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Root ZTE Zmax Pro Official Root Discussion

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Lol what a shit show. Open your permissions, browsers and eyes. Google and Facebook are F***-on guilty of raking more data from your phones, including keywords from your SMS databases, than ZTE would ever hope to get.

If anyone has followed just a little bit of Android news over the last few years, you'd be aware of ZTE and Huawei combing through system data. You're all victims of MANY billion dollar industries collecting and selling your personal info, stop singling ZTE out lol......

Victim? Class action lawsuit? IT'S A $100 FOOD STAMP PHONE!!! Go ahead and wait 10 years for your $5 settlement. Don't throw it away, they'll want proof...

The smart thing to do is sell your phone now while it's still worth $50, and relax knowing you passed this big international data conspiracy to some other unfortunate soul hahahahaha....

Seriously. OMFG if y'all are that worried about it go buy a BlackBerry lol

Now can we at least get back to somewhat off-topic discussion instead of this crap?

I don't use Facebook either. And if I had a rooted phone I would de-Google it as much as possoble, just like i did my last four phones. I dont even use my real personal data online. Anywhere.
 
Typical pattern for this thread;

1. A person posts a promising new approach to obtaining root.

2. A couple of helpful people jump in and things start rolling.

3. Ten posts happen about the Bermuda Triangle being caused by ZTE, random discussion about space aliens, a couple LG Stylo fools show up to say "we have root, your phone is dumb", etc.

Repeat.

It's almost funny at this point.

It looks like some really interesting stuff is happening regarding temp root. Wishing you luck!

I don't use Facebook either. And if I had a rooted phone I would de-Google it as much as possoble, just like i did my last four phones. I dont even use my real personal data online. Anywhere.
Same here. I don't even activate the PlayStore at all. Never plan to add my old Google account to this phone. I can just PureAPK or use APKUpdater for Apps.

Here's another app made buy the same ZTE Chinese account I don't appreciate random Chinese software Downloading to my phone https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zm.grapredenvelope
My MPCS Z981 is still on B08. But keep making a list of what "funny" apps are being "added for our convenience".

Also, any news on cloak and dagger, Jon?
Gotta wait for some bugs to be fixed & for Jon to hear back from Messi & others. Guess we just need to keep an eye out at the GitHub link.
 
Typical pattern for this thread;

1. A person posts a promising new approach to obtaining root.

2. A couple of helpful people jump in and things start rolling.

3. Ten posts happen about the Bermuda Triangle being caused by ZTE, random discussion about space aliens, a couple LG Stylo fools show up to say "we have root, your phone is dumb", etc.

Repeat.
Bahaha. We have got to try until we conquer, ya know?! I found another one actually. Some one posted z981 info on android device registry and I find something new - mcregistry.

And then I blackbelt google fu'd what it is and I found someone made an su out of it. It says run on fs.

If any devs here thinks it will give us su via that route. Then I will link what I found.

One thing I notice some devices has mcregistry on /efs folder. Where that guy that made su put it also.

But on our device it is on /persist/rsu.
 
No dev replied oh well I will post the link anyway on device info website but not the su script. Hopefully this info will help who wants to crack this phone:

https://androiddevice.info/submission/38515/show

I was talking about this:

MC_AUTH_TOKEN_PATH: /persist/rsu

It also has the package signature info.
Mcregistry is apart of mobicore which is what helps disable root exploits.

I dont know of any script that uses efs partition to load su.
 
Mcregistry is apart of mobicore which is what helps disable root exploits.

I dont know of any script that uses efs partition to load su.

Yap google-fu told me that. I re-read that su script I was talking about, I guess I was so desperate for root on this phone it is only now I realize the su on that is the guy's last name. :thinking:

I have been harassing metroPCS too on FB and twitter. And just now I was told on twitter they don't have steps to unlock bootloader coz it will break warranty. The FB person said it is not recommended coz it will break the phone. I honestly almost replied to both - how about if I break your faces coz I KNOW that already... WTF.

Well here is the script I was talking about just coz I bookmark it and I will delete it after I post it here:

http://git.huayusoft.com/tomsu/AP73...0e72/device/mediatek/mt6735/init.trustonic.rc

and this too more about mobicore which I thought was what the su guy used to SU. OH well::

https://android.googlesource.com/pl...slsi/exynos5/+/master/mobicore/README.android
 
In other news we have over 15000 requests for root on Kingroot and are "In The Queue"

Yes but we are veeerrrrrrrry far from the top of the list. I emailed KingRoot but they have not yet responded.

Also: Can you all chill out a wee bit and keep close to the topic? If this thread is shut down like the last one I fear the small chance we already have at root will disappear completely.
 
King seems to be a dead end; the app version at least. We can get temp root, but everything is reset on reboot, and panics often. I'm still following leads on the 2 alternative boots, but not making a lot of progress. Cloak and Dagger is promising, but it still seems to be a temporary method.

A stable temproot exploit would be really helpful right now, as we should be able to pull the entire system and look for vulnerabilities.
 
Doesn't kingroot apply multiple exploits from a cloud server? Anything that's freely found on a xda thread or Google search I'm sure they already know about right?
 
Doesn't kingroot apply multiple exploits from a cloud server? Anything that's freely found on a xda thread or Google search I'm sure they already know about right?

I've gotten conflicting information on that. Some say they write the exploits, others say they just use preexisting exploits.

The problem with the app version and the Z981 is DM-Verity. Any system changes are reverted on reboot. As far as I know, you can't remove DM-Verity without first getting system rwx, or a recovery capable of editing system settings, neither of which we can do right now.
 
Yes but we are veeerrrrrrrry far from the top of the list. I emailed KingRoot but they have not yet responded.

Also: Can you all chill out a wee bit and keep close to the topic? If this thread is shut down like the last one I fear the small chance we already have at root will disappear completely.
What was off-topic?
 
I've gotten conflicting information on that. Some say they write the exploits, others say they just use preexisting exploits.

The problem with the app version and the Z981 is DM-Verity. Any system changes are reverted on reboot. As far as I know, you can't remove DM-Verity without first getting system rwx, or a recovery capable of editing system settings, neither of which we can do right now.
This may sound crazy but can you just temp root and install rooted apps that don't require reboot?
 
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