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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madvane20:
we shall find out i got all partitions dumped. if i have too i will modify bootloader and secondary to be unlocked if i have to but that will take longer just pulling dumps off phone so i can do a complete nand dump as well. will keep u all posted u all should ask a mod admin if they can gives our own board forum whatever it is xd. btw i have temp root but my phone is not rebooting like others stated. how im able to dump everything. i hope if i get twrp or cwm etc people will thank me and donate. not saying u have to donate would just be appreciated.i got the people on huawei ascend xt waiting on me for a rom xd. [MENTION=7549553]mycosmicmind[/MENTION] i noticed u didnt thank me for my posts xd
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mycosmicmind:
We've been eagerily awaiting something to happen with our device and if you're the man to do it your success won't go unnoticed! Good luck and thank you so much for your efforts! :good::victory:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madvane20:
no problem remember to hit the ty button on my posts lol
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mycosmicmind:
is that the thumbs up?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madvane20:
yea shows thumbs up and thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] juggalo19076:
Any luck?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mycosmicmind:
It may take a bit, give him time :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] juggalo19076:
Np and sry just eager for root
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mycosmicmind:
trust me, we all are, this phone could have great development if we tried, i'm sure we will get somewhere but remember these things take time!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madvane20:
sorry guys im juggling the huawei ascend xt and working on warp so its taken more time im gonna finish a rom for the xt then i will dive into warp cause i also want perm root and a fully debloated rom i got rid of some apps though if i get twrp or cwm working i hope someone can dump me full stock xd since i didnt make a backup before i removed apps
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mycosmicmind:
if you want to message me or anything and walk me through it I will gladly do it for you!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madvane20:
i was meaning after i would twrp working so much easier and well i wont have to explain really. other than how to do the backup if someone has never used it
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mycosmicmind:
Ill do it! lol i'll do your testing if need be
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madvane20:
if i get twrp working on the phone rooting is easy by flashing a zip and backups are easy if u ever used twrp before lol
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mycosmicmind:
mmmk, wellp keep us posted my friend, good luck!!!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heartseed:
I have not tried that. I'm honestly afraid to attempt rooting again since I currently don't have money to replace the phone if it were to get bricked due to the attempts. However, I recently enabled the "Developer option" and see "OEM Unlocking" which unlocks the bootloader as it describes. Could this be what we need to do before running the rooting application? I'm not too savvy with phones so apologies in advance.

In case if anyone is curious, to enable it, go to About Phone then tap on SW Version. I think five taps enables Developer option. I would try but as mentioned, currently afraid of bricking since I won't be able to replace it at the moment.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gio1217:
The OEM Unlocking doesn't unlock the bootloader, it only allows you to unlock the bootloader with adb and that's what we need to do in order to have permanent root. The su file is installed on /sbin and the system is still read only, so there is nothing we can do until we unlock bootloader.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mycosmicmind:
Thankfully we have an expireanced dev helping us with this and maybe we will have root soon!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gio1217:
Yeah but the focus right now would be to unlock the bootloader because how far can you get if you have a bootloader that's locked? I don't want my device to get bricked if I try to flash something that doesn't work with a locked bootloader.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mycosmicmind:
Its all going to be a bit of a process, hes going to try to get twrp working along with su, so it will probably be a bit of trial and error
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madvane20:
btw u cannot unlock the boot loader with adb you need access to the boot loader / fastboot to do the unlock if it was that easy to unlock boot loader with adb everyone would have phones unlocked unfortunately no matter if u set option to allow oem unlock if the phone manufacturer has made it where the phone wont boot to fastboot or bootloader. then u have to a try to find out how to get it to boot into bootloader/fastboot. without tearing apart the phone and trying to short something to make it boot to bootloader. do believe i read something bout that somewhere.but still yet if we can get to boot loader by normal means if they have the bootloader locked with a code. how u plan on unlocking it. also even if people have it listed on ebay to order a key how do u know to trust that when u can get to bootloader reg ways. example adb reboot bootloader doesnt work phone reboot. adb reboot fastboot doesnt work phone reboots. going into stock recovery selecting boot to bootloader doesnt work just boots the phone up like the rest. i got burned the other day on my arm. so u will have to bear with me im suppossed be be resting. as well u can install su with super user cause u need a custom recovery to do that and no programs on the pc will root the phone that ive seen. so atm seems to reveres engineer to get phone unlocked.also temp root doesnt seem to give full on root access ive noticed alot of adb shell commands etc wont work. i have dumped the whole all the partitions using dd dump. maybe i can find the magic to solve our problems. if not at very least u can remove the bloatware to reclaim some space and use less ram

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also btw i already tried flashing twrp with temp root the recovery wouldnt boot cause it was not signed however if i can figure out how to sign it same as stock which i doubt gonna be a lil bit unless u think calling boost mobile up tell them to release a patch to allow us boot loader access and give out unlock keys xd doubt that will even happen

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the phone more than likely will have to be systemless root compared to system root. btw some sbin files are in the recovery partitions some phones have erecovery which has that and sometimes boot. but sbin is not a system folder inside of system usually is xbin and bin

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as long as u dont try flash anything or delete files while u have temp root it doesnt seem to matter how many times u temp root it i got the phone for like 50 dollars and its a pretty nice phone however i have the honor 5x and a huawei ascend xt both same company much nicer phones. but i like all my phone if i can have custom roms or at very least have custom recovery and root adblocking and backups. i also have tried sideloading supersu zip.dtm modei do believe its called allows u adb access but not fastboot
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stevenbew:
Jumping on board and offering up Guinea pig status. Have tried numerous ways to even temp root, to no avail.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gio1217:
Did you clear the cache in recovery? And used Kingroot
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mycosmicmind:
Use an older version, like kingroot 5.0.0 is the one I received the most success with
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stevenbew:
Actually yes, and after reading the thread I've tried numerous versions. Even ones mentioned. But I'm willing to install/flash any and everything suggested, so a root solution could come.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mycosmicmind:
madvane20 is working to get us root so for now i would just be patient :laugh:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stevenbew:
I got all the time in the world. Wish I had the skills to contribute though.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gio1217:
I just noticed that the bootloader doesn't necessarily have to show something and that the black screen was actually the bootloader. When I did power+volup+down I thought that the black screen wasn't it but it is.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stevenbew:
A part of me wants to apply this logic to other devices.

On your next post, would you mind explaining how you came across this??
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mycosmicmind:
i'll try some adb stuff tonight then on the black screen
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madvane20:
if im not mistaken that is download mode which u can restore firmware if u have the firmware image been there already

https://sites.google.com/site/zteopenfirmware/download-modethere also ftm mode
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mycosmicmind:
Yea, i wasnt able to even able to get adb commands to work on the black screen, and unfortunately we don't have a system image for our warp 7 to try in download mode with zte open
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madvane20:
i think i can create one but still would only be stock being no unsigned code will work. im still seeing if i cant exploit dfu or ftm or download mode i found something that lets me boot as if the phone was bricked doesnt brick it just appears in device manager but i couldnt figure out how to get the programes i had to connect
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mycosmicmind:
Well i'm just super grateful we have a dev DEV helping with this or we'd have no hope at all lol
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madvane20:
im a dev still in learning so to speak only like month and half ago i really started even trying roms and such and well i learned alot of stuff i already knew how to revers engineer etc. for phones i used to be just the person who downloaded others xd. i will eventually find a way maybe even get root without even unlocking boot loader. just got an idea how to get it working for at least root will report back if it works
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madvane20:
ok so heres what i found so far its similar to most quallcomm phones its the partition layout still working on it. also heres the ramdisk from boot partition
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mycosmicmind:
well you're more advanced than us it looks :p any way root I think is all we are really looking for, if we can get the bootloader unlocked and a custom recovery that opens up to roms which is a huge plus. have you figured out why the bootloader is m.i.a? a friend of mine says that zte rely on the dev community to build their software, i don't see why devs would want to make it harder for consumers/other devs to unlock their own devices...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madvane20:
sorry i havent got to much work into it but im trying to install root in a different way that will take a lil bit atm most of my time has been on this for the huawei ascend xt https://xdaforums.com/android/development/rom-ascend-xt-madvane20s-emui-b160-rom-t3598299/page2#post72151347 im still working on that atm then i will go back to exploiting the warp and who cares about the devs who did what ever. ill let u know if and when i figure something out if anyone has jtag and are will to due testing for me let me know. that way they can fix things if it fails. i dont have jtag so im just doing what i can hopen someone has one and knows what to do if it bricks if not then im going to have to take longer to insure it doesnt brick the phone
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mycosmicmind:
How is the process going?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madvane20:
still trying to finish xt rom almost done

with that
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gio1217:
If there was a way to stop it from rebooting when temp root maybe it would help a lot while you guys get things finished up and running.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mycosmicmind:
[MENTION=229098]Gio[/MENTION], we need to unlock the bootloader to root it. hopefully madvane can figure it out. ZTE isn't against rooting so finding a way shouldn't be awful as long as whom ever can root it knows what they're doing :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madvane20:
not as of yet from what it looks like is it just emulates root to an degree by adding itself to device admins but once it reboots no matter if it is admin or aka root account the files are removed im guessing they are in cache or something havent looked. only place i got sorta root least able to dump partition or flash was adb shell or flashfy i dont recommend anyone messing around unless they have jtag. and know how to use it. cause if it goes to no boot image wont boot up ftm mode and recovery adb doesnt give u su rights to flash anything and so far i havent found any software that will allow me to use download mode to restore files. so its up to u if u wanna tinker
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mycosmicmind:
I wonder if we know any one else who can help us, any body?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roadkill42:
Has any one tried kingo on the PC works on the warp 6
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mycosmicmind:
i havent tried kingoroot for pc in a few weeks or so, last time it didnt work
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madvane20:
i think i have as well as the other root methods from pc. i working on a twrp that compatible with the phone then gonna try flash that see if the boot loader lets it load. then from there we can obtain root
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mycosmicmind:
We have faith in you my man :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madvane20:
my phone had root now wont boot its soft bricked any donate a phone to me?im still trying to figure out why i had root got the su binary to update cause it said i needed to update it then i rebooted showed root so i attempted again now just boots to the android logo tried doing factory restore so far. other than that im still trying to figure out if its even possible to fix without jtag
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madvane20:
will update u if i can figure out whats not letting it boot cause i didnt mess with boot image and factory restore should of cleared everything on data partition. if you look at attached image u will see su is in system bin but phone wont boot. found kernel source but without access to bootloader whats the point of it http://download.ztedevice.com/device/global/support/opensource/2/1284/N9519_Marshmallow_kernel(3.10.49).tar.gz
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gio1217:
That's why I said that unlocking the bootloader was a first priority. Without a unlocked bootloader you can't do anything from installing root to flashing anything or it will brick.

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Have you tried unlocking the bootloader in FTM, factory test mode. Volumeup+power?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madvane20:
dude i been on ftm i used qpst etc i tried to do stuff in dfu mode i been through it all im not dumb man im working on trying to exploit bootloader or something there is no access to the boot loader ftm is not boot loader dfu is not boot loader and recovery is not boot loader it says boot to boot loader but doesnt allow u access im working on it. so please dont just be like how u said it makes it look like ur saying u dont know what ur talking bout and u bricked ur phone good job. but yes tired all kinds of stuff as u saw in the image i did get it rooted but something went wrong im working to fix it. if u dont know how to unlock the bootloader or know a way to actually boot to boot loader. please dont post im pretty sure i listed what i was doing if not now u know. im open to help let me know if u found anything useful. cause so far im the only one working on it and making progress.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mycosmicmind:
Mines been acting weird, freezing, getting real slow... starting to really feel like a budget phone
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madvane20:
also ftm is field test mod there no root so u cant flash anything dfu is download mode but unless u have the stock or what ever files u cant flash it as well need a program to flash it. but yea thats about it on the phone.as soon as i find a way to get to the actual boot loader then i can unlock it. tried this but it didnt work "http://www.androidinfotech.com/2016/12/root-zte-warp-7-marshmallow-twrp.html" nothing works but im trying if u look the warp elite doesnt even have anything yet and people are offering money to get twrp etc. if i can get the warp7 done then i might be able to get stuff done for them as well. although i might need a phone donated or money to pick one up though. but i will update u on any progress anyone who has ideas or can help join my hangouts group https://hangouts.google.com/group/8rQ3s4j2rBNZWO0O2faster and easier than to post or pm ty for ur time
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roadkill42:
Have any body tryed to use kingo in ftm? I'm no dev or any thing like that but if we have all the dumps done for building twrp couldn't we get a room built and then get the quialcom flash tool and flash that rom ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madvane20:
i think i have but i can try it again. nvm i did try it kingo wants to install a pk on the phone as it tries to root i have root installed but cant boot the os so im trying to figure out how to access the bootloader since it appears its not there but its just they locked us out of it
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] juggalo19076:
Wait you have perm root? How that's what I have been trying to get every time I try it works then resets then I loose it I'm only able to get temp root plz tell me what u did
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madvane20:
there no working perm root yet i achieved root but since boot loader was locked and zte disables fastboot or boot loader access on the cheaper phones its taken a bit. cause my phone wont boot to anything other than recovery dfu mode ftm mode. and i figured out how to make it boot to qualcomm hs-usb qdloader 9008. which im not mistaken is edl or ermergency download mode. but i havent got any further than that yet
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arkansawdave74:
Hello. I moved to a part of my town that the T-Mobile tower doesn't work and my poor Zmax is useless without WiFi. I'm right now looking to get a boost phone and I may have found it, but I can't say for sure because I haven't even looked up the specs yet. I am very familiar with the ZTE Zmax Z970 though, which I'm typing this on now, running PAC 5.1. 1 built by me.

Here. Look at the Kernel Version and Build Number. I don't tell you this to brag, but to gain your trust that I may know how to get you permanent root and, in fact, unless the adb reboot disemmcwp commend didn't work correctly, as he said some adb commands weren't, [MENTION=7934375]madvane20[/MENTION] had permanent root, which is why he was able to keep kingroot installed to his system and, unfortunately, it's also why a factory reset isn't helping him. He was able to alter his system past a reboot and he somehow altered it in a way that made it unbootable. Before I tell you how, let me go back and read again and make sure it wasn't the adb command itself that screwed things up. That would be terrible because it would mean your phone has some new security measures. BRB.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arkansawdave74:
Hahaaaaa!! What's up [MENTION=5349263]roadkill42[/MENTION]!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madvane20:
wasnt a adb or anything like that it was when i tried swapping out kingroot with super user seemed like it worked so since it told me su binary needed updated i was able to replace file but said it still so i went to reboot and well thats where my phone went ha ha ha u cant boot lol. but yea the bootloader is crippled by zte no fastboot commands will work. u can boot to dfu recovery ftm. and if u want to get the phone in emergency download mode aka 9008 mode u can adb reboot edl but being i either dont know how i can restore just my boot or system files i dd dumped or. theres no way without a stock factory image from zte?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arkansawdave74:
Well, the good news is that I think I can give you guys the full scoop on what's going on because it appears the Warp 7 has the exact same security features as the Zmax and Warp Sync. The bad news is that it won't help [MENTION=7934375]madvane20[/MENTION]'s phone, but I will try to find him some instructions that may help if he can somehow implement the with ADB.... I mean IF ADB is still connecting and IF I can even find them.

BRB.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madvane20:
oh i will eventually figure out my phone but im waiting since u said u have a fix and everything to make it all work etc? just waiting
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arkansawdave74:
Here's the scoop: I don't think your bootloader is actually locked. You guys are unable to keep root because your system partition doesn't have permission to write to itself. When you root, it only appears that you are making system changes, but as soon as you reboot all system writes you've done return right back to the way the system was before you rooted. The good news is that you won't have to do what we did for over a year on the Zmax. We had to switch our recovery and system partitions to be able to write to the system with the system. The recovery partition will always have authority to write to system because the recovery is what updates the system with OTAs.....so we booted our systems in the recovery partition to get system write capability. Then, about a year ago or so, hroark13, the grandfather of Zmax development found the command to disable the write protection that was added to the system partition. The command is semi-permanent and survives ROM installs and I think running the command to enable the write protection again is the only way to enable the write protection again.

Before I go on, I should warn everyone that development on your device has barely begun. Until you guys have a working TWRP that can backup and restore your system, if you make your system unbootable you are screwed unless you can use ADB. So make sure you don't accidentally turn off ADB Debugging in the developer options. Also, with root you can alter your systems which makes a factory reset useless if you make your system unbootable. You can root and alter your system however you want, but it's not save to take risks unless you can afford another phone until you guys get a TWRP.

That being said, you guys can get permanent root by installing Terminal Emulator, gaining root with Kingroot, then, before it does the reboot you run these commands.

$ su

# reboot disemmcwp

Then, when it reboots, root it again. This time the root will be permanent because the system partition will have the authority to write to the system. The only way to enable the write protection again (as if anyone would want to) is to run the commands:

$ su

# reboot emmcwpenab

and the $ and # are the prompts....not part of the command.,

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Oh....and idk what's up with tha reboot thing it's doing. The Zmax doesn't do that when we gain temp root. Hopefully it won't do that with permanent root.

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Now I'm gonna try to find the thread on how to remove kingroot completely so that supersu will work for [MENTION=7934375]madvane20[/MENTION]. Can you still connect ADB?