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[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] johnb380:
Everyone including [MENTION=4036181]Darth[/MENTION] there is literally no development at all happening here so what is all the STAY ON TOPIC talk about? I don't understand it. Really I could see if someone was actually doing anything toward achieving root then, ya know, we need to stay on topic. But this is a GENERAL THREAD so what , if any, is the topic. This is, at best, a thread that a few people are trying every one click root in the world.

I'm sorry if I'm hurting anyone's pride or sense of accomplishment or always being negative, but honestly there is no topic here. It's about the Zmax and 99% of the people here have no idea what root truly is or how it even works, let alone have a chance in achieving it themselves for this device. Myself included! I'm just against getting my hopes up or anyone else's for something that is nowhere close to being completed, or started, for that matter! I mean isn't it better to be realistic or is everyone here really that optimistic. I'm all for getting root but we need knowledge to achieve this and without ZTE or a mobile securities expert, cough cough [MENTION=2376614]jcase[/MENTION], then we are just passing the time here, surrounded by friends, at best!

So, in saying all of this, I ask all the people that say, "Stay on topic!" Why can't this thread, be a hangout/ fun/ noob friendly/ awesome freaking place to come and talk to friends and people, that have the same phone, interests, and love for Android.

Also, I ask you,(the OP, [MENTION=4036181]Darth[/MENTION], and etc.) in the kindest, awesomest, only way I know how, to not turn this place into an, "It's in the OP!"/ impatient/ rude response giving everytime/ awkward/ no sense of humor having/ no fun having/ dull/ dead/ boring/ thread!? Because to me that's the vibe I'm getting from this place already! But maybe it's just me, I just don't get why everyone is so uptight and mad about nothing! If development does occur ask people to sit back and watch and listen. But just because you make a thread OP organized with a FAQ table and a few rude sentences doesn't turn this into a Development thread with actual progress. I want my ZMAX rooted as much as the next man really I do we just need more than us to do it. We need to find another DEV like jcase that's willing to help! Even if for a fee AND WE actually treat him or her like a dignified human BEING THIS TIME. I truly believe that is our only hope!

I've been around XDA-Developers for 5+ yrs, yet only been a member a few and I've seen my fair share of awesome threads and I think this could be one!

Live Long and Prosper! \\//
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] jcase:
It doesnt take an "expert" (i hate ppl calling me that), it just takes someone dedicated. I have no education in computer science, well i didnt when i started.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] cars2014:
[MENTION=2376614]jcase[/MENTION] I don't suppose you could point me in the right direction when it comes to starting android development? I've got a rudimentary knowledge of Linux, Java, and C but I really don't know where to start learning when it comes to android development. I'm willing to be dedicated, I'm just not sure where to start.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] johnb380:
Sorry friend but can WE as in this thread and community start over with you! Can we be friend again. Don't forsake us for a few bad apples [MENTION=2376614]jcase[/MENTION] ! As you have seen and can tell we don't know what we are doing here honestly. Is there anyway you could point us in the right direction. Or maybe get us started somehow. I or maybe We don't want spoonfed or maybe we need spoonfed even if we don't want to say it. But anyways if we don't know where to start how can we finish is all I'm saying!

We need your help and I'm willing to do whatever to help in the endeavour! We do have quite a bounty amount built up $400+ pledged. I don't know if that's enough for you to be interested but I know money would help anyone!

So what I'm asking is for any help friend!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Clayjn:
Hope your health is improving. Your life is more important then this phone. So when you're well and rested and ready we are all here waiting with baited breath.

See ya when you are up to it. :)
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] johnb380:
Ditto!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] jcase:
Thanks, my wife just lost her former roommate yesterday to lung infections as well, same first name as me, really freaky.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] cars2014:
Our condolences go out to you and your wife. I think I can speak for a lot of the people here when I say that your health and well-being are more important than what this thread is trying to accomplish.

Glad you're getting better!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Djoec1983:
So zmax is not compatible the with zte update tool?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] StonerSteve420:
No

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I've literally sent the same email every day for the past week lol
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Djoec1983:
I wonder why they don't offer compatibility with the update tool, there customer support team is terrible I contacted them about the spot on my display and it was an all around terrible experience I just gave up I'll deal with it.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] StonerSteve420:
Take the phone back I'm in the process of waiting for my second warranty phone
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarthJaylen9189:
Are you going to get a new zmax

Sent from my Z970
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] StonerSteve420:
They do that on purpose. If you address the fact they keep giving you the run around ahead of time they don't respond because they know you know what's up. Just gotta keep pestering them if we get enough emails to fill up their inbox we will be noticed. Right now there is probably one email about the Zmax for ever hundred or even more. Gotta think about how many emails they get in a day. Send multiple a day it takes like ten minutes. Copy paste copy paste simple tedious yes but worth it in the end. Only way to get big companies attention is either hurt their pockets or annoy the piss out of them.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Djoec1983:
Not to be off topic but look at the speeds I'm pulling on the zmax super fast.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarthJaylen9189:
Yeah. I had an outsource from China haha but I'm going to copy the email I sent to legere

Sent from my Z970
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarthJaylen9189:
So I called MetroPCS and they wanted to unlock my phone. I asked about the bootloader but they wanted to give the gsm unlock I'm sure

Sent from my Z970
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] doubtingthomas:
Metro Cooperation?

Thinking a METRO unlock of sim would be a good start, at least some leverage for threatening to move to Cricket etc. Maybe Metro and T Mobile will then finally open the rest of the system as well to retain customers. Thanks to all for all the work on this phone and hopes jcase and family get back to healthy . Cheers
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarthJaylen9189:
Well. I'm going to call zte again today on my lunch period. See if I can talk to the engineering dept

Sent from my Z970
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] brandonlee96:
today is the 18th
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
http://www.cnet.com/news/t-mobile-will-buy-out-your-device-payment-plan-or-lease-if-you-switch/ yeah that's not what I asked for...

???
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] brandonlee96:
wow just wow
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Djoec1983:
Dealing with any of there people is torture I'd rather hit myself in the head repeatedly with a hammer then deal with T-Mobile support, it doesn't matter how clear you try to make something with them they never quite seem to comprehend.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] horsecharles:
Stop dreaming about bootloader unlock boys!

All the evidence accumulated during the numerous rooting tries PLUS analyzing all ZTE answers so far reported EQUALS numerous instances of software borrowed from other entities.

AT BEST: ZTE followed proper permissions / licensing. Yet they didn't even bother to overwrite the Zmax name in numerous instances.

AT WORST: !#^^/^*... let's not get XDA in hot water.

Irregardless, ZTE image suffers. ... they're likely not anxious to part open the curtains.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarthJaylen9189:
So this phone will not be able to be able to be rooted? That is what you're saying BC they had borrowed a lot of different elements of android?

Sent from my Z970
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Vyrus69:
Has anyone found a car mount that would work with this phone even with a case on it?

Sent from my Z970
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
Is super su installed?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] brandonlee96:
how can i fix this
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
Dude, if you can't boot into android or into recovery to wipe cache or data, there is nothing left to do.

Sorry, that is just how it is.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
Hope and pray zte releases a tool like Odin or lg flash tool....

Does adb see the device??
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
J tag bruh bruh.....

Z999LP-A-LTE
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] brandonlee96:
no
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] krazyone2006:
No I installed su from play store it installs and kinguser gives it root permissions lol but won't update binary but like I said kinguser somehow got put into my system files and is acting like su. Except I can't do write to sd fix fails everytime I try it's weird I might have to try a factory reset and redo the whole process :( double seizure meds tonight it's going to be a late night and terminal/adb is like watching a strobe light lol fun fun fun
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
Wait till I'm home I'll help
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
Oh I forgot to try that. On some older phones there would be an exploit to get root with Superuser by ChainsDD. After you would root, you could then go to the Play Store and download Chainfires SuperSU. You would give SU access to SuperSU from ChainsDD app, then once you had SuperSU completely setup, you could uninstall superuser.

I forgot all about that. If i get stuck again I will give it a try
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] aaronsruiz04922392:
Has anyone found a tethering app that works and is unlimited hotspot if so let me know thanks my name is Aaron and I'm looking for a Rooting app for my phone for the ZTE ZMAX 970 I'm on the android 4.4.4 version
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
I tried some of that, what you guys need to know is you have su, kingroot just uses it and you can't delete it unless you uninstall kingroot, I am pretty sure this breaks root, but with the boo.IMG as recovery you could probably boot into recovery system

Use the old tmp root method with pushing

adb push su /data/local/tmp/

adb push busybox /data/local/tmp/busybox

adb push install-recovery.sh /data/local/tmp/install-recovery.sh

chmod 755 all of them,

after you used all of [MENTION=2376614]jcase[/MENTION] setup to keep root after boot and

mount -o remount,rw /system

pushed files and uninstalled kingroot, do this last just before you start to copy files to system, hopefully removing kingroot won't break system remount,rw

You might with adb be able to follow the rest of jcase tutoring

cat /data/local/tmp/su > /system/xbin

cat /data/local/tmp/recovery-install.sh > /system/etc/recovery-install.sh

cat /data/local/tmp/su > /system/xbin/daemonsu

If the cat doesn't work the reason we put busybox in /data/local/tmp/busybox and set permissions 755 is so you could use it to cp over to system/xbin

The worst that would happen is you would lose root, and have to start over with kingroot tmp root.

Sent from my Z970

root@draconis:/ # id

uid=0(root) gid=0(root) context=u:r:init:s0
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] krazyone2006:
That's was my thought to get kinguser out and superuser in lol glad I'm not the only one that remembered that:) doesn't make me feel old now lol

I have uninstalled kingroot and the Chinese symbol app and still have root after reboot according to root checker.

Force stopping and disabling kinguser made it dissappear after reboot and root checker just spins now lol
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Shady545:
I had this happen before I even got root. Force stop it, then disable it.

After I restarted the app was gone.

Something just went haywire when KingRoot was installing it.

(this was in reply to removing KingUser)
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
Page 200

Post #2000

...mine!

LoL sorry I had to
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] brandonlee96:
how?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
jtagging isnt a fix youd need to sure that ZTE didnt lock it out....... you need to know how to use one.... your best bet is hope someone finds a way to flash the phone through external means
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] brandonlee96:
what do you mean by that
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
there is no app just the process posted a few pages back and it is not noob friendly.... 3 people have bricked already by attempting and messing around where they shouldnt have been
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Meekplague:
I finally got rootking to work. Metro 4.4.4 I just plugged my phone into my laptop mtp mode and ran the app on my phone. Now the question is can I delete the three apps that it downloaded?

Never mind just read the previous page
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
I you have been following android and rom flashing at all, you have probably heard of tools like ODIN and KIES. Tools for Samsung devices that can write to the lowest levels of the devices.

A tool like that is more than likely going to be required to fix bootlooping ZTE phones. As of now, no tool exists that I am aware of.

With this powerful tool, you would be able to completely rewrite the internal memory. Thus flashing a stock image of the device and make it just like it was when you opened it new from the box.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
i mean your boned until we find away around it...... you own a brick for now.......

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there is a tool like that for zte allready if im not mistaking but he has 2 problems.... 1 it isnt built for our device and 2 he needs a stock rom signed by zte to use it..... even if he had the stock rom theres no promise it would work because like i said it isnt made for our devices..... you could find it and download it and see if recognizes the phone in dfu...
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
I think someone else that bricked their phone several pages back said that it would not recognize in DFU mode. Do not know if he was talking about the tool you are referring to.

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How do I go about checking to see if I am booted in the recovery redirect? Trying to get root back, but need to wipe cache from recovery. Holding POWER and VOLUME UP is still booting me into the OS
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
it should... you set boot to the recovery partition... so your booted into recovery with /system writable
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
I mean like the stock recovery. Where you apply update.zips, factory restore, wipe cache/data.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] brandonlee96:
deleted
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
OK so I did uninstall kingroot or kingiser, kept root, but I don't have correct SuperSU su binary for our phone or for su, the one I copied over didn't register, so if someone could post the correct one looks [MENTION=2376614]jcase[/MENTION] or anyone else willing to help. Please feel free to post, it should work I kept root copied over just need correct files. For supersu

Sent from my Z970

root@draconis:/ # id

uid=0(root) gid=0(root) context=u:r:init:s0
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] krazyone2006:
Who knows of a tether app that works with the metro version without root anyone?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] aaronsruiz04922392:
Ohh okay thank u for letting me know and i wish there was a tethering app out for the zmax android 4.4.4 instead of rooting the damn thing lol
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] ghet2rockuu:
foxfi
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
Edit: Nevermind

I am dumb :P
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] brandonlee96:
this one it reads my phone dfu mode but idk how to use it can someone help me
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
Ok now I have a different problem. I was finally able to get su and daemonsu to push to xbin, but now I can not get install-recovery.sh to push through

????????

Keeps saying permission denied. If I look in the /system/etc/ location I see "install-recovery.sh-ku.bak"

None of the King apps are installed anymore. I wiped cache and data on all of them before I uninstalled. Then I rebooted back into recovery (android)

Can I remove the recovery file that was left by KingRoot? And how would I do that?

I think I have su permission in ADB. I was able to push the su and daemonsu files this time around.

Edit:

Also, I accidentally pushed instal-recovery to /system/xbin earlier. It is still there. Can not delete it
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Says it only works with the special 1.2 firmware or program won't work, did you even read it.

If you do get it to work you still need a full system.zip or img, which is going to require cwm, and then maybe another program like Odin will work but till then your best bet is to take your brick to a store were you bought it, say what you have to to get a replacement, if you can't then hope down the road someone had boot fix, right now your s.o.l.

Sent from my Z970

root@draconis:/ # id

uid=0(root) gid=0(root) context=u:r:init:s0
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
You should be pushing those files to tmp.. Then using the adb shell command which will open a terminal for the device itself

Run "id" without quotes and post what the output is
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) context=u:r:shell:s0

I know I am not in init, but I was able to push both the other files. And I just pushed all 3 files fresh to tmp before going back into adb shell to move them to xbin and respective locations.

Was also able to chmod su and daemonsu

No errors??

root@draconis:/ # su

su

root@draconis:/ #
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] 1haplo:
Is it possible to enable band 12 with root?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] ghet2rockuu:
band 12 is already enabled why people keep asking this question ? all band 12 does is better reception through walls why do people think this makes your phone anybetter beats me alsop band 12 5 mhz ispeed is slower
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] TedRBarnes:
So what is the consensus on the OTA update? Should we ignore it or install it? Should we install it before rooting?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] imattmodz:
People PLEASE DO NOT change system setting in your phone if you do not know what you are changing. If you brick your phone there isn't much anyone here can do to help you fix it. It's not that people don't care.. It's the fact that no tools exist to physically help you at this point. Tinker with your phone wisely, and at your own RISK!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] ghet2rockuu:
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) context=u:r:shell:s0

i cant get this to come up for anothing

adb shell

shell@draconis:/ $ id

id

uid=2000(shell) gid=2000(shell) groups=1004(input),1007(log),1009(mount),1011(ad

b),1015(sdcard_rw),1028(sdcard_r),3001(net_bt_admin),3002(net_bt),3003(inet),300

6(net_bw_stats) context=u:r:shell:s0

shell@draconis:/ $

i keep getting this .. but yet i was able to install exposed . keep root after reboot i dont know what im doing wrong but i cant mount says denied or something

127|shell@draconis:/ $ su

su

root@draconis:/ # getprop ro.build.fingerprint

getprop ro.build.fingerprint

zte/P892T57_MPCS/draconis:4.4.4/KTU84P/20150414.115848.21363:user/release-keys

root@draconis:/ # setprop persist.sys.k P892T57

setprop persist.sys.k P892T57

root@draconis:/ # getprop persist.sys.k

getprop persist.sys.k

P892T57

root@draconis:/ # cd /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/

cd /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/

root@draconis:/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name # dd if=recovery of=/sdcard

/recovery.img

ry of=/sdcard/recovery.img <

32768+0 records in

32768+0 records out

16777216 bytes transferred in 5.606 secs (2992724 bytes/sec)

root@draconis:/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name # dd if=boot of=recovery

dd if=boot of=recovery

32768+0 records in

32768+0 records out

16777216 bytes transferred in 2.944 secs (5698782 bytes/sec)

root@draconis:/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name # reboot recovery

reboot recovery

C:\Users\enrique>adb shell

shell@draconis:/ $ id

id

uid=2000(shell) gid=2000(shell) groups=1004(input),1007(log),1009(mount),1011(ad

b),1015(sdcard_rw),1028(sdcard_r),3001(net_bt_admin),3002(net_bt),3003(inet),300

6(net_bw_stats) context=u:r:shell:s0

shell@draconis:/ $ mount -o rw,remount/system

mount -o rw,remount/system

Usage: mount [-r] [-w] [-o options] [-t type] device directory

1|shell@draconis:/ $ mount -o rw,remount /system

mount -o rw,remount /system

mount: Operation not permitted

255|shell@draconis:/ $
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] imattmodz:
DO NOT install any OTA on a modified system what so ever. You will have a brick on your hands. Do it before you do any modifications to the system.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] skinsfan05:
Band 12 is not active on the T-Mobile version. It would be nice if I could get reception in a building where my wife's Note 4 gets good reception on band 12.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] TedRBarnes:
Alright, good to know. So should we install the latest OTA update or not? It adds VOLTE, but some people have claimed that it has slowed their phone a bit.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Meekplague:
I installed mine prior to rooting didn't have any issues.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] imattmodz:
Try "adb shell" then "su"
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thegrim11:
Ever since I rooted, Screen density changes do not hold after reboots.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] ghet2rockuu:
did it but this happens still

C:\Users\enrique>adb shell

shell@draconis:/ $ su

su

root@draconis:/ # id

id

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

root@draconis:/ # mount -o rw,remount /system

mount -o rw,remount /system

mount: Permission denied

255|root@draconis:/ #
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
Doesn't sound like it is fully rooted
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] LowPro:
#THANK YOU ALL WHO MADE THIS POSSIBLE#

#SPECIAL THANK YOU TO:

# therealduckie for starting this new thread

# Jcase #xtremeasure YOU GUYS ARE NEEDED IN THIS COMUNITY

`````````````````````````````````````````````

root@draconis:/ # id ´

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

´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´

Everything is working fine, I've followed every single line and successfuly perm rooted this mofo xD

After checking for root status a couple times, I uninstalled all kingo related stuff and it's still rooted. Now for all you rushing heads, before you brick your device, either read carefully and follow every line, or wait until a custom recovery is made.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] ghet2rockuu:
hows that possible lol i follwed evrystep root checker says its rooted i installed exposed successfully , i get kinguser promts ,, bleh