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[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
When I get home to a computer in about two hours I will try it I have a backup I created with TWRP even if i factory reset my can get back to where I was
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djole94hns:
Good to hear :) Oh, and don't forget to use the tool from ASUS website, not the one from xda!

Good luck ;)
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RusLion__:
I have already unlocked Z00D, with working twrp. From twrp I made full backup and I have rooted phone, but I can't prove that.. Here is screenshot of backup that I made from twrp
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
Zenfone 2E with Unlocked Bootloader and TWRP?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djole94hns:
But they have a ZenFone 2E, an American AT&T variant of the phone. You and I have a regular variant of ZenFone 2 Z00D.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RusLion__:
Oh...Sorry. One guy moved us to this topic, so I thought that this topic is about my phone.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djole94hns:
Yeah, discussion about this phone seems to move from one thread to another :)
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RusLion__:
Good luck with unlocking bootloader. Sorry again for misunderstanding.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
Well, I guess I wait more then, tried that method you sent me, reflash the firmware and then the unlock app, didn't work because it's still giving me that stupid "network error" and IM CONNECTED TO THE STUPID INTERNET. So, I give up on anything custom like roms or kernels now.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djole94hns:
Sorry to hear that. This reminds me of my old Sony Xperia, where I couldn't unlock the bootloader until I removed the network lock (it was locked to my network provider).

I guess AT&T does some similar stuff to their phones.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
I feel your frustration, just when you think you've solved the locked bootloader issue, it seems like it locks itself down even tighter. I too gave up, but when i see the thread brainstorming it gets me excited like there's hope or a new method not thought of before. ????
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
OK. Twrp.img flashed fine but when booting into recovery i get a intel inside screen then straight to fastboot screen
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djole94hns:
Which image did you use? And did you unlock the bootloader? Your bootloader must be unlocked before you try.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
I was getting the same thing, I was hoping I was going to see the punisher logo from the modded TWRP and then you know TWRP but I keep getting booted back to fastboot but hey, at least I got us a permissive kernel today with tons of scripts and mods, that's a plus.:good:
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
Bootloader never unlocked
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
What I don't get is, why is the bootloader allowing a custom recovery install when the bootloader refuses to unlock, right now, your phone and mine are two Zenfone 2E's with TWRP installed but can't access them but we can get TWRP via tethered method. Yeah, I went with TWRP tethered because its annoying to use volume keys for up and down and power to click where TWRP is all touch screen.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
Same with twrp , and yes att is behind our misery
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
Well, did you back up the stock recovery because I did that list partitions command from adb shell and recovery wasn't a partition listed. And if you did, can you upload for me to reflash?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
I didn't either, I'll just reflash stock rom with tethered recovery, then flash my backup
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
OK, my stock recovery is gone with the wind, would anyone have a stock recovery.img
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djole94hns:
Found this on 4pda.ru claiming to be stock recovery, can't guarantee it'll work:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5s9ptril30j1hh0/recovery.img?dl=0
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
Thank you, it's a bin file though, how do i flash this
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djole94hns:
It's an img file on my end O.o Maybe it's a bug in DropBox or something.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
Success!!! I renamed it .img

Flashed in fastboot

fastboot flash recovery 118recovery.img

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_c2hdjSBKMALWZxUUxYRE1lWE0/view?usp=docslist_api

This is good, because if fastboot gets corrupted you can flash firmware through stock recovery and regain fastboot. And like me if recovery gets corrupted, ta dah!! Flash the above.?

Mainly for tethered recovery versions.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djole94hns:
Glad to hear it ;) At least you've got the phone fully working :)
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cinomed:
So I keep looking and have found no definitive answer. Will the asus unlock tool work with the z00d variant for USA at&t ?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djole94hns:
No, because AT&T is more locked than a regular ZE500CL.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saltii:
I found the tool and posted it, it unlocked my att model jsut fine
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djole94hns:
Did your splash screen turn from black to white like this: https://cdn-images.xda-developers.com/direct/3/4/6/3/6/0/0/zenfone_2_splash_screens.jpg ?

Because if it didn't, it means the unlock failed, as far as I've read on it. Mine turned white when the bootloader was unlocked.

If you actually did manage to unlock the bootloader successfully, [MENTION=6758142]robot_head[/MENTION] and [MENTION=5517367]cidlover[/MENTION] would definitely like to know, so please post which tool/method you used :)
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluemoel:
I will dump them in a few hours tops. in fastboot it does display '?'. but I'll run fastboot oem device info too and let you know. I'll get those partitions as soon as I can
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] social-design-concepts:
thanks the twrp version might be able to dump more of the devices than the cwm : http://xdaforums.com/android/development/intel-android-devices-root-temp-cwm-t2975096
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluemoel:
i made a system.img with dd ill upload it in just a minute. when i ran fastboot oem device info i get

root@unknown:~# fastboot oem device-info

...

(bootloader)	==============================================

(bootloader)	PROJECT ID : ZC500CL (0x06)

(bootloader)	HW ID : EVB (0x01)

(bootloader)	==============================================

(bootloader)	SECURITY : DISABLE

(bootloader)	DEVICE :

(bootloader)	==============================================

OKAY [ 0.597s]

finished. total time: 0.597s

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which partition is the fastboot parition so i can dump it do you know?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] social-design-concepts:
No sorry :(

but could you dd /dev/block/mmcblk0boot0 and mmcblk0boot1 too
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oon59330:
Progress

Hi. Just wondering if there has been any progress in unlocking the bootloader for this device? Thanks.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] social-design-concepts:
Were you able to get the dumps uploaded.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oon59330:
S-D-C, if blue doesn't respond, I am willing to help. I am a noob when it comes to rooting. However I am an experienced penetration tester and familiar with linux. If you can provide some general guidance, that would be great. My company is looking to expand our offerings to include mobile device testing so this is as good a place to start as any. Thanks
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexBodewig:
Question for the mods. Can we get our own dev section now that we have development going on for this phone?

Btw sorry about not uploading system stuff. My computer is out for the moment.

Sent from my ASUS ZenFone 2E
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] troy5890:
I think there is a forum on here that you go to for requesting a new device to have it own section for development.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mikey Bumps:
Any updates on this bad boy?

Hey I cant instal the L speed mod on this bad boy I keep getting this error

"E: footer is wrong

E: signature verification failed "

what to do ??

I rooted the device installed xposed install and backed up with twrp. I also tried to use XinteralSD to try to make the main storage my SD card since it has only 1.5gb

in storage left. I really wish this baby had bigger storage. Lemme know then guys.

Thanks

Mikey Bumps

went from my ASUS_Z008 using XDA Free mobile app[/QUOTE]
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexBodewig:
I think there's a setting somewhere in the Asus customisations to set the default storage to the external sd card.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CTXCI:
My question to you is, how did you get TWRP on the 2E model, and if you installed Xposed then you may have lost your chances at getting a future OTA update, just like how uninstalling bloatware on the ZenFones can brick your phone if you do an OTA update, so its always suggested to freeze them.

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Yes there is. It's:

Settings>Asus Customized Settings>App installation settings
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Enzopreme:
I would also like to know how you installed a custom recovery.....
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 903tex:
There's no way he could. Gotta have a unlocked bootloader as we all know. Unless the zf2 method works for the 2e. But even then there would be no way twrp would work for it.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CTXCI:
Exactly. That's what I thought. He may be posting in the wrong thread because this one is for the 2E.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] social-design-concepts:
Or they could be using the tethered twrp instead of the tethered cwm.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CTXCI:
I was pretty sure the tethered TWRP wasn't compatible with the 2E either. But I could be wrong.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 903tex:
From what I know its not. Somebody will have to make it compatible. The 2e is dual core while the other ZenFone 2 are all quad core.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] social-design-concepts:
What's not compatible I wrote it originally for the dell venue 7 3730 dual core clover trail plus soc but it wasn't built for any specific device in mind which is what the focus of the tether recovery launcher was to be. try the original not the one made specifically for the zf2 I'd like to know what isn't working.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2975096

Maybe I can resolve the issue.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 903tex:
Well I have the zf2 model so this doesn't apply to me. But anybody wanting to try with the e2 give it a go. But just trying to help those from getting a bricked device
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saltii:
My AT&T model is unlocked and does have the white splash screen. I posted how I did it back in my first post in this thread. I'll backlink it.

>>http://xdaforums.com/zenfone2/help/zenfone-2e-root-rom-t3174135/post64716579#post64716579
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djole94hns:
Hey guys, try the method [MENTION=5440412]saltii[/MENTION] came up with:

Thanks man, these two have been trying to get their bootloader unlocked for days :)

(I just quoted them so they get a notification)
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
Thanks but still getting Nework Error so safe to say me and him messed our phones up, my Z00D is from ATT is running 118 but I guess your the only lucky ATT variant out of the bunch. Again, Done, Phone can't be unlocked from the app or terminal.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
Same http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=64721523
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
HOW????? I've spent hours and hours searching, resetting, unlock app, terminal command, fastboot command, flashing bootloaders versions, flashing twrp then unlock.bat by sorg, nothing works!!
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saltii:
I honestly have no clue. I was completely stock at&t which I then flashed to the stock WW 118 Asus FW. Completely stock on that I used the unlock APK in my post. Not sure why it hasn't worked for you.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
AT&T Stock as in Zenfone 2E stock ATT firmware to full Asus Stock firmware, if so, I'm never trying to unlock the bootloader ever again.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saltii:
I went from AT&T stock to ASUS stock yeah. That's how it worked for me.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
Again, your the only lucky one to unlock the bootloader on the Zenfone 2E from ATT.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
Trying post #113, then I'll go from there
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
That's it, I'm buying another phone and starting over. So twrp won't read internal, so no creating backups unless you're tethered? Will it write to internal, like can you flash xposed, and other things?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
OK. I'm headed to best buy, any 2e owner with unlocked bootliader, can you flash with custom recovery or is internal system unable to mount welcome to the family, let's hope the unlock bootloader works.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
Nope, another fail. I took out the sim before turning it on and only used wifi. Did the whole process, a big no go
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asus ze500cl:
I'm gonna give it a shot wish there was a cm Rom for this thing it would run so nice

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Ok so far so good got Asia stock firmware flashed the unlock tool is trying to work but says network err
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
Welcome to the Can'tUnlockBootloader Club, there are drinks in the corner as well as food, all joking aside, I'm thinking there was a 50/50 batch of 2E phones that can unlock bootloader and can't unlock bootloader, you can flash TWRP on the phone but its useless because the phone never boots to it, shows Intel Inside logo and back to fast boot.

My issues now are not able to use my guide to get permissive selinux and link2sd to work, tried all kinds of init.d apps, the two I mentioned in my guide and Kernel Auditor to emulate init.d and my touch dot never changes and linked apps on sdext2 partition are "not installed".

Anyone else able to use my permissive guide and it works? running on 118 firmware since no custom roms exists yet.

I've been using tethered TWRP to flash 118 firmware, then SuperSU zip and then Xposed zip, you can line the zips up like that and flash them, plus the TWRP I've been using sees internal via emmc and MircoSD via external_sd in the install menu just by going back one. I can zip my tethered TWRP for you if you wish just let me now and the version is 2.8.7.0 TWRP.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asus ze500cl:
Yeah I think it's something simple we are doing wrong I got the selinuix to stay at 0 after flash but I think since I messed up my stock recovery and now it just goes straight to bootloader is why the unlock app won't work I think it needs code form that but we need the stock ASUS recovery not att patched if somebody could make a stock unlocked image of there already unlocked 2e and make it flash that might could work idk I'm no developer just like playing with the tec

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Can you post a link to that recovery image please =-)
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
Exactly. You need a unlocked droidboot.img that just might work. Then flash twrp. Boom shakalaca. It still probably won't work ?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asus ze500cl:
I got my stock recovery back and while messing around I was thinking about all the methods used and it seems it may need a full wipe and fresh install of the ww118 firmware and run then root and run unlock app cuz there can't be nothing conflicting from the old firmware I will try a factory reset / wipe this weekend :)
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot_head:
It's not, we've done it 45 million times and same result, network error, try again later loser. I'm thinking it might be in another partition telling bootloader, no don't unlock you're an att phone, you can't unlock, so then I'm thinking the bootloader gets all freaked out, and goes into att lockdown mode. Whatever!?

I got a new zf2e today, same result, then exchanged it for a LG k7, another prepaid phone, but on t mobile, i unlocked the bootloader easy, in developer options tick oem unlock, then in fastboot oem unlock, it's just that easy. But no custom recovery, and i could only root with kingroot (yuck). So after a bunch of failed twrp flashes, i used flashify to soft brick it by trying to flash twrp. Back to best buy tomorrow, i took the phone apart and disconnected the lcd screen so all they know is the phone vibrates at boot but no screeny ??
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asus ze500cl:
Yeah its crazy but there has to be a way to flash bootloader I mean HTC phones don't even need bootloader unlock to flash recovery or roms it just doesn't make sense I got an HTC one m8 sitting here fully unlocked s-off and all super cid and the works but a sprint phone CDMA and I can't use it on straight talk so I'm gonna sell that in hopes of getting a m8 AT&T model
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jessehclark:
so im curious if [MENTION=1026455]rus_[/MENTION]lion or [MENTION=4614897]djole94hns[/MENTION] can weigh in here. I have my carrier unlocked att 2e, i used cwm temp recovery to flash stock asus rom, i rooted by flashing supersu at the same time, then once booted i used the apk posted here to unlock bootloader. splash screen turned white, booted to fastboot, used the TWRP tool posted here, flashed custom recovery.

The problem: When using tethered recovery, i can only flash zips from the internal memory. cant even mount ext-sd.

When using TWRP (installed) I can only access the external sd card. but data, system, cache, etc. wont even mount. I can see zips on the external but cant flash them. i cant even see the internal memory at all.

In EITHER ONE i can't make a backup. TWRP obviously because of the no mount issues and in tethered because reasons (i have no idea why). Does anyone have a fully functioning custom recovery installed? Because mines there, and i can boot to recovery , but then i cant really do anything with it. all i can do is flash a stock rom via tethered by putting on the internal...
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djole94hns:
It worked perfectly for me. I'm curious, how much internal storage do you have? I've heard the 2E variant has less than a "normal" ZenFone 2 ZE500CL, maybe that has something to do with it. Maybe it has a different storage, I have no idea.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
Like I said, I have TWRP tether version that can flash from internal and external sd, I asked robot_head if he wanted me to zip it and upload it but I guess he found the same version as me.

Sent from my Rooted 3rd Gen Kindle Fire HD
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asus ze500cl:
I got twrp teather also and can use sd you gotta take the teather image and put it in the cwm teather folder and remove the cwm recovery image that's how I did it I just wish I could unlock my bootloader grrrr :(
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
Same here but I also gave up on that since I figure it'll never happen.

Sent from my Rooted 3rd Gen Kindle Fire HD
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asus ze500cl:
It will happen one day when some developer gets bored and reads all this and says that I bet I can make something for that but by then we will all have HTC m20 lmao
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jessehclark:
please upload, i had seen the tethered twrp here http://boycracked.com/2015/05/31/cwm-twrp-for-asus-zenfone-2-ze500clze550mlze551ml/ but the link is down. i didnt realize it worked... is there any drawback to tethered vs installed other than having to connect to the pc? because if not, i dont care as long as it works hahaha

i wonder why tethered twrp works but installed doesnt.....

[MENTION=4614897]djole94hns[/MENTION] the US variant is a 1gb ram/8gb rom device, where the ze500cl is a 2gb ram/16gb rom device. but every other aspect is identical....

[MENTION=5517367]cidlover[/MENTION] and [MENTION=7342660]asus ze500cl[/MENTION] are you all locked to at&t? maybe carrier unlocking the phone is the key? If you flash back the stock firmware, and flash back the stock recovery, maybe try carrier unlocking first?

ps im just going to throw this out there, i dont know what it would take to motivate someone, but id be willing to pay if a dev were capable of getting us up and running with a cyanogen port. seriously.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
I'm locked on their stuff but I just use my straight talk att SIM card. Plus your confusing me, I don't know who your meaning to upload something.

Sent from my Rooted 3rd Gen Kindle Fire HD
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asus ze500cl:
I will also ill throw in 50 bucks with you if a developer was willing to help us get this done right and mabey a ported cm Rom to get this phone right :)
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djole94hns:
I used this one: http://xdaforums.com/zenfone2/general/guide-twrp-2-8-7-0-custom-recovery-t3328155

Other than that, I don't know how to help you. I guess there's more differences between these devices than we can find, who knows.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jessehclark:
i was asking if you would upload the tethered twrp that works as i only have the cwm.

interesting that you are not carrier unlocked though. so that does not seem to be the issue with the bootloader unlock working....

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have you tried doing a backup and restore or flashing a zip from external SD using the skyrim twrp?

it does not allow either on my 2e variant, but it seems the tethered version allowed cidlover to do it which is why i was requesting it
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djole94hns:
Here's tethered TWRP recovery, it works with ZE500CL: http://xdaforums.com/zenfone2/development/alpha-tethered-twrp-asus-zenfone-2-t3123532/post61076508

I'll try backing up and restoring now
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cidlover:
This should work for you, [MENTION=3479623]jessehclark[/MENTION], TWRP is better over CWM in my option.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jessehclark:
OK so more info about the 2e...

Thanks for the link, tethered TWRP seems to work great. here's what i did:

1) I booted to tethered TWRP.

2) Created a backup using TWRP.

3) Flashed the stock firmware using TWRP. This caused splashcreen to revert to a black screen with only Intel inside logo, no Asus logo. Could no longer boot into custom recovery, phone would just boot back into fastboot.

4) So I booted into Android, enabled app installs from unknown sources, and ran the ZE500CL unlock again. Back to white Asus/Android boot screen.

5) Now I can boot into fastboot as well as recovery. The installed Skyrimus TWRP still can't see the internal memory so I flashed back the stock recovery for now.

6) Booted back into TWRP using tethered recovery launcher, restored backup that I made initially, wiped cache, booted, and everything worked flawlessly!

SO in conclusion:

- Eventually an untethered TWRP would be great but tethered launcher is the way to go for now.

- Just waiting for custom rom.....

BY THE WAY, over on that russian site there was talk of a custom rom being on the verge of release.....