yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] therealduckie:
Not according to XDA:

"Trouble is, posts that say “thanks” can quickly clog up a thread and detract from the more in-depth conversation that is going on."

http://www.xda-developers.com/introducing-the-thanks-button-on-xda/
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] biledigger:
Whew. That really helps clear things up. "Thank You" for helping keep the thread clean. :p
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Lightfeather:
I cranked my brightness up to 100 and still haven't noticed a bright spot. I'm on metro pcs using android 4.4.4.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] afox27:
The whirl 2 never got the patch an asec works on it I have the phone an can get a very restricted root access on it
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thereal_antiHackmasta:
Maybe we can get someone how has good grammar and spelling to make a template for an email that we can use to spam the service providers to petition bootloader unlock. I think the more polite and professional we sound the better our chances.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarthJaylen9189:
This is what I sent earlier to John legere

" Dear Mr.Legere,*

i am contacting you regarding ZTE's ZMAX,(Z970) with the android version 4.4.2 and 4.4.4. I was told by Lixin Cheng of the ZTE Corporation via twitter "to contact the head of your service provider/ carrier on this.".. i am with MetroPCS but i ride on your company's network. i would love to obtain root for my phone.. to get rid of bloatware and to have the full experience of my phone. the only thing stopping this is the boot-loader. its locked! there is no way to get around it and we(the developers at XDA) have proclaimed that in order to get bypassed that we will *need to tool to unlock the said bootloader.

if you have any questions please feel free to contact me from this email..

thank you for your time,

Jaylen Hester

"

Sent from my Z970
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thereal_antiHackmasta:
Well put short but to the point it will most likely be read. However to really get there attention we will have to email in mass.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Djoec1983:
So there is absolutely no way to bypass the boot loader to achieve root access?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Rusell:
There is, it just might be very difficult or probably locked up with some unique code for every device. :(

It would be easier if either ZTE or T-Mobile provide us with bootloader source or somehow give us these "Codes" with steps to unlock the bootloader
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarthJaylen9189:
Thank you. I wrote it by just learning English 1. I

Have a knack I was told to sound professional and to type professionally.

Considering everything that we have said on the two threads... It is most likely. If we can replicate what was said maybe we can get their attention..

Sent from my Z970

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I have the source code for the phone. Would anyone like to see it?

Sent from my Z970
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Rusell:
They have only released Kernel Source which will be helpful for Custom ROMs, But that will be helpful once we achieve root.

We need boot loader source code or someone to understand the boot loader.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-gILDzs5fkbbVlxaFctd01GMzQ/edit?usp=docslist_api

I am learning C++ i know how to make viables and sums, make comments notes And stuff.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] totlth:
Good stuff.

Knowledge is power.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] jchavez1993:
Wouldnt something like safestrap from the att gs4 be helpful to bypass the bootloader here to achive root?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
We have no way to flash it, with no fastboot, we have posted a few links to different modes and some other programs that have flashed system.img for different phones, but no one has done it with a zte Zmax yet, so no way to achieve root or flash a recovery.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarthJaylen9189:
I have sent another email to john legere of T-Mobile about the bootloader. Has anyone else tried to contact him

Sent from my Z970
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] jchavez1993:
I have a metro zmax 4.4.4 but would like the tmobile 4.4.2 rom is there like a emergency tool allowing to install the 4.4.2 like sammy odin or lg kdz?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Djoec1983:
I tried to connect my zmax to the zte update tool and it wouldn't connect, everything was installed 100% correctly and it would not recognize the device
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] totlth:
That's for different zte devices.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Rusell:
Kingroot only worked once and... Now it seems that the system somehow prevents it from rooting again, I been trying for 2 hours to root it back and no, nothing :(
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] jcase:
You are writing your boot image to the recovery partition, then rebooting into recovery. aboot skips applying the on boot write protection to system when you boot to recovery. However, since you wrote boot to the recovery partition, your really booting into android, but aboot thinks your booting into recovery, thus no write protection

JC
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] jcase:
Uninstall all king* related things, unplug the device and power it down fully. Reinstall kingroot, wait a couple minutes and run it.

Then, if you can follow with my gibberish, you can set the backdoor property and then bypass write protection to isntall supersu (once backdoor is set you dont need kingroot).
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] loonycgb2:
Write the boot partition to the recovery partition.

This creates a adb backdoor in place of recovery. Then set selinux to permissive to allow system write.

Then restart back to android and push su to xbin then rerun the recovery install to get recovery again.

Then perma root.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] jcase:
dont want to join in the fun?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] nobreak1970:
I wonder if this will work for the Zinger.

Hmmmm
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] jcase:
No, nope notta read it again.

Backdoor is just the persist.sys.k property being set to the property name

selinux issue has nothing to do with anything, jsut seemed odd that a shell context user could set it, its entirely unneeded

WP bypass is tricking aboot to boot the boot image instead of recovery
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thegrim11:
Just for my sanity. This will work on the MetroPCS version that uses 4.4.4 right? And thank you so much man.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] jcase:
I have no idea, i dont have one
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Well to you i say thank you sir. I also say thank you to everyone who logged hour and risked their phones flashing everything they could find. My final questions (because i hate bombarding developers with a load of N00B inquiries),

1. how far can we take this? Is this root to the point of custom recovery and whatnot?

2. And so we were fighting a lost cause because it was never the bootloader but write protection from the recovery that stopped root?

Ill run this myself, make sure i get root and write up the guide in a thread. Of course JCase you will get all credit and there was a bounty floating around somewhere that i believe you can claim lol
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] ubigred:
Streamlined way for dummies?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] skinlab:
Although you didn't want to, thanks for spoon feeding us.

I truly think that was awesome of you.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] jcase:
1) its root to the point of a fully functional "root" that "sticks" throughout reboots.

2) bootloader was applying write protection preventing su from being installed

I don't want any bounty, I did not and will not be posting a root, the bounty was for root. Please credit myself and [MENTION=711482]beaups[/MENTION].
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Your hurdle comes in the success and failure of KingRoot. Everything else is straightforward command line, once you read through the explanitory part of his post, your talking a few lines at the most. Like i said, ill write the guide
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] imattmodz:
Pure genius
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Gotcha and gotcha. Thanks again ??
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] brandonlee96:
is there a guide in how to do this on the t-mobile version just wondering sorry jcase for pestering you about it im a noob and that guide is a little hard to understand and do im sorry
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] smilesintears77:
I have been following this thread for awhile now and it is good to see things are happening. Any love for big brother of zmax, Grand X Max plus?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] hroark13:
no

because on the Zinger and Whirl 2 the recovery, boot and system partition write protection is in place

on this ZMax it seems that partition write protection is only on system, since jcase says he can dd the boot to recovery it is obviously not write protected
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] smilesintears77:
If not, still it's all good.

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Thanks all for all the hard work!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] jcase:
hey buddy, I have no issue booting a recovery image with no signature over here. Not sure if its something I did, or is always like that after you write it

After you use our WP bypass, jsut dd the new recovery and its game over it seems, at least on my device

adb shell getprop ro.build.fingerprint

zte/P892T57/draconis:4.4.2/KVT49L/20140804.141306.18686:user/release-keys

If you want to build a custom recovery, attached is my recovery, ill test if for you before I kill the device for good (or confirm bootloader unlock, whatever happens).
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] jcase:
thats as much of a guide as im going to make, someone else can clean it up
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] krazyone2006:
Yeah kingroot is going to be a hurdle been trying for 5 hours now every way and can't get it to work past 21% anymore.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
I'll be making a guide soon, let me get root and I'll get back to you all...
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Rusell:
Mine has gone up to 60-65% but always fails :crying: I even tried wiping data and cache.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] hroark13:
still have not had success with Kingroot, but if I ever do, I will try to make TWRP for this phone
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] smilesintears77:
Wow.. Really.. Root is happening for zmax.. Soon.. Thank you.. Me waiting..
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] brandonlee96:
thank you [MENTION=2376614]jcase[/MENTION] and all other people that help to get this root to work i really appreciate all of your guys hard work thank you
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] hroark13:
Anybody who is getting root with Kingo, when it is succussfull

Is it a Green picture with a green checkmark or is it Pink with a Pink check mark

On one phone I am getting a pink pic of Andy Android with a tear in his eye

On the other phone I am a pink envelope with a check, but can not get root shell on it

Just wondering if I should be seeing a green envelope with a green check
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] brandonlee96:
ok jcase i know you dont being hammered with questions ;( i really do appreciate your hard work but do you have have full root access to your zmax i dont want to know how you have full root access all i want to know is yes or no? thank you again
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Meekplague:
R.I.P. us people who can't get kingroot to work lol but I'm sure one of these days another exploit will open up. Just have to be patient I guess.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
I think this is a matter of trial and error. If root doesn't matter to you like that (I mean that in a genuine way, not trying to get smart or anything), then run with the wind bullseye lol, but if it matters, I say you try and try until you succeed!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] smilesintears77:
We are almost there...
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Meekplague:
Lol yeah I might keep trying just gets a little tedious after 15 unsuccessful attempts. Maybe I'll dedicate a day to doing it whilst catching up on the green arrow. I'll keep my hopes alive [emoji12]
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
No that is not the big brother (I have one to) it's like the slightly more handsome twin....

Z999LP-A-LTE
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] smilesintears77:
Haha more like ugly twin
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] krazyone2006:
I have erased apk re-download the kingroot apk and installed have even just factory reset my phone and kingroot gets to 18% reboots phone most I do is unlock the phone and as soon as kingroot comes up I got the orange failed envelope. Haven't gotten it to reroot since I posted earlier that it just disappeared 6 hours ago and as stated before I have perfect reception full bars and lte whole time. There's got to be another way.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] brandonlee96:
from root checker pro a little more info about this temp root from kingroot
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] brandonlee96:
what does this mean and did anybody else got these
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Did your ticker get to 100% in KingRoot?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] brandonlee96:
yes
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Okay thx, just wanted to make sure. The last two times I tried the phone didn't reboot, would get to 70% and then fail. It's really weird.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] q12er5:
so i used Kingroot and it gave me root? is this legit?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thegrim11:
GAHHHH I followed what jcase posted and when it got to "reboot recovery" it didnt work so I lost temp root and kingroot is being a little fussy
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Meekplague:
Can't get past 18 now used to get to 57 but now it restarts at 18 and when my phone boots back up it has the android with a tear imma cry
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] loonycgb2:
when you do reboot recovery you will reboot back into android, but with root.

connect to adb and type "id" you should be root
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Yes, but if you didn't follow JCase's steps, then you only have temp root, and it will disappear after a reboot.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thegrim11:
Think I got it. pretty sure it was a typo the first time and I didn't notice it.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] krazyone2006:
Finally got it to reroot now we just type what jcase has in his post in terminal right for the backdoor and prem root?

ok i keep getting errors i don't think i'm typing it in right getting spaces that arn't suppost to be there﻿

for the backdoor do you put all 16 lines of code in at once is there a space between each line of code?

i just kept wiping the cache and unistalling the app and reinstalling and trying and finally after 6 hours it rerooted. LoL i'm trying to figure out the terminal part before the root disappears on me again. LoL
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Yes

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If I could ask, did you do anything special to make that happen? Just trying to see if I'm not doing something right here.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Moon83:
This worked for me to reroot.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] 70cutty:
Finally got it to work
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Any specific way or just trial and error?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
Anyone got this to work on their Univision Zmax yet?

Its really late, and still working outside.

Want to try it when I go in.

Also wondering if anyone has attempted to use this phone on another carrier? It has support for so many LTE bands. Wondering if I could get it to work on Verizon? Searched the net with no results.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Cyconumnum:
only thing is ...im on 444 and Jcase got it to work on 442.....

will the commands brick my phone?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
No. Bricked phones happen when you flash certain things to the wrong partition. For example, in this exploit, jcase is flashing a boot.img to the recovery.img partition so that the bootloader doesn't trigger write protection. It's harmless and it is very common to flash the wrong things or bad .img's to those partitions. (within reason, that's a lot to explain, anyway) and the phone just bootloops. However, if you flash, say... the boot image file to the bootloader's partition, THEN you brick the phone. These commands should work because all these models of the ZMAX have the same partition table.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] 70cutty:
Re-downloaded the app and tried it twice and it worked
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
WARNING!! List of questions coming lol

1. Did you have it plugged up to your computer and if so what mode did you have it in (Charge, MTP or PTP)?

2. What ZMAX are you using (TMO, Metro, Univision, etc.)

3. Did you take the latest update?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] krazyone2006:
say I was typing this in terminal is there a space between each line?

Jons-Mac-Pro:TEST jcase$ adb shell id <----here

uid=0(root) gid=0(root) context=u:r:shell:s0 <--- here do i put a space before typing the next line or run them together?

Jons-Mac-Pro:TEST jcase$ adb shell getprop |grep P892T57
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
"adb shell id" is the command, the second line with uid=0 and whatnot is the output of the command. The next line is a new command. I really can't make proper sense of it until I write the guide, but just look for the lines with "$" and "#" following jcase's name. Those are the commands.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] brandonlee96:
i did the first step of jcases guide to get rw access to system now how do i do the second step in photo 2
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
type each line 1 by 1 with "jcase$" and "jcase#"
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] brandonlee96:
where and how do i unzip update for su
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
https://download.chainfire.eu/396/supersu/
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] krazyone2006:
ok I must just be retarded cause no matter what I type in terminal I just get errors and get nowhere hopefully I can get kingroot to run again I'm done with this for the night about to throw my phone.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] brandonlee96:
i dont understand where hes placing the update for su or what he is using to throw the commands for the update su.zip. is he using mobile terminal or adb on windows???
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Cyconumnum:
ok...i got the SU update

and i know i can root my phone with king because i did it twice the other night....before my phone dropped root and started telling i have insufficient space...which was not true....soooo

do i need to have access to linux? i know that's a stupid question...but, i have adhd and i get lost too easy....

or after i get root i....reboot into recovery (done that before so i know how to get to it) ... i can run the cmds in adb while in recovery....and

i know i'm asking alot...but, i've read everything over and over and i can't make it make sense in my head..

and then while still in recovery flash the su update...or push it from SD?

once again ...i'm so sorry for being a hassle ..i swear i'm being honest ...i want root ...but, i can't make sense of things....

this is not the first android i've rooted...but the last 3 had things more app and flash friendly ...without ADB or linux usage..

if i'm asking too much i can just wait and see if it's made easier down the way for small brained people like me
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] 70cutty:
No I use the apk ..I'm on metro 4.4.4 and yes I updated
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
adb. You have to place those files where ever your adb.exe is

Please God tell me your process for getting it to root. What version of the ZMAX do you have? Did you have it plugged into your computer, if so, what mode (MTP, PTP, or Charging)? Stuff like that. The sooner I get this thing rooted, the sooner I can help everyone else. His guide makes perfect sense to me I just cant get past this stupid a** KingRoot!!!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Cyconumnum:
k ..i will root now and explain
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] krazyone2006:
Uninstall everything related to rootking all three apps power down phone leave off for a minute or two then reboot install rootking, go to where you get the best fastest reception and run when it reboots the phone only unlock it. Rootking Should automatically start back up. If it fails clear cache after each time I also had to unfollow this post so the emails didn't interrupt it. I got the metro PCS version updated on 4.4.4 I also set my display to stay on for the longest amount of time I think it's 30 minutes so it wasn't timing out on me.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] brandonlee96:
like this?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Could kiss you right now :)
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
I have no idea if I had dumb luck or what, but KingRoot finally worked. And I have tried it for over 24hrs now, probably over 100 times. Uninstalled and reinstalled over 50 times.

Model: Univision Zmax

Baseband: P89T57B01 (update downloaded, not installed yet)

Android Ver: 4.4.2

Kernel: 3.4.0-g9b6969a-00468-g8a5deba zte-kernel@Zdroid-SMT

Build Number: Z970V1.0.0B20

DEVICE STATUS:

- Plugged into external power

- Airplane mode ON

- WiFi ON

- Go into WIFI SETTINGS > ADVANCED (menu button) > TURN OFF Wi-Fi optimization (uncheck) --------- I believe this was the most critical - part of getting this to work for me

- Cleared Cache and Data for KingRoot app, then uninstalled

- Rebooted phone, reinstalled KingRoot

- Ran KingRoot (it did not reboot the phone at 17% like it always has)

- Pop up said "Unfortunately, com.kingroot.kinguser has stopped" ---- I let it finish. Progress par in the background reached 100%

- Had all 3 KingRoot apps after.

- Checked root with Root Checker POSITIVE+

- Had a live wallpaper before this whole process. My wallpaper was switched to the default wallpaper after KingRoot had obtained Root.

Notes:

- Make sure to turn off the WiFi power saving

- Turn off your live wallpaper. Just make it a plain one

- Uninstall KingRoot AFTER clearing the data

- Uninstall the app and TURN OFF PHONE (meaning POWER DOWN, not reboot)

- Give it a few minutes, then turn ON

- Reinstall KingRoot

- Run the app

- Check for Root if it completes

Hope that works for you.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] dmmckitrick:
OK works on the Metro Pcs running 4.4.4 without latest update.

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I could not get Rootking to go pass 18% for hours on the Metro Pcs 4.4.4, Finally cleared cache and did a factory reset. Downloaded rootking worked first try. Will put together everything I did tomorrow and post for others.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
[MENTION=1022383]jaca[/MENTION]se

followed instructions, got /system rw

but when i push su to system/xbin i get permission denied

pushing su to /system/xbin/daemonsu workd though

pushing install-recovery.sh also gave me error permission denied

although all files appeared in system, both su, and recovery-install, are not correct sizes

chmod worked for daemonsu, but not for either su or recovery-install.sh

any ideas?