yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] auburn2eugene:
Will I be able to flash these ROMS you guys are making through twpr? I have it... And at the same when flashing say the Butternoob ROM, will I still be without r/w system access or have you guys already flown by that issue? Currently I only have the twpr method...

And i know I've said it to a few people in PM, but thank you guys so much for everything. You have made my otherwise horrible week livable... My 6 year old dropped my Galaxy Tab 3 and shattered the screen... It makes me sick... There goes my tablet, but now you all have made my phablet have the same capabilities I had on my tablet. Thank you. Each and every one of you putting your devices on the line to make MY life easier.

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Have you thought about using cloud storage? Places like mega will give you 50gb for free... Just an idea... But i dont know if it would work. Just throwing ideas out
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] vons01:
I too used the TWRP method. But I just use terminal emulator to flash the boot to recovery when I need system r/w and use the TWRP app to flash it back.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Lesharoturbo:
[MENTION=4791485]hroark13[/MENTION]

You are a trailblazer, do not get discouraged. I am sure that your efforts generate more interest from other devs that you may realize. I know for my part, I am very thankful that someone knows how to do this and is willing to put forth the effort. If it does not work out of the box, no biggie for me. I am patient and do not complain.

I have, in the dark past, done some development work on desktop Linux to port it over to different architectures. I also worked to get an existing Linux setup to work on newer hardware by updating and compiling the kernel back in my ATM ( cash machine) development days. Getting the system to boot was at least half the work. I feel your pain.

Thanks again for your efforts.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] BigDaddyE40:
Can't wait! I'm currently running v1 and its great. Keep up the good work guys
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] djc7980:
When using this program it has three already selected in yellow modem, modemst1 and modemst2. What would you recommend selecting?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Xposed xmultiwindow anyone else like it? I changed DPI run tablet mode and use multi window bam 6"' tablet/phome

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] BigDaddyE40:
I just installed it, how do you get it to work
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Make sure its enabled in xposed, and swip from left of screen out a ways, you have to add apks to the side menu from inside xposed under the xmultiwindow APK settings

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] Cyconumnum:
thank you!

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big thanx for your efforts here I honestly appreciate it....and thanx for making the f6 kick butt....

sorry...I hit the 8 thanx wall.....

so I'm doing this way
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Moon83:
How did you change the DPI? Nothing I used worked.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Vyrus69:
I really should start putting my old coding knowledge to use and start playing around with some coding.

I would love a custom kernel with more CPU governors as well as voltage control for the battery. I have a feeling as great as the battery is on this phone, it could be made THAT much better.

And [MENTION=3953573]mingolianbeef[/MENTION] the Metro phone had 4.4.4 out of the box AND band 12 enabled. The most recent OTA we received was for VOLTE, so if the build was ending in 06 and the baseband in 01 then it has band 12 and VOLTE enabled.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] BigDaddyE40:
I've done this but when I pull from the left to open it none of the apps are shown in the drawer
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Exconvict:
Resolution changer in the play store
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] ghet2rockuu:
what density do u use
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Those are your device specific partitions (he has a thread on here and talks about that). It is completely safe to do a partition table backup, even the yellow ones. It won't effect your functionality at all. Consider it doing a "dd" command without all the heavy lifting involved :)

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Awesome! And please do, the more devs, the better :)
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Exconvict:
My sweet spot
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] auburn2eugene:
Can someone please let me know if I will get r/w permissions when flashing butternoob? Is that part of the ROM or would I still have to adb to get r/w?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Add appas you want from the xmultiwindow inside xposed under its settings choose add apps

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] mingolianbeef:
system r/w is a bootloader issue, no ROM (stock roms at least, can't speak for AOSP builds) will have system r/w perms
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] smilesintears77:
now that zmax is rooted, Kingxteam gets the bounty?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Djoec1983:
When I read that I feel like I'm reading Chinese lol...
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] StonerSteve420:
Has anyone tried this yet?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
it seems like that is only for lollipop it says \< 5.0
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thegrim11:
... < means less than. Therefore "< 5.0" means version less than 5.0.. Also if you read the page, you would see that it says "That issue was fixed in Android

5.0" So common sense would come into play here ans tell you that you cannot use a exploit on something that has been patched for it.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] StonerSteve420:
Left hand less than my man lol
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
I was always told that the "alligators mouth eats the larger number" so I thought that it was meat for lollipop 5.0+ ?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Need root for mirror beta to work, damn the machine, cast screen to other devices besides roku or chromecast
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] StonerSteve420:
What?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Exconvict:
Wugfresh nexus toolkit changes DPI if you're interested.

It makes backups too
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] klobster:
Anyone having issues with their volume sliders? The rocker buttons work, but the screen sliders don't always go all the way across for full volume?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] stinkbud:
That's been an ongoing problem for me, both in my original ZMax and the warranty replacement I received recently.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarthJaylen9189:
My phone just randomly rebooted but then nothing changed.... Hmmm

Sent from my Z970
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thegrim11:
You have to confirm you want to raise the volume past a certain point.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
Some far from the 3 mouths I have the phone I only have one problem, the I will call it the charger thermal cooker slow down glitch!!! Seriously CPU temperature 182°F??!!! WTF a Snapdragon 400!???? (And do not hit me with that all phones do this dose they do not!)
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidHackalot:
my setup at the moment.

THE ZMAX WILL RISE!!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Exconvict:
My setup. Plain... Density at 250. I tried 150 for dual panel and tablet ui but its too small!

Edit... Can't post my screen
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Exconvict:
Here it is
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Arcinredangel:
How do you change the DPI on the ZMAX? I haven't been able to figure it out
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thegrim11:
I've tried the temp root mod string and even that didn't work.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Exconvict:
With wugfresh nexus toolkit
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] sniper849:
Will the butternoob rom work on metro 4.4.4 without any major issues?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
They should they just need to claim it
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] auburn2eugene:
Thank you sir. So for now my best best is gonna be to just stand fast until yall get it all automated... I still don't feel comfortable with adb... Its toooooo much like messing with the bios on a computer. I just dont do that... Not yet anyway...
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
As automated as it can get follow instructions in link at my signature, Download English kingroot, gain temp root, download SuperSU.zip from XDA, download twrp from link in !y post, after tmp root, install twrp, after you install twrp remove kinguser,kingroot,Chinese char apks, use twrp to reboot to recovery, or power down and power up with volume up+power, in twrp flash SuperSU.zip you downloaded reboot to recovery, then reboot to recovery again and clear cache, because if you just reboot you'll get a black screen with your led blinking green then red

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] biledigger:
OK. I get it. ZTE has random items hidden around in the file system. But tell me this. Wtf is this first file entitled with an asterisk?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
That was the placement for root I believe the first push to see if it had read write wasn't there before root, I would leave it alone

Nm that's in data, still its a symlink of somekind

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] Vyrus69:
If any of you are like me, you absolutely detest the MetroPCS or Tmobile boot up screen.

Ok this mod is confirmed working guys, if you have TWRP and you don't have r/w capabilities, flashing this file from this thread will work in allowing you to change the boot up screen.

Click on link and download the one from Mediafire, flash in recovery and enjoy a simpler (and not as bright and white) boot up screen.

http://xdaforums.com/crossdevice-dev/sony/mod-android-5-0-lollipop-boot-animation-t2911728
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
You do know that it doesn't effect the BIOS, right?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] skinlab:
Could someone please upload the stock boot and stock recovery for the mtpcs version? I'm going to try what masterchief did..
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] biledigger:
Well.... I just moved a bunch of apps into the /system/app sector of my ROM and chmod'ed them using TWRP. Worked like a charm. Everything works perfectly.

Believe it or not. I was having a lot of trouble running the O.S. in R/W mode. But Editting it in TWRP is a hell of a lot easier. Plus it doesn't tell me that I failed to do anything. Everything is going along smoothly along the lines of system Editting.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
I was thinking the same thing I have like 700 free megs on system why not put all my apks there free up data

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] DroidisLINUX:
While were licking lollipop here taste this its the keyboard has Swype I love it
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] ghet2rockuu:
i just use boot animation from play store and then install your own from different sources i have the lollipop boot animation

you can dl it from mediafire

https://www.mediafire.com/?wu85dyyk9u9cwew
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thegrim11:
To the one who made CM12.1 does it have system R/W without booting the boot in recovery?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
No it wouldn't without unlocking the bootloader
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Peace of mind

For those of you skeptical about flashing butternoob, I just flashed BN 4.4.4 using a MetroPCS stock kernel and it booted up just fine, no hiccups.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] ghet2rockuu:
wheres the link
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Uploading Now
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] skinlab:
Everything is so scattered out. We need a home something fierce.. Android forums put the all things root thread on lock down.. Hope we get something soon.. Break the monotony.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
What do you mean???? (In reference to the root thread)
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] hroark13:
no

the system r/w is from the LK boot loader (aboot) and would need a boot loader unlock of some sort

when you try to remount r/w you get permission denied

i can get rid of that error, there is some code in the kernel for the system r/w and if it is removed that error is done

when i removed this code it actually looked like the system was r/w, but when phone was rebooted any changes made were back

so it was not actually writing to the flash chip, it was writing to the buffer

when the boot loader boots the phone into recovery mode, it does not initiate the write protection
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] dabluze:
xposed

Confirmed working for me-twrp with su metropcs 4.4.4
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] skinlab:
EarlyMon locked the Zmax root thread. Or am I trippin?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
If you want full read write you must edit

fstab.qcom

In the boot.img

And in the init.rc were it mounts / as ro

Also need to change the file called

init.qcom.syspart_fixup.sh

All these are in the boot.img they might have more checks in place also for read only on system or /system ro

I will keep looking

two lines were it mounts system as ro need to be rw and delete barrier=1

In init.rc make the mount / have no barrier so remove barrier=1

in fstab make mount rw not ro and remove barrier=1

I believe if you do this you will get rw see pic below
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] hroark13:
if you do that the phone wont boot

system wp is in the boot loader

your talking about RO and RW when mounting the system partition

there is code in the kernel source code that will prevent the phone from booting if you change the boot mount to RW

that code can be removed from the kernel source, and it will not give the error anymore when you mount as r/w

but any changes you try to make to system will not stick on reboot

you delete a file from /system/app and reboot it will be there again

it has been said over and over again by me and jcase that the lock is in the boot loader
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Vyrus69:
Hey locked the OLD root speculation thread, the new ones are stickied at the top.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] skinlab:
Thanks bro..
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Like I said boot.img/ that is were your kernel is, you can edit your boot.img google is your Friend i have been editing boot.img since eris came out

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2319018

http://androidforums.com/threads/without-pc-unpack-edit-repack-boot-img.811999/

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] totlth:
Would Loki work like in the lg phones?

They mostly come at night...mostly.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
You have a slow network?

Z999LP-A-LTE
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Our device doesn't have a locked boot loader, if it had a locked one we wouldn't be able to flash a boot.img, we can we have a boot loader that has no fastboot, and does some weird checks on startup, but I believe if we edit a boot.img and have the boot?img mount our system as rw we should get full access to system

I may be wrong, but I don't think so. Aboot might not have fastboot but it doesn't stop us from flashing a new boot.img that is what locked bootloaders do and we don't have a locked bootloader

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] mingolianbeef:
BUTTERNOOB 4.4.4 v2.0 Released...

Butternoob 2.0 is out. New 4.4.4 base with band 12 and all v1 bugs squashed! Enjoy the latest from ZTE everyone. I tried to make sure that I gave you a clean, bug free minimal experience with this one. Feel free to use as a base for your own projects with credits please.

http://androidforums.com/threads/update-5-18-15-butternoob-stock-4-4-4-v2.919084/

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Yeah my wifi sucks unfortunately. But I just released v2.0

http://androidforums.com/threads/update-5-18-15-butternoob-stock-4-4-4-v2.919084/

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It might not be locked but the bootloader does an integrity check of the boot.img like hroark13 said, and when something doesn't sit right with it, it goes haywire and won't boot. How hroark managed to boot a CM modified boot.img is a question that I can't answer, but I do know from my own edits with the boot.img that write protection isn't f***ing around.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
Think you!, but you need to upgrade to DAT 80$ T-Mobile boy I'm telling you it's worth it unlimited full speed 4G LTE!

Z999LP-A-LTE
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
I have that but I just had to replace my Macbook recently ($1100, mind you), and it took my phone bill money lol, I'll have it paid this week, I do have unlimited lol
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] dmeeks72:
Thank you!

I hate to ask this simple question, but I wanted to make sure before I went through the process of rooting this phone.

Were you able to verify that this does indeed unlock Band 12 on the TMobile variant of the ZMax?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Not in personal tests, but this is a MetroPCS, unmodified 4.4.4 stock base, and the Metro users did confirm that Band 12 was enabled out the box for their devices, and VoLTE came afterward (btw, anybody got that OTA so I can release BN 2.5??).

So short answer is from experience, no... from advisement of Metro users, yes!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tokenpoke:
Well, I'm going back home then. Lol.

No offense to xda but I've always been more of a phan.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
But your wrong it does have fast boot

And yes it does lock down the system on boot.... this is straight from Jcase he said so early in a post... You can't have system RW without modifying aboot this is something me and [MENTION=3953573]mingolianbeef[/MENTION] have been speculating about while talking through other channels but I'm not risking my device or my dev device to find out without a low power emmc
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] djc7980:
First attempt on flashing 4.4.4 V2 failed, trying again...........

second attempt failed also...................

I tried flashing 4.4.2 V1 Successful. Any idea's?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
I just went through that what you have you do is install the first butternoob then the new one?

Z999LP-A-LTE
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] djc7980:
I missed the reboot recovery part and don't install the super user part. It flashed for me now
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Wade876:
Twrp

I tried to do a nandroid backup in twrp but it failed. Not sure what's going on. Anyone can give some sort of insight of what's going on? Thanks again to all the devs and what you all have been doing for the zmax.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Well it's water under the bridge now but for future reference make sure you do the reboot recovery part of the installation process.

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Uh... reboot the recovery and try again?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Wade876:
I tried and it's the same problem
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Furik:
I have no input whatsoever. I just want to say we've come a long way since the fall.

I personally haven't tried any rooting for the phone yet since it's still in early stages and the Zmax is my main phone.

I'm so glad everything is going so positive and I appreciate the ones working hard to develop for our phones!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thegrim11:
When I get home from work I'll probably flash butternoob. What all features does it have over stock? Really excited someone got CM12.1 to boot though. Would be more than glad to help both of you with testing ROMs.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
This is pure stock for those that may want to use it as a ROM base. Since it's bug free, I can work on Superbutter, which is the ROM with tweaks and features :) No ETA, as the list of requested features is pretty dense, but know that it's in development.

Somebody hit up that Cyanogenmod though lol, we can have a big ROM list if we get some people working stuff out
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thegrim11:
If I still had the source downloaded, I would try and build DirtyUnicorns. I've ported it in the past.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Dude I remember when DU was first released for the Evo 3D, love that ROM!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thegrim11:
I ported it for the P880. However GSM didn't work and the Navbar would not go away even though turning it off in build.prop. that was the first ever android thing I've done.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Lol its a start, bring those skills to the ZMAX dude!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thegrim11:
Oh I will! Once the boot loader is unlocked I will feel more confident about porting and stuff. That boot loader is the only thing holding me back from reinstalling Ubuntu and downloading source.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Ask hroark for his 4.4.4 kernel that built CM, you could get the ball rolling with that!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thegrim11:
Very true. [MENTION=2250339]HRoark[/MENTION] would you mind uploading that to github or would you prefer to work on it some more? I'm fine with that.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
His name is [MENTION=4791485]hroark13[/MENTION] lol
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] hroark13:
it is patched against Loki
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] prophetjinn:
Can confirm, v2 works on metro with LTE, faster than OEM, thanks a bunch man!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Being able to flash a boot means an unlocked boot loader there is no locked boot loader about might do some different checks on the kernel but if you can write any boot.img that is an unlocked boot loader plain an d simple

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] mingolianbeef:
Interesting Find...

I found the ZTE ZMAX OTA signature test key embedded in the ROM zip, can we use this to flash root to those phones that don't have it already via the stock recovery? The file is attached... I try not to but I'm just gonna tag [MENTION=2376614]jcase[/MENTION] in this situation because he could probably give the most definitive answer.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] jcase:
no, this is a public key.