yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] isthisadagger:
I have not tested WW-80.11.37.95 but i expect no issues. So download the WW-80.11.37.95.zip from asus and follow the guide (instead of WW-80.11.37.86 use WW-80.11.37.95)
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] kailashrs:
I have used the .95 version and it works just fine...
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] Pdub114:
Can you find the raw firmwares of 80.11.37.69-80.11.37.95?
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] Eagle1337:
Version WW-80.11.37.95 2018/08/011.59 GBytes

ZS620KL Software Image: V80.11.37.95 for WW/RU SKU only

It's on asus's website just under the japan update.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] isthisadagger:
That is just the firmware update not the raw firmware. With firmware updates you can not downgrade/unbrick. I do not have an exact overview of the differences but the updates do not contain everything a raw image does.

The raw image in the OP i linked is 4,5gb in size.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] WaaiRaai:
Thank you have work fine

Have a Guide for TWRP to?
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] isthisadagger:
There is no TWRP available yet for the 5z.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] ferez:
Hi,

Can anyone guide me through a safe way to LOCK my bootloader without messing up anything? I want sell the phone and i have to get it back to its initial state.

Thanks
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] scanno:
Almost... Decryption is not working yet

But since this device is an a/b device there is no seperate recovery partition and the recovery is part of the boot image. So TWRP is of limited use.

Ofc you can install it on the not active boot partition and when needed switch to that slot when you want TWRP.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] isthisadagger:
Could you elaborate on this a little? I get a/b slots and the recovery beeing part of the boot.img but why does this limit twrp?

Why only install twrp in the inactive slot? Would it not be possible to integrate twrp into the boot.img instead of the stock recovery?

For me the most important feature of twrp would be a nandroid backup of the active slot and the ability to restore that backup. Ideally i would be able to select which slot i want to restore it to and set the active slot from twrp. I have read in other threads (pixel/one plus 6) about it and twrp in general seems to have that ability.

I manually changed the active slot using "fastboot --set-active" but booting the previously inactive slot popped up a password request (for decryption?) during boot. So that did not work and i was not able to find information that explains the behavior. Maybe i was using the wrong search words.

So if you have any information or links about this to share i would be very thankful.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] scanno:
What I mean is that TWRP needs to be included in the boot image and that it is not a one time flash. Either you integrate TWRP into the boot image each time it is updated or it should be integrated in a custom rom.

With a/b you can also use one slot for a boot image with TWRP and always use the other slot for the rom itself.

TWRP itself is not restricted. But for switching slots you would need fastboot.

What do you mean by password? In TWRP?
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] isthisadagger:
Ok good to know my understanding is not completely off.

I updated the firmware to a newer version so my active slot switched from slot_a to slot_b. Slot_b was booting fine and i was expecting to be able to switch back to slot_a using fastboot --set-active but doing that i got a password prompt at boot ("To start android, enter your password."). I did not set a pin, pattern or fingerprint to unlock in either slot. It was just a freshly flashed android in both slots. Googling it, there seem to be many possible reasons, none of which fit my scenario. Switching back to slot_b did not fix it either. Both slots requested a password to start android now so i had to reflash the firmware.

The password prompt looked like this:

[IMG="This is what it looked like (not my screenshot)"]http://attach.en.miui.com/forum/201608/09/132430oa6y6y6o1exxkaa2.png.thumb.jpg[/IMG]
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] scanno:
Hmm perhaps that's why decryption in TWRP does not work for me.

But that is weird.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] jpg3927:
https://medium.com/@shakalaca/zenfone-twrp-3-2-1-for-zenfone-5-ze620kl-fc234b8d086

Did you checked this post?

Zenfone 5 use special encrypt method on /data parition

i think it can be help for you

cheer up :)
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] scanno:
Well that post is Chinese for me [emoji16]. Not really my area of language expertise.

Verstuurd vanaf mijn ASUS_Z01RD met Tapatalk

---------- Post added at 07:02 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:01 AM ----------

But will have a look at the repo.

Verstuurd vanaf mijn ASUS_Z01RD met Tapatalk
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] jpg3927:
u can use google translator to english and it works well :)
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] isthisadagger:
Well the google translate describes my slot change dilemma:

This accident took me a lot of time to compile. Because the system uses the new keymaster 3 architecture, it is impossible to decrypt /data as long as the OS version of twrp and the security version are different from the mobile phone. The most serious situation is even after entering twrp. Do nothing, after rebooting, you will also be asked to enter the decryption password, the data from this gg.

So this all seems connected.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] Wan932:
Seems like u got ur 5z already.. cheers
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] jpg3927:
and that says we can disable /data encrytion via flashable zip file

is this right?
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] isthisadagger:
That is what it sounds like to me from the translation.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] jpg3927:
i'm building omnirom now. i think https://github.com/scanno/android_d...mmit/6d5acd969b7f36112a31d52e2d0da4aa4705abc8 this make some error on build.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] scanno:
Don't bother building. Can't get the kernel to boot anything except TWRP.

Verstuurd vanaf mijn ASUS_Z01RD met Tapatalk
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] jpg3927:
so.. can we get boot on twrp?
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] scanno:
TWRP boots. That's about it for now

Verstuurd vanaf mijn SM-T813 met Tapatalk
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] jpg3927:
good nice job :)

나의 Redmi Note 5 Pro 의 Tapatalk에서 보냄
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Hi

I can not find file raw in the WW__ZS620KL_80.10.8.54_MP_user_20180517175955_release.zip.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Are you sure? Can correctly so:

flashall_AFT.cmd
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] isthisadagger:
There is no .raw file in the zip. It is just called "raw" firmware. It is just the name.

Flashall_AFT.cmd is correct. Sorry i fixed it in the guide.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] WaaiRaai:
after Root Firmware not can up to date?
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] Eagle1337:
you have to download the update from asus's site and update it via the stock recovery.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] hh_nguyen:
This worked for me also.

Now can I do the same for the recent WW-80.30.96.80?
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] lostdiamond:
dear [MENTION=6898565]isthisadagger[/MENTION] - need some help and clarity. I have to unbrick the device. I will download and extract the firmware zip file within the platform tools folder ? I have the platform tools folder in C drive.

So for me the fastboot directory is C:\platform-tools

Should i extract the firmware files within this directory ( C:\platform-tools), or within a folder in this directory (C:\platform-tools\raw) and then execute the flashall_aft.cmd command.

Any help will be awesome.

Nevermind and thank you for the guide. I just had to extract the folder and run the cmd directly. Saved my day!!
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] lostdiamond:
I get an unable to mount error. I have downloaded the firmware from Asus and kept it in root directory. Any suggestions?
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] lostdiamond:
The place the zip in root doesn't work for me. I get a notification, but clicking on it doesn't do anything ( have a unlocked bootloader, is there anything missing in what I am doing?). I will try the SDcard route tonight.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] isthisadagger:
Download the firmware from Asus that matches your phone. (WW/BR)

Copy the downloaded zip to the root of your phone.

Reboot or unplug usb cable.

You get a notification saying update found.

Install update.

Patch boot.img again to get root with update.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] lostdiamond:
Thanks. I am following the same steps. I do get a notification saying update found. Clicking on that, doesn't do anything. It just goes away.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] zorse:
Not sure if it's me, but lately my safetynet check has been randomly going from fail-to-pass, and now is permanently stuck on fail. I've used multiple safetynet check apps and fail including safetynet playground (Cigital), but safetynet 'attest' passes every time though. I've done a fresh install using the raw WW_ZS620KL_80.10.8.54_MP_user_2018 0517175955_release.zip and emediatley try safteynet check and of course fail!!!. I'm curious if this is happening to anyone else too. I believe what could have started all this was at work our server network kept detecting websites I wanted to go to and blocked me, so I used different vpns till I could surf again. so I had two separate vpns that worked, and I forgot to turn one of them off(that was still connected) and turned the other one on and connected. And noticed that was the day (I believe) is when I failed safetynet checks from there forward. I was on 80.11.37.86 when all this happened, so I figured maybe I could update to 80.11.37.95 and this problem would just go away, but nope!... Nadda.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] isthisadagger:
Afaik there were changes in the safetynet check which cause the old checks to fail like in magisk 16. You can wait for 17 final or switch to the beta channel.

Update: 17 fails too. There have been some changes to the google play api.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] isthisadagger:
Even after a reboot? That is weird. Never had this problem. Are you sure you downloaded the matching update file? If your phone is BR and you downloaded the WW file it does not work.

You can check under "settings>system>about phone>softwareinformation".
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] lukasz4220:
Hi,

Maybe a stupid question but I'm a bit confused.

My current version of rom is OPR1.170623.032.WW-Phone-15.0618.1804.5-0.

I made a root and then I flashed a rooted ROM via Magisk Manager in may.

How I can now flash the latest version of rom, cause now I'm unable to do this via an Update System in settings section in my phone.

Thanks for any step by step advice.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] isthisadagger:
Wrong phone ;) This thread is about the zenfone 5z. You are talking about the zenfone 5.

Anyways, just download the firmware for your phone from asus and copy it to the root of your phone. Reboot or unplug usb and you will get an update found notification > update. You will lose root and have to patch boot.img again to get it back.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] lostdiamond:
I did, my model is Z01RD and it's a WW. ( I downgraded it to 80.10.8.54 to unbrick it ,thanks for your guide on that). I have not rooted it yet, just that the bootloader is unlocked.

Q: does the phone need to be rooted? Also does encryption play a role, my phone is encrypted.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] lukasz4220:
Thanks a lot! Now I have the latest rom version!
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] isthisadagger:
It does not need to be rooted to upgrade from 80.10.8.54. During writing this guide i had to downgrade mutiple times and if i remember correctly i once had a problem upgrading.

What you should try is smaller upgrade steps. Do not go from 80.10.8.54 to the most current firmware but an older one. Try the oldest you can download from Asus 80.11.37.49.

From there try the most current. If it does not work try an older one and so on.

I do not see the encryption being the culprit here but i am

no

expert. The upgrade is written to the inactive slot from within a booted + decrypted android.

5z (and almost all phones released with oreo) has 2 partition slots, the active one you are currently using and the inactive one with the previous version of the firmware.

Every update switches the active slot so if an update fails you could always go back to the other slot.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] mnx846:
Tried to lower the firmware according to instructions. As a result, the phone chopped off and now does not even enter the fastboot, only slightly vibrates. How to be?

Translate with Google.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] Syn Drome:
I confirm the above. I did the same instruction to downgrade the firmware and the phone is now a brick! Dear author, please explain what is wrong with your instructions ?! Help us to restore our phones!
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] isthisadagger:
I had to downgrade multiple times writing this guide. Some people on this thread and me used the same method mentioned in this guide successfully.

What state is your phone in?

Can you switch it on?

Where does it get stuck?

Can you boot into fastboot?
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] Syn Drome:
I can't turn on the phone, there is small vibration and all, I can not get into recovery and fastboot
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] just@man:
Perhaps the cause of the steel was corrupted files and you need to add a checksum to the archive RAW to check?
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] just@man:
Can I get a brick phone by pressing the power button without waiting for automatic download?
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] isthisadagger:
I can only guess what the problem is but syn drome and just@man you are both from russia. Are you sure you have the WW (worldwide) model of the phone and not the RU (russian) model?

The whole guide and the firmware is for the WW version. You can not cross upgrade/downgrade between models as far as i know.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] just@man:
We have installed WW (worldwide) firmware.

One of our comrade five times without problems revived the phone on your guide.

And two got a brick.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] MystikMan97130:
I do it on 8030.96.30 it's works Magisk & Xposed :D
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] tkien212:
Just use this for firmware 80.30.96.80 and rooted successfully

Thanks OP
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] WaaiRaai:
Excuse the stupid questions

Do you have to patch an update (only update not a complete ROM) after that Boot.img?

next question when starting the phone I get a warning message (since the root) because of unlocked bootloader,

during the boot process another warning message because of a bug in the Android

you can turn off these alerts

Thank you
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] isthisadagger:
Do you mean downloading a FOTA (delta) update from http://fota.asus.com/delta_package/... manually and updating using it?

I have not tried that but depending on what the update changes it will probably either fail, not start (due to some checksum fail) or simply run. So it might work for some updates and not for others. I would not recommend it.

You can turn off the second warning. It is described in the howto > see rooting guide 10.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] WaaiRaai:
[MENTION=6898565]isthisadagger[/MENTION]

thank you for the hints

FOTA should I refrain from doing so?

But I do not get OTA anymore

Only the KOMPETTE ROM remains to be updated?

do this, i lose data?

I want to disable the bootloader error message (same at device startup)

Is there a way?
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] isthisadagger:
Ok, to be more precise because OTA, FOTA are stupid and misleading names.

There are three types of firmware "updates" i know of. Below is a list of

MY

understanding of what they do:

raw firmware > not officially released by asus (probably leaked, so hard to find, not available for all versions) > this completely resets your phone, you lose all data in (both?) slots, can be used to soft unbrick

firmware from official asus website (around 1,6 GB) > copy to internal memory root to update, does update firmware in one slot but not delete any data, you will lose root and need to patch boot.img again

delta update > this is a lot smaller (e.g. 300 MB) depending the amount of changes in the update > this contains only the changes from the last firmware version to the current, no data is deleted, depending on the included changes it will either fail, not start (due to some checksum fail) or simply run. NOT recommended!

If you want to update go with option 2. Download the zip file from asus website, put it into the root of internal storage and unpug cable or reboot. You will get update notification and can update. You will not lose data but you will lose root, so you have to patch the new boot.img again.

Probabaly but i do not know how.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] AllenConstantine:
[MENTION=6898565]isthisadagger[/MENTION] , I have a Zenfone 5Z and I unlocked the bootloader. The phone works fine but I have this message on the screen whenever I restart it. "The boot loader is unlocked and software integrity cannot be guaranteed" etc..

Will I still be able to receive OTA, and if that so, a new Android update will relock the bootloader to it's initial state or how can I lock it, if it's possible?

Please help if you know!

Much appreciated!

Allen.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] freddymanson:
after failed factory reset, all i can access is fastboot mode

but it is

CSC Fastboot Mode

it is now stuck on Asus logo. cant boot. no recovery.

flashing RAW files will got stuck on "wait device rebooting" if using AFT (Asus Flash Tool) but using cmd will get an error:

writing partition..

FAILED (remote: error updating partition table)
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] wstephen:
Has there any one successfully rooted/re-rooted the new firmware WW_ZS620KL_80.30.96.111 released on 2018/09/28 as yet ?
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] anadarco7:
Yup works well
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] wstephen:
New Firmware WW_ZS620KL_80.30.96.111 Rooted

Great, thanks so much, rooted this New Firmware like a charm!

Thanks Button for you! :)
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] arnabJ:
[MENTION=6898565]isthisadagger[/MENTION] can you please get the raw firmware for the Indian variant ZS621KL?

I updated to latest ".111" firmware manually via the ota file of ~350 MB and lost VoLTE for my carrier.

I found this file (ASUS WW__ZS621KL_80.30.96.80_MR1_20180820173839_release-user.raw) but the website won't let me login or download the file anyhow.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] isthisadagger:
I tried finding the file you mentioned or another version for the zs621 but no success. Trying to log in to the site you found i get an error message "Dfp is required". I also tried contacting them but so far no reply.

I found the ZS620 file i linked on some arabic forum and used google translate to get to the download and at the time it was the only source i found. So it seems raw images a quite rare and hard to find.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] arnabJ:
I get the same error while trying to login.

The file you linked in the op is not available for download due to high traffic.

Do you have a local copy which you may upload to some other cloud storage?
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] isthisadagger:
I am not at home at the moment but you can find some download locations using google. This one worked just now (keep in mind i did not test/use this file):

http://forum.smartfirmwares.com/asus-zenfone-5z-zs620kl-stock-firmwareflash-files-download-here/
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] isthisadagger:
Disable adblocker to avoid the "Dfp is required". I was able to log in.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] arnabJ:
I keep getting this message trying to download from Google Drive link. Either from OP or the link you quoted.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] arnabJ:
Finally. Thank you.

But, won't let download for free.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] isthisadagger:
I do not know why you get this message. Both links work for me.

Just google for the filename until you find a link that is working for you?

WW__ZS620KL_80.10.8.54_MP_user_20180517175955_release.zip
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] Stl2ega:
How about relocked device in case there's something wrong and need warranty? It's weird that official website put unlock method in their page but using it cause warranty void?
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] isthisadagger:
I do not know of any relock method so far.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] B Nath:
does flashing raw firmware flashes stock rom on both the slots?
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] isthisadagger:
I have not checked it but from the looks of the batch files both slots are beeing erased and flashed.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] B Nath:
Ok thanks. btw found this link https://addrom.com/raw-rom-unbrick-for-asus-zenfone-5z-zs621kl/

it works.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] isthisadagger:
Nice find. I will add it to the guide for all the ZS621KL users.

[MENTION=5014460]arnabJ[/MENTION] there are two download locations in the link from B Nath in the previos post. The "max speed" one is not on gdrive. Maybe try that?
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] arnabJ:
Thanks for the referring to the file.

I got hands on another link with the help of [MENTION=4553877]anadarco7[/MENTION] but it didn't helped either.

I have let it be. I am able to use VoLTE of 2 operators out of 3 so I will simply port out to one of the supported carriers.

But the two of you were of great help. Thank you very much.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] Russel Got stucked:
hello everyone, Did someone tested this method on ASUS ZENFONE 5Z . Were you able to Root without any errors? Cuz i am receiving one on February. If not then I guess i would have to go for the Poco f1 Please reply ASAP
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] adenivaldo:
Died!!!

I did the procedure and my cell phone ended. NO MORE STARTS

PLEASE HELP ME!!!!
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] adenivaldo:
Mi phone is bricked!!!

Mi phone is bricked too. Dont switch it on, only a liiiittle vibration. Don't boot um fastboot mode.

PLEASE HELP-ME!!!
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] daniil.galahow:
How to lock it back? I don't need a root.
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] bernard15101985:
bonjour,

est se que quelqu'un aurai le firmware WW__ZS620KL_80.10.8.54_MP_user_20180517175955_release.zip

car sur google driver sa marche pas

merci

je voudrais réparer mon zenfone 5zs620kl mon téléphone ne capte plus de réseau !!!!
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] MystikMan97130:
Bonjour, essaye de télécharger avec un autre navigateur pour moi le téléchargement marche bien
[Asus Zenfone 5Z  Guides, News, & Discussion] the Doctor:
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