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Root ZTE Zmax Pro Official Root Discussion

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So I called my ZTE people and an engineer is getting ahold of me this AM (EST). So within a few hours. I told him that I assume my 22k customers with a Zmax in New England alone are probably going to hold US accountable. (MetroPCS @ store level.) when in all reality this is some crazy Chinese company that wants your data. I mentioned on the phone the last update (B14) I picked through, had a strange irq callback for the same update server, and all of a sudden he wanted my full name and address? for a support call on the dealer line. - IE: NOT MY STORE INFO ?!? Very strange stuff is going on here, and NO ROOT on a phone is one thing, no messaging is another,.


UPDATE: NO WORKING MESSAGING BADGES ON ALL NETWORKS! So Badgify is missing -_-. Also, the lack of badges cannot be fixed by switching 4g LTE off/on etc. its broken, pieces are missing.
ALSO, messages genuinely do not come in period, whether on ANY NETWORK. fully tested on both test devices on both TMO and MPCS. No difference, one out of every five messages doesnt come through or comes through hours late.

TLDR; -____- ZTE is the best.
 
Jon Greenwood said:
So I called my ZTE people and an engineer is getting ahold of me this AM (EST). So within a few hours. I told him that I assume my 22k customers with a Zmax in New England alone are probably going to hold US accountable. (MetroPCS @ store level.) when in all reality this is some crazy Chinese company that wants your data. I mentioned on the phone the last update (B14) I picked through, had a strange irq callback for the same update server, and all of a sudden he wanted my full name and address? for a support call on the dealer line. - IE: NOT MY STORE INFO ?!? Very strange stuff is going on here, and NO ROOT on a phone is one thing, no messaging is another,.

UPDATE: NO WORKING MESSAGING BADGES ON ALL NETWORKS! So Badgify is missing -_-. Also, the lack of badges cannot be fixed by switching 4g LTE off/on etc. its broken, pieces are missing.

ALSO, messages genuinely do not come in period, whether on ANY NETWORK. fully tested on both test devices on both TMO and MPCS. No difference, one out of every five messages doesnt come through or comes through hours late.
TLDR; -____- ZTE is the best.
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This whole ZTE rectal probing isn't a new thing, both ZTE and Huawei were being investigated by the US govt for data breaching activities on a couple of different levels a year or so back?
Not that I care; if somebody wants info on you they'll get it regardless of what phone you have. I've been aware of them lol... I just buy their devices to play around with, cuz as dailies they suck.
 
BTW.. ZTE got Str8 up busted for selling North Korea advanced electronics and data. I don't see any change in their processes unless the Carriers lighten up too. ZTE builds to Carrier requests, from my understanding.
 
So what we got here is a data mining phone, with updates that don't really help the phone but to help optimize the data mining software?...well I loved the first ZMAX that's the only reason why I got the PRO, we need ROOT now then ever, we need to fix this phone our self's because they are obviously are not...but I APPRECIATE EVERYONE! trying to root this phone hopefully someone can come around and help us out.
Sorry for off topic.
 
Ethorbit said:
Some of us have nothing to contribute that could possibly get us closer to root and therefore we'd prefer the latest fixes.
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Your impatience to do something with your phone is dashing any chance you had at rooting it in the future, that's what I'm saying. Sounds like every update just introduces new problems anyway.
 
No system is secure. All we have to do is find the magic byte (not literally THE magical byte) and we should be golden. I'm currently debugging every sysapp in the phone to look for vulnerabilities. With luck, I might get something. Messi seems pretty hyped about whatever he's working on as well.
 
@SapphireEx take a look at com.zteusa.XXXXX.up(Where the x's are random characters based on ESN) - there's an RPC that I think we can exploit. Still talking to ZTE, been on the phone for two hours now with an engineer who (willingly?) is giving me tons of info on the issues from update, rooting, performance gains in general, and also Chinese hacking lol. His name is "Otter" -_- either way, he knows his ish and is helping me debug the issues from update. He did show me something interesting regarding the above app.
TLDR; Search for "*.up" using a file manager and you'll find it,take a look at the RPC. Until @messi2050 gets back to me that's all for now.
 
MatreyuC said:
Your impatience to do something with your phone is dashing any chance you had at rooting it in the future, that's what I'm saying. Sounds like every update just introduces new problems anyway.
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This thread is 82 pages in.
It's not impatience, it's my doubts that this will be getting rooted.

I don't know about you, but some of us have been reading this thread ever since page 1, every single day.

It's really our own decisions.

You don't want to update, that's fine, but don't tell everyone not to update.

Plus along with that, some of us have to format our phones eventually, and you know what happens when we do that.

I personally won't be updating anymore as this phone has no more issues.
 
Jon Greenwood said:
@SapphireEx take a look at com.zteusa.XXXXX.up(Where the x's are random characters based on ESN) - there's an RPC that I think we can exploit. Still talking to ZTE, been on the phone for two hours now with an engineer who (willingly?) is giving me tons of info on the issues from update, rooting, performance gains in general, and also Chinese hacking lol. His name is "Otter" -_- either way, he knows his ish and is helping me debug the issues from update. He did show me something interesting regarding the above app.
TLDR; Search for "*.up" using a file manager and you'll find it,take a look at the RPC. Until @messi2050 gets back to me that's all for now.
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I'll give it a go. I love a good ROP chain.
 
For some reason I can't find it. Mind pulling it and uploading it somewhere? I can try to decompile it
 
loonycgb2 said:
It perhaps is in the b20 update.

Every update it seems they are removing and adding bin files and apps
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I'm currently on B14, with my debug phone on B08. Not risking updating to B20. It'd be much easier to get it pulled if it is only on B20
 
Jon Greenwood said:
@SapphireEx take a look at com.zteusa.XXXXX.up(Where the x's are random characters based on ESN) - there's an RPC that I think we can exploit. Still talking to ZTE, been on the phone for two hours now with an engineer who (willingly?) is giving me tons of info on the issues from update, rooting, performance gains in general, and also Chinese hacking lol. His name is "Otter" -_- either way, he knows his ish and is helping me debug the issues from update. He did show me something interesting regarding the above app.
TLDR; Search for "*.up" using a file manager and you'll find it,take a look at the RPC. Until @messi2050 gets back to me that's all for now.
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From what I hear after updating your supposed to do a factory reset. People on the other forum swear it fixes all issues.
 
Greysworld007 said:
From what I hear after updating your supposed to do a factory reset. People on the other forum swear it fixes all issues.
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I can't think of a single update where you have to wipe everything to make it work. That's either really bad coding, or a scam.
 
SapphireEx said:
I can't think of a single update where you have to wipe everything to make it work. That's either really bad coding, or a scam.
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Although I can only speak for myself I'm pretty sure that a lot of us that are more advanced have already performed the easy fixes. I have reset this thing multiple times the only way I can get my notifications back is by using Badgify or installing a very obscure launcher.
 
Jon Greenwood said:
Although I can only speak for myself I'm pretty sure that a lot of us that are more advanced have already performed the easy fixes. I have reset this thing multiple times the only way I can get my notifications back is by using Badgify or installing a very obscure launcher.
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Ah ok. I never used the stock messaging. Im using true caller and true messenger with Nova prime launcher and teslaunread plugin. Works great. I'm on b08 with the system update app forced stopped. Since your more advanced, do you think if the max xl gets root it will help in the max pro getting root also?
 
Greysworld007 said:
Ah ok. I never used the stock messaging. Im using true caller and true messenger with Nova prime launcher and teslaunread plugin. Works great. I'm on b08 with the system update app forced stopped. Since your more advanced, do you think if the max xl gets root it will help in the max pro getting root also?
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The same root process used on the original zmax was available on a dozen other devices released the same time or after the zmax.

So if root is found on this phone after more devices are released then it's possible to use the same root on those other phones.
 
loonycgb2 said:
The same root process used on the original zmax was available on a dozen other devices released the same time or after the zmax.

So if root is found on this phone after more devices are released then it's possible to use the same root on those other phones.
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The method to root the original Zmax was a buffer overflow using Kingroot and filling your RAM. We are well aware of this, and even tried exploiting it a dozen or so pages back. The problem with that method on the Z981 is that it just kernel panics and reboots. Feel free to try it yourself. ZTE has a hardon for keeping this phone locked down, and it seems they patched the particular vulnerability for the overflow
 
Greysworld007 said:
Ah ok. I never used the stock messaging. Im using true caller and true messenger with Nova prime launcher and teslaunread plugin. Works great. I'm on b08 with the system update app forced stopped. Since your more advanced, do you think if the max xl gets root it will help in the max pro getting root also?
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SapphireEx said:
The method to root the original Zmax was a buffer overflow using Kingroot and filling your RAM. We are well aware of this, and even tried exploiting it a dozen or so pages back. The problem with that method on the Z981 is that it just kernel panics and reboots. Feel free to try it yourself. ZTE has a hardon for keeping this phone locked down, and it seems they patched the particular vulnerability for the overflow
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I was answering this guy's question, not saying the same root from the original zmax would work.

I'm well aware of what's vulnerable on this phone as me and Messi and nother user had a private conversation of my findings.

The zmax pro is vulnerable and rootable, just needs someone capable of working with the Java code and knows how to disassemble byte code. I don't have physical access to a zmax pro so my attempts were on a borrowed phone.
 
SapphireEx said:
The method to root the original Zmax was a buffer overflow using Kingroot and filling your RAM. We are well aware of this, and even tried exploiting it a dozen or so pages back. The problem with that method on the Z981 is that it just kernel panics and reboots. Feel free to try it yourself. ZTE has a hardon for keeping this phone locked down, and it seems they patched the particular vulnerability for the overflow
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I thought you guys tried but weren't able to trigger a kernel panic and then no one was sure because it just froze.
 
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