yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] imattmodz:
Does the system have RW access? Or are you using twrp method? I don't believe every root app can keep functioning correctly without RW access to the system without, causing these types of issues.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Sorry. Hey while your here, any idea how to edit or remove an install-recovery.sh placed by kingroot, even full rw or twrp can't, its been edited in boot I believe to place it for ota survival

Sent from my Z970

root@draconis:/ # id

uid=0(root) gid=0(root) context=u:r:init:s0
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
Got yah brother. I'll pull the @ ;)
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] imattmodz:
Your apps do have root permissions yes, but they can't physically write to system if they need to. That is what I'm trying to say.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] smilesintears77:
Thank you Sir!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Cyconumnum:
Yeah....I figured that out when I followed instruction on how to rw the host files so adaway can install the new ones...But smanager wouldn't allow it...it confirmed it as ro....

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I feel like a idiot
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Moon83:
Can someone with knowledge take a look at my logcat? My native mobile hotspot keeps turning off and on when I try to use it.

https://app.box.com/s/yt6dtae4uizd6u9k8pbxrx6e0njxfd30
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
Guys, we need more info from those of you that have rooted with KingRoot.

If you are not PMing me with your details, then please post if you sent over direct to [MENTION=6674985]Kingxteam[/MENTION]

Trying to keep track of this.

Thank you.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Wade876:
Output is P892T57_MPCS
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] epigramx:
I wonder if your phone is related. I have a very stubborn blade apex2 that doesn't unlock with any known method. Others have reported that on the same build version they've seen it unlocked.

Anyway, I won't pester you more. I'll keep you in mind because it's possible your locking technology is identical to mine. The hardware seems similar. Also the OS version is same.

Well, unless any of you find it useful to look into that phone in case it's related to your efforts.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Daveyoung300:
Does anybody here have a YouTube channel
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Cyconumnum:
maybe the best thing for me is to just wait for a rooted ROM......apparently i'm not smart enough to do what i need to otherwise...jeez
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] fire3element:
No sir. You shall not gaze upon my unsigtly mug :p

[MENTION=5500511]Cyconumnum[/MENTION]

Its still complicated for us too. Give it a little time please.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Daveyoung300:
It would be easier if somebody made a video on how to do it
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] imattmodz:
Don't feel that way about it dude. "Idiots", are the people that don't ask any questions, refuse to read, and refuse to make an attempt to learn. You are asking questions, because you want to learn. That doesn't sound like an idiot to me... Maybe [MENTION=6545437]xtremeasure[/MENTION] can teach me the secret to his patience. ;) On a serious note, there are a lot of great people here that are contributing really good stuff, and I appreciate all of their work. I'm working on a couple goodies for everyone too.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] 13roomshh:
trying to root again

So I had root..did kingroot..then twrp..rebooted lost root..

So starting from scratch

I removed all 3 kingroot apps..still have twrp..should I remove twrp also?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
If you have twrp, download SuperSU.zip and flash you should be rooted

Sent from my Z970

root@draconis:/ # id

uid=0(root) gid=0(root) context=u:r:init:s0
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] 13roomshh:
OK see I don't know how to flash.. I am lower than butternub lol
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] steventechno:
yeah

You should get a prompt inside recovery to get super su. At least I did after creating a backup
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] 13roomshh:
How do I get that prompt? From within twrp?

If so do I boot into twrp or just start app?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Meekplague:
This is what I did after I rooted I opened the twrp app chose reboot to recovery then from twrp I chose reboot to system I was prompted that I didn't have supersu and to slide the bar right if I wanted to install then just followed the steps from there I was able to uninstall all three king apps and root persists through reboots.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] 13roomshh:
Where I am at now..I uninstalled all kingroot via app manager.. All I have is twrp..

Nonroot as of now..can I just remove twrp and start over?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Meekplague:
I had to start over once as well I just left twrp installed and re-rooted then did the above steps
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] 13roomshh:
Ok I'll leave twrp.now if and when I get root again..

Do i use SuperSU from app store or the zip..if the zip one where

To get and how to install please
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Meekplague:
I got the zip through twrp itself after you reboot to recovery via the twrp app just immediately choose to reboot to system and it will prompt you to either install supersu or just reboot and you just slide a bar right to install

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As for obtaining root I ran about 10 minecraft mod apps and minecraft itself seemed to work great and was enough memory so should be pretty easy hopefully
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] 13roomshh:
Thanks so much..think I got root..root checker says so..did exactly

What u said. Does it have full r/w? Not that I'll be messing with

That...
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Meekplague:
Glad i could be of some help and no unfortunately doesn't have full r/w there is a script zip some pages back that you can use to get r/w but am unsure as to how to use I'm just gonna stick with the twrp root for now.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] epigramx:
Does anyone have any idea why zte is locking the bootloaders of phones? What are they trying to do? Annoy people like they are Apple?

I don't see any benefit compared to the annoyance it gives to their users.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] thegrim11:
Then you're in the wrong place. Read up on it first before asking.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
My personal opinion is they did it because it's what T-Mobile wanted now if that's right or not I have no idea

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Now run

getprop ro.build.fingerprint

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Lulz

See this guy is awesome at least he owns it and ask questions
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
I really didn't expect butternoob to catch on like this lol

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S/N can someone get me a system.img of the MetroPCS variant? I have the T-Mo/Univision one, but I want to see if the MPCS version has the same partition layout, because that means we can flash the same roms. Otherwise, I'll just make a stock rom for the MPCS variant.

Please don't flash the deodex stock rom I posted. I did, just to see, and it didn't hard brick but it didn't boot, either. I have a stock odex'd rom that's up and booting now, just fixing a wifi issue. This one is free of all King apps and does have superuser with superuser perms. I ran xposed and adaway and they both trigger su permissions. I haven't tested whether I can r/w yet, but I plan to check that after wifi (not that it really matters to some of you, though).

All in all, this one can be flashed, I flashed it myself many times with no issues. You won't brick, and you won't have King apps for those that are having trouble getting rid of those. Hope this helps some :)
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] djc7980:
Do you have a link for this?

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Sorry just noticed you are still working on it.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] epigramx:
My very similar phone in hardware and OS that couldn't unlock with any known method (a rare version of the blade apex2) just worked with the PC version of iRoot! (not the mobile version).

It's with the latest update they have from 15/5/2015. i.e. today

I suggest you try it on this phone just in case.

edit: the actual latest version I used is from the non-english site: http://www.mgyun.com/vroot
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
I recomended Iroot to someone having very mysterious issues after a factory reset... I would recommend trying this finding a consistent tmp root method would make this whole ordeal allot easier on the newer crowd
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Lesharoturbo:
I have not tried anything yet, I will try iroot when I get home in a few minutes.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
Don't forget to grab a copy of my bat file get temp root and run the bat file I've had more than one confirmed success so I know it's working as it should
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Lesharoturbo:
Will do! Thanks for all your work!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] epigramx:
By the way, the actual latest iRoot PC version I used and worked on my similar phone is from the non-english site: http://www.mgyun.com/vroot
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] maabx:
Hi, lurking Butternub here. Been following this thread (and the previous) for a month. I was able to run zteroot.bat, but it never re-booted the first time , so I pressed a key, and the rest of the script failed. I think I was thrown off by the second "Press any key to continue..." and a little self-doubt. I don't know if leaving kingroot open had anything to do with it or not. But...I was able to get back to temp root and rerun the script. This time it rebooted, however, well...the results are below. Root Checker tells me Root access not properly installed. The second time around I force stopped kingroot.

Can anyone tell me what the issue is? Am I screwed??

Thanks in advance for any help. And thanks for all the effort to try and make this happen.

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]

Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

D:\Users\MyLaptop7>cd downloads\zteroot

D:\Users\MyLaptop7\Downloads\zteroot>zteroot

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

--------------------------THIS IS A TEST BATCH FILE!!!--------------------------

---------------------For use with the ZTE Zmax [Z970] ONLY!---------------------

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Nobody at XDA including myself takes any responsibillity

for what happens to your device

Creators: [MENTION=6545437]xtremeasure[/MENTION]

You must have temporary Root from a tool like KingRoot,

else this batch file will do NOTHING

DO NOT complain to the creators of this

file because you did not bother to read first

You have been warned. Thank you for understanding.

Happy Trails!...

Please plug in your phone now

Press any key to continue . . .

32768+0 records in

32768+0 records out

16777216 bytes transferred in 3.683 secs (4555312 bytes/sec)

32768+0 records in

32768+0 records out

16777216 bytes transferred in 2.181 secs (7692441 bytes/sec)

Success

Success

Success

8355 KB/s (133472 bytes in 0.015s)

39 KB/s (629 bytes in 0.015s)

Your phone will be rebooting into Recovery now

Recovery is now set to boot Android

So you will be booting into Andoid OS

instead of the stock recovery

THIS IS NORMAL

When your phone has rebooted, press any key to continue

Press any key to continue . . .

/system/bin/sh: su: not found

/system/bin/sh: su: not found

/system/bin/sh: su: not found

/system/bin/sh: su: not found

/system/bin/sh: su: not found

/system/bin/sh: su: not found

/system/bin/sh: su: not found

5600 KB/s (5904943 bytes in 1.029s)

pkg: /data/local/tmp/eu.chainfire.supersu.apk

Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_ALREADY_EXISTS]

/system/bin/sh: su: not found

You are finished now

You should have permanent Root...

For system write access, reboot into recovery.

Press any key to continue . . .

D:\Users\MyLaptop7\Downloads\zteroot>
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] lkchrono:
I tried vRoot, iRoot's PC brother. It claims to successfully root the phone. However upon achieving root vRoot sends your device a reboot command thus killing the temp root you gained before you can use it. Root cannot technically be verified. However, Su installs just before reboot, so vRoot works. And then it doesn't.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
What model of the phone do you have

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It looks like you lost root before it could push the files for you...
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] epigramx:
That's normal here. It rebooted me and then I got a root.

I now try to remove it in favor of supersu.

I keep messing it up and re-rooting:P
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] lkchrono:
So your zMax keeps root after the reboot?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] maabx:
I have Tmobile Z970 4.4.2

Another thing, I never pressed the "purification" button as fire3element calls it in kingoroot.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Lesharoturbo:
The vroot PC program keeps seeing of my pc antivirus software and gets automatically canned. Have any of you had this issue?

OK, got it running on my WinBook tablet no problem. I am uploading some files for work, so will try after they complete.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] maabx:
I tried a third time. Same result as above. This time I used the blue "purification" button in kingoroot. Root Checker confirmed I had root. After the script reboot, no root.

Also: I did notice on both reboots that there is an "Android is updating" message. Only lasts 2-3 seconds.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
getprop ro.build.fingerprint

Run that paste the output hete
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Cyconumnum:
i tried to make you one from my METROPCS zmax with romdump...but in both adb and a teminal on my phone i get permiassion denied...

i can't even install romdump with phone terminal

even thou root checker say im rooted

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All I can post is a backup from TWRP ...And that's probably useless...since it'll have all my apps and junk installed
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Lesharoturbo:
OK, first try gave me "Root Successed", then rebooted. But Root checker says no dice!

Second try installed Kinguser! and MTKCamera. Phone is frozen now, will not accept screen or button input. Screen rotates now. Still at "Rooting now, please wait"

"Root Failed" Retrying.....
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Masterchief87:
Kingroot only gives you temporary root. If you reboot the phone before you install twrp then you will have to start over again.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Lesharoturbo:
Yes. Thanks for that. I have been following very closely. However, I am trying vRoot on the PC as noted above. It installs Kinguser and reboots by itself, not touchy from me.

OK, removed King user and some other apps that were installed....... and trying again.

Third try is installing cleaner software.

Just rebooted again! vRoot is waiting on the device....

"Rooting now"....

And MtkCamera again!, but it does not load....

Try#3 failed. Trying again and loading up memory like needed for KingRoot

"Root Successed" again then auto-reboot

Still no root.

4th try, Started Ingress, get "Rooted successed" and auto restart. When I click complete, attempts to install daemon, then says no root after checking!

5th try same thing. Removing Kinguser between tries and starting Ingress seems to initiate the process, but it is failing after reboot.

6th same thing. I do not think this works for our device.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] TedRBarnes:
Hey guys, so I managed to get my phone rooted, install TWRP, and install xposed framework. I installed gravitybox KK and I have started theming my phone. However, I seem to have run into an issue with the lock screen, I would like to change the color of the clock on the lock screen, but it seems that this phone doesn't have any lock screen settings nor does it support lock screen widgets. Another issue that I have is that I seem to have disabled notifications on the lock screen, I tapped the 3 dots in the upper right corner of one of the notifications on the lock screen and a menu popped up with two switches one switch disables notifications on lock screen, and the other disables the screen waking on notification. I toggled the disable notifications switch to test it, but now I can't figure out how to enable them again. Can anyone help me?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] skinlab:
Would someone please post jcases recovery.img for full r/w?

I have TWRP but, mingolianbutanub posted a simple way to go from TWRP to recovery for r/w...
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] maabx:
Here are my results...sorry, I had trouble logging in...

D:\Users\MyLaptop7>adb shell getprop ro.build.fingerprint

zte/P892T57/draconis:4.4.2/KVT49L/20141222.150901.15152:user/release-keys
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Hey, long time butternoober, first time poster. lol just playing, but seriously, if someone has any skill with Updater-Scripts, please message me, as I'm having some trouble with making sure wifi gets the proper permissions, and plus I think my updater-script is all over the place anyway, not really my expertise. All help is appreciated! Sooner I get this fixed, sooner you can have King-Free Root lol. Also, while I'm in the building process, any special requests for what you would like included in the ROM? I'm removing apps like Lookout and AppSource, and I'm going to replace the stock launcher with Google Now Launcher (just to keep it simple, wanna leave the decision of major launchers to the user). I'll also be removing the stock music, recorder and other crap apps.

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Another observation and word to the wise. For those of you with developer expertise and who wish to use my rom as a base for whatever, please please please DO NOT EDIT THE BOOT.IMG!!! I set it to insecure, and when I flashed it, bootloader locked up real bad. I thought I hard bricked my phone (the android thrillseeker in me couldn't resist the urge). Also, do not accidentally delete your boot.img from it's partition. Many have asked where FTM mode's partition is, and the answer is that it doesn't have a partition, it's built into the boot.img. If you brick and TWRP won't suffice, then you are seriously bricked, because FTM gives access to adb. I'm telling you from experience. Had I not had TWRP or FTM, I would have been screwed. Word of warning, hope you heed it :)
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] skinlab:
Would someone please post jcases recovery.img for full r/w? <br />

I have TWRP but, mingolianbutanub posted a simple way to go from TWRP to recovery for r/w...<br/>
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] maabx:
Are you referring to the one he provided in the following post?

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=60685432&postcount=1807

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[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Reallionare:
How's it going, it would be nice to have dual booting on the Zmax....Like Moboot or possibly from SD card..Can u imagine 2 OS available..:) Sometime in the near future..
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Lesharoturbo:
[MENTION=3953573]mingolianbeef[/MENTION]

What is this line? It looks to have too many digits in the permissions:

nevermind. I was looking at the wrong stuff!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
All right do me a flavor

id

Run that post the result

From what is looking like for what ever reason your adb back door didn't work that output will let me know
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Sorry, pastebin was being sucky, here's the download:

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=85118940485709544146

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[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] maabx:
Here's shat it shows...

D:\Users\MyLaptop7>adb shell id

uid=0(root) gid=0(root) context=u:r:shell:s0
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] 13roomshh:
OK I have root and kept after a few reboots

Only issue to report,and not major, my weather channel app no longer updates

And battery percentage app don't seem to work but not major
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Great? know somebody who knows updater-scripts so I can bring you a rom with all those goodies? lol
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] 13roomshh:
OK thanks so much for helping me get root ..now gotba question

Seems I have not uninstalled king root apps..is it safe to do so. Causebi get that

Chinese app come up and I can't read Chinese lol
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] auburn2eugene:
Hey guys... So I had temp root one time haven't been able to get it since, but imma keep trying... Anyway I have a few questions...

1) when I downloaded the batch file, I cannot get it uncompressed. I have tried rar5 and 7zip but I keep getting an error saying that there is no archive found in the file.

2) if I were to just use the twrp method, and not have full r/w capabilities, what does that prevent me from doing? Would I still be able to use lucky patcher, adblock, etc?

3) if I use just twrp, would i still have to update the binary for SU?

4) if I use the batch file, and gain r/w access, will I STILL have to update the SU binary? I have zero interest having to get into dd commands...

If I will still have to get into dd for each way I will just hold tight for now... I've waited months, what's a few more days /weeks...
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Cyconumnum:
well....figured out the script thing...and i must say ...I'M TIRED OF BEING DENIED ROOT IN CHINESE!!!!.....i said it....carry on
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Meekplague:
You should be able to uninstall them assuming everything went correctly when you flashed supersu
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
1) May be a bad download, I've never had problems update

2) If I remember correctly, you won't be able to do anything that involves writing to the system, i.e. updating the SU binary. IDK if that will stop you from using SU or not, but it can be a problem if you need anything done pertaining to the /system. LP and Adblock will have to get root from the chinese app.

3) Yes

4) Yes
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
reboot recovery

After the phone boots

mount -o rw,remount /system

If no errors after that command

cd /system/xbin

ls

post that output and we will go from there

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The dd commands if typed correctly are easy.... That and with the ability to fix a soft brick your pretty much golden as long as you set the back door correctly..
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] auburn2eugene:
And the batch takes care of the back door yes?

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Thank you for responding.

And a big thank you for everyone working on this for us. Thank yall for all your hard work.

Edit*** I downloaded the rar again, and it still reporting as an error... I have to do all my downloading to my phone then move over to my computer... That has NEVER been an issue for me. Could it possibly be that? I'll get on my computer and see if that makes a difference.... IT DID... so to anyone who reads this, dont download it from your phone