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[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] mc_seem:
LTE toggle via Phone info eng screen fixes the network connectivity issue

AT&T Zenfone 2e GoPhone (8GB) here converted to WW_Phone. Running 14.1-20170908-NIGHTLY-Z00D on T-Mobile in LTE mode with both bootloader and modem upgrade. I had to reflash the modem to WW XMM_7160_REV35_1538.00_V1.3_signed_MIPI_FLASHLESS.fls - file size 18,213,250 . Apparently there several versions of this file - all named the same and labeled the same version, but the binary contents diff --- md5 hash is different.... So the WW modem image with md5 hash 057efa69a62550cd3df4eada5ed3757b -- works best for me Zenfone 2e. Unfortunately I lost my original AT&T radio image, so if someone has one - please pm me .. I'd like to try it with original radio, but I'm not sure if it's going to load since I changed the bootloader to WW_Phone.

Workarounds needed to keep the phone in LTE and avoid frequent disconnects:

- force preferred network in settings to LTE

- change APN settings protocol to IPv4

- change APN profile Bearer from Unspecified to LTE only

Simply toggling Airplane mode off|on never fixes the disconnects for me. Event soft reset doesn't seem to work at certain times.

SO here is the method that works:

- whenever LTE loses signal and SIM card is not detected, go to Phone Test settings ( *#*#4636#*#* ) and toggle the Cellular Radio Power off | on.

That brings modem back to life quickly every time without having to reset the phone. ookla speed test in LTE mode gives me 80 dl, 12 ul, signal levels -90 dBm, 46 asu

I'm considering to write a persistent background service that would poll and reset the modem on timer using above method if the network is lost or SIM not detected.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] zirrott:
thank you

The *#*#4636#*#* method works for me too
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Nedvard:
Hello! such a problem, it's worth 7.1.1 go to 7.1.2 rebounds start, live their lives. what could be the problem?.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] feelinkyu:
i can't root on addonsu-x86

Can anyone help me?

this rom is ok

but

i want to root and i install "addonsu-x86" after reboot i'm not root.

how can i fixed it? thank you so much
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Notonlyeyes:
Go in developer options > app+adb

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7jApZFEHXFuVGd2NFNCMjZfYVU/view?usp=sharing
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Mark963:
Newbie screwed up somewhere. I thought I had it rooted and SU installed. But after trying to go from stock to the a new nightly build, it only boots into the recovery mode, no matter what I do. I saw the second post about loading some experimental build, but not sure what that is or where to find it. Any tips??
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] relu666:
Just follow first post by the letter, including downloads.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Mark963:
I've tried that repeatedly, although the first post only lists downloads and there aren't really any instructions given.

Now the phone only boots into the recovery mode. Only by using the "Launcher.bat" from

https://xdaforums.com/zenfone2/general/root-ze500cl-z00d-t3116531

gets the phone into TWPR now. I tried copying all the downloads from the first post onto an SD card and I try installing via TWRP, but after it reboots, I just get back to the Android bot on his back with "NORMAL BOOT" as the first option. I've gone around and around on this. Tried some other tools, other things. Tried reloading TWRP, tried re-rooting. Seems like it's just broken now. Should I just throw it out?
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] mc_seem:
Latest nightly runs out of memory while trying to dex2oat on my 1GB Zenfone 2e during boot animation. Basically it cannot complete dex2oat for some system packages. Thus I had to roll back to lineage-14.1-20170908-nightly-Z00D-signed.zip for now. I've rebuilt the latest from source and see about the same issue. Trying it out again, but it seems like I'd stick to 20170908 for now.

Try starting with TWRP, manually flash:

- lineage-14.1-20170908-nightly-Z00D-signed.zip

- addonsu-x86.zip

- open_gapps-x86-7.1-full recent

That way it boots successfully and works kinda OK ... albeit with frequent network disconnects. I had written this script to deal with disconnects on network state change using SManager:

#!/system/bin/sh
# Toggle radio power off / on
service call phone 30 i64 0
service call phone 30 i64 1
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] mc_seem:
I stand corrected. lineage-14.1-20170922-nightly-Z00D-signed.zip works fine for me. The issue was that applying OTA update from 20170908 to 20170924 -- breaks the boot.. My default launcher was set to Google Now Launcher.

After upgrade the device can't come up due to out-of-memory error while optimizing apps. I had to:

- install custom recovery.img built during LineageOS build

- install lineage-14.1-20170922-nightly-Z00D-signed.zip

- then switch back to TWRP (because stock can't install gapps complaining about the lack of space)

- reformat /system and clear both Dalvik cache and /cache partition

- install open_gapps-x86-7.1-full-20170924.zip full

- install addonsu-x86.zip

I can boot successfully to launcher.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Mark963:
Thanks for the advice.

I started by installing 20170922-nightly-Z00D-signed.zip. Toward the end of the log scrolling by in TWRP (v2.8.7.0), it has the following in red:

E:unkown command [log]

E:unkown command [log]

Don't know if that's a problem or not.

Installed addonsu-x86.zip

Installed open_gapps-x86-7.1-mini-20170923.zip

Reboot

It comes up with the Android dude on this back. A bunch of info that starts with "FASTBOOT MODE", ends with "SECURE_BOOT - ?" and "FASTBOOT CMD WAITING..."

If I pick "NORMAL BOOT", it just come back to this. If I pick "RECOVERY MODE" it also comes back to this.

Did I screw something up? Any other suggestions? I assumed the second post was more about your situation than mine, so I didn't try following it.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] oslo83:
To solve this i think you have to flash the original recovery mode with a twrp recovery image.

To do that you have to connect your phone to a computer, put your phone in fastboot mode, then use a terminal on your computer with a command something like that "adb flash recovery twrp.img"

It could be enough... Or you'll have to unlock your bootloader
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Mark963:
OK, I tried: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

That seemed to install something and the phone say RESULT: OKAY. But it still behaves the same. :(
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] relu666:
You can start as new with AsusFlashToolInstaller1.14 and WW_ZE500CL_V12.16.5.126_1538.00_Phone-user.raw.zipq
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Mark963:
I think I've found the FlashTool, but I don't see anywhere to download the WW_ZE500CL.... firmware. Is there something comparable out there somewhere?
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] mc_seem:
If you can boot to droidboot (which seems like you can, the screen that shows the prompts like NORMAL BOOT, RECOVERY, etc.).

Then search for easytoolze500cl - download it and extract the following files from files_ze500cl\stock_imgs - boot.img, droidboot.img, recovery.img

Then do:

fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

After that you should be able to boot to stock recovery and perform sideload UL-ASUS_Z00D-WW-12.16.5.126-user.zip from there.

I think the archive above easytoolze500cl also contains the engineering bootrom. Your boot screen should turn white.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Mark963:
Well... I finally found an older version of the firmware (xxxx.116) and after failing any other way, I put it on the SD card, stuck it in the phone, ran that funny launcher.exe program, went through T1, T2, T3, got into TWRP, then I installed the firmware image and it worked. Must have spent 8 hours on it. Sigh.

Oh, and as that was installing, I found the newer firmware. I'd gone to Asus's website yesterday and there was nothing listed in downloads for this phone. Another thread had lead me there. Well, I went back to that tab on my browser about 15 minutes ago and where it had been empty, there was a pull down for OS and some other selection stuff for software. The latest firmware is there - it's downloading very very slowly. At least now, I'm back at the beginning and can try again and if I screw something up, I can probably reset again.

Thank you for all the help!!
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] relu666:
If you search at pages 73 - 74 of this thread you will find my experience which was pretty similar.

I still think that it is better to change file system than format because format is not so clean as it should.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Mark963:
I'm still trying to work things out. I'm wondering 1) Is there a difference between the AT&T Z00D (the Zenfone 2E) and the just Z00D (Zenfone 2) phone? 2) Does the phone need to be rooted before doing the install and what method(s) work best?
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Mark963:
I can't get Asus flash tool to work. It always says there is an error with the 3 flash images I downloaded from Asus's website or it just stops responding. About the only things I can do are through TWRP temporarily loaded into memory from a PC through the fastboot utility. My only clues are that when trying to install various images, are errors that turn up: E:Unable to mount '/backup', '/ADF' and '/APD'. Within TWRP, under Partitions to Mount, those three partitions can't be selected. Is that why I can't seem to really install TWRP and run it from the UP/ON recovery menu?
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] oslo83:
So the step will be:

A/ updating to latest official rom for getting the latest baseband version

B/ installing twrp on your recoverymode in place of droid boot

C/ starting in restore mode will boot twrp from there you will be able to install lineageos

I could help via PM ; So on what asus official version your z00d device is actually on?

---------- Post added at 10:19 ---------- Previous post was at 10:14 ----------

I could help via PM
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] oslo83:
Someone else could help [MENTION=7561131]Mark963[/MENTION] ?

Its z00d is on latest official asus firmware but he can't install/launch twrp from device.

Its bootloader is maybe not unlocked...
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] euleralves:
TWRP for Asus ZE500CL Z00D

Here is the official Asus boot unlocker: www . asus . com/Phone/ZenFone_2_ZE500CL/HelpDesk_Download/

There you can find the last official firmware (2016-08-15) too. Although it's said that this firmware is for WW only, I used it on my Z00D TW (Japanese) with no issues.

You need the boot unlocked before you could flash a custom bootloader as TWRP. When you unlock the bootloader, the Asus boot screen will change to a white one with black logo.

I never could find an official TWRP compilated to Z00D. I found here and there 3 versions that are only should flash on Z00D.

Here they are: we . tl / 9Mi3F5RTsp

I don't remember where I found them

---------- Post added at 10:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:21 PM ----------

Has anyone managed to install Magisk? I am really looking forward to it!

I'm constrained to keep a spare Android just run for two bank apps blocked on my main rooted phone. I even don't know if the Magisk Hide will allow them to run once it works.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Mark963:
Thanks. I just re-downloaded the official Asus unlocker from the ASUS website as listed. It won't unlock this phone. It only results in the message "An unkown error occurs, which may be a network network connection issue. please try again later. " I guess this thing is just impossible. Thanks anyway.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] _P__:
I'm on an unofficial cm 13.0 / 6.0.1 build.... Whats the best way or right way to get onto this cm 14.1 build
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] oslo83:
Trying to install magisk 14.0, and older, on z00d with twrp won't work:

twrp log will give you an "error 1, can't locate boot partition".

I've been told it's because of "osip exotic boot partitioning" on ze500cl/z00d devices.

With magisk manager app apk it seems it can force detect the boot partition, selecting one from a long list of partition but i don't know wich one is boot partion on z00d...
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] _P__:
any help with the proper way to flash this rom coming from cm 13 6.0.1
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] oslo83:
I would say you can't upgrade keeping your settings anymore so:

1/Make sure you got a twrp nougat compatible or latest 3.1.1.

2/backup your cm13 in twrp.

3/wipe&format device, you could format some partition as f2fs, but i heard it could be better to keep the system partition as ext4

4/install latest lineageos install through twrp

Are they better suggestions out there? More precise description?
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Cspike:
Frequent signal loss. And every time i lost signal ,i had to reboot and it's so irritating. Please look into it dev.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] flex1911:
How can I look into it when I can't reproduce it and you can't properly report it?
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Cspike:
I am actually a newbie so i don't know how else to report it.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] reaperx7:
Cspike, are you getting unrecoverable signal loss where just the modem dies and/or where the SIM card suddenly dismounts?

Um... The logs... I know you can manually inspect them through a File Explorer with /(root) read capability I think, or via the cat tool through the console. I forget which directory they're in. I'm more used to logs being in /var like mainstream Linux systems. Lol
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] reaperx7:
A workaround is to just disable 4G/LTE and use 3G+/HSPA+. I'm not sure but the LTE service seems to have an annoying disconnection issue with AT&T. Unless LineageOS gets a daemon to automatically reload the modem modules and restart the services other than manually, using HSPA+ is you're only option.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] lucajuventino:
HI at all...

You have news about LineageOS 15? :)
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] reaperx7:
Nothing yet unless Flex is working on it behind the scenes. I have heard the z00d supposed to be supported, but that's it.

Prelim code is available on flex's GitHub workshop.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] flex1911:
Very unlikely actually (and this applies to Z00A too). I was working on O since the first day of the source code drop and got some really weird issues with radio stack that aren't going to be simply fixed without any modem code updates.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] reaperx7:
Yikes! How bad are we talking here? Module won't build, unstable, or only works with LTE or HSPA only? Or worse?
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] flex1911:
No SMS, wrong IMEI, wrong signal strength. Calls and network are OK.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] reaperx7:
I wonder if it could be the kernel itself. Maybe a poorly updated module in the current branch not recognizing the correct hardware, or maybe a network stack change that isn't reflected in the module? (Going off some very rough Linux debugging and theoretical backtracing).

Just a curious question but could we use a different kernel than the stock kernel with 5.0 such as a developer kernel that may have more up to date code? If this is the case of course...
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] flex1911:
Nah. Nothing kernel-related here. Our L-era blobs just will not work properly with new RIL stack.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] reaperx7:
So either the blobs would have to be updated or the stack would have to have a compatibility for older blobs...
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] wiking76:
Very strange that the volume botton don't works to snooze the wake clock

Inviato dal mio Z00D utilizzando Tapatalk
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] zirrott:
ZenFone 5 and ZenFone 2 laser had got Oreo.

Have we still got hope? :D
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] flex1911:
The first one is unusable and like 95% based on my unreleased Z00D work and the second one isn't even Intel.

I don't want to say if anything is impossible for now, but I rather feel pessimistic about it.

I'm still working on this, so please be patient and hope for success.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Notonlyeyes:
Hi [MENTION=5120185]flex1911[/MENTION]

The last Build LineageOS 14.1 Z00D not success, please resolve it... Thanks
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Astorian:
Just flashed.

Just flashed (few hours ago) the last build on my wife's old phone. I absolutely lowe it. Thank you very much for your effort flex1911 and all others that helped whit this. The phone can now live again :)
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] slvjpn:
[MENTION=5120185]flex1911[/MENTION]

Thanks for the ROM! I've used it in August but back then there was some network drops and no signal indicator for 2g. Yesterday I installed it again and I don't have any network drops (for now) but 2g signal is still blank (it even shows 0dbm on sim status).
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] slvjpn:
Aaaaaand the network has dropped... How can I log this to help you debuggit?
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Scultz:
too sad Can't Play AOV
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Vmarc41:
Does anyone have working live wallpapers from the pixel 2? The ones I found are not working well. Only the moving parts are seen and the rest is blacked out
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] DarkQuark:
Greetings, I have a Z00D 2e (the one with 1gb RAM). I can get LOS installed no problem but I have issues with reboots every couple hours. Now I notice others have posted about the same without any resolution. Does anyone know of an older version that was solid on the 2e? I don't mind running something a few months older or more so long as it is solid.

This happens with nothing extra installed on the phone minus gapps nano and youtube.

Thank you
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] rgazapo:
After many trial errors testing I was able to stop rebooting just NOT turning off the wifi.

Hope works for you
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] DarkQuark:
I did resolve my issue. I tried every version of LOS I could D/L but it seems ANY flavor of 7.1.2 caused the phone to crash over and over. I ended up using an old version of RR that was 7.1.1 and now the device is rock solid. Since RR is based on LOS I would imagine if a version of LOS that was 7.1.1 could be found that would work as well.

Here is the version I used.

https://xdaforums.com/zenfone2/development/rom-resurrectionremix-5-8-1-nguyenhung9x-t3554409
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] ichigo696:
[MENTION=5120185]flex1911[/MENTION] here's the sys/fs/pstore files rigth after a random reboot, hope this will help you to find a solution.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Notonlyeyes:
Hi [MENTION=5120185]flex1911[/MENTION] , please you can provide download the new Kernel Z00D. Thanks
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] alone_stranger:
Can somebody help me here? I've downloaded and installed LineageOS and everything was okay, but some time after AudioFX literally has gone crazy: if I wanna listen to music, I need to go to AudioFX first, but that's just a part of big problem. When I switch audio track, equalizer just switchs off and I have to go to AudioFX again. That happens always. Btw, I've tried four versions of Lineage, but, unfortunately, the situation didn't change.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] flex1911:
So, the latest build (20171125) is shipped with the new rebased kernel which contains many minor fixes and the latest Linux tag (3.10.108).

It will be good to know if anything was changed regarding random reboots that some users have had.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] rgazapo:
I'll give it a tried

I have been using this time between builds 1103-1125 Mokee Dev

https://download.mokeedev.com/?device=z00d

and I have not one single reboot. May be a config diff worth it.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Chemacky:
Anyone having any problems or ussues with the latest update? 25 nov?
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Vmarc41:
Is it okay to dirty flash this one?
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] reaperx7:
Not yet. Just a question but has anyone got any OTG controllers to work with the Z00D? Been trying to get my ZD-V to work but so far, no go.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Vmarc41:
Sir, have you flashed the latest update already?
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Chemacky:
I have now. No problems with anything so far.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Vmarc41:
Yup, same here. Just dirty flashed. Do you have the pixel 2 live wallpapers? Can't get mine to work properly
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Greg9:
Still rebooting and eating all my battery during long standby period

Not happening with Mokee but i don't like it
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] rgazapo:
Unfortunatly to me, reboots continues (Entirely wipe and install). I have to add that, to me, Mokee provides better general phone performance and has the OTA updates, not having to download the complte update weekly. I notice, for example that in developers options -> animations, let us set 0.75x that is smoth value between 1 and 0.5 provided by Lineage
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] oslo83:
Hello,

After updating lineage since the 2 or 3 lasts build, each time :

-i have to install back root to enable it.

-i have to wipe cache, dalvik cache & art cache to not experiencing surprise reboot or shutdown. Without wiping cache i keep experiencing reboot/shutdown.

Another thing: since i tried to install magisk via recoverty and it failed to install then i try to uninstall and it also failed; since that i keep having an error message relative ro magisk each time it update via recovery.

So, last build seems fine for now...

Since 2 or 3 builds or also since i tried repetly to charge my phone with 500mA, 1A and with the original of 1,35A, i now use the 1,35A original one and I also stop fetching mail for only pulling and now battery jump from 8h of time use to 20h or more.

Envoyé de mon Z00D en utilisant Tapatalk
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Mako_oTa:
hello,

yesterday flashed last build. When connection (wifi or data) is on I experienced peak of cpu usage, no deep sleep when display is on and so huge battery drain
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] flex1911:
Can you give me your logs?
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Mako_oTa:
Hi flex,

I send you a private message
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Notonlyeyes:
[MENTION=5120185]flex1911[/MENTION] confirm

Install wipe no Deep sleep
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] zirrott:
I have installed the last version of twrp but it is very slow to start...

maybe can twrp 3.2 be the solution ?

Thank you in advance
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] Notonlyeyes:
Fix_DeepSleep_for LineageOS-14.1-20171202-nightly-Z00D

[MENTION=5120185]flex1911[/MENTION]

Fix_DeepSleep_for LineageOS-14.1-20171202-nightly-Z00D
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] flex1911:
Ugggh, thank you very much. I updated bcmdhd firmware to address Broadpwn vulnerability, but it looks like it is not compatible with our wifi driver.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] flex1911:
Are you using f2fs?
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] greeeen:
Hi guys, I think I got a temporary "fix" on the battery drain. What I did is I went to Settings > Privacy > Privacy Guard > 3 dots at top right > Advanced > Google Play Services and DISABLE Keep awake. Hope this helps someone. :)
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] zirrott:
I think all ext4...

How can I check?
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] flex1911:
You don't need to if you didn't change FS by yourself. I've been getting long TWRP times when I was using f2fs. Going back to ext4 fixed the issue for me.
[ZenFone 2 Original Android Development] zainifame:
Use this app