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[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
remembering how to ROOT.

Hi, a friend of mine just bought this same b2016 phone and I just have gone through the rooting process again.

I took me no more than 5 minutes to manage to install TWRP, which is all you need to be able to flash the M rom.

https://mega.nz/#F!rZcyBCoQ!lmHp0aQVZinzrmbv-iOCpw

All files you need are here, including a txt file with the full instructions.

Please shout if you need help.

Cheers
[ZTE Axon Pro] focus1400:
hi i have already rooted mine can you give me a link to M firmware and thanks for info anyway will still download yours thank you
[ZTE Axon Pro] marus2:
Thank you so much.

I really cannot find this menu.
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
I just posted it on Previous page.

How did you miss it?

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To get to it chose you album or folder and play it. Once it starts then click at the song that is playing, at the bottom, the list of songs swill expand, then the shuffle button works as it should.

Being honest, this zte player is a bit cluttered as they want you to buy songs from there, but it works, so I calling it crap may be unfair, I can say it isn't very good.

What breaks the bank is that zte intentionally closed down the possibility of us tweaking the lockscreen (and the power menu) in a way only their own apps can be integrated (not even gravity box can change it)

In my previous KitKat phone, any music player app could show up the widget in the lock screen.

Cheers
[ZTE Axon Pro] danisuaves:
Ota

THANK YOU, with the steps you've put, I've done everything at the first. I wanted to make another query, if we update the OTA lose the recovery or something would be damaged ???
[ZTE Axon Pro] EdgeTheraited:
Guys do you know if Zte axon mini b2016 support quick charge 2.0 or 3.0?
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
I have backed up my system and data and tried the ota update, it goes to recovery and fails.

But don't worry, I have found where the download is gone (108mb) opened it and will tweak it so we can all flash it.

My hope is that with this "complementary" update instead of the full b12, the xposed will keep working.

Please wait til I have some time to play around.

Cheers
[ZTE Axon Pro] danisuaves:
contacts gmail

Does not sync gmail contacts, any solution ??
[ZTE Axon Pro] willmx:
Hey all.

I tried to root my axon mini b2016 by following the instructions on this post and I was wrong. Now my phone is locked on the ZTE logo. When I press the button vol + and power for a few seconds, it restarts and returns to the ZTE logo.

I need help :)

Thanks.
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
Answer already in this thread, just search for it. You have not given permissions to the Google contacts sync app.

My Gmail contact work perfectly.

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Not sure what instructions you have followed.

The last one I recently posted is not a full root solution.

The solution I have posted is meant only to allow you to get a "sort of root" so you can push twrp, reboot recovery, wipe everything and install M rom.

However, if you managed to Push twrp and wish to stay in lollipop (which is total crap on this phone) simply find a suitable flashable superSU.zip and flash it to get root properly.

[MENTION=1546029]Bormental[/MENTION] already explained to me AND I repeated that again how to reboot recovery during a bootloop.

Answer already in this thread, just search for it, I hope you find it.

This is in case you have a recovery correctly installed.

I don't think I fully understand your problem, but ifyou failed to push recovery correctly but your system still boots up, just repeat the process until it installs correctly, I just did this 2 days ago and it worked. Watch the command prompt screen, during the process (adb shell, enter, su, enter, xxxx push twrp.....xxxx, enter) it must say "....file....in/ file out" or something like this.

The best way to check you have a recovery is to run the command prompt from the adb folder (with USB debug ON, obviously) and simply type: adb reboot recovery"

If phone restarts and stays on the logo, you do not have recovery, I.e. you wipe the stock one and failed to install twrp, but I never seen this happening before.

Good luck
[ZTE Axon Pro] willmx:
Thanks for reply.

I followed your last instructions.

After pushing TWRP, I checked my root with SuperSU. At the start of the application, this one asked me to "update binary". I accept (bad idea ?), my phone reboot and And is blocked from.

adb reboot recovery don't work : "error : device not found". -> it's OK. My phone is into recovery mod :)
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
Ok

Just to confirm, did you flash SuperSU, or installed from play store? Last was a bad idea.

Now. You cannot boot your system?. Also you cannot boot into recovery? If this is the case......then I'm not sure even [MENTION=1546029]Bormental[/MENTION] can help you.

Can you turn the phone off? Then press volume+power?

you can leave the phone in the logo screen for a while, 10 minutes? Adb should respond. If so you may have some hope to fix things.
[ZTE Axon Pro] willmx:
I install SuperSU from play store :/

I boot into recovery and the phone start in twrp after repeat push trwp image. But impossible to boot android.

edit : now it's Ok ! After install stock rom for b2016 from trwp, my phone boot in Android :) Thank you for help !

All I have to do is find the right information for install rom-M.

ps : sorry for my google trad :/
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
Glad you got it.

All you need to install M rom is on post #836

Cheers
[ZTE Axon Pro] Cristian67:
Hi, demenicis, I installed your b09 rom, everything is ok, only xposed dont want to flash, for previous b09 rom was good, working xposed. Any suggestion ?
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
You can try the unmodified stock available in previous post, or even from the Chinese website, also referred before.

I won't be able to test it soon and thought it was working.

But what happens? Bootloop? Fail to flash? Did you wait enough time? And did all apps refresh their dalvik cache?

Did you clear data before flashing the ROM?

Cheers
[ZTE Axon Pro] danisuaves:
edit

When the phone reboots, it does not take 4G coverage anymore and the Google services are frozen, I have reinstalled the ROM several times and it always happens the same, someone else happens? Can you put the recovery stock and return to the International ROM ??
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
Hi,

not sure someone can help me,

I tried to tweak the ota update file and flash it, but twrp fails to install and tells me:

"Package expects build fingerprint of

ZTE/P839A01/msm8916_64:6.0.1/MMB29M/zte.20160808.133244:user/release-keys or

ZTE/P839A01/msm8916_64:6.0.1/MMB29M/zte.20161011.160119:user release-keys;

this device has

ZTE/P839A02_PTP/msm8916_64:5.1.1/LMY47V/zte.20151124.155807:user/release-keys

What does that mean, and how can I make it work on our b2016 phone?

Any ideas?

Thanks
[ZTE Axon Pro] danisuaves:
Oh ****, can someone pass me the stock recovery ?? I did not back up
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
Did you really read the posts?

Did you forget to flash the b2016 modem? and that is maybe why you don't have coverage.

International ROM is rubish.

What rom did you flash many times?

Do you know that if you flash the unmodified stock b03 or b04 you will the stock recovery back?
[ZTE Axon Pro] danisuaves:
Do you say flash from custom recovery la rom b4 (update.zip) ?? To return everything to Stock ??

5. Paste these lines one by one to terminal:

Code:

su

dd if=/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/recovery of=/sdcard/stock_recovery.img

dd of=/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/recovery if=/sdcard/twrp.img

6. Keep the file stock_recovery.img in safe place. It is your stock recovery image.
[ZTE Axon Pro] Yannis100:
fingerprint can be found in the build.prop file, located in root of /system folder

ro.build.fingerprint=ZTE/P839A01/msm8916_64:6.0.1/MMB29M/zte.20161011.160119:user/release-keys
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
Yes, however it may be a dangerous idea as you may end up without any recovery and your system may not boot for any reason. in this case you would have to send your phone back to ZTE

so the safest idea would be to boot your system and flash the stock recovery.

But again, why do you want it? you already have twrp, why not install M rom?

Cheers

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Thanks mate, but I have checked and my "build fingerprint" is what the recovery say is "expected", so why doesn't it work? strange

this build fingerprint code may also be somewhere else. If the recovery says my fringprint is related to the 5.1.1 (and one day it was) is because this information must be somewhere, I suspect may be in the Modem file we use, which is from the 5.1.1 rom then.

Thanks
[ZTE Axon Pro] Cristian67:
Sorry for delay, yes, fail to flash and after bootloop ! Flashing rom, ok, install my apps, flash supersu 2.62.3 first, reboot, everything ok, flash supersu 2.78, ok, backup and after flashing xposed , fail to flash, reboot sistem, bootloop
[ZTE Axon Pro] Yannis100:
Yeah I had the same though but did not take time to check. Found following info

http://xdaforums.com/nexus-7-2013/nexus-7-2013-qa/wrong-build-fingerprint-flashing-ota-t2940059

http://xdaforums.com/nexus-7-2013/nexus-7-2013-qa/flashing-lollipop-ota-twrp-fails-t2939358

http://en.miui.com/thread-278157-1-1.html

Looks like it's related to TWRP, but I have no clue how to update it. No OTA on custom recovery.
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
that is interesting, because this is exactly what happens if I try to install the b12 and flash exposed.

Please try flashing the aboot6 again to see if you can at least boot your system.

I may have messed the rom file somehow.

we can try to flash the update.zip on top of your system, which is the full stock rom (without the recovery).

https://mega.nz/#F!eRMFzLiS!CcNsikqwfNLPVNvbxJxqyA

after that you will need to flash the modem too.

Then try the xposed again and let me know if it works.

EDIT:

Yes, I wiped everything and after the normal steps (aboot5,reboot recovery) I flashed all 3 files rom.zip, supers and xposed......bootloop that cannot go way.

I'll restore my system for now and REMOVE the B09-Clean-02.zip file from my MEGA account to avoid trouble, something went wrong with my ROM mods (we know the original without the modem work, link above). Sorry guys for the inconvenient, I was trying to help.

I'll let you know I case I have more patience to play around again.
[ZTE Axon Pro] danisuaves:
I already have andorid 6.0 installed, but I did not copy the original recovery and I would like to have it in case I have to file the warranty with Zte, if someone has it and I could upload it
[ZTE Axon Pro] Cristian67:
Demenicis, don't worry mate, your b09 rom is very good, no problem for me without xposed, we appreciate your work !
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
Thanks mate, but I think this is actually positive.

I handled the b09 the same way I did on the b12, and xposed bootloops both.

I also find strange the fact there is no apparent reason xposed works on b09 (stock without modem ) but not on b12, which is just and "additional" update.

So I'll review the files I have removed from the stock zip, build a new file from the b12 and test again, but I'm not sure when, maybe tonight.

Cheers
[ZTE Axon Pro] srgi_94:
Hi all, I recently bought this device and tried to root but on reboot it stays on the bootloader screen.

I can access the stock recovery but I can not flash any unsigned zip.

What I can do?

Thanks
[ZTE Axon Pro] beenny:
Hi, I have a similar problem as srgi_94. I have uploaded root to my b2016. The phone worked, after a few minutes I turned it off to put card. I turned it off and did not want to start up, bootloop... I can't access to recover.

Please help me.

Wysłane z mojego Redmi Note 2 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
Just flash stock lollipop. Easy.

Not sure why you did not follow the last way to temp root and install twrp.

Once twrp is working you can flash SuperSU orbany other .zip, including the m rom

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Just read this thread. Search for "reboot recovery during bootloop", another easy one to sort out.

Cheers
[ZTE Axon Pro] srgi_94:
Where is the link of stock roms? Thanks demenicis for your help
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
Again t is all here in the thread, find the link to the China website. If you can't find I'll give the link later and I get home.

I have it my sd card too but having probs with internet at home at the moment
[ZTE Axon Pro] beenny:
I can not find any solution which can help me. I tried "adb reboot rocovery" and nothing. "Error: device not found". I installed the drivers well before was good. What can I do? I'm afraid to call because all the time it is turned on.

Ok, Battery empty, I connected to the charger and I managed to enable recovery mode. What can I do to phone started?

Thanks!
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
Well, you have twrp, you can flash whatever you want.

You can flash M rom, you can flash stock lollipop.

Just place the rom zip in your SD card.

Connect the phone to the computer, you can copy files to it from the recovery screen.

During bootloop, you can press and hold volume+power for 10secs, phones reboot, keep pressing for 10 more seconds, phone reboots again, now after 5seconds as soon as the screen goes off, release the buttons. Phone will turn off.

Then volume+ power for the recovery as usual.

This is the 3rd time it is said in this thread.

Cheers

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Good news. I got b12 working with xposed!

And best of all, just flash the rom on top of the b09, no wipe, no nothing. It just works.

I cannot post the zip now, still with internet issues but will do as soon as I can.

Cheers
[ZTE Axon Pro] beenny:
Thanks for the answer.

I don't have twrp, I have stock recovery. In this situation, I must flash b04, yes?
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
Correct
[ZTE Axon Pro] danisuaves:
reboot recovery

I have 2 ZTE axon mini, in one of them everything is ok, but in the other it restarts me when I am loading the Rom from the recovery. any ideas?
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
Yes i have. Flash Aboot5,reboot recovery,flash rom.

It is said over and over and over in this thread.

Cheers
[ZTE Axon Pro] beenny:
Thanks [MENTION=5852561]demenicis[/MENTION] my phone back. :)

Now I have a problem with the flashing twrp. I type the command "dd if = / ..." and after there is "no such file or directory". What I'm doing wrong? twpr.img on the sd card. Root I did, Kingo showed "root succeed".

Wysłane z mojego Redmi Note 2 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
Can you show the full command you are trying to apply? So I see where the twrp file is being called from?

Depending in what you are typing, Try Placing twrp.img in the adb folder in your pc and try again.
[ZTE Axon Pro] beenny:
I placed twrp.img in adb folder and the same.
[ZTE Axon Pro] marus2:
Try install some terminal emulator on phone and type the command on phone
[ZTE Axon Pro] danisuaves:
Thanks
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
I know.....SD card means INTERNAL SD card. Not external. (Read the instructions I places for download)

Do even better place the file on both internal and external. It will work.

I have done both ways, from terminal app or adb, both worked.
[ZTE Axon Pro] beenny:
My mistake, I'm sorry. thanks for the help. Twrp works. :) [MENTION=5852561]demenicis[/MENTION] I wanted to flash your rom (B09m) from 84 page but isn't there, I can't download it. Other files are there.
[ZTE Axon Pro] srgi_94:
Here is the link of Stock B04 Lollipop Rooteable & stock_recovery

https://mega.nz/#F!ApgX1JxY!ML5uhK3sr5QujkRJRJZXFA
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
NEW modified (clean) B12 with working xposed (to be flashed separately and optionally)

Hi, I have replaced the b09 by a new b12, sorry it was uploading very slowly. Please use the same link.

I have done the same changes on the b12 ROM that I have listed on the change log fort the b09.

The process is very simple:

-flash aboot5, reboot recovery;

-Flash ROM, flash super SU, flash xposed,

-reboot system

-this ROM can be flashed on top of your current b09 without lost of data.

-or you can also wipe everything, flash the rom, flash supersu and restore you data, all at once.

Up to you guys, let me know what you thing and if it worked as planed.

Regards
[ZTE Axon Pro] danisuaves:
I installed it above the b9 and the settings did not work. I installed it clean with the wipes and when it comes to choosing the language, you choose the language and ask again that you choose the language. does not progress
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
Ok, sorry for that,

when you say "settings", do you mean the settings app?

can you boot your system and open es file explorer? if so go to system/priv-app/settings_ZTE.

you will find the original settings app in there, delete or rename the current Settings_ZTE.apk, then just rename the file ending in "Settings_ZTE-b12.apk" back to "Settings_ZTE.apk" and try opening your settings again, no reboot needed.

If this is the case is because I have placed the wrong file in the last minute and I can fix it.

I'm checking it now anyway and thanks for the feedback

Thanks

____________________

EDIT: I just download this rom back to my work PC, extracted the setting-ZTE.apk to my sd card, moved it to system, and it works fine, so I did not make the mistake I thought I had.

I'm not sure what is wrong with your installation, but I will wait to see your response. For now I don't really know what to do fix this unless I test on my own phone again, but this takes time.

If the worst comes to the worse, what I can do is to post my own system nandroid backup so you can download, copy to the twpr folder on you sd card and restore it from you recovery.

___________

I thin know what is wrong.

I was so stupid in the way I did it.

I left two file in the system/priv-app/settings-ZTE:

- Settings_ZTE.apk

- Settings_ZTE-b12.apk

so your system now has 2 apps trying to work! I should have changed the extension .apk to anything else, e.g. .bak.

So all you have to do is to delete the Settings_ZTE-b12.apk and all should work.

I'm so sorry again and will replace the B12 by a new one right now.
[ZTE Axon Pro] danisuaves:
Thanks, with the indications I have resolved
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
uffff.

just to confirm, what exactly have you done?

I'm asking this because it is important for you to use my modded setting app (and not the original one), otherwise some items on your menu will crash (for example Mi-pop, etc)

I have uploaded the settings.apk in case you deleted it. just rename the existing one and place this one in system/priv-app/setting-ZET folder.

Regards

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stock recovery for those who want it is in this folder

https://mega.nz/#F!rZcyBCoQ!lmHp0aQVZinzrmbv-iOCpw

Regards
[ZTE Axon Pro] danisuaves:
I started in the recovery, mount system and from the advanced menu I used file manager and edited the settings zte.apk
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
Hi,

I have just uploaded the NEW

B12-B2016-MROM-Clean-02.zip

. to fix the settings app issue. It should work straight away now.

https://mega.nz/#F!PVFHHRha!KqcSPtdpDHdYkgUti59c7A

Thanks a lot for helping to find this issue.

So far, only 2 days using b12, it feels:

- the 4G coverage is behaving better. On the B09, my phone spent more time on 3G and only moved to 4G sometimes. Now it is stuck and strong on 4G most of the time.

- The proxy sensor during calls seems more reliable and my screen did not turn on whilst the phone is in my ear.

This is just my first impression so far, nothing else is different.....or I didn't notice any difference yet.

Regards
[ZTE Axon Pro] eisdrachen:
Thanks for your work!

So I hope that I can save APN's this time... in the last ROM i was not able to put in a new one or edit the one which was already present. So 4G or mobile network was not working all the time, but it showed me :D

I am on b02 now, because I nearly destroyed my phone... for anyone whos got the problem that it stucks at the ZTE Logo - just press vol up plus power, wait for three times reboot and keep the buttons pressed! ( I know, it is pretty weird). After the third reboot the phone will turn off - now release the buttons, press them again and wait for recovery bootup. Then you are good to go and you can repair your phone.
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
B02 is quite old, and this lollipop works quite badly on this phone.

Move to M rom and you will get a brans new, fast and smooth phone:)

On this B12 rom (and likely on the b08 and b09) APN editing definitely works, although I never have to edit it. Vodafone Uk just gets it automatically.

I have just checked and you can either add new ones or edit old ones.

good luck
[ZTE Axon Pro] eisdrachen:
Yeah, on b12 I experinced it, but something was not working. Just got the MMS-APN from t-mobile germany, but no internet-apn. So I tried to put something in, and after the Save the Settings.apk crashed (I think it must be this two settings.apk in system "error". Didn't thought of that :D)

I just had to choose a b02 because I didn't found another international ROM. It worked for me until now, so it was better for me to have a working phone with APNs :D

What I remember on B12 is that the camera was much better than on b02 and b09. System is more stable and yeah, I like this phone very much. Coming from a nubia z9 mini, had Mokee on it and it was much slower than the Axon mini. I am very pleased with this phone. Nothing better for this price to buy anywhere I think.

I let you know when I got problems :) Just flashed b12 on it now, Apps are optimizing. Feedback within an hour or so :cool::good:

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Yeah, same error again - flashed it on the b02, no way to get a apn in it. Just the t-mobile mms apn is saved there, but i cannot edit it.
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
Sorry, I don't know what you mean?

I have gone to SIM 1/mobile networks

APN/click on the "+" and added a new one (called blablabla), added a ramdom APN, top corner "save", it adds to the list.

Is the ROM working for you? have you got 4G or not?

I know it can be a pain, but I suspect you should try a clean rom and test apn is working. If it works is because something or some setting on your current data is preventing it to work.

APN is definitely working on the last B12 I posted.
[ZTE Axon Pro] eisdrachen:
I just do the add over the "+", put everything needed in the right fields e.g. apn name, apn adress etc.

When I click on save, the settings app crashes "unfornutaley, the settings app crashed" and the apn I put in does not exist. I think it is a compatibility problem because I did not wipe my german system before.

I just wiped it and now I am using an english system - no problem for me. APN is correct, I do not have to put another one in. So I hope that, after the install of the google services, everything will work.

Thanks for your support!

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Okay... I will do a complete, fresh install with wiped system, cache and dalvik/ART. The google installer did not install the Play Store, it just give me the message "Not installed"... Not sure why.

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Besides that, everything is working fine!
[ZTE Axon Pro] demenicis:
for the google play store, please do this:

-check google play isn't already installed (I placed it in system/app already). if so try it.

if not

-using es file explorer, browse to sytem/app.

scroll down, you will find google play there. click to install it. try opening the app.

if it doesn't work, simply clear DATA of playstore, play service and google service framework. reboot. It should work.

It might have been a bad idea to put playstore in the system.......I may have to review this, but please confirm it works first.