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[General Questions and Answers] hoodred:
Zte Zmax and its brother the Grand X Max bootloader are LOCKED

adb reboot bootloader will not get you anywhere.

Towelpieroot will not work on both devices

Anyone who can continue creating and signing update zip or root please do

below are what I gathered before i broke the phone into pieces.

Busybox pre-installed under system/bin

Pem files located on /etc

Tmo CA certificate under /etc

PARTITIONS INFO

major minor #blocks name

253 0 196608 zram0

179 0 15388672 mmcblk0

179 1 8192 mmcblk0p1

179 2 8192 mmcblk0p2

179 3 8192 mmcblk0p3

179 4 8192 mmcblk0p4

179 5 8192 mmcblk0p5

179 6 8192 mmcblk0p6

179 7 8192 mmcblk0p7

179 8 8192 mmcblk0p8

179 9 8192 mmcblk0p9

179 10 8192 mmcblk0p10

179 11 40960 mmcblk0p11

179 12 8192 mmcblk0p12

179 13 8192 mmcblk0p13

179 14 8192 mmcblk0p14

179 15 8192 mmcblk0p15

179 16 8192 mmcblk0p16

179 17 8192 mmcblk0p17

179 18 8192 mmcblk0p18

179 19 8192 mmcblk0p19

179 20 131072 mmcblk0p20

179 21 16384 mmcblk0p21

179 22 16384 mmcblk0p22

179 23 16384 mmcblk0p23

179 24 8192 mmcblk0p24

179 25 819200 mmcblk0p25

179 26 1572864 mmcblk0p26

179 27 12435456 mmcblk0p27

179 32 512 mmcblk0rpmb

MOUNTS INFO

rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0

tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,seclabel,nosuid,relatime,size=952548k,nr_inodes=181107,mode=

755 0 0

devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=600 0 0

proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0

sysfs /sys sysfs rw,seclabel,relatime 0 0

selinuxfs /sys/fs/selinux selinuxfs rw,relatime 0 0

debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0

none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0

none /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,size=952548k,nr_inodes=181107,mod

e=750,gid=1000 0 0

tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,size=952548k,nr_inodes=181107,mode=75

5,gid=1000 0 0

tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,size=952548k,nr_inodes=181107,mode=755

,gid=1000 0 0

none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system /system ext4 ro,seclabel,relatime,

data=ordered 0 0

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata /data ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,no

dev,relatime,noauto_da_alloc,resuid=1000,resgid=9997,data=ordered 0 0

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/cache /cache ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,node

v,relatime,data=ordered 0 0

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist /persist ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,

nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/modem /firmware vfat ro,relatime,uid=1000

,gid=1000,fmask=0337,dmask=0227,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=low

er,errors=remount-ro 0 0

/dev/fuse /mnt/shell/emulated fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_i

d=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0

/dev/fuse /storage/emulated/legacy fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,gr

oup_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0

BUILD PROP

Build.prop attached here
[General Questions and Answers] Velrix:
Its been bouncing today. Give it some time, they may be doing updates/outage possibly? I started the download and it failed halfway through and I could not get back to the site.
[General Questions and Answers] Vee63b:
Same here
[General Questions and Answers] StonerSteve420:
Me as well. I'm calling shenanigans
[General Questions and Answers] T3mpr1x:
Actually, ztedevice.com, the main page, is working. I remember seeing that opensource subdomain working, so I think this is real! Someone is probably just sleeping on the job and misconfigured it...This is good news! We'll have a kernel source momentarily! :good:
[General Questions and Answers] Vyrus69:
I'm downloading it as we speak!!!

Will post to my google drive once done.

ZTE OPEN SOURCE NOTICE - http://resource.ztedevices.com/uploadfiles/copyright/mobilephones/open_source_notice.html

---------- Post added at 09:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:56 PM ----------

TMOBILE KERNEL SOURCE - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3c_enS_FZ-_d0lhMGYwSU5va1U/view?usp=sharing

METRO PCS ALMOST DONE.

---------- Post added at 09:11 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:06 PM ----------

METRO PCS SOURCE CODE - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3c_enS_FZ-_Vm5RMWtlUWlZVVk/view?usp=sharing
[General Questions and Answers] Velrix:
I wasn't lying obviously lol. Now someone needs to mod the kernel ;)
[General Questions and Answers] nobreak1970:
Holy hell!!
[General Questions and Answers] barrygeorge001001:
Apparrently this is the metrics version

https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B3c_enS_FZ-_Vm5RMWtlUWlZVVk&export=download
[General Questions and Answers] nobreak1970:
Now I want this stuff for z667t.

I'm a lurker here. ;)

The Zinger is the Zmax' little brother.
[General Questions and Answers] shinkinrui:
Thanks for posting up mirrors, guys. So how does this help? I know devs can modify this source to their heart's content, but don't we still need a way to write to the system area of the phone for that to do us any good? Or is it expected that one of the devs around here can analyse this source to search for possible exploits and get root?

Either way, exciting news. Monitoring this thread, should be fun times watching this progress.
[General Questions and Answers] brandonlee96:
so is this the official source code to the zte zmax z970 4.4.2 phone from t-mobile
[General Questions and Answers] Velrix:
Yes it is. I was informed via EMAIL this morning of this release.
[General Questions and Answers] Vyrus69:
100% it comes straight from ZTE themselves.

The main website is down. So I google searched "open source ZTE" and looked up the Cached site and sure enough all of the download links were there for me. MPCS one took 2 tries to download, TMO took just 1.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...urce.ztedevice.com/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

The zinger isn't showing there right now. Just keep an eye out, should show up soon.
[General Questions and Answers] brandonlee96:
so what has to be done to get root access now since we got the zte zmax z970 source code?
[General Questions and Answers] D33PTHAWTE:
Wait for the devs just like before, only now they have something more to work with.
[General Questions and Answers] nobreak1970:
http://mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/renstimpy_0.jpg
[General Questions and Answers] Reallionare:
Hello, I have 2 noob questions is this what we need to unlock our boot loader and ROM development?
[General Questions and Answers] mingolianbeef:
Sooooon of a biscuit eater!!! Congrats on the dedication everyone, I knew we could do it!!! Now about that root... Lol
[General Questions and Answers] mdabeezy:
That's awesome! I'm gonna have fun before I get my xiaomi mi note pro!
[General Questions and Answers] mhaner:
I think something like FoxFI or one of the other ones that acts as proxy along with the APN hack might work. I only tether other android devices so I'm not much help when it comes to tethering a PC. Or if you use a user agent switcher on your desktop browser and set it to Android that may help too.
[General Questions and Answers] Velrix:
I'm just going to throw this into the convo here.

I spoke with ZTE Support today via phone and got with a very knowledgeable engineer/tiii support. He informed me that the Zmax shipped to Tmobile/MPCS unlocked. They do not have the ability to unlock the bootloader and only Tmobile/MPCS has that ability. He stated since they are a Chinese based company they do not have the ability to sale phones direct to customer so therefore T-Mobile will have to provide an update that allows us to unlock the bootloader on this phone. He did inform me they will continue to release updates for the phone and T-mobile has the option to provide them to us and to keep an eye on the opensource website as we could see a lollipop source soon. So sad thing is I actually believe the company is trying to do the right thing but T-Mobile/MPCS is actually gimping us at this point :(.
[General Questions and Answers] ulycb792:
:(..

Sent from my Z970
[General Questions and Answers] Milly7:
Why would T-Mobile lock the boot loader when they don't on their other devices? I would think that if they were shipped unlocked then I would assume they still are.

In any event we still need to find out how to obtain root, recovery, etc. regardless.
[General Questions and Answers] Velrix:
The did it to the Sony Xperia devices and actually started doing it on the Galaxy lines back a while ago. Although I thought this was manufacturer doing this.

Regardless email Executiveresponse@T-Mobile.com and let them know we want our bootloader unlocked. We paid for our device outright and should be able to do absolutely anything with it.
[General Questions and Answers] ulycb792:
So pretty much that source code... useless..?
[General Questions and Answers] nobreak1970:
The source code is a good first step the bootloader lock is a hurdle and the fact that all the partitions are read-only is another big hurdle
[General Questions and Answers] mingolianbeef:
Lol it's kind of the cart before the horse. It allows us to unlock the potential of the cart lol, but it cant go anywhere. I didnt have to get the bootloader unlocked with Kyocera when I faced this similar hurdle, so I am taking just as much direction as the next person lol. I am going to look at the kernel source though, simply for my own education, I haven't done this in quite some time.

I'll get on it and contact TMo about getting the bootloader unlocked though.
[General Questions and Answers] Porky munoz:
If you get the TMO bootloader unlocked could it also unlock the metro

ZTE Zmax Z970 (Metro-4.4.4) Stock

SM-T217S (Negalite rom)

SGH-T999 stock rom rooted (4.1.2)
[General Questions and Answers] mingolianbeef:
I'm not qualified to give an educated answer on that to be honest. However, my best inference based on experience is that it hinges on firmware. Seeing as how they are the same phone on the same carrier towers, it would be my best guess that it wouldn't be farfetched. If you look at it that way though, how come MetroPCS ZMAX got 4.4.4, but TMo ZMAX didn't? If you want a better answer, ask JCase when he gets back, as I'm sure he would be able to provide insight. Anybody else have a less base-level answer? lol
[General Questions and Answers] Shlickwilly:
My question is didn't ZTE cell phones directly to Walmart? That is where I bought my phone and it was branded as a Walmart family plan so why is it that the bootloader is locked on my phone ? Are they saying that Walmart installed the new bootloader on their phones I don't think so. Possibly T Mobile sold the phones to Walmart. But when I called tmobile and ask them about this particular Walmart branded phone they said I had to talk to Walmart to find out whether the SIM card was locked or not because they didn't have that information.
[General Questions and Answers] nobreak1970:
Hit the nail on the head....Tmo is the carrier for Walmart family plan

They locked the bloader.

They provide updates for those phones too.

Walamrt is the vendor/sponsor/partner/brand owner
[General Questions and Answers] afox27:
Same here xD whirl2 z667g
[General Questions and Answers] vons01:
Does anyone know of a good lock screen app I'm getting tired of the stock press and hold one.
[General Questions and Answers] moosiemooses:
Widget locker is what I'm using. Worth the money.
[General Questions and Answers] nobreak1970:
Yep bought this a while back. Its tried and true. I've got mine set for the old Froyo slide lock. Ah the memories.
[General Questions and Answers] moosiemooses:
Yeah I got it and totally forgot about it until this ls got to me lol froyo I have it to invisible lock
[General Questions and Answers] D33PTHAWTE:
I've been using Go Locker and like it. The app itself is free and there are a good many free themes.
[General Questions and Answers] voidcomp:
https://support.t-mobile.com/thread/66334

'Thanks for reaching out via the support forums vegasjoe85. Unfortunately, we can't unlock the bootloader on your device. This is because devices that have had root access or unlocked bootloaders have no warranty. We can't guarantee the functionality of any handsets or devices that do not have a software version that was sold or updated by T-Mobile (for example, rooted devices).

Rooting a device or installing ROMs on it are a process that allows customers to change the operating system on the device. Rooting a device allows a customer to change how the hardware works. Installing ROMs, installs software that T-Mobile has not distributed and therefore does not support. Both actions void the device warranty, may permanently damage the device, and may prevent the device from receiving future software updates.'

https://community.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-2168

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Good luck with T-Mobile.
[General Questions and Answers] shinkinrui:
If you guys want the best chance of actually pushing them into allowing us to unlock it, start a twitter campaign. John Legere is very active in twitter and views it as an integral part of uncarrier. Come up with a good hashtag and start bombing his twitter feed.

#UncarrierMyPhone

#FreeMyPhone

#MyPhoneNeedsUncarrier

#ALockedPhoneIsNOTUncarrier

#UncarrierUnlock

#LockedPhonePainPoint

#WhyIsUncarrierLockingMyPhone

#UnlockMyPainPoint

#DontBSMeUnlockMyPhone

#NoBSPhoneLocks

#UncarrierRestrictions

#FreedomForMyPhone

Just brainstorming. Some terms to play off of for the tag:

Uncarrier(obviously)

Customer Pain Points (this is what they say uncarrier is all about)

Restrictions (as in getting rid of them- again, what uncarrier is supposed to be)

Freedom (this term was used a lot in reference to no contracts)

Example tweet: [MENTION=3373379]JohnLeger[/MENTION]e Why is my ZMAX's bootloader locked? Doesn't Uncarrier mean freedom? #UncarrierRestrictions
[General Questions and Answers] Thediesel1972:
zmax source code

Im not sure if this has be posted already or if it will help in rooting but heres the Zte source codes.

opensource. zte device. com/
[General Questions and Answers] mingolianbeef:
Not bad at all, just might try that :)
[General Questions and Answers] gottago:
I really like #FreeMyPhone, since I purchased it and I should be able to do with it as I wish. The T-Mobile rep's response seemed contrite at best.
[General Questions and Answers] Vee63b:
What about exploiting the Qualcomm's SMC? I know the bootloader's locked, but maybe there's something there that'll point us in the right direction, The file is located at arch/arm/mach-msm/scmmod.c

It list all of the commands issued to lock/unlock the bootloader via QFuses.
[General Questions and Answers] misterbjm:
How about:

#cellbreak

#phonefreedom

#uncarrierunlock

#freedomoftweaks

#giveourbootsback

It would set T-Mobile apart if they committed to open bootloaders and open source.
[General Questions and Answers] TTJB:
I'm still trying to decide if I'm going to get this phone or wait for the Asus Zenphone 2. The main component that I need on any phone is the ability to be able to use the phone as a Hotspot with my unlimited tzones data. So unless it comes out of the box with this ability then rooting the device is paramount. Anyway I found this on another website for rooting the zmax and I don't know if it is "Real and True" or not. Anyone willing to give it a try?

http://theunlockr.com/2015/01/20/how-to-root-the-zte-zmax/
[General Questions and Answers] mingolianbeef:
The unlockr sends me back down memory lane to my Mytouch 3G slide :) but I just tried it, and no go, anybody else?
[General Questions and Answers] afox27:
Kingo root added a new exploit on 1/8 anyone want to try it I can't I don't have the zmax
[General Questions and Answers] shinkinrui:
Tried the new Kingo root app, failed :(

Has anyone managed to locate a copy of the B22 update files?
[General Questions and Answers] Vyrus69:
Guys Metropcs has the zmax now for $99 after rebate. $50 instant and $100 mail in!
[General Questions and Answers] john16v:
I saw that. Now you are wondering is it still worth it (all this trouble) to still try to root this phone. :(

Maybe is time to move on....
[General Questions and Answers] Furik:
I hope not as I just received this phone a fee months ago. :(
[General Questions and Answers] Vyrus69:
Of course it's still worth rooting it. There are many many people with the phone and dying for root.
[General Questions and Answers] mas_rock:
THANKS
[General Questions and Answers] voidcomp:
Huh? At that price who cares whether it gets rooted (though I'm crossing my fingers).
[General Questions and Answers] moosiemooses:
Can some people who also own this phone try iroot version 1.7.9.2 or higher ( if one)? I'm still trying too. It actually worked on a different phone that also was "unrootable". Keep us posted please.
[General Questions and Answers] gijoeyxx:
iroot v2.1.1 did not work for me =\
[General Questions and Answers] rfunderburk39:
T-Mobile update is rolling out. Just got the notice on two phones. I will attempt to share it when I return home in an hour or so.
[General Questions and Answers] johnb380:
We need the boot loader unlocked before any root is gonna be achieved in my opinion. The boot loader being locked is gonna stop any root exploits from making it where they need to make it.

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I can't even play music files from my sdcard on this phone with any music players because the sdcard can't be read by apps. Root explorer can play individual files but music players like google play music and etc. Can't play the files.

Yet another reason we need root. This sucks because then I have to keep the music on the internal phone SD not the external card. We need external card write and read privileges.

I hope [MENTION=2376614]jcase[/MENTION] can get to our phone soon and break into some exploit or something.

I'm thinking when I get my taxes I may just get a nexus 6 since it has much bigger memory I believe 32 gbs is plenty for me. Also the phone has much bigger and better development I've always loved nexus devices my N4 recently broke the screen and I got the ZTE Zmax but didn't know it wouldn't get root ever. So if it doesn't by the time I get tax money I'll def get me a N6.
[General Questions and Answers] PC Jona:
lets get this badboy rooted lets gooooooooooooo

great phone. just needs root so i can adblock and delete some system stuff to speed it up.
[General Questions and Answers] johnb380:
Ya I got that update yesterday its only 15.6mb or so and is only a security enhancement. Its not much different after and if I'm being honest my phone feels and reacts slower than before the update. Idk exactly what it was but my internet seems to be slower after I installed and now I'm seeing lag on a lot of things I didn't see lag on before.

Maybe placebo but I wish I could revert back.
[General Questions and Answers] moosiemooses:
4037Tstill boot loader locked. Rooted.
[General Questions and Answers] rfunderburk39:
Hopefully my uploading the update, someone will be able to discover an exploit.
[General Questions and Answers] johnb380:
That's an Alcatel phone we need to find other ZTE phones that have been rooted with the boot loader locked and see how they did it and maybe even contact the people that did and get some info from them on how.
[General Questions and Answers] jcase:
Bootloader unlock is not required to root this device, or any. Look at my motorola pie and weaksauce exploits, both obtain root without a bootloader unlock.
[General Questions and Answers] john16v:
So is 4.4.4 now after the update?
[General Questions and Answers] johnb380:
Ya I guess I worded that wrong and also assumes that without YOU we prolly would need to unlock the boot loader to obtain root. Here's to hoping you can figure it out friend. As I've heard if anyone can do it you can!

Also are you feeling better and have you had a chance to check out our lil old device?

Thanks in advance for any and all work u put into our phone!
[General Questions and Answers] Alfa Droid:
Music files

I can play music from my SD card just fine.
[General Questions and Answers] johnb380:
Well let's hope they jump us up to Lollipop but I know I'm just dreaming now! But honestly to me Lollipop makes more sense since to write code for an incremental update with minimal change and very little different UI would be pointless.
[General Questions and Answers] voidcomp:
Hoping they don't push us to Lollipop. Very happy with 4.4.4 and Xposed on my N5.
[General Questions and Answers] johnb380:
Your crazy lollipop is awesome I loved it on my N4 and plus we'll never get xposed for the Zmax. We need root first of all and then we can hope for all the other benefits and ROMs and such.
[General Questions and Answers] jcase:
Here is the tmobile update

http://android.clients.google.com/p...3f9cd398146d2cdaea6f2a0.UPDATE_B16_to_B20.zip
[General Questions and Answers] Vyrus69:
Looks like there is a boot.img and recovery.img in that update. Would it possible to alter, rename this update to update.zip, flash it and possiblly have root and r/w privileges?
[General Questions and Answers] Velrix:
I notice this shows B20. How did you get this one? Off the phone?
[General Questions and Answers] jcase:
incomplete images, worthless

Yes, i snagged the url during the update process.
[General Questions and Answers] Velrix:
Crafty work there =)! I still haven't seen the update yet on my phone. I wish we could alter that zip and resign it :(
[General Questions and Answers] ph37rd:
Just saw the Metro PCS add for their $60 (limited time offer $50) unlimited everything plan. One of the eligible phones is this one... Making this very tempting...

From their fine print:

General: Limited time offer. See a sales associate for details. Offer not valid in Indiana. Promotional $50 unlimited rate plan requires LTE capable GSM device. Bring your own device phones not eligible for promotional $50 rate plan. Nationwide long distance only available to continental U.S. and Puerto Rico. Fees include regulatory fees only and exclude non-recurring customer fees. Phone selection and availability may vary by store. Restrictions apply. MetroPCS 4G LTE service available only in a MetroPCS 4G LTE coverage area. MetroPCS coverage and services not available everywhere. See coverage details at metropcs.com/coverage. Rates, services, coverage and features subject to change. MetroPCS services for personal use only. Abnormal Usage: Service may be slowed, suspended, terminated, or restricted for misuse, abnormal use, interference with our network or ability to provide quality service to other users, or roaming usage predominance. See store or metropcs.com for details, restrictions and Terms and Conditions of Service (including arbitration provision). Copyright: MetroPCS related brands, product names, company names, trademarks, servicemarks and other intellectual property are the exclusive properties of T-Mobile USA, Inc. ©2015 T-Mobile USA, Inc.

I'm curious if I could get this ZMax phone and activate the plan, then swap the SIM to my LG G3 (and keep the $50 price)... Keep the ZMax as a backup phone...
[General Questions and Answers] brandonlee96:
so does this update workor no
[General Questions and Answers] SweetBearCub:
As far as I know, you must call Metro and give them the IMEI number of the device you want to switch to, it's not as simple as just swapping a SIM card. And if they know you are swapping to an in-eligible phone, kiss the discounted plan goodbye..