[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Guides, News, & Discussio] ALYSKY:
* introduction *

Hello,

before you hate me, please let me to say why I wrote this guide- it is for ultra noob guys, beginners or just for organize almost all files for tweaks and fixes for this phone. Because I noticed myself that it was beginning to make a mess with it, so I decited to write this guide which (what I mensioned) contains tweak and fixes to known bugs that are in the software.

Ready? Staddy? GO!

* warning *

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* Your warranty is now void.

*

* I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,

* thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed.

* YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if you point the

* finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you.

*

*/

I. Bootloader unlocking

We will start our journey in a beautiful world modified by android with unlocking the bootloader.

What is it?

Bootloader is something like BIOS from computers but in the phone. It let you to boot many software, like recovery. We can't boot directly into recovery without unlocked bootloader because phone has got some closed startup procedure (like POST test in computers). To break it, we must unlock bootloader.

So how to do that?

We must:

1. Download RAR file and you'll get 2 folders namely unlock and ASUS_Android_USB_drivers_for_Windows

2. Install the drivers according to your OS and go the unlock folder

3. Reboot your phone to fastboot mode by pressing volume up + power on at the same time.

4. Connect it to pc and open unlock.bat in unlock folder

5. Bootloader successfully unlocked.

II. Install TWRP

After unlocking bootloader, we need some recovery to install custom software on our beast.

To do that:

1. Download this TWRP (F2FS support) and place it into unlock folder

2. Reboot into fastboot

3. Connect the phone into PC

4. In unlock folder, run cmd and type "fastboot devices". You should see some device plugged into your PC.

5. Type "fastboot flash recovery XXX.img" when XXX means the name of recovery.

6. When installing process finish, press volume down + power as long as you doesn't see fastboot warning.

7. Phone will get into TWRP.

To get into TWRP just presss volume down + power until you doesn'ts see fastboot warning.

III. Decrypt enrypted data

1. Download the decrypt.zip and copy to SDcard

2. Flash in recovery

3. Format /data

4. Reboot

IV. Flashing custom ROMs

Now the main aim of customization: CUSTOM ROM <3 It let you to do many modifications like style of font in system, theme, newer version of software and many many more.

Just:

1. Copy all your necessary software into SD card

2. Boot your device into TWRP

3. Go to "install", pick firmware which you need and swipe to flash

4. Repeat step 3 with gapps

5. Reboot to system

When you want to install some kernel or NXP or magisk or something else, don't do that after flashing system. Before, flash firmware, system and gapps, reboot and configure. Then go to TWRP and flash 3rd party mods.

V. Unlocking Camera2API

To get GCAM work property, we need to unlock camera2api. If you don't know what's that, go there -> https://www.thegeeksclub.com/camera-2-api-check-smartphone-support/

1. Power off the phone and enter fastboot mode.

2. Fire up fastboot terminal and connect your phone to the pc, enable USB debugging mode from dev. options too.

3. Run the command: fastboot oem enable_camera_hal3 true

4. Type: fastboot reboot

VI. Magisk

Just to get root permissions. If you don't know what it is, go there -> https://www.xda-developers.com/what-is-magisk/

1. Go to TWRP and flash this file

2. Reboot to system

3. Install .apk

VII. Some other useful files

TWRP: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1dhjV0p00AiZ83eF5iUA6o9fdx6zsQYTF

GAPPS: https://opengapps.org

CUSTOMROMS: https://xdaforums.com/asus-zenfone-max-pro-m1/development

FIRMWARES:

339 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EIRZ1HrJQaOynq48lfhYWaHd9L0fhPU5

Pie https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xwFFadooMD2DJqI9dClcCuojAFwHfdtV

NXP: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lfRGXlf3q53kLMZDOvLe4jMr3szQPLQd

MAGISK:

.zip https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HrZUdL7ZgVWfuDg7PWOL_DZrwsmNzrRf

.apk https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jFee8Mx0pwCcyE729h33gyfaIfHxNgVI

GCAMS:

Arnova https://drive.google.com/open?id=1R1Sfw0DdKXZxYWDkEvH8ODpWHkUjnkxk

MGC https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YowAmosszfoCJCORjcwE7OQzxOuqY7ql

If you have any observations, remarks - write to me!

Thanks for all XDA community,

~ALYSKY