yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Cyconumnum:
well....i believe i have root...adaway refused to install it's libraries...but, the other apps i installed and ran were given root permission...like it's gonna be o.k.

should i ........reboot to test it....should i run supersu and possibly clash with the king user app?

root checker has given me a positive ....
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] ghet2rockuu:
i lost root when it rebooted
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] brandonlee96:
as i said before this temp will not let us edit any system files
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Cyconumnum:
did you try to re root it afterwards ....or that would end up being a waste of time ?

"as i said before this temp will not let us edit any system files "

roger that
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
This screen says "Write adaptation phone Root failure"

The number shown at the bottom is how many reports of this particular failure is reported. Probably sends a log to the dev
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
This page says "Getting Root"

Bottom says "In the process, the phone automatically restart Root is a normal phenomenon"
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
"Android 4.4.2 is checking Root environment"
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
Top: "Phone not yet Root"

Bottom: "Discover new Root program, try it"

Blue button: "Try Root"
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
Top: "Write phone adaptation Root failure"

Bottom: "Submit a request for adaptation"

Blue Button: "Submit"
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
Top: "Phone has not yet Root"

Bottom: "Network connection failed, could not get the clouds Root program, tap Settings immediate network settings"

Blue Button: "Now Set"
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
Sorry for the multiple posts. I am juggling several apps and trying to translate post from my phone.

Hope this helped out someone.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] ghet2rockuu:
whats the bue envelope with check mark
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] OHNONONO:
Default phone menus?

z97∅ · tapatalk
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] krazyone2006:
So I can't get it to reroot since the reboot have tried countless times gets to 61% and fails with the orange envelope.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
Not sure. Post a full size screen shot, I'll see if I can translate it.

Guessing it means successful Root
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] rkey1000:
Worked for me on metro 4.4.4. Had to run it a few times and reboot a couple times but it finally worked on the 4th try. Checked it with root checked and ... success
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] ghet2rockuu:
no never mind i think it was the ticket it sends out when u hit sumit the root it turns green
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] krazyone2006:
I keep getting this when I try to reroot.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] rkey1000:
Uninstall both apps then reinstall
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
I covered that.

What do you mean "both" apps? I only see tbe one. KingRoot

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Can you post screens? Nothing ever turned green for me. Before or after button mashing :banghead:
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] rkey1000:
I also have king user and a weird app that's icon is a trident and something in Chinese

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I tried to copy z970 into sbin and I lost root. Trying to get it back now.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] afox27:
Well guys this is very good an if you guys have temp root. Try putting the phone in fastboot with terminal. With these commands.

Su

Reboot bootloader
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Sounds like an active antiroot, this is me being paranoid and thinking of conspiracy theory the company is watching you.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] John Laurinaitis:
The hype, i love it!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
OK have root, still not allowing to write to system, but allowing me to write into / or root folder, so we need a custom super user to read from / instead of system

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WiFi tether works that's a hudge plus

Mirror beta requires it be installed to system doesn't bummer.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] SheenaIsAwSuM:
I need to root my zte zmax on metropcs!!

:eek:I'm going crazy not being able to do it.please someone tell me how they did it x:cyclops:
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
That kingo root apk they posted link like 2-4 pages back, gives a tmp root, or allows you to have root as long as you don't reboot, installs root binary into /data/local/tmp gives you root permissions, allows rw into / folder or root folder, but not in /system, /system folder is still read only. Some apks require to be in system folder, and won't work like xposed, SuperSU, but there are some like WiFi tether will work root explorer, but you can't write to system, might be able to write to /debug, or /sbin threw adb then create a custom super user apk to read root binaries from there or even /data/app-priv might be enough but in order for root to stick after reboot we need the root apk to read binarys from a different source then /data/local/tmp.

http://kingroot.net/root

Download install run phoneay reboot just rerun kingroot upon reboot should start were it left off, and bam tmp root.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] rkey1000:
All I did was download the app and run it. It failed the first 3times , even rebooted my phone and locked it up a couple times but finally it worked (kinda) I had root permissions on a few apps but as soon as I tried to copy su to sbin I lost it and have not got it to work again as of yet
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Yes were going to need a custom superuser.apk for root to stay, and even then we won't have read write to system until someone figures that out

But a tmp root better than no root, that sucks you can't get it to work again

I did some tests, to see if I could regain root, and I did.

First you must uninstall all three apks associated with kingroot, there is one in Chinese on the last page of my apks once uninstalled reinstall kingroot, and reroot should work. After a while I think the phone clears the tmp folder or something which makes you lose root.

Also if you run WiFi tether, and quit it you must then turn on airplane mode and off for you to be able to connect to a WiFi network, otherwise your WiFi won't work
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] rkey1000:
That make since. Is there a way to stop the system from wiping tmp or do you believe it's an active anti-root program or some thing like that?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Dunno how to stop it, they probably learned from all of us how we were rooting and have been whipping the devs to block all the exploits, i would turn of the internal lookout safe apk or what ever its called I think its doing permission checks on the phone at regular intervals and trying to keep us unrooted
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
While you have root remount /system with write permissions or try to... Sounds to me like they perform a check concerning write access...or that they have something going on with the fusemount
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] rkey1000:
Also it only gave root permissions to a select few apps.... :mad: tried the device control app and it wouldn't work but root explorer did up in till it tried to copy su in to system and it took root away.... locked up on me after that. Screen went black and nothing. Had to hold the power key down for about 15sec and it rebooted...... thought I had bricked it at first lol
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Yup most of there access is at kernel level, so until we can root pre-boot like fastboot ftm mode, download mode, or get an exploit to cause kernel panic we will have to work with what we got. The exploits are there we just need someone good enough to get it to work.

The thing I do like at least because of tmp root is I can

busybox mount -o bind sdcard/download /emulated/0/download

I think that's the location, folder mount apk might work haven't tried it yet, but now I can at least have 64 GB download folder instead of 11, did it to a few other folders like musicparadise download folder I used to just move them after I downloaded, but now a simple ln -s works so I can keep my internal memory free, also adblock plus works, screen capture, screen record and screen cast from google play work, but screen cast is laggy, wish mirror beta worked but needs to be a system apk.

What apks do you guys use that require root?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
I can't even gain temp....it soft reboots at around 20% everything I run doesn't matter reboot or not...... There was a dialer code that gave access to fusemount info... I wonder if we can get access to it with temp root
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
after reboot, wait a few seconds on startup and only run kingroot, should start at 20% and finish at least that is what happend to me, I ran it at least 2 times before I got root, now it works.

Another thing that intertested me is when I plugged my phone in, this time I got 4 new drivers for the zte zmax,

zte zmax diagnostic driver

zte zmax com port 4 driver

zte zmax com port 8 driver

zte zmax interface or something and usb debugging cant remember the exact wording

and now I can see the zte zmax modem, and doesn't show my internal files on computer like it used to in mtp mode
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
I am getting similar results. Do you have a Univision branded phone?

Crazy idea, have no idea if it matters or not.

Turn on Emode, then run KingRoot.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] 1haplo:
Same here, can't get temp root with my MetroPCS 4.4.4, Just errors out.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
Emode is active in mine..And no I'm running the T-Mobile variant
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
do you have developers option enabled, and usb debugging might help as well, try to uninstall apk, make sure you dont have the kinguser, or chinese characture apk installed and reinstall kingroot, then try again. it works for me want screen shots give me a few minutes i will show you . i am doing something right now or i would be faster

here are screen shots of rooted,as you can see / root folder is mounted rw, I use wifi tether grant it root permissions as you can see, also show root apk running in pull down menu, and phone I have
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] brandonlee96:
can we change permissions on temp root for system folder somehow just enough to put su binary in there
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] djc7980:
What version are you using T-Mobile or Univision? I see you are on 4.4.2
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Its got all the permissions its going to get ,I bought Walmart family mobile version, has T-Mobile Sim, was $199 when I got it works with metro PCs also no unlocking needed. So basically an unlocked zte zmax on T-Mobile 4.4.2 version

Edit nm sbin is in boot.IMG that won't work
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] krazyone2006:
Ok got it to reroot finally after about 10 tries had to go in and clear king roots app cach and it installed instantly. Also noticed a few thing while trying to reroot that might help up on a few reboots my phone didn't actually reboot to the white powered by android screen just to the metro PCS splash like maybe our chance to write to system is there in between the Android and metro/t mobile splash screen. Dunno just something I noticed
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] djc7980:
I was also able to root on 4.4.2 T-Mobile , used Root checker and says successful. I also used Kingroot.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] krazyone2006:
It has also messed up my teether can't get foxfi and pda net to connect now gives me some connected through adb now and won't load any pages on my pc now.

PDA Net also states software on my phone is manually controling ADB and I have to manually connect Foxfi to PDA Net and connection goes stale times out after about 30 seconds.

I'm not hooking through the wifi I'm plugged in through the usb. Could never get my wifi tether to work always gave me errors. So I just usb tether.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
I said, once you use WiFi tether you must use plane mode before WiFi works again, operator problems
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] loonycgb2:
Temp root the device.

Copy recovery partition.

Create a Cwm recovery.

Use DD to copy recovery to partition.

Temp root cant remount system, but it can bypass partition checks.

I would have thought you guys were gonna exploit the emod enabling process, but ya found an easier process
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Don't think it can dd over recovery but it might be able to
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] krazyone2006:
Can anyone translate what this is doing/means
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Just tried and it worker, or said it did, but I only used the stock recovery copied over to sdcard and back, and it worked

Now to male a cwm recovery for our device
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] krazyone2006:
If you go into the trident app and click the system UI you get these options can anyone translate them?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] skinlab:
My man tokenpoke! You made it to the Zmax huh? Glad to see you here bro.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] 13roomshh:
What is trident app called and where do I get it
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] krazyone2006:
Kingroot installs it along with the kinguser app should see it in your app drawer towards the end after you get temp root.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thegrim11:
Ew cwm? Do people still use that still?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] loonycgb2:
People use cwm most of the time to port twrp and philz recovery.

Its the easiest to use and port.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thegrim11:
I can probably ask a friend to build TWRP for the ZMAX if you give me what I need. Or I can ask him what he needs.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] krazyone2006:
Right now as long as it gets full root without this weird kinguser stuff that's all that should matter it can always be changed and upgraded later. We just need to get perm root and then go from there.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
Can't we just inject superuser and su through stock recovery??? As Long as it's set as a system app it should work

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And if we replaced the recovery.zip wouldn't the signature be an issue??
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thegrim11:
If someone can upload a copy of stock recovery, my friend will try.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] krazyone2006:
How can I get it off my phone for you? I have terminal ect installed on it
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] loonycgb2:
Stock recovery only accepts zte signatures.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tokenpoke:
Yeah, I shattered my sgs4 (75ft is a long way down, lol) and they had this on sale for like $105 (what I paid for my Huawei Ascend back in the days of yore).
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
So we are going to have the same issue with a cwm recovery
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Cyconumnum:
I'm on metro pcs 444 ... I managed to get temp root...

After that my phone started telling me I have no room for installing apps......

Did a reset....I'll wait till further developments before I attempt root again
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] loonycgb2:
When you get a cwm recovery coded for the zmax it removes those restrictions.

The stock recovery is needed to get most of the mappings, but it can be done without the mappings which will be harder.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] krazyone2006:
Ok so root just disappeared didn't reboot anything tried to install flashify to dump the recovery and root was gone trying to reroot now but giving issues again.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Moon83:
How can I pull stock recovery?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] loonycgb2:
ZTE Zmax Stock Recovery Download:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwBWVIC79lcIOVp2WFl1eDZmbm8/view
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Stock recovery is /dev/block/mmcblk0p22 on the zte zmax, can find it wit root browser by going to dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/

Forgot about flashify lol. Been so long without rooted phone cough damn zte cough.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] loonycgb2:
I dont have my linux pc with me at the moment so cant even compile a recovery.

Once recovery has been written then you can do a supersu zip and full root is done.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Should work the link above is stock recovery, I just checked it out, it is 16mb here I'll repost

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwBWVIC79lcIOVp2WFl1eDZmbm8/view

dev/block/mmcblk0p22 = recovery

Find with

dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] 1haplo:
Tried to post link for MetroPCS stock recovery file, need more posts, I can send link to Google drive to any one who needs it, the file is the /Dev/block/mmcblk0p22 file
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Moon83:
Recovery builder

http://builder.clockworkmod.com/
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
I was about to post that lol, doesn't show any previos builds from the link maybe its new?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] loonycgb2:
That builder has not work for a year now.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
I am currently setting up device tree, but it will take all day to download and install everything needed just to build. first dl sdk, then cm source, setupd build for cwm, and then follow build instructions won't be ready for a bit if anyone has someone to build it please stop me before i am done :).
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thegrim11:
I appreciate the device tree setup but why are you bothering with CM source when we don't even have permanent root.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] loonycgb2:
Cwm is included with cyanogenmod.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Flashing over recovery works already tried with stock recovery, should be able to flash cwm recovery over stock recovery and get full root threw a zip hopefully cwm recovery can write to system, we don't know yet

This is how a lot of devices were rooted back in the day super user zip flashed using cwm.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
Anyone know how to execute ussd codes over adb... I had a decent idea and wanna give it a go

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Or through emulated terminal directly...I wanna see if I can get at that fuse info
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Moon83:
Try this maybe

https://davanum.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/android-calldial-from-the-adb-shell-command-line/
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] hroark13:
how do you activate emode ?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
Didn't work on the zmax :(

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Back a few pages I posted two links with the un-phrased dialer codes look for emode enable and enter it
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
Still having no luck on achieving root.

I am beginning to wonder if this has something to do with wifi.

My Zmax is not active. I have a tmobile sim in it, airplane mode is OFF, connecting to my novatel hotspot.

It appears that the app is downloading whatever code is needed durimg the root process on the fly.

My Zmax has a hard time connecting to the hotspot, and I keep getting the connection error message in KingRoot when it tries to run while only seeing 4g cell signal.

On top of that, when I go to the android app settings menu, the reported size of the KingRoot app has been different. I have counted 4 different sizes thus far ranging from 12-16mbs

I have cleared cache through stock recovery, no change. Only thing left for me to try is full factory reset.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] afox27:
Hold on guys!! Since tech_yeet found root dose that mean he gets the bounty thread money XD only looking out for him
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
Yeah well do I ? i really, really do need it ?

Z999LP-A-LTE
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
I'd vote half for temp ;)
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] krazyone2006:
Ok finally got it to reroot after I plugged phone in kingroot ran and only took two tries to get to reroot finally WTF lol
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] aSuperSaiyanG0D:
Well technically I found out about the kingroot app and posted it here first ???

But tbh I ain't the one to argue bout money, all that counts is this device can get rooted... Well.. Full root ?

Only thing holding me back from purchasing it tbh aha
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] afox27:
Yea but back then it wouldn't root the zmax. I say half for temp root. Then the one to get full root gets the other half
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Meekplague:
Yeah I haven't been able to get it to go either gets to around 57 percent and stops. I've tried around a dozen times.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
Not to be mean, but bounty should not be awarded to a person for using someone else's work.

Bounty would be for the efforts of Dev work getting root to work on "said" device.

In this case, the creators of KingRoot got us root for our devices. (some of us anyways)

Would the bounty not be rightfully given to the Dev of the root app??

I think so.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
Someone should try the king root pc app since they updated
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] aSuperSaiyanG0D:
Good point tbh, I'm sure the Dev(s) would be more than happy, plus it'll help them with devolvement of the app etc
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] krazyone2006:
I tried the app it's in Chinese I couldn't read anything. LoL
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
Hmm... What do I want more? Root or chinese spyware? >.>

LMAO. Thats a tough call brother.

Is it 64bit only? I have a 32bit tablet I might not mind trying it out on. Can wipe that clean pretty quick and easily.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thegrim11:
I sent a copy of stock recovery to my friend and he said he'll see what he can do but no promises. Hopefully we can take the build and flash it through flashify.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] djc7980:
I am going to try this this evening when I get off work. The app on the phone worked fine, after reboot I haven't been able reroot. I am on the t-mobile version 4.4.2
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
It was agreed on early on in the thread that if someone found the app that did it they would receive some of the bounty....Multiple people agreed to this...
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] dmmckitrick:
Bounty for temp root? I do not think so, lots already had this. My bounty personally will go to the one who gains permanent root with full r/w privileges.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Kingroot on PC just says root yes or no, and installs the same temp root I just tried it
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] loonycgb2:
All of you are funny honestly.

Fighting over bounty... None of you knew what you guys were doing.

Other then me and jcase, xtremeasure did the little dirty work for all of you.

This is why i did not share how to root the phone as many of you do not appreciate it.

I only helped xtremeasure because hes been the main active one trying.

Do any of you even know how kingo aka kingroot is rooting the phone????

Honestly nobody deserves the bounty as no one has really done anything significant.