[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jablonka:
ZE500KL wiped drive

[EDIT] ok so basically, the last step: update through sd card in stock recovery worked and my phone is running. Phew!

Now my question is, are there any working root solutions for ZE500KL on marshmallow 6.0.1?

As I've said before/below, I've tried different solutions and even tho it looked like it worked, after booting my phone it still said there's no root :eek:

Did I just brick my phone by rebooting in middle of the loading screen after installing magisk? would waiting till the end actually root the phone?

Hello everyone.

First of all, please consider that I think I just completely bricked my phone and I'm not really good in this so this makes me extremely stressed right now. So I'm very sorry for all inconsistencies or ommiting obvious things and please explain stuff like I'm an idiot (which is probably true >__<)

So I just tried to root my ZE500KL on latest marshmallow firmware, and I tried different options but none of them was working, like it looked like everything was fine and installed ut then when turning on the phone it said there's no root. Last thing I tried was installing magisk: first I installed magisk manager and then tried to install magisk from TWRP. The lastest vrsion gave me an error so I tried an earlier one and it looked like it worked (no errors in twrp). Then I rebooted and it looped on the ASUS logo (the 2nd gradient one). It kept loading on the logo for like 15+minutes, so I hard-rebooted it (maybe that was the stupid thing to do).

Now I'm stuck with a phone with completely wiped discs. I can see the discs o my pc when in recovery mode and they're totally empty. I have no system at all.

On my internal storage I can only see "asus log" folder (empty) and "twrp" folder (with .twrps file).

I may have flashed a twrp or magisk or something in meanwhile, I really was just trying a lot of stuff in panic.

So last thing I tried it flashing boot.img -> recovery.img -> system.img but the last one didn't work.

I tried sideloading a stock (from here (downloaded the last "firmware" file from asus site) according to the tutorial on techmesto: recover-bricked-asus-zenfone-2 but at the very last step in command window I got an error "can't read filename.zip".

Last thing I tried was to put the downloaded firmware on sd card and update through sd card in stock recovery, then factory reset and reboot. It looked fine, said install complate and stuff, but my phone won't boot and it currently stuck at the gradient asus loading screen (idk for how long should I wait really I'm just scared to touch it atm).

Since I'm not really good at this and all I'm doing is just following tutorials maybe there's something important I'm missing.

Most of the un-bricking tutorials don't work for me cause they require an installed rom, and my discs are empty.

At this point I just want my phone running, I don't even care about the root anymore (tho it would be extremely nice to have it rooted).

Should I make another thread for this? I've seen so many similar threads but honestly nothing seems to help me.

If that's possible I'd love to have someone help me in real time via facebook messenger, chat or something.

Please help me.. :crying: