yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Pixel C Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] badwiring:
Thank you. I'll try this today. If I use s tool like NRT to flash "stock" to the device, does that cover what's described in the first step - latest bootloader and latest factory image - or is there something else I need to flash at that step?

Thanks
[Pixel C Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] followmsi:
Maybe your problem is related to the tool itself :)

For this reason I recommend to use the official google fastboot tool for complete flashing of factory image including bootloader.

To have a proper base to continue ..

Good luck !

EDIT: .. no need to wipe data here. Just a fresh system, vendor, cache and boot image from factory image.
[Pixel C Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] badwiring:
I think that answers my question - the original factory image including the bootloader.

I'll try it in a few hours. Thank you very much!
[Pixel C Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] badwiring:
That worked! I was currently on stock 7.1.1 so I tried it first without re-flashing, although I was prepared to go back to that step if it didn't work.

First I downloaded SuperSU 2.79 and copied the ZIP to my device.

I used Minimal ADB and Fastboot (which I think is taken from the official Google source) and flashed recovery-twrp-3.0.2.23.followmsi-ryu.img.

Then I rebooted into recovery - not system - and flashed SuperSU.

Finally I rebooted into system.

The Google logo appeared for a moment and then it booted again (exactly as you said.) Then it booted normally.

Finally! Thank you very much! Hopefully this will help someone else too. It can be the smallest detail we miss that makes the difference.
[Pixel C Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] followmsi:
You are welcome ..
[Pixel C Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daign:
tried numerous times to flash TWRP to my Pixel C 8.0.0 (OPR1.170623.032, Nov 2017) every time with bootloop in to recovery...

most recently hoping twrp-3.2.0-0-dragon would work :(

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tried to reflash ryu-opr1.170623.032-factory-020f1cf9's boot.img and it still bootlooped.

Tried to flash the recovery and now its bootlooping into stock recovery. Any ideas?

for a stock google device, this things a nightmare to work with compared to my nexus devices :(
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] choochoog8:
I need help I don't know know what happened to the phone and I don't know how to fix its stuck at Downloading Do not turn of target screen please help. And it also says security issue. [IMG="Proof"]https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t34.0-12/13342197_1046675152067899_1436102516_n.jpg?oh=b0070f8e4ed01dd0572c859cbdd3886b&oe=574F1B24[/IMG]
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] freak107:
i have black satin medium edition on my ppc for a while

today i have realised that i cannot use the internet on my ppc nor over wifi or through activesync

i dont know what to think

my pc is working fine and has internet over wifi but my ppc doesnt

plz help me
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] sahil sharma:
Hopefully, this is the right thread. So what is the standby battery all of you are getting on the phone. My phone was at 90% at 12.30 am. Put the phone on battery save mode and went to sleep. Wake up at 7 am and the battery drain is down to 67%. I am just clueless how this is possible? Is it normal in Android? I remember on iOS, the battery would go down just 1% - 2% the entire night. Also new notifications were installed and nor were any updates happening in the background (not that i am aware of any).

This is a serious concern for me? If its normal then i might take it to Samsung. The phone is not even a week old.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] BaconDanny:
I would say you have something preventing it from going to sleep mode. What do the battery stats show? Any apps with high usage? Mine uses about 1% per hour in standby, with AOD and location services on. Although at work, where I have extremely poor reception, it uses a bit more.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] dazza7111:
Definitely something wrong I leave it all night and don't bother with power save. If it was my phone I would try factory reset first and set up as new phone, maybe install a few apps a day as you test battery.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] sahil sharma:
Here is the usage
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] henklbr:
Search 1st b4 starting a new thread about same subject!

Why starting a new thread when there's already one about this subject?

How many of you experiencing high android system battery drain
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] GuestK0087:
There is already a thread for this topic here:

http://xdaforums.com/s7-edge/help/how-experiencing-android-battery-drain-t3327730

Please search before posting.

Thread closed.
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mh3c:
Hello everyone!

How to unpack LG G4 KDZ firmware IMG file?

or tools? thx!! :)
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heimdallZ:
see here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2600575
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mh3c:
thx!! but unpacking portion img byte is wrong...:(
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lept_2014:
With "WindowsLGFirmwareExtract-ver.1.2.5.0", works fine. First, it extracts a DZ file from KDZ file. And then, if you want a system file, you must merge the pieces.

And the system.img file, if you have a linux system, you can mount it:

mount -o loop,rw -t ext4 system.img mysystem/
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WYPIERDAALAAC:
yeah, but "WindowsLGFirmwareExtract-ver.1.2.5.0" cant make it with 6.0 - g5 (probably with g4 the same)..

you can extract it, dz file blah blah blah etc but when you merged files the system.img is corrupted - for me 600mb when it should more than gigabytes. Any new programme or idea how to extract kdz from newest LG?
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lept_2014:
With LG G4 (and Android 6.0) works fine!

For LG G5, try asking in its sub-forum.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] JulianoXDA:
Hey folks,

I'm trying to run some games using GLTools... But everything goes FC i saw a thread that says GLTools requires CF3D's Plugins to run

I've tried every method i've seen but i can't see the Tex Plugin everytime i re-install GLTools it just shows Default/None...

I desperately wanted to use this tool if you can give me a clear guide with the exact version of the GLTools i need i will means alot to me
[General Questions and Answers] Jonathan Cortinas:
Any root method for cricket zte grand x max 2?
[General Questions and Answers] cgrimm9:
Any news
[General Questions and Answers] Jonathan Cortinas:
Nope no news yet. Waiting on KingRoot to see if they can root this phone. So far no zte phones are on the list for marshmallow root methods using king root. I want to try systemless root but I need some guidance for this phone.
[General Questions and Answers] TKBoMo:
I'm interested and looking forward to a root method for this phone as well. ZTE Grand X Max 2 Z988
[General Questions and Answers] Caffeinatrix:
Bumping just to see if there's any news. Looking to root my brother in laws phone but not finding anything :(
[General Questions and Answers] Deleted member 5437200:
Just bought 2 of these yesterday for my fiance and i. We need to get a dedicated device thread started for this phone and get some dev work going on it. I got paypal donations for people who make it happen
[General Questions and Answers] Deleted member 5437200:
Ive tried everything i can think of to get this phone rooted with no luck. Its up to the professionals
[General Questions and Answers] Shaunabeewillis:
Z988 root

Im also searching for a root method.. Hey, have you had any software issues since you got your max2? Particularly like buggy video playback issues?

Like, whether on facebook, youtube, netflix, chrome, etc. I click to play a video, it loads then automatically glitches to the end, or the video plays with the sound skipping.. Usually have to close video 5-10x (or until i give up) before it actually plays
[General Questions and Answers] zazombie:
Anybody willing to try this?

rootoreviews dot com/root-ZTE-Grand-X-Max-2-install-twrp-custom-recovery#

And yeah I have the same problem with my videos
[General Questions and Answers] Deleted member 5437200:
Thats fake, there is no grand x max 2 listed. We wouldnt have an old twrp version for a new phone either. Wish we had some devs for this device. It has major potential
[General Questions and Answers] supertwin33:
The max 2 has tons of problems I think. The video glitch skip, phone freezing, screen rotation. The specs are really nice but performance is horrible.
[General Questions and Answers] DanimalOfReno:
Yeah the videos in Facebork are glitched some how... Sometimes even YouTube jumps right to the end of the video.
[General Questions and Answers] Deleted member 5437200:
Mine has the same video issues. Havent had any freezing though. Blocked notifications in gmail app and in settings/apps to no avail. They still show up when i dont want them. There is an oem unlock option in developer options. Im pretty sure thats one step closer to what we all want. I figured since we had 6.0.1 the phone would be great. It def needs some work and it could be great. I had the idol 3 before this and it quit reading the sim card correctly so i got rid of it. It came with 5.1.1 and it was the same way. Very buggy. But after somebody was nice enough to dev for it, and alcatel released an update in the form of 6.0 it was great. I got this phone hoping somebody would be able to crack it open. It kinda sux as is. How do we get a forum entry for this phone? Should we establish a bounty? I dont relish the thought of a 6 month wait for a proper working phone but ive done it before
[General Questions and Answers] RaymondG1:
Actually I don't have any of those problems but I was wondering why the CPU a few of them aren't even working like one two and three aren't even on? And the bootloader I can't get any information on what to do with that? I'd appreciate some information if you can let me have it thank you very much. Thanks for your time!
[General Questions and Answers] Deleted member 5437200:
I was able to find the kernel source on the Zte website. I uploaded to Dropbox with hopes that a Dev can modify it for us so we can have root/custom recovery/rom development

ZTE Z988 Kernel Source:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/me5voznp2p3k0vq/P895A18V1.0.0B12_kernel.tar.gz?dl=0
[General Questions and Answers] jaykoerner:
This is the exact same phone minus switching the finger print scanner for a second camera as the zte z max pro, so I was hoping there was something on it, hmm. People seem to be making a bit of head room on the zmax pro,and also it's up to 12000 requests on KingRoot so hopefully both these phones will get rooted soon
[General Questions and Answers] jaykoerner:
We are makeing headway on the zte zmax pro, we seem to have got everything we need to flash imgs, but no one overthere knows what to do with it, the info will likely help the grand x max 2 community so of anyone knows how to cook up images for recovery without the ability to pull the stock recovery it would be helpful. Look and see if you can get to edl via "adb reboot edl" , http://androidforums.com/threads/zte-zmax-pro-z981-root-discussion.1055354/ look at the last 4 pages.
[General Questions and Answers] R0thchi1d:
Need root for this phone.

It would be really great if someone could figure out root for this phone. By the way I was having issues with video as well. But only after I had tried rooting. I did a factory reset and the video issues stopped. Tried to root with a different method and video problems came back. Factory reset after video issues restarted, the factory reset fixed the video issues. So if you are having video issues try the factory reset. It worked for me. Not had any issue with playback since.
[General Questions and Answers] Shaunabeewillis:
Ive tried fac reset a few times, and ive never attempted root but my vids are still ****y
[General Questions and Answers] R0thchi1d:
That's no good.

Sorry to hear that. Just posting my experience.
[General Questions and Answers] Shaunabeewillis:
Hell yeah man, just weighing in-- im glad some people are able to get rid of this aggravating ass bug.. Matter of fact i said **** it and went ahead and did another fac reset just for ****s n grins-- but no bacon. Lawwwd hammerceh
[General Questions and Answers] R1pperZ:
Only video playback issues I've had are from Facebook where it pauses then skips to end when you try to resume. I can get it to work by skipping ahead to mid video and resuming a few times til I'm able to play and go back to beggining. YouTube app video always works perfect for me. Also looking for root method. Android 6.0.1
[General Questions and Answers] Slapnutt97:
Is there a way to disable system apps with a PC? Like thru USB debugging?
[General Questions and Answers] nebjoe88:
looking for frp bypass method for this phone. nothing i have found yet works because of the touchpal keyboard
[General Questions and Answers] TheMadScientist:
Dont know if any of them will wotk have u tried the lg or samsung methods

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In my past expierences. Just because the zmax pro has so many request even if it were to gain root. Doenst mean any methods can or will work here. Dont know anything really about either device. Yet. Just got one at a good deal.

But im down for trying. I was able to gain a brief temp root with dr wondershare program for windows. But just as briefly its gone.

A lot has changed in mm and thats the main problem. Most root in mm has to start at the kernal systemless root
[General Questions and Answers] monkanowski:
do i neet to go with a different phone?

i have the same video issue everyone seems to be having. Is there a fix for this yet? If not I think I will be returning this thing tomorrow and getting the lg stylo 2. I knew I should have done more research before getting this phone. All the specs seemed to be really really great and it plays games damn good. The video playback thing is very annoying and with the normal music player I use which is Poweramp, some of the songs dont even play it just fast forwards through the whole thing and goes to the next song. It only did that with a few songs and i really like poweramp cuz while Im driving and using my aux cord I can just swipe my screen left to change the song not having to find the next button. If I dont get a reply by tomorrow I will be going back to cricket and getting the lg stylo cuz this is crap!!!!
[General Questions and Answers] timd35b:
I see some bad experiences with this phone, makes me wonder......

I got mine a little over a month ago and have yet to have a problem. Video plays great, music and games play great, no freezing....all in all it seems to be a great machine.

Having said that it would be really nice to get rooted and get rid of the bloat and add some tweaks.
[General Questions and Answers] techisnotallthat:
Any news on a root for this phone? I've tried installing twrp but in order to run the command prompt here from within the phones directory, you have to use a computer that allows the shift + right click method in file explorer. My version of Windows 10 doesn't allow for this.
[General Questions and Answers] IVIatticus:
I was so excited about this phone. Now I'm seeing this thread and all the complaints. So disappointing. I'm just finishing up putting a ROM on my wife's new phone and wanted to see what the process was for my phone. I should have known after having the zmax 2 that this one would be similar. I don't even keep the phones rooted because of Pokemon Go. I just want to clear the crap off it.

EDIT:

I came across this and didn't know if it would be helpful: http://androidforums.com/threads/zte-write-protection-for-zmax-and-other-zte-phones.1040331/

I see where the ATT ZMAX 2 is the only friggin' ones the command doesn't work on. The more I think about this, the more angry I am.

Someone asked if you could boot into EDL mode and you cannot from what I can tell. I can't even get into the bootloader or download mode either. The phone just reboots. ATT/ZTE are evil friggin' geniuses.
[General Questions and Answers] Aeosgames:
http://www.android-nougat.pw/2016/12/zte-grand-x-max-2-8110.html

Can someone verify that this fixes the issues people are having with the phone?
[General Questions and Answers] Rocks the Squirrel:
Fake unlock link

Its a fake as I seen other pages like that. Also notice the comments below that none saw what phone or any info to a specific ROM. There recycled comments. Last but no least, you can't goto any other menu clicking them.
[General Questions and Answers] c0ncbn3:
Hoping I could bump this thread. Still people around in hopes to see this z988 thread resolve root.
[General Questions and Answers] zMILWAUKEE:
Try the Kngo method p.c. version

Not if you guys have tried the Kingo method from the pc. https://www.kingoapp.com/root-tutorials/how-to-root-zte.htm . And if that is the full source code posted and Kingo gets this rooted we are in business. I would try myself but i dont have this phone, i will here shortly just because of the specs and the price. And after all the reviews on ZTE devices being great mid range phones i am definatly picking one up soon.
[General Questions and Answers] c0ncbn3:
Tested kingroot apk /failed

Kingroot apk and PC /failed

SuperSU binary update /failed

Towel root /failed

XDA one click root /failed

Manual root via terminal. /failed

Great phone, I'm actually working on my own way of rooting because I've had no success. Would love to do a write up to get a good thread going because the phones great for the cost.
[General Questions and Answers] IVIatticus:
Got woken up by my phone restarting from an update last night. No idea what it was all about. The only thing I noticed is that I have December security patches. Don't know if there was anything else there. Can we use it for anything? Just tell me what I need to do.
[General Questions and Answers] Rocks the Squirrel:
Bump

Bump in the Night. Anyone with any good news. Been a while and this is getting sad that such a good phone has these issues and they won't let us choose if we want to void the warranty.
[General Questions and Answers] kei2t532:
Yes, please find a root method for z988. I'm sure many of us who own this phone would love to root it.
[General Questions and Answers] zMILWAUKEE:
Well sorry to say, but rooting this is way off down the road. Without unlocking the bootloader, and no that oem unlock does not unlock it, its just the first step to unlocking the bootloader. And seeing as that Cricket has been removing fastboot from their newly released phones we have a real struggle on our hands. I also have the lg stylo 2 from Cricket, and not only did they remove fastboot, they removed the entire bootloader. And without fastboot unlock, that bootloader is useless right now, need another way around. But from what i have read, FTM mode does have a form of fastboot built into it if anyone can figure out how to use. Has anyone had the nerve to take it apart and look for the Uart pinouts, if thats on the mother board thats our way in, Uart means instant rom dump and flash, hacker 101....
[General Questions and Answers] TheMadScientist:
so i got another one of these

lets get the things rooted

whats this ftm mode ure talking asbout aint seen it yet.

ive been trying to get into one of the dialer hidden menus for usb settings to get it into a diagnostic port so cdma workshop and qpst will read it and i can make a dump from there.

ive owned this phone a few months back when i first switched to cricket but took it back now i just got another and kinda stuck with it for a while so we will be figuring out how to root
[General Questions and Answers] TheMadScientist:
fake all the way

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ive been making a little headway with the ftm some commands are most def reconized adb wise at least

ive been looking at a few root methods like the lgg4 where pushing a rooted system through dd commands but still in the boat of the kernel checking the system partition too

you dont know whwere i can find the firmware for this thing do u ?

just in case of a brick
[General Questions and Answers] timd35b:
I have had this phone for about a year and have yet to have a problem. I see posts about video problems, and other things but mine has worked without flaw.

Having said that, I would love to see a way to root this thing and get some custom stuff on it like a little overclocking and such. Maybe something to tap into the full octa-core power.
[General Questions and Answers] MajorSimcoe:
Pumps and a BUMP! Just to see if anyone made any headway. I've had it for about 9 months. Had to ship back to manufacturer to get a battery swap. I used to have the video issues but they went away a little while before I sent it for repairs. Perhaps one of the more recent updates?
[General Questions and Answers] Rocks the Squirrel:
Nothing yet and search every so often. Its like they killed this phone off to early and moved on when it was such a good phone. The camera app it came with was bad, used Open Camera and had no issues. Youtube seems to be fine now but maybe do to their updates. But there are so many things I would rather have it rooted for like to store my apps on the SD card instead of locked to the phone memory location itself which is a major thing for me and to get rid of the apps draining my battery that are locked into phone. If people have a way and not sharing, then I hope someone finds out soon to spread it among us all.
[General Questions and Answers] syconu:
Come on man I know u got this
[General Questions and Answers] mariomasterjoe2:
OEM Bootloader unlocked...

Tested kingroot apk /failed

Kingroot apk and PC /failed

SuperSU binary update /failed

Towel root /failed

XDA one click root /failed

Manual root via terminal /failed

OneClickRoot apk and pc /failed

The bootloader for the Z988 (ZTE Grand X Max 2) is unlocked, so that's one step.
[General Questions and Answers] kevace1:
How did you get the bootloader unlocked exactly??
[General Questions and Answers] mariomasterjoe2:
In developer settings
[General Questions and Answers] kevace1:
That's not necessarily unlocking it. fastboot oem unlock commands does not work on this device....
[T-Mobile LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkestSpawn:
Can you copy the file /cust/OPEN_COM_DS/custom_OPEN_HK.prop and paste it here.

**Note** the DS in the path may be something different as well as the HK.prop.
[T-Mobile LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkestSpawn:
Anyone?
[T-Mobile LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tnpapadakos:
that path is incomplete...is it in system? or what?
[T-Mobile LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkestSpawn:
If you have root explorer or something like it, you go to the root of the device ( which is just / ) then go to cust, then OPEN_COM_DS (the ds might be something else on the H901 as I'm using the H961n) then look for custom_OPEN_HK.prop (again the HK in the file name is probably something else for the H901 version)
[T-Mobile LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tnpapadakos:
There's no folder named "cust"
[T-Mobile LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tnpapadakos:
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[T-Mobile LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkestSpawn:
Strange....

Can you search for "cust_OPEN" from the root directory. Maybe its somewhere else on the H901
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leongzxc:
hi guys,

first of all, i am rooted. and i have googled for so many solutions to completely remove "Software Update" from the settings

NOTE: I have disabled to get updates automatically before this pops up. it came after a few days. :S

i have tried:

- removing otacerts.zip

- removing the fota agent apk

- disabling software update via package disabler

yet i still see this nag window?

any solution from you guys would be great!

appreciate it

right now im considering to re-wipe it and then before it receives an OTA, i will delete the otacerts as well as remove the fota agent first.

here is a screenshot:

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