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[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davepmer:
Wonder if adb still works? It might be possible to get the zenfone 2's tethered twrp to work. If you can, I can try to make a twrp backup of my boot and system partitions. You could try to restore them with that twrp. Might work, and might not. But least it be worth a try
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lactaid:
that would be great thank you
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davepmer:
well I got a twrp backup made. I took out my data backup, as you wont want mine anyway and can use your own. Instructions could be a little complicated and uploading the backup will take a while.

You will need a microsd card 32 gig would be great 16 should work.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lactaid:
but my device doesnt boot can i still do it?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davepmer:
If you can get into bootloader then yes you can do this. to enter bootloader, start with the device off, press and hold power and volume up. You will need a windows based computer and a data cable. of course a way to read and write to the microsd card from the computer would be great too.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lactaid:
k im ready
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davepmer:
Still uploading, I have slow internet. Not half way yet
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lactaid:
thats fine
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davepmer:
Ok here goes nothing

Instructions

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2ZiR-2Tn5BdMlFOdUZYT2dUUFE/view?usp=sharing

Drivers

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2ZiR-2Tn5BdSmdhUGFsOGR6VUk/view?usp=sharing

Zenfone 2 root

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2ZiR-2Tn5BdcEt4SFhHdi1WeWs/view?usp=sharing

IntelAndroid Recovery

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2ZiR-2Tn5BdNGl6MC0zM0ZtUWc/view?usp=sharing

TWRP Backup of Zenfone 2e rar part 1

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2ZiR-2Tn5BdQk4wUG85TzNUWlk/view?usp=sharing

TWRP Backup of Zenfone 2e rar part 2

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2ZiR-2Tn5BdVExyTlpDczN1bDg/view?usp=sharing

In case I forgot,, after you do the last restore boot to system. Hope this works for you.

normally I would say if it bricks your phone dont blame me, but your phone is bricked already so.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lactaid:
thanks ill try as soon as the downloads finish
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lactaid:
It didnt work i tried lik 4 times but i always get E: Unable to mount ' /backup' E: Unable to mount ' /ADF' E: Unable to mount ' /APD' when i back up or restore
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] social-design-concepts:
It's more polite to link to the original thread than to upload else where. But good to see someone doing their part to help out other users.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davepmer:
The zenfone 2e doesn't have a /backup folder ??? I will try to check it out when I get home
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JRSouth:
Thank you for taking your time to post this!

I will be trying here in about 30 minutes after the downloads finish and I will report back with my results.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davepmer:
Ok the zenfone 2e does have a /ADF and a /ADP folder. But it should not be writing to them or trying to mount them. There is no /backup folder. Really confused. I would try to restore mine, but I dont want to mess up a functional phone by accident.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JRSouth:
SUCCESS! Thank you very much!

Lactaid - Make sure to follow the directions to a T. I also deleted all the files in my backup folder and copied over the new ones from the dump instead of copying over. Also make sure to only restore the 'System' in TWRP and make sure MD5 checksum verification is not checked.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davepmer:
I am going to try to make a flashable zip file that will "install" the working system folder.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lactaid:
I tried that now it says E:extractTarFork( ) process ended with ERROR=255
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JRSouth:
At which point of the process does this occur?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lactaid:
At the end can you explain step by step what you do to fix yours
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lactaid:
maybe that will work
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davepmer:
OK, begining to wonder if your MicroSD card is ok or if your download failed.

Anyway, try this.

ZOOD_ATT_12.16.10.76.zip

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2ZiR-2Tn5BdZkpOY3RNOEtKaDg/view?usp=sharing

I have no way to test it, and I might have missed some symlinks. But, I have it rigged to over write the present system folder instead of erase the system folder then write to the clean system folder so if I missed a link it might still work.

To use, down load the zip file, copy it to your MicroSD card, run the launch.bat to get into TWRP recovery, only this time click install and then select your MicroSD card and then select ZOOD_ATT_12.16.10.76.zip and install it. Try without wiping anything.

If that does not work, try using this for your TWRP recovery source.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2ZiR-2Tn5BdRXU2RThmUklQN28/view?usp=sharing

It is just the system folder, as before do a backup from your phone, but this time delete everything from your TWRP/BACKUPS/????/????/ and then copy all the contents my TWRP/BACKUPS/01234567890123456789/2015-10-14--16-45-19_ATT_12.16.10.76/ folder to your TWRP/BACKUPS/????/????/ folder and try to restore.

Let me know how it works out for you. Like I said, dont blame me if this bricks your bricked phone.

OK guess I need to add this is for the US AT&T version. Since I have found a global version of this phone
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lactaid:
It finally worked thanks you so much, I had a bad sd card thats why it didnt work all this time
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexBodewig:
Found the device request forum. If we could get a few people to make a post about our device, then it might get us somewhere.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zshep99:
i think we could get a custom rom working without an unlocked bootloader if we can use the methods described in this post

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2302212

we would need a few people to work on building the rom , but it can be done.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zshep99:
also, i was wondering if we have an xposed framework for this phone yet? Im not sure if we need an unlocked boot loader because i havent ever use xposed yet but if there is one for the 2e, how would i go about installing it? Thanks.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexBodewig:
I don't know how far along xposed is for L, but once we have our untethered recovery going it should be just a zip flash. And maybe the enable oem unlock enable in the dev options is actually unlocking the boot loader. Just food for thought.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zshep99:
is a recovery necessary for xposed? Would you just be able to use stock recovery or perhaps an app like flash gordan or flashify?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexBodewig:
I don't know. I've only ever seen it as a flashable zip and I don't think the stock recovery will flash unsigned stuff.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexBodewig:
So, is anyone still here? I've been lurking here and it seems pretty dead.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CTXCI:
I would still be in this thread, but I returned my ZenFone because I got tired of the issues it was giving me. I upgraded to the HTC Desire 626s and I can honestly say I couldn't be happier with it.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexBodewig:
I see. I assume most other people have done similar as well...
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CTXCI:
That is probably true. Did the 2E even get a software update yet? It needed one bad.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexBodewig:
Not really. Just a SF patch, mainly just looks like they were trying to ship out whatever is left of the old stuff. It's just a more affordable version of the budget unlocked model that's been AT&T branded.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexBodewig:
So I was searching through the development forum for the ZF2 and came across this thread. It seems like it's possible to use the tethered recovery to bypass not having the correct radio image.

Step one: Connect your phone to usb and ensure your drivers are working correctly

Step two: Download the Intel tethered recovery Mentioned earlier in this thread and the ze500cl firmware.

Step three: Place the firmware file on your internal storage. (needs about 1.22gb free just to be safe)

Step four: Use the T4 trigger with CWM.zip to boot into recovery.

Step five: Once you're in the recovery, wipe data/factory reset.

Step six: Choose zip from sdcard and flash it. (this might take a while and it's worth it, 4 bloatware apps, and everything works so far.)

I hope this is helpful in some way.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sinco54:
I'm here, been here, been watching and peaking from the bushes. Just haven't had any useful input as of yet so I'm keeping my trap shut.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sinco54:
Wow, you're a good and decent person, very cool of you to share what ya know and experience with this thing.. I'd buy you a hooker and a 12 pack of Busch light if it were accepted by society as an appropriate thank you but you'll just have to settle for a thanks homie, that actually helped me a lot... :)
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexBodewig:
That's interesting. I haven't had any issues with the WW baseband, in fact I don't get signal drop in my area anymore. Maybe it's purely geographical, and if so, maybe we could build a new zenui rom from the WW base rom and the modem from the ATT rom.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zshep99:
I'd be willing to help if that's what is going to happen
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexBodewig:
First we try it and see if we can flash the modified images, then we can fullscale port over other roms. I had a thought also along the lines of custom roms, why can't we make a script to run on the device, or better yet an app that runs the t4 trigger to boot into a custom recovery untethered.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DommyXxDiesel77:
thank u so much it worked for me too
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zshep99:
There should be a way to do that
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexBodewig:
Or we could try and swap in the custom recovery instead of the oem one, though I'm not sure where it's hiding inside the rom. I tried locating the recovery partition and it doesn't exist. Maybe it's in asusfw?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zshep99:
possibly, but the only think im worried about with switching out the recoveries is a hard brick. because if something in the recovery gets messed up than we might not be able to re flash anything. and could the recovery possibly be somewhere in the kernel? im not to familiar with the technical stuff of the recovery, i just kinda know how to flash a new one.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexBodewig:
Yeah. I tried flashing cwm over the stock recovery and nothing happened, so I'm guessing its either inside something or it just can't be written because of a boot loader lock. There were no errors when trying to flash it though...
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zshep99:
At least there were no problems but I think the reason nothing happened is because the stock recovery has no root access.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] McCormick88:
Hello, can you send me other partition from your 2E - boot, recovery, etc My phone have .70 firmware and bootloop at start wth your backup

thx

p.s. sorry for my english
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexBodewig:
Have you tried just outright flashing the ze500cl .122 firmware? It works a lot better. http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/ZenFone/ZE500CL/UL-ASUS_Z00D-WW-12.16.5.112-user.zip
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zshep99:
i forgot to ask, have there been any issues at all with the firmware? or anything not working right?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexBodewig:
Everything works, including the fm radio. there are enven a ton more features and the keyboard app is better. I just got a bad device and some hardware doesn't work, mainly my audio jack is having problems but I tested everything I could. The only real concern I would have is the cell radio(some sms might not send on the first try), but if you're worried about that you can just flash over the stock one from the dump earlier on this thread with "fastboot flash radio (radioimagenamehere).img". On another note, I was thinking we could just bootstrap the recovery like with the droid 3. I don't know if it's possible on this phone and I'm not sure how to do it, but if we could then we wont really need to unlock the bootloader. (although I hope we get a bootloader unlock anyway)
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] McCormick88:
Install that fw via TWRP, and seems like all work fine. Thank you!
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexBodewig:
Does anyone want to collaborate with me on porting aosp and possible pacrom/cm based stuff over to our device?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bixcy:
Hello

So as i understand - it's possible to install WW firmware on this device? I want russian language on it. Thanks.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
I followed this guide, worked perfect http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=63479580
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
I just got my Zenfone 2E and I almost got AT&T bloat off it. I replaced the AT&T World Boot Animation with the stock Zenfone 2 one, gave SD card read and write permissions system-wide and app-wide. and disabled all the AT&T apps. Only issue is a custom boot sound from the AT&T boot sound( the ding ding ding ding sound) to a PS1 boot sound. I place the powerup.wav file in /system/media/poweron.wav with the same permissions as the older files, named oldbootanimation.zip and powerup1.wav. There something I'm simply overlooking because it plays the original fine but a custom one named the same, the phone won't play it. and sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong spot. I can post my phone info if needed
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
Does anyone have problems with computer not recognizing the phone after installing different firmware? Usb device not recognized
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
Not to be rude but tried using a different micro USB cable to see if that's the issue? I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab and I can't redo it with the shot cable I've been using for years. And about 10% of my cables now do power but moving the phone will disconnect the phone from data.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
It's a brand new cable. It works on my other phones. Once i switched the att firmware my computer wouldn't recognize my phone. Trying a different computer today. And has anyone gotten xposed installed on these phones.

Top right corner should be our version. Will try today
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexBodewig:
Have you made sure the file format is the same? A lot of android files actually use the ogg format. It could also be a higher quality or compression than is supported.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexBodewig:
I don't think anyone else is having that problem. Have you tried downloading the ww firmware from the ASUS we site directly on your phone? You might have to rename it to update.zip but is should pick up as a downloaded update on the phone. Let the recovery do it's thing and try a USB connection again.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
Yes, even the init.asus.bootringtone.sh in /system/etc/ shows this.

tinyplay /system/media/poweron.wav -D 2

And then sound devices to play it on boot.

It is 2.61 MB where the old one is 681.56kb.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
OK. It is my ghetto computer, i did try to flash xposed, file gave me error in cwm.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexBodewig:
It may be the codec used to create the file. Try converting it to a lower bitrate? Also, have you checked to ensure the length is similar to the original?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
The original is the AT&T jingle which I think is 2 secs where the PlayStation 1 boot is 8.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexBodewig:
That might be part of the problem.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
Ah, well I ain't worried about it, if it plays it plays and if it don't then quiet boot it is

I never could get a custom boot sound to play anyway.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
Success!!!!

V79.sdk21 x86
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
Can you tell us how you did it? Please

Sent from my Rooted Asus Zenfone 2E
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
Flash this in cwm tethered recovery

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_c2hdjSBKMAR3B3bVlBNzEtN2c/view?usp=docslist_api

Also install xposed installer.apk
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
Has anyone fixed the music stopping issues that exist on the Zenfone 2e, Android Authority reported that it stops at random times and I can confirm that it does. I've used Asus Music, Winamp, and Play Music and they all stop and logcat is not show the real issues but if anyone find a solution. Please tell me.

Sent from my Rooted Asus Zenfone 2E
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
I had the same problem, but i used viper4 android and changed musixFX. bak .. I had to start fresh this weekend so I'll report back tomorrow if that made a difference, mine stops the song and starts it from the beginning of the song. Maybe it's some power saver feature that breaks the music for a second, funky asus bug.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
So, I think i bricked my Zenfone 2e, After I installed the xposed framework, it kept rebooting and I used tethered CWM to factory reset the phone and now I get stuck at the ASUS Boot animation and the led orange. Help?

Edit: NeverMind, It booted and showed "Android is upgrading" dialog, plus I'm using the stock ATT firmware/ROM since I got the phone. Is anyone using the Stock ROM with Xposed framework without bootlooping after you install it. All my Android devices bootloop after a few secs of flashing stuff and makes me factory reset or re-flash the whole ROM to re-try and Flash the ROM, GAPPS and then root and Xposed.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
I'm totally stock as well. I did upgrade my firmware to latest for ze500cl, just to clarify, i have the att go phone 8gb....1gb ram 1.6ghz.... I upgraded to latest asus firmware, all att stuff is gone. Then rooted, busybox, selinux changer, then flashed xposed zip, then installed xposed apk.

I did try to flash the firmware on top of att stuff ( dirty flash).. Then it booted normally, swiped the lock screen and then my home screen flickered like a strobe light, had to factory reset and reflash the stock asus firmware. Installed all of the above and I'm actually liking this phone, a little laggy at times. But for the price $79.99 at best buy, it's pretty nice, we just need a custom recovery, i hate using my computer for flashing, safestrap would be nice.

---------- Post added at 07:52 ---------- Previous post was at 07:14 ----------

@cidlover how did you grant read/write permissions system wide.... xml file?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
In the platform.xml file in /system/etc/permissions folder, I have the external storage set to these lines.

<permission name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" >

<group gid="sdcard_r" />

<group gid="media_rw" />

</permission>

<permission name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" >

<group gid="sdcard_r" />

<group gid="sdcard_rw" />

<group gid="media_rw" />

</permission>

Just add the line <group gid="media_rw" /> to each one like I have here and all apps sure read and write like normal.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
One last post before noon..... Has anyone successfully removed these disgusting looking emojis and replaced with the normal looking ones?

Everything i do defaults to these.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] dannyvan42:
Coming from stock rooted / unlocked Touchwiz KitKat

Cm12.1 installed just fine but when I rebooted and went to flash gapps I get a non-stop error saying "there's an internal problem with your device, and it may be unstable until you factory data reset."

So I factory reset the device and even installed CM 12.1 without gapps and it still gives me this error.

Factory reset again, try my recovery and I get an error mentoning UID's being messed up (I did this and it did not help http://xdaforums.com/android/help/u...on-finally-t3151579/post61729442#post61729442 ) . So I factory reset again and flashed CM 12.1 without gapps and everything is fine.

Boot into recovery and flash gapps and boom the error again. Seems like the only way to get rid of the error (After many trials and errors) is to Restore recovery -> factory reset -> flash rom. The only problem is when I also flash gapps the error comes back.

Now here is the part where I can use YOUR help, in TWRP I keep saying red text that says

"E:error opening '/data/data/com/google.android.gms/files/images/games/de7f5650'

E:error: Not a directory"

on everything I do, from formating the system to flashing a rom. I think this is where my problem lies.

Other notes: No sd card,

when CM is working, I am getting no reception (Looks like a full but has ! next to it)

When CM is working, the messaging app does not even open and just instantly closes
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] LiftedDroid:
OK I'll break into parts I see 1: gapps 2 signal 3:msg app.

1: GAPPS

cm 12.1 is android 5.1.* so you need to verify you have correct gapps. Use gapps for 5.1 hopefully that will fix problem. Factory reset, flash cm 12.1, flash gapps 5.1, wipe dev/cache, and reboot. Should be working fine after.

2: Signal is due to rom bugs but usually due to bad/wrong apn settings or bad efs/modem pretty much all the time from my experience. So I'll break that down from easiest to the latter and hopefully we'll fix it.

a: check you apn settings and see the attachments. I'm on lte tmo so if you aren't the Google apn setting for your carrier.

b: flash back up of moden/efs

3: msg app might be fixed since gapps was installed but if not only thing I can think of is clear data/cache for msg app.

Hope I could help
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Rolatnor:
these days I'd use LineageOS for the Note 3/SM-N900T (I use nightlies and my note 3 used on wifi only) I can't test the normal 2g 3g 4g or lte cuz I dont have a compatible sim card (I have a nano sim in my j7 prime so it won't fit) it takes a bigger sim so yeah......I have gapps installed for my android version and they work fine for me
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Rolatnor:
lineageos 16.0 is what I've been running on it, i needed a newer os cuz stock 5.0 was the last official version, and pokemon go was dropping support for the note 3 with stock roms, now switching to LineageOS 17.1 on my note 3 i'll update whether gapps works so you know

LineageOS Downloads

download.lineageos.org

LineageOS 17.1 is android 10
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Rolatnor:
btw I have sd cards in all my spare phones 8gb normally, so I am recommending a small sd card 4gb-16gb because it makes it easier to flash roms with twrp
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Rolatnor:
google play works, gmail works, yt works, sound works, flashlight works, and camera works on LineageOS 17.1

note 3 sm-n900t

i used the nano gapps from opengapps

the newest file version of lineageos 17.1 on their site