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[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
I thank you for your efforts about trying at least and giving me a feedback :)

I am happy that seeing you having not much freezes at all until now

And i don't know what's making the freeze and what is not making the freeze, i was just trying to get a solution, i researched that from the other users' ideas.

I think the if.bin placement is the key, without it, it freezed a lot more according to my experiment.

But as i said this solution wasn't the end of the all freezes so i am still searching the problem but it makes a little bit difference at least and wanted to share for relaxing our devices a bit.

Files were from the 1.18ish version (JB) and i will try earlier files like 1st asus rom and if it makes difference i will share.
[Zenfone 5 General] kanodiatushar:
i tried reverting back to 1.17.40.16WW and use the official unlocker and after unlock i immediately flashed the RR-MM rom and it freezed....

I will test it for a day... but can you suggest me if it will work on the RR-MM rom?

i mean i flash the rom

place the if.bin

set permission

and then unlock again using the files you provided?

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1st freeze

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2nd freeze
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
I did like so on cm13 rom. I didn't revert, only changed fastboot images and i am having 12 hour no freeze duration and wanted to share the way, no need to officially unlock, it makes no difference except warranty. I will try to use ifwi, dnx and fastboots of other versions for no freeze at all and i think it varies for the different product bands (like august vs june factory phones).

So, when you trying this way make sure fastboot and ifwi, dnx files of same date and copy if to firmware.

There is just one if.bin for unlocking so this makes the problem and it cannot be compiled by anyone except asus, so we are trying to find the most compatible fastboot and dnx-ifwi bins to our phone. I think that's the key and kernel might search for if.bin on firmware folder if i understand correctly, if it couldnt find it freezes. (If the case is not placebo at all)
[Zenfone 5 General] akiralee:
Well done... your solution make mine less freeze than before... thank you.

Sr for my bad english
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
i thank you for the giving feedback and trying my solution, have a good day and if i find any better solution i will update the first post :)

Edit: Check the first post, I uploaded a new kit, haven't tried that much so if you want to be a tester, go ahead and check it :)
[Zenfone 5 General] leonardohenrique10:
Hi, I tried the tutorial in the first post with V2 files and I get a locked bootloader with ifwi 59.27. Why I get a locked bootloader?
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
try to flash if.bin again, if it doesn't work revert to v1.

edit: it's a testing build and as i said it may not work and even brick the device, so be careful. :)

that gave me a a1 bootloader and when i controlled that said signed bootloader, maybe this was a bug and first post edited with your feedback, i will try this build for a night and will report if it freezes.
[Zenfone 5 General] killar_aka_arabu:
i have noticed that my zen5 got freeze only when charger is conected, and i play some game (eg Contest of Chamions, Marvel)... after some like 40-50 mins, device is overheating, and freeze.

in other cases i dont have freezes
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
yes i was talking about "not the end of the freezes" :laugh: on normal usage it works okay with this tutorial, but on charging and using heavy apps occurs freezes.

actually on another thread [MENTION=6916861]pedromd[/MENTION] did some ifwi.bins that i haven't tried yet. if anyone wants to try that, can check out his files.

that night, i will look at my v2-like solution and logcat it.

(it may not be working for the other users according to reports but i am now o my v2) :)
[Zenfone 5 General] akiralee:
i think i dont need to try it.. because i used my phone last night and have no freezing during 3-4h... i think there no freeze more... thank for your help... :highfive::highfive::highfive::highfive:
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
You're welcome.

With 20 Kernel 19 System of dgadelha's CM, i didn't get any reboots on night charge and logcat terminal was there on morning. Only a bit network issue i found on latest release but not that much, if anyone encountering freezes, should try the latest build. I am going to test for daily freezes now. But it should be fixed with these files i suppose.

Thanks for the feedback and have a good day! :)
[Zenfone 5 General] jiyaad1:
Version V0610(T00J_WW) try to upload the file form this zip cause it is the only tooj exclusive zip ever made

http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/Ze...6_user.zip?_ga=1.179119149.8865999.1461788797
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6AxuGkWld1yWHNUMkZvT0ZVaWc
[Zenfone 5 General] jiyaad1:
Okay so I used the v1 revert option and then manually locked the bootloader and then did the v1+v2 thing and now rebooted hope it stays with out freezing for the next 12 hours ;)
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
Have fun with testing, i uploaded 4-5 more and will upload 4-5 more.
[Zenfone 5 General] pintuvirani:
I got first freeze after 14 hours when battery level was 26%.
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
lower battery makes freeze chance increase according to my tests.

however, i am working on the fastboots, i will upload more soon and you can try them all and choose the best fitting of them.

there's 4 of them ready on the first post, you can check.
[Zenfone 5 General] pintuvirani:
Ok thank you bro. Are you also getting freeze?
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
Sometimes, generally on heavy usage, charging; but not daily.

When I get freeze, it repeats frequently; but I reapply v2 (probably this is placebo effect) and freezing gone for a bit more time without repeating. I am not sure. If I get another freeze, I will change my fastboot again.

{Edit (28.04.16):

Official unlocker will not affect your freezing issue. I wrote here because it's not important.

It will just send your serial and imei to asus (for voiding warranty) and change your if.bin (actually i am thinking how it's doing this without using fastboot).

[I will add the last section -here- to main post but I am on mobile and it fails.]}
[Zenfone 5 General] pintuvirani:
I tried official unlock also but its also freezing to my phone.
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
I wrote that. :laugh:
[Zenfone 5 General] jiyaad1:
Omg exactly my phone froze like almost 7 times in a span of 2 hours local time 12:30-2:30 after the last freeze I put the phone to 800 mhz and left it and now it has been on for 9hours 30 mins and still counting.... I'll see if the time you unlocked you boot loader has an effect ��

Edit upto 6:43 pm and no freeze after 15 hours 20 mins from time of last freeze it froze while charging my guess it reached 100% and then rebooted
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
Announce: I uploaded a bunch of Fastboots (actually they are from the most important roms) and will download and upload the others. If anyone wants to try them, can find on first post's important notes section.

Have a nice day.
[Zenfone 5 General] kanodiatushar:
do we need only fastboots from individual roms? or if.bin from each of them too?
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
In the archive folder I uploaded ifwi, dnx, fastboot, (recovery.img of some) and a general if.bin.

If you want to try them, do it like script:

fastboot, reboot, dnx, ifwi, reboot, dnx, if (in order)
[Zenfone 5 General] kanodiatushar:
ok so i have to use the general if.bin to finally unlock the bootloader instead of the if.bin provided in the the roms?

is the general if.bin same as the if.bin provided in each of the roms?
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
Absolutely. Same file in different roms.
[Zenfone 5 General] kanodiatushar:
please tell me the difference between the 59.A1 unlocked state and 59.a1 unlocked state.

if they are not caused by if.bin then is it dnx? or fastboot?
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
Same thing, different fastboot version. [MENTION=5231923]kanodiatushar[/MENTION]
[Zenfone 5 General] pintuvirani:
Ozank bro.i think my freeze issue gone. I think i found my fastboot, ifwi, dnx file. I unlock my bootloader before 24 hours ago still i didint have any single freeze. Have to see more days its freezing or not. If will not then i let you know bro. Thanks ozank bro.
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
What is yours fastboot version? I want to try it as well.

By the way try charging, youtube and playing game for aggresive usage. If it still doesn't freeze maybe you found that :laugh:
[Zenfone 5 General] pintuvirani:
Yes i watched full movie in youtube. And i charged mobile 4 time. I played coc and cor 2 hours continue. And still dont have any freezing issue.

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I take out ifwi, dnx, if.bin and fastboot.img from ww-2.19.40.18 firmware. I paste this all files in v1 folder in automated script. And then go to fastboot and i chose 1 and hit enter. And its unlocked. After that rboot to os. And i go to esfile explorer and go to in factory and open last_fb_cmds.log with es note editor. When it open i erased all logs and save it. Its done
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
Thanks, i am going to try this version as well; if it affects my phone in good way, i will re-release the script with it for others to try; if not, everyone has to try their fastboot (like now we are doing) :laugh:
[Zenfone 5 General] pintuvirani:
Ok bro best of luck hope you will get best result
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
I flashed 2.19.40.18's bootloader now; i will test that. If I got freeze, I will switch to 3.24.40.xx's bootloader for testing one more time.

If I don't get any freezes for at least 2 days, I will re-release the script. Thanks for the recommendation :)
[Zenfone 5 General] aditia581999:
What do you mean by "go to factory"?
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
I watched youtube video, made a call and short term there's no freeze yet. I will check until tomorrow and if it goes okay, i will share it.

He deleted fastboot logs, not necessary.
[Zenfone 5 General] pintuvirani:
?? great news bro. I think you will not get freeze. Still i dont have freeze. Nice work ozank bro and thanks for support me

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I will want to see one more day if its not freeze then i will go for custom rom.
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
Announce:

Script updated. Not tested yet.

Used [MENTION=3946418]pintuvirani[/MENTION] 's recommended bootloader version.

Try that, if it freezes, give feedback about that.

Have a good day all.
[Zenfone 5 General] aditia581999:
try your v3, already freeze 2 times

maybe this isnt for my phone

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bro, is the droidboot.img in LL firmware the same as fastboot.img in KK/JB?
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
Yes you can try as well, droidboot is fastboot. You can rename it or use fastboot fastboot droidboot.img

If the touchscreen doesn't work, wipe cache.

Actually no freezes yet for me and pintuvirani so i uploaded that but i will edit the post.

You should try the fastboots for your phone from archive and i think you can choose a most compatible one.
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
I tried lollipop's 87 bootloader. Only took 3 minutes to freeze.

I reverted back to v3. (It froze 1-2 times as well but still better for me)
[Zenfone 5 General] kanodiatushar:
just confirming

ifwi- ifwi_ctp_a500cg.bin

dnx- dnx_fwr_ctp_a500cg.bin

for A501cg?

Edit: [MENTION=7421493]ozank[/MENTION] i downloaded your entire fastboot archive and tried flashing them

most of them didn't work for me namely,

UL-ASUS_T00J-WW-1.14.40.16-user

UL-ASUS_T00F-WW-2.22.40.540-user

UL-ASUS_T00F-WW-2.22.40.54-user

UL-ASUS_T00F-WW-3.24.40.78-user

UL-ASUS_T00F-WW-3.24.40.87-user

the problem was that when i flashed dnx and ifwi they did not change the previously unlocked state(59.A1or59.a1) to a locked one

and after flashing dnx and ifwi they took a while(10-20 sec) to restart in bootloader

others flashed successfully but the phone started freezing in 30-60mins
[Zenfone 5 General] Masds:
NIIICE!!!

I tested with the V3, and already installed RR, MM version, and not fought in three hours. I will test more and if any freeze post here.

I am very grateful for the commitment and will of you!

Thank you!
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
Seems weird, lately my ifwi was like so as well, maybe you should push 2-3 times manually. Btw maybe you should download and check the others.

You're welcome, i am happy to hear that :victory:
[Zenfone 5 General] Magi11798:
I do everything but still freezing.

Maybe the reason is that my phone is CHT version ....
[Zenfone 5 General] kanodiatushar:
[MENTION=7421493]ozank[/MENTION] how is the v3 script working for you?
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
You can download CHT roms and try them from asus's site. :)

I think it was like v2, not the end of the freezes and still usable phone, but when I was writing this post for the first time it froze :laugh:

I think v2 was better but not the completely solution.

On v3, it didn't froze on youtube for me.
[Zenfone 5 General] Magi11798:
I have tried all the version before buying it .....still freeze.
[Zenfone 5 General] pintuvirani:
Ozank bro after 2 days when i clear the cached in setting/storage after that i got 2 times freeze.
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
If you don't have the phone yet, don't buy that :laugh:

Actually phone is so outdated now, only devs (thanks to them) supporting the phone. You can get another phone like general mobile, huawei, lenovo (in same price range)

Edit: Actually phone is good, i loved that but with this support of asus, i hate that. This is not the phone's problem. All about the brand's problem, I was thinking to buy an asus laptop and now I am thinking to buy MSI laptop. Thank goodness, they are losing a customer. Asus was lovebrand for me but not now.

I don't know, V3 makes me reboot and freeze so much. But it can play youtube videos. :laugh:

I think I am going to revert my phone to V2 again.
[Zenfone 5 General] pintuvirani:
I cant understand this in 2 days i didnt get any single freeze. After 2 days got freeze whats the problem cant think out.
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
If I knew, I would use V2, because on V2 it didn't freeze for 2 days for me, then it froze. Unable to take a logcat because it freezes in a moment and logcat couldn't be taken. My strongest hypothesis was finding the most compatible bootloader but every bootloader freezes. There's no another if.bin file and we couldn't edit.

Weird thing is the device's developers have flawless phones and users have freezing phones. What a coincidence.
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
If anyone knows Russian and English, please contact me. I have a document that needs to be translated about ifwi and fastboot.
[Zenfone 5 General] pintuvirani:
Give me document ozank bro

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I will translate it
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
I sent, check pm

Anyone wants to check that file?
[Zenfone 5 General] aditia581999:
Hey, i wonder , what happen if my device is a500cg then flash dnx and ifwi with 501cg/600cg file?
[Zenfone 5 General] testgame01:
My device, after used the script ( choose 1, then 3 flash custom kernel then 2) 1 day used it one freeze but after copy if.bin, now is 7 days, i used, no freeze
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
There's no 501cg file? :confused:

Nice to hear that. :)
[Zenfone 5 General] aditia581999:
Actually in the firmware, theres 3 dnx and ifwi, 500/501/600cg

So , what happen if i use the 501/600cg file?
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
There's 500(zf5), 502(zf5 Lite) and 600(zf6) files. Are you really sure that there is ifwi_ctp_a501.bin?

Btw some users reported on another thread, when they install gapps nano, it freezes. If you want to try that hypothesis, you can use pico on a clean install. I am not sure about that.
[Zenfone 5 General] aditia581999:
I use pico everytime i install cusrom
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
Then this is not the case, thanks.

Btw, I checked the system/etc/firmware/if.bin

Its checksum was changed. Weird. Maybe that started freezing again. I replaced new one.

MD5 Sums:

Original

e2f67a8c00ab3863f6663fe5ab943d18

You should see that.

Corrupted file:

25d4338b960cad74f818c592a7bfa9dc

Actually I am not sure about what changed that file. I'm dropping it here if anyone wants to compare to yourself and see if it changed or not.
[Zenfone 5 General] jiyaad1:
several links for the fastboot archive please add em XD

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8d1Yd_GDZOqLUpJYzVZbnRDTVE&usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8d1Yd_GDZOqQzhiNG50Yjc0Q1k/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8d1Yd_GDZOqejRXY3dweFpPeEU&usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8d1Yd_GDZOqNGFhaGVTSkdpbEE&usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8d1Yd_GDZOqZ2RZVHdmQU9FM2s&usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8d1Yd_GDZOqY0ozME0yVDZsYTA/view?usp=sharing

sorry the empty folder in the links is actually the folder to the fastboot and ifwi with no folder
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
I will add them later when i will go home
[Zenfone 5 General] pintuvirani:
Any good news bro for freezing issue. I relock my bootloader bcoze freezing.
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
Yet no good news, you can try the other fastboots 2 posts above. I have another fastboot that maybe can stop freezes but I didn't try that, I will try that later and I am reading a Russian forum about this. I will not say the name of it but you can guess it. On the forum they wrote like 800 pages about this phone and I don't know Russian that much so I am reading slowly if I can find another information.

In zenfone they signed all the fastboot and ifwi images and i am trying to find a way to reverse engineer the sign code for better editing. I pm'ed some users on XDA that can help me but no answer from them yet.

Long story short, try fastboots and I have a fastboot file to try for myself, other than that I am waiting for the responses and I am trying to edit bootloader.

I am playing so safe that makes researches slowly, if I had a spare phone I would research so faster. But that may brick and I don't want to do that (because it's my daily driver and I need my data). Bricks are recoverable but this is a long proccess.

Have a good day.

Edit: FYI, I am going to upload [MENTION=5852816]jiyaad1[/MENTION] 's fastboot files and Tran Huu Tin's provided fastboot file to Fastboot Archive. I didn't try any of it.
[Zenfone 5 General] jiyaad1:
Ozank I think better focus on modifying the if.bin file cAuse only the toof has it. Tooj for some reason doesn't have an if.bin

And yet we use it to unlock our bootloaders if you can crack open the bin file and check the areas related to toof mother boards I guess you can modify them to tooj specs
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
There is just a problem, file is signed by asus and we cannot edit that file without changing the sign, at least I cannot do that, more talented coder needed.

Edit:

Daily thought:

I saw someone ported U-Boot bootloader for Intel Edison and there was an x86 bootloader build. Maybe we can change our bootloader application. Just a thought.
[Zenfone 5 General] kanodiatushar:
i was able to download 3 sku versions yesterday v1.17.40.xx CHT,CN,CUCC

CHT- https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B48a_MmSEva7V2ljUUh3NFZNdUE/view?pref=2&pli=1

CN- https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B48a_MmSEva7dlYwSy1HUlY1NFk/view?pref=2&pli=1

CUCC- https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B48a_MmSEva7bG5rby1iVURfOE0/view?pref=2&pli=1

so far CHT did not work for me and i am currently testing CN

please check if changing the fastboot sku might help someone
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
My phone froze after again and when I checked if.bin inside of firmware, it was changed again to same checksummed corrupted file, I am not sure about flashing the new created file to phone or not...

Creation date 8/1/08...

Pretty weird.

If anyone wants to try that file I can give it. But it'll probably brick device, or maybe not.

It's weird side is, my phone created the SAME file again, not random.

I compared the file and the normal if.bin, it's familiar but lots of bytes changed. But seems okay.

I am not sure about trying this file as ifwi file.

Edit: the file that created was lollipop's ifwi. Now i am using 1.14's fastboot with lp's ifwi. 6 hours and no freeze; i will update if it freezes or not.

Edit2: You can try the other sku's provided by [MENTION=5231923]kanodiatushar[/MENTION] [MENTION=3946418]pintuvirani[/MENTION] tried it and phone's on 9 hour with no freeze on cn fastboot.

Edit3: Other sku files added to fastboot archive as well. Thanks.
[Zenfone 5 General] aditia581999:
[MENTION=7421493]ozank[/MENTION] have you tried the CN fastboot? Did it freeze on ur phone?
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
I am on ww
[Zenfone 5 General] pintuvirani:
I am still getting freezing
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
9 hours since my last 'reboot'
[Zenfone 5 General] pintuvirani:
Tell me your method ozank bro
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
I was on V2, then it froze two and three times. When I check the if.bin on firmware folder, I saw that file was changed. Then I thought why that was changing and what was the new file all about.

That was 59.63 (lollipop's ifwi file). Then I patched ifwi 59.63 on V2. (You know, V2 is glitchy; so even after that I patch 59.63, it still sees like 59.a1).

Then i rebooted my phone. Used 15 hours, it got reboot on charge (probably rom or kernel's fault). Now i have 12 hour of no freeze.

Edit: I played Soda Dungeon for 1-2 hrs, 70 celcius mscdie thermal, watched youtube etc.

Edit2: I got a freeze now; but the strange thing is everything got froze except audio was working properly. (I was watching video and it continued.)
[Zenfone 5 General] Boomshiva:
You said that audio was working but rest thing froze . Those the Rom fault it seems I faced it on rr older builds system UI used to crash after sometime of being in frozen state . That's not your ifwi files fault .because I used the script the day you released and not yet got a single freeze .
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
That's a thing, thanks. I will try it on newer rom.

Eveything, including notification led froze but i hear the sound of the youtube video. :)

Actually I am waiting for the RRMM's new rom to switch :laugh:

Then I will report if it freezes again or not.

And that was the best thing I have ever heard on about this case, thanks for your good feedback :)

Edit: Actually new rom is uploaded, so here we go...
[Zenfone 5 General] Boomshiva:
Ok try out the new Rom nd if possible pm the bugs like my phone Wi-Fi always on when checked in battery stats . This exist or not in new build

Thank you .
[Zenfone 5 General] pintuvirani:
Boomshiva bro.pls tell me your method i want to use custom.rom. u can pm me. Thank you bro.
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
Actually I use Wi-Fi already always on but I think that's a glitch, not a real bug.

He used my method to unlock that. Nothing else much.
[Zenfone 5 General] pintuvirani:
Thats i want to which.method did you use. Let me know your method pls.
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
He used only script V1's 2nd option [MENTION=3946418]pintuvirani[/MENTION]

Edit: If you do it for the first time you need to use 1.

Edit2: I switched to RRMM latest, today I will see if the old freezes from ROM-kernel or fastboot based.
[Zenfone 5 General] aditia581999:
So u replace the if.bin file in v2 with the ifwi locked from the lollipop? Interesting, let me try that
[Zenfone 5 General] aditia581999:
http://www.filedropper.com/zenfone

Can anyone tried this UBL file? I read on RR forum, works on 501CG
[Zenfone 5 General] ozank:
It rebooted itself when I was on call, I still could talk in Asus logo. Then when rom reboots, call dropped.
[Zenfone 5 General] aditia581999:
It was dt2w fault, disable that and you r good to go

And pls answer my question, did you replace the ifwi in v2 from lolli .87 rom? The fastboot also?

Edit : if you lost the freeze, pls update the unlock file please :D