when I say boot I mean booting from the recovery partition after it has been flashed

Am I wrong ?
[General Questions and Answers] tech_yeet:
Don't you mean she?
[General Questions and Answers] Rusell:
Humiliation on XDA won't get us NO WHERE! If y'all really want this device rooted, lets just keep this thread simple and dedicated to it. This is one of the reasons a developer might not even bother to look over this device

Rusell
[General Questions and Answers] Ranger1189:
I don't believe starflare5 is a she. Try and google starflare5. How many people do you think could be using that same screen name?

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I couldn't agree more. He's done more harm than good here. He is doing nothing more than harassing those who can actually accomplish root on this phone.
[General Questions and Answers] tech_yeet:
I remember seeing a post from starflar5 abont boy friend... Thats why I said that...
[General Questions and Answers] Rusell:
Guys, I think that talking about how this thread is full of **** is making this thread in relevant to what it is supposed to be about. Let's try forgetting everything and go to our main objective :

Root the ZTE ZMAX (Z970)

I am no developer to justify how hard that will be.

Rusell
[General Questions and Answers] smilesintears77:
The fact is JCASE IS DONE WITH THIS PHONE. water has been spilled it's too late. close this thread.
[General Questions and Answers] totlth:
Everyone that's wants this thread closed. Pretend that it is and stop posting.

I'm still working on root and I'm sure others are as well. ( I'm not a dev)
[General Questions and Answers] Vyrus69:
I'm still going to pester ZTE with messages regarding a boot unlock. Gotta keep pushing.
[General Questions and Answers] voidcomp:
Lol, you stir everything up with your delusional, ill-tempered rantings then call for unity.

What a piece of work.

Now we can proceed ... with your absence.
[General Questions and Answers] Starflare5:
Please go away if you're not....

If you're not going to say or do something constructive and helpful, please go away, and I'm only going to ask nicely once....
[General Questions and Answers] totlth:
I thought I read a few posts back about phone not being recognized by pc when in ftm. I have got my pc to recognize my phone while in ftm. Still got no permissions tho. Not trying to contradict or start anything. Just letting it be known.

I've been messing with adb shell a bit so any ideas on that route are welcome as well.
[General Questions and Answers] Starflare5:
*Scratches Head* Conflicting stories......

Ok, half the posters (including jcase) state that the bootloader is unlocked, while the other half state that it isn't. Which is it?
[General Questions and Answers] Meep70:
I have followed this thread, from the beginning, and I do not recall ANYONE, at any time, saying that the bootloader is unlocked. It has been mentioned that ZTE talked about releasing an unlocked bootloader, but that appears to be either rumor or vaporware.
[General Questions and Answers] Ranger1189:
Correct. No one said that the bootloader was unlocked.
[General Questions and Answers] Starflare5:
Thank you TecheTag, so it is extremely similar to a Samsung, but, still in a weird ZTE way.... We need to first get ahold of the ZTE restore software like ODIN and work from there.

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There is a piece of software from ZTE that works like Odin for emergency recovery of the phone.. I'm trying to find it. That would probably be where we need to start.
[General Questions and Answers] totlth:
That would probably help get back to stock once we start flashing. But I don't believe it will help with root. We can't start flashing until bootloader unlock or Loki or something to get around bootloader. For root I think we need something like safestrap that will allow us to interrupt boot sequence to have write permissions to add su binary to the xbin folder. I may be off on something, but this is what my research is telling me.
[General Questions and Answers] Meep70:
It might help in that a stock ROM image could be modified (i.e. R/W access to /system, or the SU binary added), signed, and then installed by this method.
[General Questions and Answers] Meep70:
Has anyone tried building an update.zip file and seeing if that can somehow install SU binaries?
[General Questions and Answers] totlth:
The software I know of for zte doesn't let you choose what to flash. If there is one that is truly like Odin, I'm not aware of any, I guess it could help with root.
[General Questions and Answers] Rusell:
It needs to be signed by ZTE codes. I don't know where we can find a way to "sign: this zips so we can flash them using Stock Recovery.

Although it is possible as I remember an Chinese tablet that i owned was rooted using Stock Recovery and a .zip
[General Questions and Answers] Meep70:
True, but it is another approach to be explored. The more ideas we throw at this thing, the more likely we are to reach the goal that we are all after, here. ¿Verdad?
[General Questions and Answers] biledigger:
Would this be of any help?

https ://sites.google.com/site/zteopenfirmware/download-mode
[General Questions and Answers] Rusell:
Si ;) I already set up my Ubuntu environment, I just don't know what to do afterward. I look up how to root a device and it rather gives me apps and guides instead of teaching me how to ACTUALLY root a device without any root method available yet. Maybe any developer without the device willing to guide me through?
[General Questions and Answers] Meep70:
I have looked at that and wondered, as well. It appears to be for a specific model of phone, other than the one we have, but it could give insight to someone more knowledgeable than me.
[General Questions and Answers] StonerSteve420:
http://ukblog.im-mobility.com/using-zte-android-software-update-tool
[General Questions and Answers] totlth:
I ran into that also. Got more info when I searched " android root exploits"
[General Questions and Answers] Meep70:
I am not a developer, and I have never played one, on TV. That said, what needs to be done is figuring out how to make the /system folder writeable--even if only long enough to copy a few files, then make it read-only, again.

Study permissions on a Linux system (Ubuntu is fine) and get to know your way around, and that is a step in the right direction.
[General Questions and Answers] Starflare5:
THANK YOU!!!!
[General Questions and Answers] Rusell:
Great finding, I see it requires an Internet connection to proceed to flash, this might prevent us to flash any modified image to the phone. Best we can do of that is to patch it to work offline and directly skip to "Flashing" in the device.
[General Questions and Answers] Starflare5:
THANK YOU!!!!! Also StonerSteve
[General Questions and Answers] StonerSteve420:
I just wanna help :)
[General Questions and Answers] Vyrus69:
Regardless the issue still stands that this phone has NO exploits. Jcase had to CREATE an exploit just to root his phone.

Zte built this phone super secure. All of these methods won't work, you need to think out of the box. Basically how can we push a file into the root of the system folder that will create an exploit in the phone.

All known 4.4 exploits are patched on this phone.
[General Questions and Answers] totlth:
That's what I'm looking into. Interrupting boot and pushing a file thru adb.
[General Questions and Answers] Starflare5:
And you have...... Here's an actual direct link to the tool itself under Software Downloads.....

http://www.zteusa.com/media/wysiwyg...oftware_Online_Upgrade_Tool_EXE_-_26.6MB_.zip

It may look like it's specific for the Warp, however, every search leads to this same exact tool for all ZTE phones...

This software might have a proxy workaround to make it not connect to the internet, however, the update tool does look like it actually let's you choose your firmware to install..... So, now, their may have to be written a root in a ZTE firmware update package similar to the MD5's developers make for Samsung devices......
[General Questions and Answers] TecheTag:
I also got my Linux up and running but I was looking into modifying the default.prop..... I just can't figure out how extract the boot.img..or do we have to be root to do this....
[General Questions and Answers] Starflare5:
What is the ZTE.....?

I know this is going to sound like a really stupid question, but, what is the ZTE update package file format? Is it something proprietary to ZTE only that has to be converted, or, something we can unzip and extract things like the boot.img from?

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This particular device may not be as secure as anyone thinks. Yes, every other previous method has failed that uses methods from older devices or an app, however, there is software that recognizes the phone when connected to a PC from the outside......

Think about this for a second..... How secure would we think a Samsung phone is if we hadn't learned about or to work with Odin?

None of the other methods will work on this phone because, it looks as if ZTE was following the best Android phone maker out there in their own proprietary way, or, at least, made it look proprietary.

This is why we need to figure out ZTE's update file format. We already know that this phone has a basic android zip file recovery on it, so, maybe we can also use that to our advantage as well....

In fact, ZTE sent out an update for this phone a about a month and a half ago in the zip file format. Was anyone able to copy that zip file?
[General Questions and Answers] therealduckie:
Had my first computer, a TRS-80, in 1978.

Do I win?
[General Questions and Answers] TecheTag:
It doesnt work for or phones because it was made like 3 years ago....it needs to read our phone In FTM mode but debugging doesnt work in FTM mode......also when i try select another model number our model number is not listed.....
[General Questions and Answers] totlth:
I'm not sure how you were trying FTM with adb, but I've been doing just that all day long. Trying to find anyway around the permissions. I haven't succeeded but adb definitely works on FTM.
[General Questions and Answers] tech_yeet:
Ew.???
[General Questions and Answers] dongarritas:
I am totally not a dev, just trying to use logic, and perhaps help those that are WAY more qualified than me. Seems to me that if anyone could get ahold of the first official update zip and open it for modification, that would certainly be a way to create an exploit. Also, as far as the ZTE tool needing internet access, it would seem to me that it would be easy enough to spoof ip address and connect to another device(s).

P.S. Just for s**ts and giggles and waving tech phallus around, I was in a private school outside of Austin during 1973-1975, and we were hooked up to UT's mainframe via teletype...punch cards and mag tapes. Basic, Fortran, Cobal(memory a little foggy on that one) were languages of the day. Thousands of square feet of UT hardware could be systematically shut down by a simple input of "0 divided by 0). :p Anyway, thanks to all with a curious mind, and a talented brain! :good:
[General Questions and Answers] TecheTag:
Power volume down to get into FTM.. Adb devices. I get devices:???????? No Permission

.... Have you tried to make a backup in Adb?
[General Questions and Answers] johnb380:
Has anyone got command prompt to work with adb try oem-unlock that seems to be what most OEMS use for their command for boot loader unlock. But I don't have a PC right now.

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oem_unlock
[General Questions and Answers] q12er5:
no root? sorry i just got this phone
[General Questions and Answers] StonerSteve420:
What if it was that easy haha
[General Questions and Answers] Cheezenub:
I use it every day. I usually carry it in my front pocket. I have never left any phone in my pocket when I sit. Even the old flip phones from years ago. I fell in love with larger phones when I bought a Note 2 when it came out. The size is perfect. Fits pocket when walking or standing. In the car it sits on a mount. When I sit I usually am using it for something.

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I have no problems with the backlighting on my ZMax buttons. Plus the more I use the phone the less I need to look for the buttons
[General Questions and Answers] Everymanalion:
But is the backlight for it more on the dimmer side to you? I am used to menu buttons that are bright as hell when turned on.
[General Questions and Answers] lkchrono:
The backlight is dimmer than other phones I've used but it's very nice in the dark. Less obnoxious overall. And I too keep our stashed in my front pocket. Fits perfectly in my work pants.
[General Questions and Answers] jsteal55:
I believe everyones phone ? have dim menu bottoms
[General Questions and Answers] crewdawg:
OK so how well do most games run on this phone and how is the reception? I work on a Navy base and my N4 gets horrible reception.
[General Questions and Answers] Cheezenub:
My Note 2 got 1-2 bars LTE in my house. This phone gives me 3-4. Realize this is not a top spec phone. I would say it plays casual games fine. But 3D graphics intensive ones may be suspect.
[General Questions and Answers] jsteal55:
I have really good signal and LTE service I play games a lot games on this phone ? and had no problems with it so far
[General Questions and Answers] bryanizmir:
The LG Flex is my daily driver, it is pretty much the same size as the zmax. I have it in my pocket all day, sitting included. I have no problems carrying it around.
[General Questions and Answers] crewdawg:
I understand that it's not a top spec phone and I don't play any crazy top games. I do alot of web surfing and light game playing. My N4 barely gets through my work day, I have 2 boys playing football, and I have class two nights a week. So the ZMAX sounds like it can give me what I need. Does anyone know of any rugged case's for it?
[General Questions and Answers] asrr62:
I can get like two days or 8 hours screen on time so the battery life is great. I just ordered the case in the link below yesterday. I thought the case looked substantial enough.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00ON...165_QL70&qid=1414963562&sr=8-7#ref=mp_s_a_1_7
[General Questions and Answers] Th3_Engineer:
Issam Bayan good luck
[General Questions and Answers] disco_dan:
Android Wear?

Since this device doesn't have NFC, is it possible to use Android Wear with it?
[General Questions and Answers] Everymanalion:
Does anyone know if there is anyway to make the menu/back/home buttons vibrate when you press them? I cant find an option anywhere
[General Questions and Answers] mezkal24:
Settings> Sounds> Vibrate on Touch
[General Questions and Answers] Everymanalion:
ThankThank you so much!

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By the way if you are on the fence about this, don't be. I am sitting on 17 hours of usage with 55 percent battery left. That is texting, youtube, facebook and brightness all the way up. Great phone for $200.
[General Questions and Answers] Everymanalion:
Does anyone else hear crackling/popping when they record a video on this sometimes?

Also do you hear a weird clicking noise when you open the camera and close the camera app? Weird internal sounds
[General Questions and Answers] lkchrono:
Yes a little but it's not very obvious. And no. Nothing weird with my camera when it powers on and off.
[General Questions and Answers] RaiderWill:
The Time Has Come...

Recepo.. You asked me to update you on the Note 4.. :cool:

My advice.. GET IT over the N6. If you like to tweak without even getting into rooting this is the one to get.. even though rooting the T-Mobile version and installing TWRP is certainly an option.. and the screen man.. the screen.. :cool:

Ladies? & Gentleman,

It has truly been a pleasure.. My Zmax ( especially the 2nd one ) was a WONDERFUL device. :cool:

But I've had "Note 4 Fever" ever since I started watching all the Tips and Tricks it's capable of on youtube and I was finally able to rush to a store and get one ( They sellout within 2 hours in my locale ) so I wanted to say goodbye and good luck with your Zmax's.. I know root will come to you ! :good:
[General Questions and Answers] recepo1:
Well enjoy good buddy with the soon upcoming release of the Note Edge and Nexus 6 im holding on as long as i can to the ZTE Zmax but i dont know how long that will be
[General Questions and Answers] RaiderWill:
Thanks Man.. :cool:

Whether you go with the N6, Note Edge, or Note 4.. stick with T-Mobile to ensure that Bootloader is Unlocked or Un-lockable.

If you are going with the N6, Wednesday's are the "Auction Day" @ Google.. But, you have to be on drugs to stay up and alert so you can keep refreshing the website's page and be prepared to make INSTANT purchase because they are gone within a few minutes.. :D

This is the only way to get an N6 without the *Carrier Bloat* that you KNOW is going to be on every Nexus 6 released by Carrier's..

Even T-Mobile...

So, you are going to have to be on your toes to snag an N6 on Wednesdays... or just wait a month or so until demand dies down a little..

That's how I got my Note 4.. :cool: But as you know.. it's HARD AS HELL to wait for a killer device when you have the means but can't get your hands on it.. :cool:

Let me know which device you end up getting.. They are all GREAT choices.
[General Questions and Answers] Ranger1189:
You win by a couple of years. My first computers were TRS-80 model 3's.
[General Questions and Answers] totlth:
I have tried pulling files but it gives me permissions error.

I get numbers where you get ???????? When I do adb devices.

When I do adb shell I get draconis which I assume is the board or chipset.

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I was able to push an exhaustion exploit to /data/local/tmp and change permission on it and run it. The exploit ran fine but no root was achieved.

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I gotta setup cygwin to compile fresh binary. The one I tried was a lil old.
[General Questions and Answers] Mizoah24:
I mean this in the most polite way but read through the thread. Seriously. Just read it. Honestly, just from the current comments you can see the answer is right in front of you.
[General Questions and Answers] Meep70:
If you are doing it in Linux, you have to be root or use sudo before your adb (or fastboot) commands. In windows you MAY have to run your command prompt with administrator rights.
[General Questions and Answers] mingolianbeef:
You might as well be talking about dinosaurs because I have absolutely no idea what any computer was before the win98 Gateway lol. I'm only 20 tho, that would probably be the reason
[General Questions and Answers] TecheTag:
Been Up Working On This

So I been Up Most of the night trying to get some form of root....i got as far as pushing su , busybox and superuser.apk into /data/local/tmp.its not root but i belive its something....i also found out where the our imgs. are for our phone, boot, kenerl, recovery, etc.....when i wake up in about 5 to 6 hours im going to be back at it again...if anybody has any ideas on getting root throw them out...Im not a developer.....so maybe someone with more exp. can point me in a new direction. Have A Good Night...And Lets Work Together to get this phone rooted..
[General Questions and Answers] nobreak1970:
One : Vic-20
[General Questions and Answers] therealduckie:
I'll believe it when you can push to /system :P
[General Questions and Answers] dabluze:
way past my knowledge base

gonna keep the zte around,but since I do need root for a few things,I picked up an htc one max for $239.00 on ebay.hope the zte gets rooted,but unless there's someone out there with jcase skills,I doubt it.
[General Questions and Answers] clockcycle:
Hi, I tried "nook color tools" apk on xda written by ben47 long ago. It gives access to several hidden menu options. But none with options to disable call connection vibration option. Ive seen the ability to do so on other devices. None on the zte zmax so far.
[General Questions and Answers] smilesintears77:
thanks for the information. i guess only the root is the answer ?
[General Questions and Answers] clockcycle:
Once again, this is the tool others have used with different model(s) zte phone(s)..

YMMV.
[General Questions and Answers] tech_yeet:
http://www.xda-developers.com/qualcomm-security-exploit-djrbliss/

I know he did not release the exploit

But he did release a summary so maybe one of you have enough skill?
[General Questions and Answers] TecheTag:
This is the boot.img that I'm trying to unpack so I can modify the default.prop
[General Questions and Answers] jcase:
Neither the exploits I used mentioned in that article, nor the one's by dan are applicable to this device.
[General Questions and Answers] thereal_antiHackmasta:
Has anyone tried sigmakey to unlock the bootloader? It seems to have worked for many other devices including ZTE.
[General Questions and Answers] TecheTag:
Nope but ill try it when I get done smoking this cig

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It requires some device that you have to buy
[General Questions and Answers] brandonlee96:
yup and its like $170
[General Questions and Answers] thereal_antiHackmasta:
I'm gonna ask their customer support some questions about the device and if it suits our needs I would be will to contribute to the cost. Also thanks for looking into this for the community. I haven't lost hope for this phone yet let's be the ones to make a difference. [emoji3]
[General Questions and Answers] nobreak1970:
Worth it?
[General Questions and Answers] tech_yeet:
I found this interesting little file called verify.zip and it has some stuff that looks like it could help make a custom recovery....