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[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] TedRBarnes:
Is there any point in having root without R/W though?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] smilesintears77:
Have u tried this on our handsome zmaz brother?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] skinlab:
Yeah **** that. I'm going for the gusto..

It's a 100 dollar phone. Not much of a loss.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
Are you talking about the zte x Max+

Z999LP-A-LTE
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarkFireBrah:
If we used this method to gain root is there a way to write to system? Like if we used adb shell commands from your guide to make system writeable? Sorry if this is a dumb question im kind of a noob haha.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] smilesintears77:
yes
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] skinlab:
From my understanding, the locked bootloader is what prevents you from writing to system.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thegrim11:
From what I understand, the sale is ending soon so that's not the best attitude

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
No I think that would brick it if I used something that's meant for another phone (even tho there both very similar)

Z999LP-A-LTE
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] skinlab:
It's no attitude brudder. If I brick this phone, it's nobody's fault but my own.. I know what I'm getting into.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Vyrus69:
Ok I've been on vacay, whew talk about craziness while I was gone!!

If I use this method above it'll stick the temp root so its not lost, so then I could in afterwards if want and do the command line for r/w capabilities..or I have to go the long way first, THEN install TWRP?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarkFireBrah:
I am wondering this as well.. I already used the above method to gain permanent root but im not sure I can just do a shorter version of the command line way of rooting to gain r/w capabilities.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] skinlab:
It's perm root but as extreme said, you can't write to system.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarkFireBrah:
I understand this im just wondering since I've already gone this route if I can now use command lines to be able to write to system.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
no your not going to be able to have both... its going to be either TWRP or system rw....

the reason is right now we are getting system rw by booting out of recovery... so you lose your recovery ability while you have system rw... i guess you could use the TWRP to gain the root to run the commands you need to get system rw but im not going to do a write up on it as i have my hands full here trying to trouble shoot and help everyone else + write a batch file and shell script to do this all automatically,....
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] skinlab:
My bad bro. Selective reading bites me in the ass a lot.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarkFireBrah:
Haha its cool!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] TedRBarnes:
The way I understand it is that you can't have TWRP and write access at the same time because you have to boot from recovery in order to have write access. So at this point the choices seem to be A) Root and install TWRP for safety but you're not able to write, or B) Root and mess with adb commands to gain write access but be screwed if anything goes wrong.

Nevermind, [MENTION=6545437]xtremeasure[/MENTION] beat me to it.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] smilesintears77:
I want to try but don't want to brick my phone. but it's awesome to see working root for our zmax! I have been following this thread for few months now and it is my pleasure to see this root finally happening. ;)
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xIP-:
Alright so say that I have already installed TWRP.

but I did the command dd if=boot of=recovery

would that conflict with getting rw access? Because I boot into android fine with that command however I do have TWRP installed. Im just confused. are you saying I cant have TWRP installed at all or I cant use it when you say I have to choose?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
can someone get me the package names for kingroot, kinguser, and the japanese app they need to be exact
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] justlovejoy:
Hats off/tipped to you sir! I believe the threat of it getting teamviewered scared the temp root out of it. I tried after installing team viewer and the add-on for zte. Thing zipped through to 100% and after looking at that I realized I let it sit a few times and did have temp root just didn't see the chinese toast or tried anything to check root, based it all off what I was seeing and lets face it, I DONT KNO CHINESE. Foods they eat not sell are good though. Thank you for helping me scare the root out of it. LOL

WTF? Serious? LOL, I'm joking but my short answer is no. I develop so I know what I am doing tinkering with it. If you do not have experience please dont experiment. Let the heavy set dev's work their magic!

Thats for lay users who just want root and to play it safe. Sounds good if I weren't such a gotta customize the world before I fly kinda guy!

Exactly!

Phat Shout outs [MENTION=2376614]jcase[/MENTION] [MENTION=6545437]xtremeasure[/MENTION] and everyone for helping make it possible to root my $30. Phone cause it was on the wrong hook at walmart! and the whole XDA just cause! My fans and that pretty girl I just met not too long ago, might have to wife that as$! Kids don't drink or do drugs they're bad and will kill your developmental minds. Just say no. Oh and to the girl who paid for all this tech in my room, "why you wanna just be friends now? IDK but Hey I appreciate the love!" special thanks to those who read all this, hit the thanks button often, you only get 8 a day, Share!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
while boot is set to recovery you cant use recovery..... so while you have recovery set as the boot partition you wont be able to open the TWRP menu itll just boot straight through to android....
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xIP-:
alrighty. Thats all I needed to know. thanks.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Okay so let's clear this up here....

Okay guys, I understand that you all are excited, I am too, like extremely excited, but we cannot make practical use of half of what you are doing. I forgot who made the TWRP recovery img, but he's a beast!!! Thanks man. now, on to seriousness.

1. It behooves you to NOT have TWRP. There is NO practical use for it, at all, other than a nandroid, and that can be achieved via command line with "dd if/of". I have the system.img, jcase posted the boot.img. If you want the full scope of root privileges, keep the original setup.

2. THERE IS NO USE FOR TWRP RIGHT NOW. Sorry, had to iterate that again. The bootloader is locked, jcase explained it loud and clear, what we are fighting is at the bootloader level and even IF you have a custom recovery, you can't do anything with it without a hell of a lot of hurdles to achieve what you want.

3. Now is the time where you should be playing it safest. I can confirm that Viper4Android and a series of Xposed plugins work. I'm sure some other things work well too. But for anything that requires a modification of system files (i.e. deleting an app in /system/app), will revert upon reboot, and if you get mod happy and start screwing around with switching up the code (I'm just calling it out before it happens, people), then you are talking serious trouble.

4. Please understand that there are lots of people working around the clock to make things more efficient, but that requires a certain level of discernment on you all's part. Please don't do things BEFORE asking, unless you know what you are doing.

I saw JCase talking about the bootloader, I'm working on a stock, rooted rom, and talked to someone who was saying that they would make the boot.img insecure. There is plenty to be excited for, and we all appreciate the enthusiasm and the suicide attempts lmao, but they aren't necessary. All of your dreams will come true with patience. in the mean time, please be sure to test out my root method to see if it works for you. It's not fullproof, but it has more success rates (at least with KingRoot) than any other method. You can find that page here:

http://xdaforums.com/general/general/root-how-to-root-zte-zmax-t3107409
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] skinlab:
I missed this.. Sorry bro. Let me see what I can do.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] steventechno:
Aww..

Aww... Disappointment is inevitable. I was literally jumping in pure excitement and Squee when it installed, booted and let me make a backup. Just seeing it function at all is beautiful in my eyes. I though it'd never happen, and Behold, Recovery running on my Phone!

On the bright side though at least it makes the Semi-Root stay in effect now. so That's a plus. ES File explorer can now write to the External SD so I'm happy enough with that right now.

An another note though, you can reboot into recovery from within Android, which is neat to me, because my old LG couldn't do that without crashing. Although I'll stick to this setup for now, since it's the "Safer" route. later on if I TRULY feel like getting my hands dirty and REALLY begin to crave Xposed Installer (Gravity Box FTW), then I'll dive into Terminal.

PS I think I found another way to get the Root to work. Get AnTuTu Benchmark and RUN DAT SH17! Then run KingRoot as quickly as possible, because if you wait too long AnTuTu will force you back into it to do the Graphics Benchmark. gotta beat it!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
I have Xposed with Gravity Box and a few other things installed as we speak :). In no way am I crushing dreams, just minimizing the amount of tech waste we have in the world when we brick phones lol. Xposed works, I can confirm it!!!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Exconvict:
Which mods can you confirm working?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] hroark13:
It was me who put out TWRP for ZMAX

http://androidforums.com/threads/zte-zmax-twrp.918537/#post-6967466

So let me expalin why you need a recovery

In order to boot android the following partions must be in good working order boot, system, data, cache

if anyone of them gets corrupt, you can not boot android, you may or may not be able to get adb access, most likely not

so now if you have your recovery partition flashed with the boot image, you do not even have the option to wipe cache or data if some crazy app gets access to your data folder and corrupts it, and now Android does not boot and you have a soft brick phone to send back to ZTE

TWRP recovery is complete operating system, contained on one partition, and only needs one partition to boot

Yeah I know that it sucks to not have system R/W while in Android, but that is a boot loader fucntion and is best fixed with a boot loader unlock

Another Option is to creat a custom TWRP recovery that can boot either TWRP or Android System R/W, this option is what I am researching now
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
LoL, i was working on the same idea. Got me root once, then lost it trying the icons on the success report page.

By the way... DO NOT click the Trash Can icon!

It will unroot you. No warning message, no confirmation to click, just straight up UNROOT.

Working on getting root again... . . .
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
I have the following Xposed modules:

Blacklist, GravityBox [KK], GPM, and one that fixes the ad stuff I believe. I also had MonsterUI which gave a [admittedly kinda disappoint] lollipop "overhaul" to the look of the phone. It was decent but wasn't what I was hoping for.

Now as far as root apps, I just have Viper4Android, Xposed Installer, BusyBox Free and SuperSU. SuperSU is also my root permission granter. Idk why RootUser is interfering with you all, but I haven't encountered it since I removed it when I first rooted the phone.

Lastly, GB mods that work are pretty much all of them. I haven't run into an issue yet. If you go a couple pages back a had onscreen buttons and everything. my clock is centered and whatnot. I'll post screenies!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] steventechno:
Sweet! Maybe I have an idea, as I read that Xposed can function with no Root after installation, maybe Installing Xposed, then going back to TWRP Semi-Root (A user on G+ told me Restores are working fine). lol I dunno. Recovery is always one of the biggest reasons I get Root on Any of my phones. Makes it feel almost like entering a BIOS/UEFI on PC as well as Fool-proofs it! ;)

You guys are awesome, actually taking the time to talk to us. :angel: I hope the best in everything! =D
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
Yeah I like this way better its a lot safer and I can do most of what I want anyway....

Z999LP-A-LTE
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Exconvict:
Do I need to follow the adb commands to gain rw before installing xposed?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] djc7980:
the only thing is twrp doesn't list our phone, did I do that right on am I in the wrong place, are we flashing twrp recovery?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
http://www.mediafire.com/?egogyyefm3as2pe this son....

Z999LP-A-LTE
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Yes. You will need the "reboot recovery" command (with the whole root setup in place) to make this happen. However, once you do, you can go into gravity box and install the advanced power menu, which will give you access to things like softboot, recovery reboot, etc. without the hassle of having to run to a computer :)
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] steventechno:
Wow, Hope the best of luck for ya. Funny story actually this last time before flashing TWRP, the Root Success screen was just randomly there on my screen! Like out of nowhere. I hurried up and installed that fast as to not lose it again! I'd advise you do the same.

if you're confident enough then you could hurry through the ADB Commands before the Semi-Root disappears! but having TWRP will make it stay intact.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] hroark13:
hey can I ask a favor

rather then direct people to the file, can you direct them to the thread

http://androidforums.com/threads/zte-zmax-twrp.918537/#post-6967466

if people have problems with TWRP I would rather them post them in that thread

this thread is way to long for me to look threw for questions about TWRP
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
Sorry...

Z999LP-A-LTE
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] hroark13:
no need to be sorry, it is all good

thanks
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Lol I'm a regular user like everybody else here dude. If I can help, then I am more than happy to do so :)
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Don't listen to mongolianbeef, GET TWRP KEEP IT INSTALLED, ITS FULL ROOT, YOU JIST CANT WRITE TO DYSTEM UNLESS YOU FLASH BOOT TO RECOVERY

IF YOU WANT WRITE TO SUSTEM DOWNLOAD FLASHIFY, COPY YOUR BOOT WITH

dd of=/dev/block/platform/msm.sdcc.1/by-name/boot of=sdcard/myboot

Then use flashify to copy boot to recovery it will ask you if you want to cause it isn't a recovery you just say yes, then in terminal or twrp apk just type: su

reboot recovery

This will reboot your phone but system will start with rw access, in twrp you can just click reboot recovery if you moved boot over recovery.img and boot that way

FIRST THING YOU SHOULD DO IS REINSTALL TWRP

AFTER REBOOT, then do what ever it is your going to do in case you brick your phone you will still be able to get into twrp

Does that help?

Sent from my Z970

root@draconis:/ # id

uid=0(root) gid=0(root) context=u:r:init:s0
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xIP-:
Can someone tell me how to unroot?!

****ing kinguser is a system app and i cannot figure out how to get rid of it!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Meekplague:
You can download supersu through app store there's a full unroot option in there.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] steventechno:
You can "Attempt" to uninstall it (Uninstall update) It would crash but disappear. Reboot after. Unrooting would not make a difference unless you are wanting to flash back to stock (Currently there isn't a way possible as far as I know) It acts funky but it's possible to uninstall (Though I use Lightning Launcher to get to the uninstall menu if that makes a difference) Possibly get rid of "KR_PC_Helper" (I forgot how it was labeled) if that's there too.

---------- Post added at 11:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:48 PM ----------

Maxed out on my "Thanks" so I'll just put a redundant post to say actually SAY Thanks XD
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Dude, we have people asking how to type command lines, I'm just trying to keep the bricks down. Telling them to switch back and forth everytime they want a new root app is just asking for an issue to happen. i'm saying that they don't flash TWRP, use the most harmless method of backing up their system, have their cake and eat it too. I promise I don't mean to offend anyone when I say this but there are too many inexperienced people to just throw them in the wild before we give them some safety gear.

---------- Post added at 06:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:54 PM ----------

I'll shoot you a thanks for a thanks then :)
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
Now I know this is probably going to sound pretty damn stupid but what bootloader? After a put that twpr on there is no way for me to lunch to the bootloader at all even when I go to the reboot menu inside of twpr there is no way to to access it so it seems to me like I could flash anything on here right? As long as it has the same chipset?

Z999LP-A-LTE
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
We have never been able to directly access the bootloader, jcase said he was fooling around with it, though. He said it does have fastboot, it's just a matter of accessing the button layout for it.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarkFireBrah:
As a noob.. this is pretty exciting stuff! I also wanna say thanks to everyone taking time to answer questions as well as work on this phone. You're all amazing!!!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
If you manage to root the phone with our methods, you shed you n00b cacoon lol, you are now... A noob butterfly!!!!!

Seriously though, I haven't dealt with a phone this stubborn since the Evo 3D.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] npip420:
king user

Any people that has problems with king user and supersu what I did is install twrp then installed supersu that way then did [MENTION=2376614]jcase[/MENTION] backdoor method and mounted the system as r,w and king user disappears
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarkFireBrah:
Haha thankfully it seems I did root my phone through your guys methods :D. Im eager to start testing xposed out but dont want to charge ahead and mess anything up. one step at a time for this noob butterfly. :p
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Fly safe then little butternoob lol. Seriously tho, hasn't caused an issue at all/
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] skinlab:
Butternoob? Haha... Butanub
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] steventechno:
an idea?

I have an idea! I wonder if it'd be possible to create Nandroid backups and flash it on other variants (aka Get Metro's Android 4.4.4 on Tmobile phones) Since my old LG I could flash V20 (Tmobile) Nandroids on a Metro (V10) phone no problem, though of course they were both based on 4.1 JB but had some differences but I don't know for sure if this trick could work here. I know that Nandroids can contain Recoveries sometimes as well, so if something went wrong as all our phones here use the same exact recovery... Maybe it won't be too dangerous to try!

Another idea, would be somehow having a tweaked OS from a phone with full RW AND TWRP, create a Nandroid and maybe flash it on other phones? Maybe a Clean Nandroid with NOTHING (Wipe \Data)except essentials (ad away, Xposed etc) preinstalled and can continue to work with Semi-Root (except could not be updated of course, but if it works it works) IDK Just a thought!

Side note I can do restore in TWRP no problem! Also you can use the File manager to access /System (I was able to remove bootanimation! YES! So now it just shows the default "android" on boot but the cursed BOOT UP SOUND IS THERE ARGH!!)
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thegrim11:
Yeah it is interesting how such a cheap phone is more secured and a pain in the a** instead of more expensive phones like the S6 or other.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
I have a stock ROM on my computer I made on the computer, but I didn't wanna take the chance. Its a work in progress but that would be easy to flash with TWRP. The prob still stands that WP is activated at boot, but I get what ur saying.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xIP-:
I did a factory reset after deleting kinguser via titanium backup and have boot written as recovery so now im in a boot loop, how can i fix this!???
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
Give it to me I will try it!

Z999LP-A-LTE
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Just gonna drop this here lol. Coming soon to a thread near you :)
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Hammerdroid:
Glad to see all this hard work going in the right direction. Killer job, all!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Cyconumnum:
Well...by some kind of xmas miracle....I did a reset.......and.......

When it decided to let me force it to boot into TWRP.....yes...TWRP...

I rebooted to recovery.....shut it off.........

And when I finally booted all the way after updating apps..........

the super user app was installed and I had su asking for permission......

And I can install apps without space issues...

But I can't uninstall metro apps...
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] jcase:
s6 is far more PITA as far as security goes than this phone
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] biledigger:
Samsung has a far greater choice of software and a bigger community to pitch in with during times like these. Everyone here has jumped in on this knowing it is a flip of a coins chance of ending up with a brick and no OEM firmware/software to work with.

There are those that dip their toes in the water. And then there are those of us who do a cannonball. And then there's the fat kit who slips and falls in while jumping on the diving board.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarkFireBrah:
That is AMAZING!!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] hroark13:
how did you do a factory reset if you have boot writting to the recovery ?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] klobster:
The kingroot exploit is the same as what was discovered on the S6, no?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] steventechno:
Install XPosed with TWRP!!!

You don't have to use the commands to get Xposed running on our phones! It's possible to use it with Semi-Root!

How to do it:

Install Xposed Installer

Change from Write to /system to: Recovery (Flash Zip Automatically)

It will download and ask to reboot.

i freaked out at this point: The phone will install it via Recovery, then it will Boot into Security Error Mode : Flashing Green and Red

Just reboot into Recovery and select Reboot Bootloader

Phone should boot back up as normal and Xposed will be installed! Grab some modules, Check em and reboot to apply!

Dance and Prance with excitement!!! WOOOOOO! oohhh, I'm starting to feel a lil bit *Falls onto floor asleep happily*
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xIP-:
i went into settings and did factory data reset then it put me in a bootloop.

currently all im able to do is go into DFU mode for my phone, ive tried following this: https://sites.google.com/site/zteopenfirmware/download-mode

but have no luck.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] o00o:
Worked like a charm. Thank you.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tc0566:
reboot to recovery method

Do a normal reboot with power key as soon as it starts to reboot hold volume up it will reboot with with r/w system