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Root Root and CWM Recovery for ZTE Concord 2

Hi,
I've been getting a notification that the su binary needs to be updated, but it always fails. Is there another to updated it?
 
hroark13 said:
yes create a folder in the root of your C drive and extract the files to it

did you enable usb debuggin on the phone ?

your phone should be booted into android when you do this

I have already asked people to make a video, and no one wants to help out, I dont have the time to do it
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Solved my issues by connected my device to the PC . Enabling USB debugging through developer options and turning off my device. Then I placed it in FTM mode by holding POWER + VOLUME DOWN. I double-clicked the .bat file and rebooted my phone. I then seen a msg pop up on my screen asking to allow USB debugging. Every then worked fine after words.
 
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I've been trying to root my phone for months. I am a total noob yet I was able to finally figure it out. I really appreciate it.
 
hroark13 said:
can some one who successfully did this, and likes to make videos

please make a video of doing this

I really do not feel like making a video for something that should be so easy

if you make a video I will embed it into the OP
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Hey guys, here's a video tutorial on how to root your ZTE Concord 2. This is my first video so criticism is highly appreciated. Thank you to all the developers who made this possible.

 
Wonderlaust said:
Hey guys, here's a video tutorial on how to root your ZTE Concord 2. This is my first video so criticism is highly appreciated. Thank you to all the developers who made this possible.

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thanks, I embedded it in the OP, nice video
 
First of all, many thanks to all who have worked on this. I have successfully rooted one of my Concords.

Now on to my question. I first attempted to run the batch script on a Windows XP installation. I used the v3 version of the script that was modified and posted here. I'll state right up front that I'm on a Mac and so I had to do it through VirtualBox. VirtualBox was being very picky about reconnecting the phone through USB. The ADB script would reboot the phone and then VirtualBox wouldn't reconnect it. I gave up after about half an hour of failures. So I decided to peek inside the batch script to see if I could just do it manually on my Mac's terminal.

Since a binary for adb-mac was included in the zip file I downloaded (thank you for leaving that in there!) I decided to give it a shot. I was able to make it all the way to the end and get my phone rooted. I did have one little snag and that's where I'm wondering if I could get some assistance so I can turn this into a bash script that will root any other phones more quickly.

The batch script has this line:

%AdbExe% shell "echo $(cat /data/local/tmp/pid2.sh)"

There is a similar command with cat later, which is I know is to kill a process ID. That also fails for the same reason. The $(cat /data/local/tmp/pid2.sh) portion doesn't seem to actually work as intended. I get an error about something not being found. I checked to make sure the file had been pushed to /data/local/tmp by doing adb-mac shell "ls -al /data/local/tmp" and it had. I could even run adb-mac shell "cat /data/local/tmp/pid2.sh" and get the contents. For some reason putting it all together just doesn't seem to dump out the id like it is supposed to. To fix it, I opened pid.txt and visually identified the ID. Then I just manually ran the kill command with the ID I identified.

I tried substituting cat with less by doing $(less -FX /data/local/tmp/pid2.sh) but that doesn't seem to work either.

Does anybody have any idea what might be going on here?

I'll be happy to post my final script once I get the kinks worked out for other Mac users if I can figure this out.
 
Okay, so after a lot of time spent banging my head against a wall, I've come to an answer. I can't say why this works for all you PC users, but the command executes differently on a Mac terminal. The problem lies in the subshell command - $(cat /data/local/tmp/pid2.sh). It seems that is actually using a subshell on the Mac instead of the phone. So when it looks in /data/local/tmp on the local machine the file does not exist.

I'll see if I can work this into a nice little bash script to share now.
 
I am also one of those people that never signs up for anything, but THANK YOU. I've been looking for a way to root this phone for months, and I was pleasantly surprised at how simple this was :)

I am however having an issue that I would appreciate any feedback about. My phone is rooted, I have superuser access, and everything appears to be as it should be. I've been trying like hell to be able to get my hotspot to work. My carrier is wal mart family mobile. The hotspot worked up until the beginning of September and just doesn't want to anymore, this is why I rooted the phone. I called customer service and there is no way to get the hot spot feature to work the normal way, they say that the company doesn't support it. I used to use it before with no problem. But anyway, I'm not even able to tether it with USB. I have tried numerous programs, even those that have worked perfectly with other phones I have rooted with no success. Any advice would be appreciated!

Also, a few people mentioned whether or not they could receive OTA updates on this phone once rooted. I got notification for a new one today. I'm not messing with it, but maybe that info is of use to somebody.

Thank you.
 
Hi,

In V3 I get failed to copy Supersu to /storage/sdcard0/supersu.zip : permission denied.

In recovery I get,

E: failed to open /data/media/supersu.zip (no such file or directory)
E: signature verification failed

also in recovery it says "Yes - install untrusted zip" instead of "Yes - fix root"

I'm using a Concord 730 with 4.3. I've tried adjusting security settings, factory resets, reinstalling drivers, manually installing Supersu, etc. As far as I can tell it's not rooting.

Thanks.
 
Can't get this to work. Files transfer to droid. I have verify packages off, yet it still says "Verification failed" As the guy above me says, it doesn't say anything about root. Only about untrusted sources. I click down to install anyways and i have no idea what it says because it reboots super quick after i click and I still don't have root. I've tried this about 30 times now. I've tried to manually install supersu from zip, but it says there are no zips to install in the folder. I tried sideloading with adb by cd'ing into the tools folder and adb doesn't find my phone. I don't get how it connects to my phone with this script then. I give up. My phone will not root.

edit: my computer disconnects from the phone every time it goes into CWM. I was playing with adb commands and it recognizes it while it's on. It goes dead when I "adb reboot recovery" I even hear the usb unplug noise
 
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Was Wondering if anyone could cd to /system/app for me in adb and screenshot it. (preferably an unmodded folder :D)
Just wanna make sure I didn't get rid of something important. Thanks
 
First off thanks for the root!

Second I've never done a root before so I'm pretty new to it.

Anyways I successfully rooted it. However i rooted it so I could get rid of excess crap. I continue to have low space issues and can't figure why when all I have is the absolute basic.

Any ideas? I know I can get rid of bloatware but don't really see how.

Thanks in advance!
 
I finally figured out what I was doing wrong I am so happy I got my ZTEConcord 2 rooted. (I've been trying to root this phone for months). First you have to access developer options and take out the memory card. This video is the best. It shows step by step instructions. #DroidRules

 
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NEW QUESTION (yey): Is there a way to do TWRP recovery instead? Because that supports(recognizes) cards over 32 gigs/other formats. CWM (from what I've read online) doesn't. The reason I ask is not because I'm lazy xD, but because my laptop doesn't have the space to backup 40~ gigs of stuff off the SD. Thanks
 
Yuichan said:
Is there ever going to be a team that works on full root for the phone?
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this does give you full permanent root

root is a user account, and this lets you do stuff as the root user account

the problems is that root user does not have the ability to make changes to system partition while in normal boot

this function is called in the boot loader (aboot)

https://www.codeaurora.org/cgit/qui.../?id=e9f077b639b8878ba3aa2d832f2708d19e5d647d

I have been looking for a way to disable this, but that type of stuff is way over my head

The people that have the skills, knowledge and ability to crack this type of stuff, would not be interested in a cheap ass ZTE phone. Maybe if there was a root bounty for like 15,000 dollars, like on the High End phone, someone would do it, but I just do not see that happening.


At least on this phone you can make changes while in recovery.

The ZTE Whirl 2, has write protection too, but they write protect almost all the partitions, so you can not even install a custom recovery, so that phone is pretty much screwed.
 
Yuichan said:
NEW QUESTION (yey): Is there a way to do TWRP recovery instead? Because that supports(recognizes) cards over 32 gigs/other formats. CWM (from what I've read online) doesn't. The reason I ask is not because I'm lazy xD, but because my laptop doesn't have the space to backup 40~ gigs of stuff off the SD. Thanks
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it is possible, but someone has to make it, and I am not going to, I dont have the time

CWM should be able to access any SD card that TWRP would be able to.
 
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