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[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] voidcomp:
I have yet to see any reliable report of Band 12 sightings on either T-Mobile or MetroPCS Zmax.

By this time we should of seen at least some reports, easily confirmed with verification software such as LTE Discovery. Not only that, is everyone sure Band 12 is supported with the MetroPCS version? At the ZTE website the specs show Band 12 on T-Mobile but missing on Metro PCS.

http://www.zteusa.com/zte-zmax-mpcs

http://www.zteusa.com/zte-zmax

Omission? Possibly, however if T-Mobile wants to justify the higher price points vs Metro perhaps one way is to disable B12 for Metro customers even though the phones are likely identical.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] jamesthegreat88:
Me either I'm mad
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Lesharoturbo:
Mine is a tmo phone bought from tmo and activated on metro. No unlock code needed.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] imattmodz:
It takes time to receive an OTA update my friends. They could be pushing the update one city at a time rather than dealing with the idea of potentially having to troubleshoot an entire country all at once if something happen to go wrong with the update. Also, a lot of the time when the update in question is "carrier specific" the update will only appear with WiFi off, and while the end user is on the carrier's network (not roaming). They do this to avoid third party interference while transferring the update. If they transfered the update while the end user is roaming it would be a pain in pants for them to go back and attempt troubleshooting any error logs from a tower they don't own, or lease. Just some food for thought.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] ghet2rockuu:
yes i use an app called lte disscovery and i beeen connected on band 12
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] monark88:
I'd have to give the bounty to jcase. that'd be way wrong. the thing is this ASEC exploit is relying on com.sonyericsson.servicemenu ......we're not going to have that (we're ZTE).

I think if jcase did have achieve root, he may certainly have taken this route. He did say he had only a few hours left of work, but lacked motivation. This would be the equivalent.

Edit: Also, safe mode disables SuperSU and root checker... actually.... all third party apps for my device (never has helped.... at all) So i'm going to say that it just boots from the read only partition, and ignores the writable one.

..I'm still looking.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
*#*#info#*#* got me into a menu
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-gILDzs5fkbbkFLVzM2VTdvdkU/edit?usp=docslist_api

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on my phone when I boot into to safe mode I can still open up and use third party apps...
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarthJaylen9189:
How did you activate the safe mode for this phone? I trued on my old lg optimus x and got it working somehow

Sent from my Z970
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] monark88:
Safe mode should have SAFE MODE in bottom left hand corner...

For JB 4.3 it looks like:

[IMG="Safe_Mode"]http://s11.postimg.org/d7zjllakj/Screenshot_2012_07_11_07_39_25.png[/IMG]

For you (Kit Kat):

[IMG="KK_Safe_mode"]http://s11.postimg.org/y9uff9x37/safe_mode_393x700.png[/IMG]

I still doubt if safe mode will have any impact on root. If it's a temp root, I'd rather root with a normal boot... The whole idea of safe mode is to stop a malicious app from running or something along those lines. It's more like tightening the grip of the original state of the phone.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
Hold the power botton then the menu will pop up hold the Power off opintion and bam.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarthJaylen9189:
Ya so it does still run third party apps if we haven't established this yet

Sent from my Z970
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
Safe mode only runs the native apps on boot, but does not stop you from starting apps, its just made to run non third party apps on boot that's all, and a few exploits use it to run I am not sure why
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarthJaylen9189:
Oh. Well. ZTE is located in some province.. Never heard of there....location...

Sent from my Z970

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"Guangdong Province

Chinese province

Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. Formerly known as Canton or Kwangtung in English."

Sent from my Z970
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DroidisLINUX:
What does *zte*openem# mode do, what does em mode open mean?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarthJaylen9189:
The pic won't show...

I had the emode enabled. But when I pressed calk it said that my ussd wasn't valid..

Sent from my Z970
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Mizoah24:
It opens engineering mode. You can Google *zte*openem# and get a bit more info about it.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarthJaylen9189:
I'm getting an invalid mmi code?

Sent from my Z970
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] King Ice:
I gotta find a root if it kills me.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarthJaylen9189:
I think we can't find the root.... we have to form the root.

Sent from my Z970
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] King Ice:
I either gotta find one or make one, either way its happening.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] shabbypenguin:
Asec has been patched for a while, its what we used to root the concord 2, the zte zinger and whirl 2 were patched against it and this device as well.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] monark88:
i assumed as much
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarthJaylen9189:
Well. Phone codes def don't work...

Sent from my Z970
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
Only if this was real.......

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-gILDzs5fkbeW9vYXJoQWRkNVE/edit?usp=docslist_api we can still dream can't we?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] voidcomp:
Screenshot please. Date & location? Which phone used?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] ghet2rockuu:
uhm what do u mean which phone is used lol this is zte forum ? anyways metro ver 4.4.4.

http://tinypic.com/r/2e6hoap/8
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] willard18:
What is b12 update stuff?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Vyrus69:
I uploaded a screen shot of my band 12 phone about a month ago. If you search the thread you will see it.

The metro variant had band 12 out of the box, but this new update turns on VOLTE. The T-Mobile variant will get it soon too.

Sent from my Z970
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] voidcomp:
Thanks, what kind of speeds are you pulling on B12?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] sacosta115:
Just wanted to say that the two I bought from Walmart were the Univision versions and for some odd reason they were on sale from $179 to $49.99!!!! I kid you not! So I bought the last two. I also bought and tried both the straight talk and T-Mobile SIM KITS and both worked without a hitch. However an older ST sim that I had left over that wasn't active, promted the " SIM Network unlock code" . So depending on what service that you want to use you would still need to make sure it runs on T Mobile's network both straight talk and net10 sim packs will work but you would have to use the T Mobile Sims as as we don't have root yet we can't change the radio hope this helps anybody who is looking to use this marvelous phone with other T-Mobile MVNO's. Cheers!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Lesharoturbo:
What is the difference with the Univision version? Is it 4.4.4? Any different apps?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] saminator94:
Band 12 does not come activated right out of the box, it will be activated in the form of an OTA update. Those of you using LTE discovery as a method of confirming Band 12 are mistaken and the developers of the app have also said they've been having issues specifically with reporting T-Mobile's LTE bands. I know this because it has happened to me personally on multiple occasions and I was able to prove that there was no band 12 in my area by using a phone that had band 12 activated and engineering mode (Samsung AVANT). LTE discovery is not a reliable tool in this case. All I can say is just be patient and that these updates will come soon.

On another note, T-Mobile has sent an internal memo to employees telling them to resume sales of ZTE ZMAX.

"Internal Memo: Team – The message below needs to be distributed to all COR stores and MetroPCS dealers immediately. On Wednesday April 15, we temporarily suspended sales of the ZTE ZMAX to investigate a potential battery problem. That investigation (led by ZTE) found that the problem resulted from a very small number of customers attempting to remove the non-removable ZMAX back and battery. As of today, we’re resuming sales of the ZMAX. Going forward, please make sure to inform customers considering the ZMAX that the back and battery are not removable (as stated on the original back cover cling), and attempts to do so can result in injury and will void device warranty.

Action Steps: Resume selling the ZTE ZMAX device and return all corresponding collateral to the sales floor. · Inform customers who are interested or intend on purchasing the ZTE ZMAX that the back and battery are not removable, and the device should only be opened by an authorized service technician." - credit given to SMFD21 of r/tmobile
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] OHNONONO:
Thanks for the feedback and the other guy, too, thanks

-- this is official: Z970 zmax ~ a Univision mobile branded by wallymart and for the walmart family mobile same thing unless your hispanic and u like purple → metro pcs SIM works just throw your sim in good to go.

z97∅ · tapatalk
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] voidcomp:
Until today you were the ONLY one to show band 12 on the continuation of a thread that goes back at least 5 months and I had cast suspicions on LTE Discovery in reply. Doesn't it strike you as odd there hasn't been more reports?

For me band 12 support was a strong factor in purchasing the ZMax as I'm sure it was for others. You would think many would be checking daily for signs yet the silence has been pretty remarkable, even over at howardforums.

The only conclusion I can draw is that the typical MetroPCS ZMax owner likes the price, features, and large pretty screen and wouldn't know band 12 if it hit them, or they're so few are far between that forums like this tend to skew its popularity when in fact it's quite low.

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Bingo! It's one reason why I ask for the actual speed numbers unless that's inaccurate too.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Vyrus69:
I was part of a ZTE beta team, I can 100% confirm that if you have a Zmax with 4.4.4 on it, you have band 12.

Sent from my Z970
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] ghet2rockuu:
ty ioono who says u need to activate it lol also i read band 12 is just for better reception and that internet data is actually slower then 4g
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] voidcomp:
Please show us speedtests on Band 12.

The immediate 2 posters above must be neighbors, related, or one in the same lol. Check out the LTE Discovery coordinates of their respective band 12 screenshot posts.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Planterz:
T-Mobile is selling the ZMAX again. Their "solution" to the "problem" of people trying to take out the battery is for their sales reps to verbally reiterate what's on the sticker on the back when you buy it.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] ghet2rockuu:
cuz we both in miami

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and i cant show u a speedtest because im not on band 12 right now the phone recycles to w.e strongest signal or tower is near you or do u not know how cell signals work?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] kardeef:
Was just fiddling with the phone, it says I have to deactivate device admin to remove LookOut .I mean if we deactivate device admin could we add our su and binaries . just a though ...

Running Metro 4.4.4
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] DarthJaylen9189:
Yeah. I disabled lookout long ago. It was draining my phone and so I decided I didn't need it.

Sent from my Z970
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] voidcomp:
whatever bro u know the location and yes i know. /backtogrammar
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] therealduckie:
Op here.

Mods, please shut this thread down.

I am disgusted by the disrespect, ignorance and childishness and no longer want my name associated with it.

Thanks
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Ra.burt86:
Please reconsider. I am grateful for this thread and to you for creating it. I hope the few immature beings do not ruin the experience for everyone else. My 2c.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] willard18:
Really guys are we in middle school again?? No need to argue over stupid crap. Talk about achieving root. Thats mostly why we have this forum. I wouldn't be surprised if the mods took this post down because some people wanna argue over stupid crap. Get over your guys so called big tough guy attitudes and talk normal for once
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] kardeef:
Is there a way to do a invite only thread , so the trouble can be banned. There is always going to be bad apples, I think most of us have gone along way towards figuring out root. It would be sad for a small minority of people to get this thread closed, heck that might have been there goal .

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Lol,they might work there way through all the threads here on XDA hate to see all the threads here shut down :(
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Meekplague:
Yeah unfortunately kardeef, this is the exact thing I was talking about a couple days ago. These few bad apples are gonna make it so that the people who are trying really hard to achieve root will unfollow this thread so they don't get notifications of a grown man in a child mindset talking crap to another person over the internet. I don't get why people do it, guess their ego gets the best of them?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] nobreak1970:
Rotflmao.

Don't go startin' another one now.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Dhlongfellow:
Just let those working on this phone work on their own, and collaborate with those knowledgeable few in private. This forum has failed twice, over the same issues. Thanks developers for trying.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] kardeef:
Meekplague just turned my notifications back on,had them off for a few weeks . I needed a break cause of the bad apples
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] therealduckie:
I am in the hospital dealing with heart bypass surgery. I came here to see good news but was instead met with all sorts of negativity.

I don't need it and neither do the Devs. Too many new people ruining the thread with nonsense and no one cleaning it up.

Its time to end it anyway. It ran its course. The devs were pushed away, the phone is no longer sold and the average user is not versed in XDA nor do they care to be. They'd rather argue or treat the thread like a Skype conversation because they're lonely and bored.

If someone wants to make a new one, feel free, but 1209 posts of nothing is a waste if space and time.

Thanks to those who tried.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] afox27:
[MENTION=4036181]Darth[/MENTION]. There you go rootjunkie hope everything goes well an see ya later
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
I figured they'd do something like this....
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] ghet2rockuu:
they are reselling the phone
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
Duckie first let me say get well brother I myself finally just got out of the hospital myself and finally got my first daughter home safe and sound!!... Now to business I said it before and I'll say it again these forums look this way because of the phones user base... the price point and carrier draw a certain type of user i say this at the risk of sounding like an asshole but I'm being proved right over and over again...

It would be a real shame to lock the thread because I feel there is allot of God info that can be used if a Dev decides to pick this device up but in the end I agree the arguing and pity **** that has been happening makes us all look like caddy little girls.. So yeah I agree with you duckie..
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] nobreak1970:
A Dev that has an even keel will wade through the muck to get the info needed to help. It also depends on if he gives a rats ass about the phone

Not a lot of those types left here at XDA.

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Bottom line is that its never been a "gotta have the cleanest and most serious thread let's prove our worth to a Dev so he will help us" type forum. Maybe it is now.

Sad if so.

XDA has changed a lot since it first appeared I've been around the entire time. The user base and the developers. I'm not going to say a lot of bad things about developers bottom line is you got people charging for stuff now things have definitely changed and everyone knows it. perhaps it's time to find greener pastures android forums is a good place. I'm not saying pick one above the other but you got other options.

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I'm not just spouting off at the mouth here I have an indirect stake in this thing as that I own a ZTE zinger. I just wanted to step in and give a level-headed neutral opinion. So don't get all mad. Lol
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] xtremeasure:
I'm thinking the other big ticket phone zte is releasing will get it for us both... Especially if they decide to release here.. I can't for the life of me remember the name it looks like a zmax with more features
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] ubigred:
Don't buy zte phones
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Lesharoturbo:
Great! Now you tell us. Where were you last year when this super awesome phone came out? Just kidding

I am one that likes the phone as it sits. I just regret being an early adopter and paying 279 at tmo instead of waiting for the 99 dollar deal at metro. I am looking for one of the 49 buck Univision ones for my wife though.....
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] biledigger:
metro PCs system update.

6:30 p.m. central standard time. I have the notification for a system update. Anyone know what its for?
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Vyrus69:
Read a page back...enables VOLTE

Sent from my Z970
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
i got sense runnig on tge Zte z max...

https://plus.google.com/105855773732882713268/posts/gTWyZRQQQ5y this is how the ZTE z max Looks running HTC sense 7 t looks with working blink feed and all....
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] JAWheat411:
This is on unleashed prepaid..Looks like potential root. But I think you have to do this in Linux. http://unleashedprepaids.com/thread-9424-post-79034.html#pid79034
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Lesharoturbo:
That info is also here by the same person I believe although I do not think he ever gained root or even wrote to the system directory and executed the delivered packages.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] JAWheat411:
Sorry, I must have missed it in all the pages. I notice now that it is an older post. There wasn't any replies by him I see.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_yeet:
now having this phone for so long now i really do not care if thing dose not get root especially since I have this...

https://plus.google.com/105855773732882713268/posts/EuzuVDvM9Ef ???
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] klobster:
Seems like if we had a copy of the sync_agent bin file from the old exploit we could use the MTP restore exploit to to paste the bin into /data/bin/ as an executable. Then it's just a matter of finding the password for our phone, but even if it doesn't work I bet the file has debug privs, which would open a lot of doors.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
Good news and "I don't really know if you care" news lol

Good news is, I just got a job at MetroPCS. On this front, I'll be able to get the insider info on stuff with this phone. I can confirm that they were giving out not only Sammy Avants, but S4s and S5s as well. The girl that works at the place I got hired at said she just gave out two galaxy S5s last thursday. I guess it depends on where you work. Needless to say, that is no longer valid because they started selling the ZMAX again.

THE IDRKIYC news is that because I work there, I'm taking advantage of all the employee stuff they have to offer. She was saying that you get free service and phone discounts, and I want a Galaxy S6. My dad is going to use my TMO account, which means he will own the ZMAX I currently use. Once I take care of some stuff though, I'm just going to buy another ZMAX cash, they are dirt cheap as is. I'll be keeping up with this thread. Anything I find out on the inside that won't get me investigated will be shared with the community lol. This isn't me quitting on you guys by any means, just sort of having the cake, eating it, saving it for later and maximizing the amount of slices I get. When you all get root, let me know, I have the CM source code downloaded as we speak, sitting on "G" waiting on "O" lol
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] jamesthegreat88:
I haven't seen him since that post we should check on him/her
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] skinlab:
Yep.. I didn't know about the S5 replacement but, I was told about the S4 and Avant. Nobody wanted to believe it though.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] Djoec1983:
Not to get off topic but I got sense home up and running on my zmax as well, looks pretty good and is very fast and fluid, I noticed a few bugs but nothing major.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] monark88:
That does not work with this phone...
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] mingolianbeef:
I think it was more so a matter of your location than anything, especially if you were an authorized dealer and not an official Metro store. The guy that owns the one I got hired at just happens to be really nice and went above and beyond for his customers.

I had sense on here at one point too, very nice!!!
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] BigDaddyE40:
How do you get it
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] _ck_:
Without root this news isn't that exciting but Walmart is clearing out the Univision version of the Zmax for $50 now in stores.

It is a tmobile version of the phone as univision is an mnvo but might need to be carrier unlocked to even work on tmobile

If you go here and click on find in store and add it to your cart, you should see the $50 price

https://mobile.walmart.com/ip/42306964 (ignore the $200 online price)

Even if it says "out of stock" your store may still have one, walmart's inventory count gets wonky at 2 or less.

Personally I am done with >2013 ZTE phones but someone else may want one who doesn't care about root.
[ZTE ZMAX Guides, News, & Discussion] arampapaz:
I was able to find only one at my local Walmarts. I am using it as a temp phone and everything is fine. The Univision is a t-mobile phone with t-mobile software. I am using it with Metro-PCS straight out of the box, no unlocking needed. Not missing root too much. The most annoying thing is that it doesn't stream tags for music over Bluetooth in my car. I have used lots of different phones, and they all stream this info. This is the first phone that doesn't.