Hello,
I bought a Zenfone 2 in 2015 and have loved it ever since. Back then it was simple to root, unlock the bootloader, and neither required the other.
To root, just enable ADB and run this.
To unlock the bootloader, just download this from azus.
Now, buying a phone fresh, to remove all the bloat is becoming a challenge.
To root, you need an unlock the bootloader. To unlock the bootloader, you need to downgrade to an early 5.0 image.
So I downgrade, unlock the bootloader, and root. To get back on 6, I need to upgrade to a newer version of 5.0, so I do. Root gone, bootloader still unlocked, splash screen is normal. Fine, I root again.
Finally, after upgrading to 6.0 (using adb sideload) both root and the bootloader unlock are gone. So I have to start again, and either live with unbloated 5.0, or unrooted, bloated 6.0.
As far as I can tell the only way around this is downgrade to 5.0, unlock my bootloader, then flash a pre rooted unsigned system.img.
Sadly I cannot find a recent pre rooted unsigned system.img, and have no way of knowing how to create one. If someone could help me make one I would greatly appreciate it.
Am I doing this all wrong? Is there a better way?
Because now I have a phone that I'm either stuck with a buggy 5.0 or a bloated 6.0; and the original, two year old zenfone is stuck in the bootloader because I was experimenting with various tools from around here.
I am well aware that I could just nuke the old phone with xFSTK to get out, but I refuse to. I have no such problems nuking the new one though.
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated, the Zenfone 2 is still a great device and is fantastic value for money, so if I can sort out all this I will happily make a full, comprehensive guide with my new knowledge to replace the errors in the outdated one here, and to add far more comprehensive knowledge about unbricking:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/general/asus-zenfone-2-flashing-recovery-mode-t3096596
Thank you all for your time
assuming you are already on MM version ww4.21.10.233... if no update to this version and download the following tool..
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B72QQTXqZSRwTDNtU1N6OEdMdmM
reboot phone in fastboot mode. now extract the downloaded zip and double click unlock.bat phone will reboot 2 times. then you will get white screen and stuck there. when you see white screen. simply turn off mobile. reboot in fastboot mode with volume plus and power button. and run restore.bat from extracted zip.
now download twrp from official twrp website version 3.1.1.0. and flash it in fastboot mode. hope you know how to ( place twrp image in adb fastboot tool and open command windows in same folder reboot phone in fastboot mode and connect to pc. run the following command
fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.1.1-0-Z00A.img
then use volume button to find recovery mode and click power button to boot into twrp.
now download super su from following link use this version only as i have just tested it few minutes ago.
https://download.chainfire.eu/1114/SuperSU/SR1-SuperSU-v2.82-SR1-20170608224931.zip
place superuser zip on internal memory or sd card and click install in twrp and install super userzip. alternatively you can sideload supersu zip as well. then wipe cache and dalvik cache and reboot system. note phone may bootloop or restart 2,3 times. don't interrupt it. it will boot itself into system.
this is 100 percent safe way.
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x86fanboy said:
Hello,
I bought a Zenfone 2 in 2015 and have loved it ever since. Back then it was simple to root, unlock the bootloader, and neither required the other.
To root, just enable ADB and run this.
To unlock the bootloader, just download this from azus.
Now, buying a phone fresh, to remove all the bloat is becoming a challenge.
To root, you need an unlock the bootloader. To unlock the bootloader, you need to downgrade to an early 5.0 image.
So I downgrade, unlock the bootloader, and root. To get back on 6, I need to upgrade to a newer version of 5.0, so I do. Root gone, bootloader still unlocked, splash screen is normal. Fine, I root again.
Finally, after upgrading to 6.0 (using adb sideload) both root and the bootloader unlock are gone. So I have to start again, and either live with unbloated 5.0, or unrooted, bloated 6.0.
As far as I can tell the only way around this is downgrade to 5.0, unlock my bootloader, then flash a pre rooted unsigned system.img.
Sadly I cannot find a recent pre rooted unsigned system.img, and have no way of knowing how to create one. If someone could help me make one I would greatly appreciate it.
Am I doing this all wrong? Is there a better way?
Because now I have a phone that I'm either stuck with a buggy 5.0 or a bloated 6.0; and the original, two year old zenfone is stuck in the bootloader because I was experimenting with various tools from around here.
I am well aware that I could just nuke the old phone with xFSTK to get out, but I refuse to. I have no such problems nuking the new one though.
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated, the Zenfone 2 is still a great device and is fantastic value for money, so if I can sort out all this I will happily make a full, comprehensive guide with my new knowledge to replace the errors in the outdated one here, and to add far more comprehensive knowledge about unbricking:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/general/asus-zenfone-2-flashing-recovery-mode-t3096596
Thank you all for your time
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do you state that you have an old device which you are unable to revive with xFSTK. what error do you get? put device on charge for 5,6 hours with original charger and use the following guide. use correct gp flag value use 4 zeros not 5
https://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/help/thead-bricked-phone-updating-to-mm-tips-t3452785
wow, no need to do all this... just use one of the available tool, my prefered one is this one:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/general/bl-unlock-ze551ml-toolkit-t3546293
very easy to use, to unlock, it will temporaly downgrade your boot to 5.0, unlock bootloader, then reflash boot 6.0.
Once there, just flash TWRP recovery and Magisk, from the tools.
I also had a locked ZF2 in MM 6.0 and using this tool it took less than 5 minutes to have an unlocked rooted phone, and I haven't wiped or lost anything.
Hello. I recently bought a G3121 with android 8.0 and I want to root it, but the boot.img from the post i founded here doesn't work. I was wondering if anyone in the same situation with me has found something. Thanks.
I have exactly the same problem, using firmware 48.1.A.2.50, tried many ways to obtain recovery and root, but without succes - sometimes phone wasn't working, sometimes only TWRP was working, but without system so phone was useless, Magisk doesn't want to install on my phone (Bootloader unlocked). What am I doing wrong?
Hi,
As the title says, I need help rooting a Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite device, that is updated to Android 9.
I tried rooting it, but the issues are:
1. It needs unlocking the device first, so I tried going to - //en(DOT)miui.com/unlock/.
There it wants me to connect my device to my Mi account in Setting > Developer Options > Mi Unlock Status. Thing is that this device is using one of the ROM versions, which doesn't have Mi Unlock Status.
2. This led me to try and update the ROM. Issue here is that doing so through the fastboot is not possible because the device needs to be unlocked, so I tried this - //en(DOT)miui.com/a-232.html
3. From there on, everything is fine until step 3. In android 9, they have decided to move the System Update to another table, which is fine but there are no longer 3 dots or an option to select a package. I tried looking for that without success.
4. Downgrading to Android 8 is not possible anymore, and I haven't really checked if I can do it with a locked phone.
Can someone help me find what I am missing here? There must be a way I can root the device.
Thank you!
developer options , unlock oem, boot to bootloader and type fastboot oem unlock, its that simple. All you nee to do after this is follow a tutorial for rooting with magisk.
My friend you were following the wrong guide. This is an Android One device you don't need the unlock procedure that the other MIUI device have to do.
As mentioned above the unlocking is straight forward, however the steps following can be a bit more confusing.
Basically there are different methods on how to actually gain root access, the most popular and recommended one would be using a framework/app called Magisk.
Download the magisk manager from the app store and more importantly check exactly your build number in your phone settings as you will need a patched boot.img file for exactly that build (here you can either download the patched boot from one of the thread here but its more safe to actually patch the original boot.img yourself).
However most of the stuff is written in this thread, it's only missing the updated boot files for Android Pie.
I recommend you to patch the boot from the official Rom files (for example for Pie 10.0.2.0 here and patch it via magisk manager yourself)
Thank you all. I managed to root it.
1. Not entirely sure how the unlock went but it was successful. I tried the fastboot oem unlock. I think that did it.
2. Got TWRP on the fastboot and installed Magisk
3. Root access was granted, data got wiped twice though, but the second part was my fault.
Hi everyone. I have been trying all night to root my Z836BL phone, to no avail. I tried every tool in method 3 of this post: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2684210
I noticed that there is no TWRP recovery image for this model. In the developer options, there is a toggle for OEM unlocking, though I haven't made use of it. I got into the recovery menu, which had an option to flash images, but I don't know if that would help. Is there some way I can flash root to it without changing the bootloader? Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks
Update: I found the source code for this phone, it is accessible here
http://download.ztedevices.com/devi..._02/Z836BL Marshmallow Kernel(3.18.24).tar.gz
Update 2:
I found a bit more stuff about this PHONE.
Official manual PDF:
https://manual-user-guide.com/zte-zfive-2-lte-manual
Stock ROM:
https://easy-firmware.com/index.php?a=downloads&b=folder&id=35635
If anyone has any sort of information about modding or rooting this phone please comment or shoot me a private message. Thanks!
I tried a few more root programs, no dice. It looks like the only thing left to do is to compile my own TWRP recovery image and try not to brick my phone in the process. I found multiple sources on compiling that, and here they are.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32965365
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/guide-how-to-compile-twrp-source-step-t3404024
Theoretically, you can boot anything on the ZTE Z836BL without unlocking the BL in 6.0.1 but if you want to unlock it anyway you can try this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...alcomm-zte-t4100897/post82595723#post82595723 although the Z836BL was not tested so there is no guarantee it will work. https://github.com/programmer-collection/zte/tree/master/Z836F is the EDL programmer you will need with QFIL.
You will need to extract the device tree from the device using ADB and adapt it to work with Lineage OS (You can find tutorials online) Download the Kernel tree from ZTE opensource and download the Lineage OS source. Compile TWRP alongside Lineage OS. Furthermore, you will need to compile a new kernel to support SELinux Premissive to allow the recovery to boot.
Good luck with the build!
I got a oneplus 5t, coming from a htc 10. I want to root it and flash lineage os. I already tried it using the method i used for my htc but it never got passed fastboot and even got bricked. I had to reflash to stock android 7.1.1 and then upgrade to android 10. None of the tutorials here mention dm-verity. Even the official xda youtube tutorial vid but other sites do. So what is the deal with that? Is that why i got bricked? I already have an open bootloader so i am now waiting for some help. Can someone please help me?