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[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaushikchand71:
hey guys.

i had stock android m running on my device. today while watching videos, it just went into a bootloop. so after that i tried the usual stuff, ( clear cache, reset) it didnt work. next i tried to install a new rom. i used [ROM][8.1.0][OFFICIAL] BootleggersROM v3.0 [STABLE][Z00L][Z00T] from https://xdaforums.com/zen...-v2-1-t3771187 .

i installed this by going into twrp but had some hiccups as i couldnt intall it as i had an outdated twrp, so i edited the updater script in the meta-inf of the rom( hope op doesnt mind). the rom then installed perfectly,i did another wipe of the cache and i rebooted. it was still in bootloop.so i plugged in the fone to my laptop then it booted perfectly. btw its a nice rom. but when i take the fone out of the cable, it starts to reboot continuously.

can i have some guidance please
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phoniex_47:
Partition error in asus zenfone 2 laser

help anyone my partition is messed up ;;

errors given below:

failed to mount '/system' (invalid argument)

failed to mount '/data' (invalid argument)

failed to mount '/cache' (invalid argument)

failed to mount '/asdf' (invalid argument)

plz help

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Try changing the battery most of time battery may gotten weak, Replace it and see..
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yliar1:
Can someone please help me asap, Im stuck at bootloop. I already tried a couple of flashing method (updating via sd card, flashing via asus flashtool, flashing via commamd prompt) but non worked and I am still stuck in bootloop (there are times that I can open the phone when it is plugged in and charging but after a couple of minutes or when I unplugged it, it will restart by itself and again over and over
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phoniex_47:
Change battery

Bruh it is prblm with the battery replace it it will run fine afterwards

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replace battery
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yliar1:
Are you sure it is the battery? I am out of money right now that's why I'm trying to fix it by my self. And if it's really the battery then I should give up??
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrlolsss:
z00LD my cpu clock run at 998mhz only. i see some people run at 1200mhz why is that? sorry for stupid question.
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] denyo75:
Hello. Please forgive my bad English. My Asus ZE500KL phone almost died. I have collected various things in it, phones, notes, passwords... and I had the stupidity of not having any backup. Sometimes it starts, but it throws up countless signs like "Unfortunately com.android.XXX Has Stopped". To do anything with the phone I have to be able to close them and I have very little time, it can be used and restarted in seconds. It behaves similarly in safe mode. Otherwise, it enters fastboot mode and adb, but I don't know how it got stuck there. Any ideas what I can do? A week ago I installed "SWAP no root", could it be from that?
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kauperx:
Which one is it? Can you tell me please? It could be that builds depend on country? If so it would be nice if you could tell me...
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhishekr700:
Brother its not that there is issue on some firmware, I always update to the latest one available and its always free from bugs and stable.

Just saw they rolled a new update today and I'm going to update to it.

Press thanks on both my posts if i helped you...
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] venomus001:
I have a rooted Z00LD with busybox and can't install V4A driver ?
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alakiha:
Does anyone knows what causes this issue?

I have the texts looking like this on both CM and Asus stock roms.
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BTiwari:
I want to know dose zenfone 2 laser support quick charge or not
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nolram_28:
hi, im confused with the real specs of my zf2L,

Is the camera 13mp or 8mp?

im seeing in my cam settings, it's 8mp, but i see 13mp on all other forums.

My laser 2 5.0 is an LTE vesion.

Please do help me. thanks
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abeltran00:
is google cardboard compatible with 5.5?
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RukusX7:
Google it?
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] szoro28:
Baseband update

Help, I need to update my ZE551KL baseband to the latest WW version. I am on CM13 and TWRP using baseband 202c10_10.0.0_151106. Any help on how to proceed without going back to stock and udate the firmware? (I lost my stock recovery). Many Thanks
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ericpeacock79:
If this was a PC or laptop, I would be almost certain that the video card or graphics chip had been overheated and is now "fried". (well, maybe bad RAM instead, but either way, it's hardware related)

If it is displaying like that on different ROMs, especially the stock ROM, it really indicates hardware failure, most likely from overheating or overcharging.
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hispanico957:
So... i am new on Asus and i want ask if the procedure is correct:

1 - unlock bootloader

2 - root

3 - twrp

Thank

Hispa
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ericpeacock79:
that is the correct order.

I would also add:

4. install CM13

:P
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alakiha:
Phone had hardware issue. we got it changed.
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pixLzd:
how to get source code for ze500kg?
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] motiwyl:
if I have unlocked bootloader can I relock bootloader by flash stock firmware with adb sideload? and i can have OTA update?

sorry for weird english
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tarun87:
Hi guyz...plz help.i was trying to unlock my boot loader but when the entire process got over..my ph is getting restarted again and again and its not going on the home screen nor to the recovery nor the boot loader is unlock..plz assist my ph is almost dead :(
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ericpeacock79:
unlock tool says no more OTA after unlocking

Asus records which phones get unlocked

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was process interrupted first time?

can you get it to fastboot mode and flash TWRP ?
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tarun87:
Hi..thanks for reply.

The process was completed and i cant flash twrp because its not detecting my phone and my pc too..i have installed both adb driver and asus pc driver..plz assist
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flurbius:
Hello, everyone thanks in advance for any help you may give

I have just backed up all the data on my Zenfone 2 Laser ZE550KL its a Z00LD (whatever that means) with a WW

Now Im Australian and cant read chinese but I bought this phone in Taiwan and even though Ive changed the language to English it still has several system apps and bits and pieces that lapse into chinese. Now Ive just backed up because I wanted to do a factory reset as that is the stage I am at in trying to fix a problem with certain functions in certain apps not functioning on mobile data. So now it occurs to me I might be able to put in a custom recovery, and flash a stock rom that comes from say Australia that has English language crud - yes ?

Can anyone confirm or deny that? and if so where do I get it and will I have to root the phone to flash it or is it just like an official ASUS update?

Also as I mentioned I had that problem with mobile data - really annoying for instance if Im on 4G I can search the play store, It will tell me when I need updates but it wont download the updates - just spins and spins forever without ever giving an error message, Also Google maps I can see the map pan, zoom and the map loads but if I try to get directions it just waits for ever. Both those apps work fine if Im on Wifi.

That all started when I tried out Orbot - I set it to try to proxy for all apps, which it said might not work as I didnt have root but I tried anyway, it went for a while but was very slow. Then Orbot crashed, I switched to Wifi everything worked and I uninstalled it. When I went back to 4G I had really bad issues after searching google i set my apn to default which fixed it a bit but left it broken as I described above.

I have tried formatting the cache and looking at background data permissions global and for the apps i mentioned. Next thing was a factory reset - Im going to test that out this morning.

Cheers
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZenFreak:
Downgrade bootloader

I have locked boot loader. My device is ZE550KL WW SKU. I am on firmware version 1.17.40.1234

After many failed attempts to unlock BL with unlock app, I ended up with the message "The device is unlocked" but fastboot says it is locked. My boot screen is still black background. How can I downgrade booloader?
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] narudranei:
is better a cm13 based rom than the stock rom? and what's the best custom rom that is avaible for install?
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ericpeacock79:
It depends on what you mean by "better".

Overall, performance is vastly improved in CM13, thanks to lack of bloatware.

Also, sound output is greatly improved as well - the external speaker and the audio out port are much louder.

There are a LOT of Asus custom features in the stock ROM that are missing in any 3rd party ROM, so if you have grown accustomed to those or reliant on them, you might not find CM13 "better".

I am about to revert to the stock ROM because Android 6 will not connect to PPTP VPN and I need this functionality.

I have been using CM13 for a couple of months and have had no complaints until the VPN issue. (and, to be clear, that is not the dev's fault, that is a fault in Android 6 itself.)
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] narudranei:
okay but there is any cm rom for ze500kl (Z00ED or Z00E)?
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4llerbuntu:
[MENTION=5181349]abhishekr700[/MENTION] Since i upgraded to marshmallow via fastboot my phone will not lock to LTE signal (Band 3)

it worked fine under Lollipop although even then each time i reboot the device i had to go into a menu to set the sim to only LTE and toggle airplane mode. now it doesn't work anymore.

when i search for the LTE signal it detects it, but will not connect to it
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhishekr700:
Maybe try downgrading it,

Or contact me on telegram [MENTION=5181349]abhishekr700[/MENTION]
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] todkm_penguin:
where can I get original stock droidboot.img, boot.img and recovery.img of ZE601KL?
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tanker456:
I m trying to install the cm 13 rom for Z00L from last four days but it always ends up bootloop,

I did everything from wiping the cache and dalvik till the internal storage

Also i have done flashing many times previously with other devices and was successful, but is there anything apart from the common steps that i m missing something, which is causing this bootloop issue.

my bootloader is unlocked official but i had upgraded to stock 6.0 and than downgraded to 1.16 firmware to unlock it.

is it the reason for the bootloop as if asus has done some changes in the marshmallow updated?
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testeraphy:
Find them at Asus support site

downgrading bootloader? Is this even possible?

I don't really know about unlocking your device, I can't find any exact how to, but there's an app with specific baseband right? And other thread is kind of looking for unofficial unlock method because official one is not working

No.

Dont know about others but you can grab boot.img from official Asus zip
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pixLzd:
whether it can build a rom of the source code on asus support site?
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ehl.ey14:
i need stock recovery for ze550kl 1.17... 1234 firmware please!
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testeraphy:
Personally, I don't know, lol, never try to build a rom, but if I must answer, then it's a no

AFAIK, what you got is kernel source code, you need this to make things work for your rom, see kernel definition
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] giarc9002:
Bootloop fixes?

Does anyone know how to fix a bootloop? It has no adb or twrp backups or anything like that. It was put in a bootloop when I updated my SU Binary, which also bootlooped my last one, no clue why I was stupid enough to make the same mistake a second time. Thanks for your help in advance.
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testeraphy:
No adb eh.. actually, if you can boot into recovery, adb is activated there, no recovery? Boot to fastboot, flash stock boot.img, no fastboot? congrats!

Oh, no backup? I never flash twrp on the first place so, I have no backup lol

For everyone, got a bootloop? Flash official rom / zip / whatever you call it, from asus

Flash stock means you need stock recovery,

~I don't have stock recovery blah blah blah

# got twrp? Search on forum, there some trick to flash stock zip on twrp

~still bootloop, elp~

# what have you done with your devices? Well, flashing stock rom is 1st try method (and most of it) to recover from bootloop, if not, then you must have done something bad...

jk..
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] giarc9002:
Thanks

[MENTION=7545355]testeraphy[/MENTION] thanks but I forgot to post that i fixed it on Tuesday after 7 hours of rummaging and piecing together tutorials and forums, thanks though!
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrbuddy:
Asus bootloader unlock apk won't work on my ZE551KL.

I'd like to at least have root. Is it as simple as fastboot flashing the appropriate pre-rooted system.img by shakalaca? Would the ZE601KL system.img work (both are ZOOT)?

Thanks

Edit: Just noticed that shakalaca's MM version slightly different from what's on my phone. So also have to flash boot.img and recovery.img? More complicated than this?
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] romngenie:
Hello, i have ZE550KL and i need to unlock my devices bootloader.

I know how to unlock bootloader in my phone but in the Zenfone 2 Laser if you are in Marshmallow it says "Unlock Device App stopped".

There isnt problem in Lollipop, if you use "Unlock Device App" it succesfully unlocks bootloader.

But i want to unlock bootloader in Marshmallow, but how?

Thanks. Greetings from Turkey.
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrbuddy:
In theory, you should be able to root without unlocking the bootloader, then use an unofficial unlock http://xdaforums.com/zenfone-2-laser/general/guide-unlock-bootloader-asus-unlock-app-t3405850

I couldn't get that to work, so I ended up downgrading to lollipop and used the official unlock. Now need a way to update to marshmallow so I can install CM.
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paparas64:
I have buy one ASUS ZenFone 2 laser z011d (ze601kl) with sku cn .I want to know what is the difference with sku ww and how can i convert it to ww?How can install google apps?Thanks
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testeraphy:
I might be wrong but, once you unlock with official (AFAIK, everything, "permanent") it will stay unlocked even you upgrade to later versions of android, and so this answer to [MENTION=4809433]mrbuddy[/MENTION] as well

You can just boot to bootloader and check yourself whether your device still unlocked or not

Everyone is kinda looking for how to relock right?

Somewhere I've read that, cn have different system partition size compared to ww, slightly smaller, if my memory serves right, cmiiw

If partition size is different, you can't easily make it ww, maybe kernel stuff can do that? No, I don't know either, and I not really sure what I'm saying

About Google Apps, did you use CM? just flash like how you did with CM, using stock? You don't have to flash any gapps
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testeraphy:
[MENTION=6373792]romngenie[/MENTION] but, you say that you did unlock when on L... am I wrong?
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] romngenie:
No my phone isnt unlocked. Everybody says unlock works in Lollipop.
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testeraphy:
http://xdaforums.com/zenfone-2-laser/general/guide-unlock-bootloader-asus-unlock-app-t3405850

Oh, well, try this
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] romngenie:
This method needs root and in ZE550KL you can't root device without TWRP.
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alpropos:
Hi everyone

I own a Asus zenfone 2 ze500ED (ZE500KL)

With pokemon go i'm experiencing some GPS issues (snappy locating, no signal, losing signal often, ect)

Some googling showed me a page on asus.com about an update that broke it for a lot of owners. The topic was dated a few months old tho.

So my question is simple. Is this issue still unfixed? Is my device also affected by this?

More info:

I bought this phone back in October 2015.

Bandversion:

M3.6.45-ZE500KL_20236_8916

Kernel:

3.10.49-perf-ge3f8229

android@mcrd1-36 #1

Build:

MMB22P.WW_Phone-13.10.7.1-20160514

060020705_201602050034
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testeraphy:
Just saying, I've borrowed other asus models and luckily, they all have gps problem, it might an update, but I'm not sure they just release broken fw to people w/o "Oh, sorry we fckd up update, lol, please go to asus center", EVERYONE should goes mad,

This is just my thoughts, maybe "some" model which assembled in *a place let's call it "A"*, phone assembly is not good enough, so Google it..

long story short, you can try add some paper on top of 2nd Sim card slot, how thick?, so thick that back cover nearly won't attach to your phone, see yourself that gps is working better, yep better, do note that this is not a workaround

How to permanently fix that? Go to asus center (or you can find how to fix gps by hand in russian forums), to check up your device, if you lucky, they replace the board and make the problematic "contact" as it should be

Personally, I love how poke go affect people, so that many people will rant about their gps *yeah, I'm looking at you asus*, because so many people didn't even bother if they have working gps or not,

Ah, no, they think their gps is working good w/o even testing it :confused:
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MJPByron:
Is the laser autofocus agnostic to whatever custom ROM might be installed, and if it does matter which ROM is on the phone, are there any decent custom ROMs that are low on Asus bloat that enable the laser autofocus?
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ericpeacock79:
get the Asus Pixelmaster camera app from playstore. works on any ROM
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MJPByron:
So the laser depends on the Pixelmaster app to function? How flexible is the app in terms of allowing macro, burst shots, etc.? I normally use Opencamera and have been happy with it but I take a lot of macro distance photos. I'd love a better focus, hence keeping the laser autofocus is fairly high on my list if I want to buy this device.
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ericpeacock79:
as i understand, yes, the laser focus depends on the pixelmaster app (someone please correct me if i'm wrong)

it's personal preference and all, but i think the pixelmaster app is the best camera app i've used.

it does have the burst shots, idk about macro (never heard of it)

honestly, if photos is your main thing, you might want to wait for the ZenFone 3, which will be sporting a 23MP Sony camera. (release date either this month, or Q3 this year, can't find any solid info)
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] niveku:
Recovering stock rom

Hi there.

I have an ZE551KL with CM and want to return to stock but i can't. I have TWRP and the bootloader is NOT unlocked. I have some questions for you because the threaths haven't been usefull for me:

1) Where can I find the stock recovery.

2) Can I unlock the bootloader in other ROM (No only the LL because the app didn't work on MM and the code doesn't work in CM)

3) How can I flash the stock without the recovery.

Or something that can help me.
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testeraphy:
I hope you already fix your problem... so you don't need to read what I've written below

Sorry, I'm bad at english :o

Wow, you did an amazing magic there..

A cm phone supported by custom recovery (twrp) with a locked bootloader, wow, really wow, everyone with that model should ask you how to do this because they want to boot cm on their unable-to-unlock device..

Btw, I found useful thread just by lurking few minutes here to answer your 3rd question

1) I don't know this, but from my experience with smultron, recovery come with boot.img, or... there's always "backup first" for everything, you can ask someone else to backup their stock recovery maybe?

2) how did you manage to boot cm, wait, no, 1st how did you flash twrp with locked bootloader? That's an amazing magic you know. Can I ask something else? why did you want to unlock bootloader now?

3) there's a trick on general laser forum, here?
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpulson:
Hi! I want to remove many asus apps specially i dont want boost service that is mixed with clearing rrcents. I am already using greenify. I am rooted and installed twrp. Tell me how to remove asus boost!
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] niveku:
Yes, I was able to get back to stock ROM and unlock the bootloader in CM. I was trying to test the custom Kernel, so I needed to unlock it, but i have restarting issues with CM so I get back to stock.

To install CM and TWRP with locked bootloader I deleted the system and flash the recovery through the fastboot (It worked).

Now I'm looking for a way to root/xposed stock MM on ZE551KL.
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testeraphy:
I don't think this is possible, asus include the boost function to "clear recent" button, aka on system level :confused:

Well, android is about apks, you remove them, they won't appear, you can try disabling one by one that have asus thing on it, but something might broken, lol

Oh, I see, my friend too, said that they can flash/boot anything w/o unlocking bootloader, Oh well forget that

Root/exposed always have 1 easy way, flash them, other root method is like "the other way" ex:exploiting bug so no need to go recovery, but it's always come down to flash,
[Zenfone 2 Laser Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theimpulson:
How about removing it whole i will use some xposed module instead, i have twrp root and xposed.