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Root root cricket zte grand x max

Can confirm that this works on the Grand X Max + on Cricket Wireless!
Went through the above process, ran SRSRoot, Then Kingo ROOT.

Root can now be verified by ADB Shell and through Various other Root Checking applications.

Great stuff. Now just a little closer to getting rid of this damn Lollipop.
 
Mredjay0 said:
Can confirm that this works on the Grand X Max + on Cricket Wireless!
Went through the above process, ran SRSRoot, Then Kingo ROOT.

Root can now be verified by ADB Shell and through Various other Root Checking applications.

Great stuff. Now just a little closer to getting rid of this damn Lollipop.
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So you have system rw without needing to use some kind of switcher? Also, how did you test? Did you make a new folder in /system then reboot to see if it stuck, or if not, then what?
 
Also, if it did in fact work please confirm in the thread I linked to in my previous post so hroark13 can add the z987 to the list of devices the command works with.
 
I confirmed that it worked by using adb shell command su. Verified that I had root access that way. Then I went through the above mentioned steps. Installed the latest version of two for ZTE and now I'm rocking KitKat as we speak.
 
Mredjay0 said:
I confirmed that it worked by using adb shell command su. Verified that I had root access that way. Then I went through the above mentioned steps. Installed the latest version of twrp for ZTE and now I'm rocking KitKat as we speak.
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Yes but have you added, removed, or made any changes to any file or folder in the system partition? You can have root without having system rw.

I need you to be crystal clear so we can know for sure whether this method works for turning off the system write protection on the grand x max+.

Did you run the command "reboot disemmcwp"?
If you did not please do.

Once running that command, did you make any changes to the system partition?
If you did please explain what changes you made.
If you did not, then please make a new folder inside /system then reboot and see if it is still there.
Like /system/test or /system/1234 or something like that.

This is of course, assuming your phone is rooted. If it is not rooted, you will need to root it again before you will be able to perform the test I described above.
 
OK, right now I'm not on the PC but I can tell you that I am on 4.4 right now.

1st ran Newest Kingroot
2nd used a terminal emulator and ran "reboot disemmcwp".

3rd Created folder named 1234 in system folder, and created a dummy .zip file.

4th Rebooted

5th Checked to make absolutely sure that the folder and dummy file was still there. It was.

I can install Lollipop to verify that this same process works, tomorrow.

Also, I was able to uninstall bloatware once I ran the reboot disemmcwp command. Before that it would fail to uninstall with a force close of the app.
 
Mredjay0 said:
OK, right now I'm not on the PC but I can tell you that I am on 4.4 right now.

1st ran Newest Kingroot
2nd used a terminal emulator and ran "reboot disemmcwp".

3rd Created folder named 1234 in system folder, and created a dummy .zip file.

4th Rebooted

5th Checked to make absolutely sure that the folder and dummy file was still there. It was.

I can install Lollipop to verify that this same process works, tomorrow.

Also, I was able to uninstall bloatware once I ran the reboot disemmcwp command. Before that it would fail to uninstall with a force close of the app.
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Thank you for your attention to detail. This exactly the information I was looking for. You can try flashing lollipop to see if it still works but I'm almost certain it will. As far as I know it with every device this works on, the change persists across reboots, factory resets, and flashing of new ROMs. This is because it changes a setting in the bootloader of the phone and the change sticks until you run the command to re-enable the write protection.
 
No problem. I'm just hoping that this info will go towards getting people what they want outta the max +. Still think this is a great phone that I'm gonna be using for a while now but I would just like the options that I have on my other Android devices.
 
Masterchief87 said:
Has anyone with a Grand X Max+ Z987 tried THIS yet? @hroark13 recently discovered an incredibly easy method to disable the system write protection on the zte zmax and several other zte devices. This eliminates the need for switcher zips, apps, or scripts that flash the boot.img to the recovery partition. I'm glad you guys got it working. If you find any root method for the grand max2 z998 please let me know.

If it works on the z987 all you should need to do is open terminal emulator or adb shell and enter the following command.

reboot disemmcwp

Your phone should reboot and have system rw that will persist across hard reboots and even factory resets. Hopefully it works for you guys too!
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glad you got it working. If you find any root method for the new grand max2 z988 please let me know.
 
Did I do it right? Am I fully rooted? with rw. ?
 

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Which one? I ran the first one. Reboot disemmcwp. My phone rebooted then I created system file 1234 .then ran second one .emmcwpenab
my phone rebooted again
 
Zte z987 cricket said:
Which one? I ran the first one. Reboot disemmcwp. My phone rebooted then I created system file 1234 .then ran second one .emmcwpenab
my phone rebooted again
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The command to give you r/w access to the system is "reboot disemmcwp"
The command to revoke r/w access to the system is "reboot emmewpenab"

There isn't any reason to run "reboot emmewpenab" because, well, you WANT to have r/w permissions in order to have full root access.

I compiled all the info that might make it easier instead of going through other messages in order to find it.

LINK to GUIDE
 
Glitch_ECV said:
Fun stuff... Cricket just did an update (probably an update to their modem), it downloaded, then twrp never allows these updates. Where on the phone did it download for us to install it manually?
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Just noticed something that this update did. It took away the ability to turn on the ability to turn on WiFi Hotspot from the settings. Now if you want to use hotspot you'll have to use Airdroid or another app. I used the hotspot feature quite a bit since the lollipop update, I just tried to turn it on and found out that it no longer works from the settings menu.

I can't confirm this 100% with a screenshot...but I can tell you that I JUST realized that I was unable to enable it just now and that's the only update that's been applied recently. If anyone has the update prior to the June 1st update I'm sure it could be verified.
 
Mredjay0 said:
Just noticed something that this update did. It took away the ability to turn on the ability to turn on WiFi Hotspot from the settings. Now if you want to use hotspot you'll have to use Airdroid or another app. I used the hotspot feature quite a bit since the lollipop update, I just tried to turn it on and found out that it no longer works from the settings menu.

I can't confirm this 100% with a screenshot...but I can tell you that I JUST realized that I was unable to enable it just now and that's the only update that's been applied recently. If anyone has the update prior to the June 1st update I'm sure it could be verified.
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Airdroid..? The File Transfer app? Not meaning to sound rude but I tried that already, And I don't know if I'm blind but there was no hotspot option..
 
I may be late to the party about root on the ota 5.1 but i tired the way with the PC it said rooted but root checker could not verify root, however i just tried the newest KingRoot on a humble and after 1 reboot it sped through the rooting process and i just verified through root checker that yes I'm rooted now I'm going to try to put twrp and su back on my device.
 
Also after using KingRoot and installing TWRP, supersu I have read write without flashing any scripts or running any commands in terminal emulator
 
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