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Root ZTE Zmax Pro Official Root Discussion

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Hey messi I'm game now lol..

Let's see what I can find, if you got any recent info you wanna share let me know
 

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Well at least there's some Administrative things we can do without root.
To hibernate system apps use package disabler from the play store. Open up adb and type the "dpm set-device-owner <package> "command .reboot..then choose the apps you want to hibernate..
I tried my rooted apps but can't find the right installer file package name.
Set cpu app let's me fool around with a few settings without root privelages.
I see why someone mentioned this phone may have hidden root.
I wonder if any rooting apps can get elevated adminstrative rights. Like superuser..inside the app it tries to install the su binary right? Just speculating...
 
jhgfrtu said:
Well at least there's some Administrative things we can do without root.
To hibernate system apps use package disabler from the play store. Open up adb and type the "dpm set-device-owner <package> "command .reboot..then choose the apps you want to hibernate..
I tried my rooted apps but can't find the right installer file package name.
Set cpu app let's me fool around with a few settings without root privelages.
I see why someone mentioned this phone may have hidden root.
I wonder if any rooting apps can get elevated adminstrative rights. Like superuser..inside the app it tries to install the su binary right? Just speculating...
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It's working coz most of this root based apps use busybox commands. This phone has busybox installed built in. That's my explanation for that and I approve this message.
 
ok so im not an expert in this area but from what ive read if the zte zmax pro has busybox pre installed and busy box mainly uses root access doesnt that mean that the zte zmax pro is like half rooted itself or something im not sure of the terms im trying hard to cath up/keep up on the information about this phone i love this phone but it seems its one of the most difficult to root and kingroot as of today when i tried it again just for the hell of it now has 14,834 root request for this device i dont understand why they wont work on it and help all these desperate zmax pro users

thanks for the replys in advance and im trying to learn about android so please dont be mean for me not knowing or understanding something
 
coreywantsROOT said:
ok so im not an expert in this area but from what ive read if the zte zmax pro has busybox pre installed and busy box mainly uses root access doesnt that mean that the zte zmax pro is like half rooted itself or something im not sure of the terms im trying hard to cath up/keep up on the information about this phone i love this phone but it seems its one of the most difficult to root and kingroot as of today when i tried it again just for the hell of it now has 14,834 root request for this device i dont understand why they wont work on it and help all these desperate zmax pro users

thanks for the replys in advance and im trying to learn about android so please dont be mean for me not knowing or understanding something
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It can be considered half rooted because of busybox, but busybox its self does not run as root.

Every busybox command is ran thru the users current privileged permissions aka if your not root then it runs as non root.

This just makes it much easier when we get a working temp root then we will not have to find a way to install busybox into system as it has it already.
 
loonycgb2 said:
It can be considered half rooted because of busybox, but busybox its self does not run as root.

Every busybox command is ran thru the users current privileged permissions aka if your not root then it runs as non root.

This just makes it much easier when we get a working temp root then we will not have to find a way to install busybox into system as it has it already.
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ok thanks i also want to know if this app in the play store would work somehow without root since busybox is pre installed on my device https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ala.tn.my.up.dev
its named update android to 7.0
 
I've given up on this phone. Root will probably never be obtained. I've waited months and still nothing. I have switched over to a Samsung Galaxy J7 and have root and TWRP recovery as well. My brother now has my old ZTE ZMAX Pro. I would have given it for research purposes in trying to abstain root but my brother wanted my phone really badly. Anyways, good luck on root.
 
coreywantsROOT said:
ok so im not an expert in this area but from what ive read if the zte zmax pro has busybox pre installed and busy box mainly uses root access doesnt that mean that the zte zmax pro is like half rooted itself or something im not sure of the terms im trying hard to cath up/keep up on the information about this phone i love this phone but it seems its one of the most difficult to root and kingroot as of today when i tried it again just for the hell of it now has 14,834 root request for this device i dont understand why they wont work on it and help all these desperate zmax pro users

thanks for the replys in advance and im trying to learn about android so please dont be mean for me not knowing or understanding something
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Busybox has almost nothing to do with actual "root". It's a set of utilities that native Android almost never has fully implemented. This is why a lot of apps that claim you need busybox will throw an error if you're not rooted. This is one of the few phones that have it preinstalled, and you generally need root to install busybox.

Kingroot is not some magical programming group that can crack any system. They have actually been working on it, but this particular phone is new ground for a lot of people, with a lot of ZTE trickery going on. Also, we aren't even in the top 10 in requests. We're something like 70-40.

As a few other people have said, waiting on Kingroot to find an exploit might not actually happen. The entrypoints on this phone are mostly Qualcomm's and ZTE alternate boots. Apps can't access these other than rebooting to them.

No system is secure. Someone will get an exploit running, or at least find an entrypoint for people like Messi to exploit, or myself and many others to attack.
 
As a person who was in the beta program we really didn't get no where lol they released b20 like 2 weeks ago and told them about the bugs and then they say the beta program is coming to an end I was like huh what got fixed then they still release it publicly and I see people having the same issues as I did 2 weeks ago
 
JIMMYHENDRIX said:
As a person who was in the beta program we really didn't get no where lol they released b20 like 2 weeks ago and told them about the bugs and then they say the beta program is coming to an end I was like huh what got fixed then they still release it publicly and I see people having the same issues as I did 2 weeks ago
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Well are we sure that's the last update for the PRO?.. I mean it was a beta program meaning they needed to fix the basic issues for a daily use...that's even if they fixed anything lol..it's pretty smooth though in my opinion...who knows maybe they will still release updates for this phone it might be security updates though...I remember people would call ZTE for an Android 7.0 release they said they were gonna fix the marshmallow version first then proceed to Android 7.0, but idk if it's still on the to do list for ZTE.
 
loonycgb2 said:
It can be considered half rooted because of busybox, but busybox its self does not run as root.

Every busybox command is ran thru the users current privileged permissions aka if your not root then it runs as non root.

This just makes it much easier when we get a working temp root then we will not have to find a way to install busybox into system as it has it already.
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Didnt the 1st and 2nd Zmax have built in busybox that was broken. Just saying
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JIMMYHENDRIX said:
As a person who was in the beta program we really didn't get no where lol they released b20 like 2 weeks ago and told them about the bugs and then they say the beta program is coming to an end I was like huh what got fixed then they still release it publicly and I see people having the same issues as I did 2 weeks ago
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They prob did beta to be double sure that we are screwed out of root smh imo
 
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