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[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Masterchief87:
I posted my zips for MetroPCS a couple hours ago on android forums

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The bootloader is not locked down completely but it is locked at least partially. A better way to put it might be to say that the bootloader locks the system partition from being written unless you are booting from the recovery partition. If the boot.img was responsible for the write protection then flashing it to the recovery partition wouldn't make a difference.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] auburn2eugene:
Will I be able to use a CPU governor without r/w access? I have permaroot with twrp only.

Thanks to everyone who takes the time to answer all of our questions.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
Yes you can...

Z999LP-A-LTE
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Everyone head over to Request a new device forum and ask for ZTE ZMAX forum

Sent from my Z970

root@draconis:/ # id

uid=0(root) gid=0(root) context=u:r:init:s0

simple root guide

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3110178
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] auburn2eugene:
Thank you for your quick response

Just did so... Should we post multiple requests or just one? I don't mean spam the request forum, i just mean like once a day or once a week, or just ONCE?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] ghet2rockuu:
i use aero control for that its on play store but until someone makes a kermel to overclock this bad boy we stuck on 1.2ghz
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Okay thanks
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
Yeah I can't wait either I'm going to boost this thing up to 1.7Ghz and the GPU to 700mhz then we be cooking ( probably literally)

Z999LP-A-LTE
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Best way to draw attention is to spam it

SPAM

SPAM

SPAM
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
This man still has a Droid Bionic!!!! I'm not going to front I still have a droid x???

Z999LP-A-LTE
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] imattmodz:
Well don't make your request say the exact same thing every time, but yeah, what you said. ^^
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] volcomleader:
im stuck on boot loop also

like an nooooob. i didn't make a back up. i know i know. ALWAYS make a back up.

im stuck in boot loot with no root. how can i fix this? if i can fix it lol...
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
HDMI out hardware best damn idea Google ever had

Should I edit my signature, I am using HDMI out with Bluetooth keyboard that has mouse pad made for android keyboard has like 20 key buttons for android like music facebook YouTube, using HDMI out ony 42 flat, so I can use it as a roku stick, or better than a roku cause I get showbox an internet, and all the apks I have too games too
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
I have no idea why so many phone company stoped doing it!!! I wish this phone had one.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Google bouggt Motorola who owned the hardware and software for HDMI out so they could inter grate it into android instead of it being proprietary, that's why jb got HDMI out via micro USB and now almost all phones newere than that can do HDMI out via micro USB, but the HDMI port is so much better can still connect micro USB to comp or charged while using it

Then after they acquired all Motorolas patents they sold it again or most of it except the pattens they just sold the name
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Dennis21220:
I will be paying donation's out this Friday. To all those people who made root possible. It's been a great learning experience! Big thanks guys.

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Nice seeing people collaborate instead of the bickering from the past.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] dmeeks72:
Butternoob V2.0

Thanks to Mingolianbeef for his work on the Butternoob ROM! Thanks again also to all those that helped to root this device.

I am on the T-Mobile ZTE ZMax and updated to Butternoob 2.0 (Android 4.4.4). So far I haven't had any issues with it. It was a clean install. It did take 15-20 heart-pounding minutes for it to install so be patient.

All the T-Mobile apps (IE: My Account, Visual VM, TV) work. Wi-Fi calling also works. There is an option for internet calling which I am assuming (bad, I know) is VOLTE, but I wasn't able to get it to work.

I haven't had any Band 12 sightings yet, so I am not sure if that means this update won't enable it on TMobile phones or if it just means our area doesn't have any sites active yet.

Once again thanks everyone for your hard work!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Lesharoturbo:
VoLTE is not the same as internet calling. VoLTE should be automatic with no input from the user.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Now is when everyone tells their friends that we have root, so there is no reason to spend 600$ on that samgsung s6 and tell them to buy this one instead, or laugh at them if they already have it, cause our phone has a bigger screen, and larger battery at a 1/3 the cost

Sent from my Z970

root@draconis:/ # id

uid=0(root) gid=0(root) context=u:r:init:s0

simple root guide

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3110178
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
Sd card slot. Thats all I am going to say about the s6
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
S6 has or doesn't have one? I am to toerd to Google it

Sent from my Z970

root@draconis:/ # id

uid=0(root) gid=0(root) context=u:r:init:s0

simple root guide

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3110178
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Lesharoturbo:
Nope, not according to GSM arena:

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s6-6849.php

MEMORY	Card slot	No

Internal	32/64/128 GB, 3 GB RAM
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] ghet2rockuu:
thats wack f that i need a sdcard slot
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
So the only way I can get a HARD brick (were the the phone dose not turn on at all and only gives you a red light and the the computer dose not recognize it ) is if a try to miss with the boot loader right?

Z999LP-A-LTE
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thegrim11:
Hey [MENTION=3953573]mingolianbeef[/MENTION] you should make a ROM called MeltedButter or something that is debloated of carrier stuff.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Masterchief87:
Hey everyone, I'm trying to help some people on android forums unbrick their zmax. Apparently they flashed the boot.img to the recovery partition and then later tried to factory reset from the settings menu and now their phones won't boot. I've been trying to figure out how to flash twrp using adb with the phone in ftm mode but I'm not having any luck. I've tried everything short of intentionally bricking my phone and I can't find a way to flash a recovery through adb without the phone being booted in android. Can anyone help me with this?

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Butternoob already has carrier stuff removed
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
http://opensource.ztedevice.com/ hey big dog mingo can you make a custom kenral off this or is that something above your skill set?

Z999LP-A-LTE

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If a phone has a the same chipset would you think is possible the flash a rom from it that's say a LG L90 or a Moto G?

Z999LP-A-LTE

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Since I do have the that big dog TWPR and a full backup...

Z999LP-A-LTE
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] imattmodz:
Try this in FTM

rm -r /data/dalvik-cache

rm -r /cache/dalvik-cache
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Masterchief87:
Thanks for this. Is there a similar command that can be used to format the data partition?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
To the first one, let me handle superbutter and I'll throw in a custom kernel, hroark will likely have one before I put one out tho

To the second one absolutely not.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Dennis21220:
https://youtu.be/bEtevWzyU1w

Thanks guys!!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
You need to install Rec. Its better than the potato you used for that video... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spectrl.rec

Z999LP-A-LTE
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Dennis21220:
I hear that! Thanks for advice.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] imattmodz:
Yes

adb shell

su

wipe data
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Masterchief87:
I can't get su in ftm. Am I doing something wrong?

Could I just use the rm -r for everything but data/media
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] imattmodz:
Just try "wipe data" without su and see if you have permission.

"adb wipe data"

You could also try,

rm -r /data/data if the above doesn't work.

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rm -r removes the directory all together, so be carefull what you remove with this.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] hroark13:
the tree is very sloppy and disorganized, I need to get everything working, then clean and organize the tree

would be a little embarrassed to put it out in its current state

not too sure when I will have time to do all this
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Masterchief87:
Thanks again bro. This is a big help.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
Remember guys the ZTE Z max has a reddit form...

Z999LP-A-LTE
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] npip420:
how to go back

How do I set boot.img back to boot and recovery.img back to recovery
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
If your rom boots, your boot.img is already is already in its place.

To place your (presumably) TWRP img back to its partition, download Hroark13's TWRP.apk installer on android forums and run the app. It's really easy.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] npip420:
I thought that bricked your phone since I have r/w permissions
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
No, it just stops you from having R/W permissions, no brick. i'm old school, so I do it using adb shell, but his method is perfect for what you are looking for.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
No there is no su in from because it's built into the boot image...if you factory restored with the wrong things in the wrong places your nuked...unless they have TWRP

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TWRP HAS the commands option which will let you execute as root
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Masterchief87:
Yeah I noticed that when I put TWRP on the boot partition and the boot.img on the recovery partition I don't have ftm anymore. TWRP is 100 times better though anyway.

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The guys I'm trying to help both put the boot.img on the recovery partition and then later tried to factory reset from the settings menu. I'm guessing that they have the boot.img on both the recovery & boot partitions.

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So are you saying that if you try to factory reset without a recovery installed, that's a hard brick?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
No far from it... But unless they can pull a root shell we don't have the tools to fix it right now
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] volcomleader:
Ok so someone pkz help me. Even if its a simple your phone is f*****.

I follows jcases guide to root. I got to the step to delete king user.

I couldn't delete kinguser.

I did a factory reset through phone settings.

Im now stuck in a bootloop.

I can enter ftm and adb.

I dont think i have root. It shiws $ in cmd instead of #.

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How cam i perform a root shell.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] imattmodz:
Boot into FTM mode while hooked up to your computer. Open command prompt, and type "adb shell" without the "". If it doesn't show " # ", and instead shows "$". Then you can't be helped right now. It was stated numerous times about doing a recovery during this process & about making sure you understood how this worked, before randomly doing things. I'm not being a smart as$, but these same mistakes, and questions people keep making are getting annoying, giving all the times myself, and other people have explained this. If you have a "#" then I will try to help you fix it.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Beerthirty:
so i was away for two weeks.

I cone back to find out there is a hundred and fifty new pages in this thread I read most of them but it took way too much time so can somebody help me I have two phones from Metro the 4. 4. 4 and would like a Manual or how it step by step instructions to root my device I'm very noob and would appreciate any messaging from anybody that can help me thank you
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] volcomleader:
Ok i know i messed up thats all i wanted to know. But you said i cant be helped right now. Does that mean i can in the future and if so how long (just an estimate because i might buy a new phine if its gonna be a longtime). Thank yoh for everything youve done. Im greatful. I should have read it more carefukly and next time i will.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarkFireBrah:
Head over to the Android forums root section for the ZTE ZMAX. Since we have our own forum there the information on how to do all this is much more easy to find but make sure to be careful whenever you do something. Thanks to the great folks in the community the root method has gotten much easier but you should still read as much as you can so you don't make any mistakes.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] volcomleader:
Like i did lol
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
For those with a bricked zmax and no warranty or insurance on the phone...before you throw your phone out consider sending it to me to take a look at......

I'm not saying I can fix then but I'm willing to take a shot at it.....

Understand I'm not making guarantees if I manage to fix your phone it will be returned free of charge ( unless you

Wanna be nice and pick up shipping) or if a method is released in the time I have it, it will be fixed and returned rooted with whatever available root method exist....

Again I AM NOT PROMISING RESULTS

Pm me for details...
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] BigDaddyE40:
There is a video on YouTube that I used to root my phone. It involves kingroot which is 100% luck but it worked for me
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] volcomleader:
I dont throw my phones our. Have almost everyphone ive had over the last 3 years
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] smilesintears77:
That is really cool. zmax owners are lucky.

ZTE Grand X Max+ Z987
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Beerthirty:
Thanxs I have followed this thred since the day I got my first zmax what back in september.. I just want to say thank too everyone whom has worked on this
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] BigDaddyE40:
Is there a task manager in butternoob v2
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarkFireBrah:
Yeah same here. It's nice to see a community come together to achieve what's been done here. I'm really grateful we have these amazing people who put all their time into this phone and into helping us butternoobs.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] dmeeks72:
Looks like the replacement for the ZMax is here and available. The LG G Stylo went on sale today with TMobile for $289. The only ZMax's available from the TMobile website are pre-owned.

http://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phones/lg-g-stylo.html

All this means is this device stays alive as long as we have all these great developers still working on it.

Please keep up the awesome work you are doing.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
https://plus.google.com/105855773732882713268/posts/1JfRgvukSZg I now know how to port apps delete apps and install new libraries using TWPR...

Z999LP-A-LTE
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thegrim11:
Honestly, having a job now and a steady source of income. I may switch to the galaxy note 4. I just really prefer a phone with a large development base already present. This phone has a development base but no where near to the one of a flagship device like the note 4 or something. But for now, I'll be with the ZMAX because the note 4 is like 700 dollars and I need to get other stuff first

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] skinlab:
Now I'm starting to understand why carriers don't want you to have root or an unlocked bootloader.. People brick their phone by rushing and not listening. The carriers fit the bill because people return the phone that it was their fault it's screwed up in the first place..

No offense to anyone personally..
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
Yeah but you can bet carriers don't spend 700 dollars on the phone....they lock up root because it's a security risk...one could make the argument that if they released the tools and made root easy there wouldn't be nearly as many bricks
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
I just wanted to say this were everyone was reading so that some people would know, The t-mobile phone might have some different hardware or a different build on some of the variants, because I have tried masterchief87, and butternoob 4.4.4, And if I hadn't had a backup I would be bricked.

Nothing against the dev's but some of you that are bricked might be bricked because of a bad boot.img Or maybe a bad dl. I don't know why my phone wont' boot metro boot.img but it just won;t

I am smart enough not to be bricked because I have safegaurds, but some might brick and I wan't them to know that if you don;t have a backup MAKE ONE and always have twrp installed to fix a bootloop or brick, in backup first try to restore your boot.img, then system if you still can't boot up, you can choose just a boot.img to restore just so you know
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Cyconumnum:
deleted
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
My favorite thing is the old aosp browser, if you uninstall browser.proxy from system app, and install the singed browser just regular in data/app

And have flash 11.1 for android flash works on it, you can Google aosp browser for 4.4 kitkat and you should find it
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] skinlab:
I totally agree with you bro.

I think that, you should be able to call metropcs /t-mobile, give them your serial number and imei number and get a unlock code for bootloader/root, and they void your warranty right then and there.. You screw your phone up,, it's on you..
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
That's interesting.. I did nandroid first but I'm on 4.4.4 and had no issues I'm on T-Mobile...maybe something with looking into...
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Its weird, I am wondering if it was because at first I permrooted with kingroot, used a. Backup to overwrite for sersu, I don't know, what I do know is kingroot did push files directly into our boot?img if you permrooted with it, not just system like SuperSU they created a dev/null placement for ota survival to a backup of their su, in all honesty their kinguser and ota is more powerful than SuperSU in that regards, but its still Chinese and I don't know what all they got going on, I am yo lazy right now to go threw their APK maybe this weekend I will take a look see what all it did

Sent from my Z970

root@draconis:/ # id

uid=0(root) gid=0(root) context=u:r:init:s0

simple root guide

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3110178
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
I think I have a boot.img from before upgrading.... Maybe we should compare
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Here is my boot.img nothing special do not flash unless you know how to get out of bootloop with ftm more, I had to use ftm more to reflash this after using metro boot.img

Make sure you have twrp installed, and a backup so you can restore your boot.img with it
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] auburn2eugene:
Just an update

Just to give you guys an update, I again requested a forum for us in the request forum. I also sent the OP of the request forum [MENTION=278202]the_scotsman[/MENTION] a PM. I explained that we have gone from wanting our own forum to NEEDING our own forum. I also said that android forums has made a forum for us, and that devs were starting to post their work there rather than here...

His response was that he is not in charge of it, but he has forwarded my request to those who are in charge of it... So HOPEFULLY that got us one step closer to our own forum

War Eagle! And happy rooting!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] BigDaddyE40:
Why is it so hard for us to get our own forum?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Reallionare:
Question, I have recently been getting a message saying App Source unfortunately has stopped working...... Do anyone have an idea what's causing this ?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] ghet2rockuu:
just go to android forum ! no loss here as it seems we hve to beg now lol
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] skinlab:
Because XDA is all about the flagship... They don't give even one f*ck about these cheap China phones...
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Yes my parents taught me young that you go where you are appreciated, not tolerated. If 2000+ pages of discussion doesn't show that we need our own space, I'm not in the mood to beg.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
Amen.

Z999LP-A-LTE
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] imattmodz:
I believe they purposely hold out on creating forum sections for as long as possible. Just think about this a second... Your device has to meet a minimum requirement in order to be eligible for a section. Once your device finally reaches this criteria, they just let you, and the however many people now following the device, compete with similar devices for a "potential" section of it own. We then get used to spam the hell out of the request thread for a particular device. I know that every night, Google's (indexing) Spiders just crawl the web, and rank XDA in the Google Search Engine, according to how many times the name, ZTE Zmax, and other "mid-to-low" phones show up. So it's reasonable to assume the worse in my opinion. Which is that almost every none-flagship device owner is being used with that "forum request" bullcrap. It's evident that ZTE doesn't pay the big bucks for advertisement while selling $150 devices. Companies like, Samsung, Sony, LG and others have their forum section before the phone even releases. They figure they can make a few dollar's from ZTE through it's users. As soon as you type ZTE ZMax Root, and click on XDA,.. BAM! You now have a full webpage of Note 4 ads that they hoping one of our a$$ will accidentally click on... So "To Hell" Mr. request forum. I think I'm moving next door to AF.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Bertil:
I just picked up one of these. $99 @ Metro PCS. Unbelievable value! So it doesn't quite have flagship build quality, but it feels quite nice.

I only have one complaint. It appears the speakerphone does a terrible job of picking up my end of the conversation.