I have searched through many threads on the ZTE X MAX+ on this forum and others. I'm not posting this thread to be told to go to those threads, otherwise I'd have kept researching (which I've done hours of).
I'm trying to help a friend fix his phone's wifi. Wifi doesn't scan at all, so pretty much no signs of it working at all. I thought I'd try and update to lolipop 5.1 and was able to with a downloaded 5.1 update from a blog. Wifi still doesn't work in 5.1, so I immediately looked into rooting. It's my first time ever trying to root a phone.
For rooting, I've tried lots of different programs that root over USB. You can try recommending something and I've probably already tried, but please recommend away in case I missed something.
Eventually I realized that maybe upgrading to 5.1 is keeping me form successfully rooting. So now I'm trying to get help for either a) rooting a Z987 with 5.1 v2.2.12, b) downgrading to 4.4, c) upgrading to v2.3.15 over USB and not OTA or d) fixing the WiFi some other way.
My focus with trying to root was to be able to rename "wpa_supplicant.conf" to "wpa_supplicant.bak." Apparently this may help the Wifi toggle function properly. Unfortunately that can't be changed without root access.
Thanks so much to anyone who tries to help me and even others with the same problem.
I'm trying to help a friend fix his phone's wifi. Wifi doesn't scan at all, so pretty much no signs of it working at all. I thought I'd try and update to lolipop 5.1 and was able to with a downloaded 5.1 update from a blog. Wifi still doesn't work in 5.1, so I immediately looked into rooting. It's my first time ever trying to root a phone.
For rooting, I've tried lots of different programs that root over USB. You can try recommending something and I've probably already tried, but please recommend away in case I missed something.
Eventually I realized that maybe upgrading to 5.1 is keeping me form successfully rooting. So now I'm trying to get help for either a) rooting a Z987 with 5.1 v2.2.12, b) downgrading to 4.4, c) upgrading to v2.3.15 over USB and not OTA or d) fixing the WiFi some other way.
My focus with trying to root was to be able to rename "wpa_supplicant.conf" to "wpa_supplicant.bak." Apparently this may help the Wifi toggle function properly. Unfortunately that can't be changed without root access.
Thanks so much to anyone who tries to help me and even others with the same problem.
