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Root ZTE ZMAX Pro (Z981) root discussion

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Powduh said:
Metro PCS phone...On Walmart family mobile.... Lol... If we have root without privileges, we have no root.... Lmao
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Not a metro unlocked phone. It's a t-mobile phone actually.
Anyway. Mine says it is rooted too after retrying kingroot till it reached 99% and it rebooted. Root checker says it isn't rooted though.
 
My phone is carrier locked to metro PCs I bought it from metro haven't had it a month and King root won't even let me attempt root
 

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Masterchief87 said:
I'm starting this thread so that we can possibly work together to try to find a way to get root on this phone and compare notes on what we have tried. To be honest, I doubt that we are going to get root without a custom recovery and a way to flash it. I think that the key is either ftm mode which is accessed by holding power and volume up, or by holding power volume up and volume down which boots the phone into a mode where only the home key lights up. I believe that this is download mode and might possibly give us access to the bootloader. The big question is what program/drivers we are going to need on the PC end. All ideas are welcome here. If you think you might be able to help don't hesitate.
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Has anyone tried mobogenie to root ? http://mobilego.wondershare.com/guide/root-android.html
 
Ok to everybody who saw how the one app on my phone claimed it was rooted to later take it back the false positive was triggered by the presence of SuperSU app simply being on the phone by uninstalling all superuser management apps it goes back to saying unrooted
 
JIMMYHENDRIX said:
What would give metro a reason not to push it out.
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If there are too many bugs, lags phone, many reasons. I remember the my touch 4g almost didn't get the gingerbread update from T-Mobile for various reasons. Then the Apache was released in other countries (was an exact my touch 4g under a new name) and it came out with said update. Enough people were flashing versions of the Apache ROM that T-Mobile decided to push it to help fix issues people who updated with the Apache software were having.

Edit: enough babble. Back to the reason for this thread.

Anyone have anything new to try/find or onto something that hasn't already been proven a dead end with our root?
 
I was messing around with my ZTE on the computer and tried to get adb to work. I typed in adb reboot to see if it worked. I thought it should reset your phone. Well I push enter and my phone rest. Surprised the hell out of me. Anyone had luck with that. Next Im going to see if I can unlock the the bootloader wish me luck.
 
The Reach said:
Does anyone know if all files are signed in the ota. also, has anyone tried taking a file out of the update and seeing if it still installs with the file missing.
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The entire update is signed/hashed. Replacing one file will break the hash. That's sha 101 think how insecure it would be. You could replace a file and break epay encryption. Etc. Hence why the makers try and stop root
 
cyanidekid said:
What about adb/fastboot to unlock our bootloader

I use a hacked Pandora. Unlimited skips and can download any song that plays. No root needed
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Please read previous posts. Apps on her have nothing to do with root and you can read about adb fastboot by doing a quick search on the thread
 
Powduh said:
Their software wouldn't even root a ZTE obsidian. KingRoot did, however. Personally, I'm beginning to think we will see nougat before we see root, though I'm still hoping, as I would love to have cm on this thing.
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Well not sure about nougat vs root but rooting the phone now has nothing to do with cm. With the support we have on root I doubt any cm developers will try and help us on that. I mean we're looking for root, then an unlocked custom bootloader, then MAYBE someone will make a custom ROM. Root is maybe realistic the rest are a ways out.
 
No it doesn't work on this phone. Iv tried every root method I can think of nothing works. Plus some methods claim to brick this phone on other threads but it don't!! Matter of fact my phone is opposite of all bad reviews. I have excellent battery life, 30 minutes charge time and none of the claimed glitches.... No offence to messi I'm new to this but I realize he is born to hack . But we have a thread going on 70 pages how ever many posts. Maybe the answer needs to be squeezed from zte, maybe with enough pressure.... ? I mean think about it, android is going closer to the apple way of doing things more and more with every os ..shit it's like government we need to revolt. Tell them what the people want. But I'm probably dreaming cus we got we got a phone that could compete with an s6 but manufactur are holding us back... It's sad
 
messi2050 said:
found this tool to flash firmware for zte in qualcomm 9008 mode
https://yadi.sk/d/mR17-gxhgKcz5
it's the same tool found in this thread
http://www.androidbrick.com/unbrick...-you-have-the-right-kind-of-rom-qhsusb_dload/
it may help flashing twrp..
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I hate to sound like everyone else, but master messi2050, what are you doing lurking the Android forums right now? Get your exams taken care of man. I know you're a beast, I've been lurking through some of your stuff around, but man, education is the key to success...

On another note, thanks for this find, will see if it will allow any type of flashing when I get home. If it does even see our phone, we may have a starting point.
 
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