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Im embarrassed to say that as a first year programming student I am frightened by most of the guides.
So many steps and so many requirements it makes me wonder just how this community got to be the size it is.
I lack an sd card and only recently found how to move files onto my phone. And while the 21 or so step process for unlocking the phone is documented I don't understand what im doing more do I understand what some of the steps mean (such as the two different kind of caches im clearing).
Also the version text im given to reference methods from fails to make sense when my phone has 3 or 4 different version numbers all pertaining to different things.
I like the features offered in these roms and would love to explore more and even contribute.
And while im not asking for an iPhone cracking app (though that would be great) a for dummies guide that explains the steps as you go along with maybe some visual elements would be extremely welcome.
Since I lack the resource to buy multiple phones im going to study and decipher the guides that are available but it would be great if someone more knowledgeable than I took the initiative to help dumb this all down or atleast point me towards a wiki I could use as reference material
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App
ertDeath said:
Im embarrassed to say that as a first year programming student I am frightened by most of the guides.
So many steps and so many requirements it makes me wonder just how this community got to be the size it is.
I lack an sd card and only recently found how to move files onto my phone. And while the 21 or so step process for unlocking the phone is documented I don't understand what im doing more do I understand what some of the steps mean (such as the two different kind of caches im clearing).
Also the version text im given to reference methods from fails to make sense when my phone has 3 or 4 different version numbers all pertaining to different things.
I like the features offered in these roms and would love to explore more and even contribute.
And while im not asking for an iPhone cracking app (though that would be great) a for dummies guide that explains the steps as you go along with maybe some visual elements would be extremely welcome.
Since I lack the resource to buy multiple phones im going to study and decipher the guides that are available but it would be great if someone more knowledgeable than I took the initiative to help dumb this all down or atleast point me towards a wiki I could use as reference material
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App
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What exactly do you want to do? Unlock bootloader? Root? Both? What carrier and county are you using & in? What firmware are you currently running?
Unlock bootloader, root, perhaps a custom rom
At&t, USA, 4.5.91
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Well when doing any modding there is a chance of messing things up and no one wants to do that. I am an engineer with programming experience and I still ask dumb questions ... so you are not alone.
So what you want to do is this... hopefully this will work for you.
1) Make sure you have the Motorola Drivers installed for your pc setup (i.e. x32 bit or x64 bit)
2) Download and install RSD Lite 5.31 (links in my N00B Guide - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1154600)
3) Go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1136261
4) Download the Unlocker SBF for AT&T users under UNLOCK in the OP (will be labeled pudding.rar)
5) Extract .sbf file to your C:\
6) Put phone in RSD Mode by powering off and upon powering back on hold the Power Button + Volume Up.... should say entering RSD Protocol Mode
7) Open RSD Lite on your PC and drag the .sbf file onto the file path bar (better than finding it with the "..." button)
8) Connect your phone to your PC with usb cable & select device by clicking/highlighting it in RSD Lite Program.
9) Select "Start"
10) It's a small .sbf file, so it shouldn't take long to flash... hopefully you get no errors here... this is the part where if something wrong is gonna happen, it's usually gonna happen here.
11) after sbf flash & reboot, download fastboot files (also available from the Pudding thread, where you got the sbf file from under ROOT)
12) unzip the fastboot files to a folder that you will not forget or delete... ever
13) Put phone in fastboot mode by powering off, then upon power on, hold power button + volume down. select fastboot by pressing volume up button... should enter fastboot protocol mode
14) Connect phone to PC if still not connected
15) Open a command prompt on your pc from the folder you saved the fastboot files (hold Shift + Right Click... Open Command Prompt from here)
16) Type this in command prompt: "fastboot oem unlock" Should see the same thing as the image at the bottom of the OP in the Pudding thread. Can type it again after the unlock process and it should say that you are unlocked.
17) if phone doesn't reboot after unlock, type this command: fastboot reboot and it should reboot phone then, and you will see unlocked signature at top left of screen.
To Root, I would just suggest that you pick a ROM and apply it... most of the well known ROMs will include Root for you. You will need a CWM Recovery to flash most of these ROMs, so that would be your next step: Go here and install this CWM Recovery via fastboot using the commands in the OP: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1204500 Make sure to download the version on the left (non-zip version) for fastboot install.
After you have CWM installed you can flash a custom ROM. You can also flash most ROMs with fastboot as well, just check and see if the OPs of the ROM you want to flash has fastboot install instructions.
If you want to attempt Root first before installing CWM Recovery, you can try the 2nd post in this thread which uses fastboot & adb: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1138204 The sbf flash in the OP of this thread, which is supposed to include unlock bootloader & Root has been giving some people problems that have stock 2.3.4, that's why I gave you the old school way / directions above. But if you want to try it and ignore all the above directions, I guess you could just try that 600 mb sbf flash for 2.3.4.
Let me know if it works, or you need further explanation / help.... check my N00B guide too:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1154600
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1182871
here's an automatic script for unlocking your bootloader, select what version your phone is and proceed.
if you've updated to Android 2.3.4 though, you're going to get a semi-hard brick, just boot into fastboot mode and proceed with the instructions and you'll get through it. don't panic
ertDeath said:
Im embarrassed to say that as a first year programming student I am frightened by most of the guides.
So many steps and so many requirements it makes me wonder just how this community got to be the size it is.
I lack an sd card and only recently found how to move files onto my phone. And while the 21 or so step process for unlocking the phone is documented I don't understand what im doing more do I understand what some of the steps mean (such as the two different kind of caches im clearing).
Also the version text im given to reference methods from fails to make sense when my phone has 3 or 4 different version numbers all pertaining to different things.
I like the features offered in these roms and would love to explore more and even contribute.
And while im not asking for an iPhone cracking app (though that would be great) a for dummies guide that explains the steps as you go along with maybe some visual elements would be extremely welcome.
Since I lack the resource to buy multiple phones im going to study and decipher the guides that are available but it would be great if someone more knowledgeable than I took the initiative to help dumb this all down or atleast point me towards a wiki I could use as reference material
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App
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Here ya go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmvCpR45LKA
I weep for the future. Precious snowflake syndrome at its finest. Life is hard.
My recommendation:
Try to follow one of the guides. They're all pretty inclusive, though they have many steps and prerequisites. If you get stuck at a specific step, ask the question. But, TRY! If you do, you might actually LEARN something.
phobos512 said:
I weep for the future. Precious snowflake syndrome at its finest. Life is hard.
My recommendation:
Try to follow one of the guides. They're all pretty inclusive, though they have many steps and prerequisites. If you get stuck at a specific step, ask the question. But, TRY! If you do, you might actually LEARN something.
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I blame my iPhone it made hacking to easy for me and made me forget my Linux roots
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I know it seems like there's a lot of threads on Rooting already, but I was having the hardest time trying to find the correct thread for me because of the different variants of the Moto X. So I figured I'm not the only lost soul around here and wanted to take help someone else out. So here's I achieved Root after updating to Android 4.4. Keep in mind, Rooting Android 4.4 forced me to Reset my device and clear everything on it. I really didn't have a problem with it because I just got my device on 1/30/14.
1. Unlock the Bootloader
---- I made it easy on myself and followed QBKING77 on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sxgz7jxRMw
I have been following his tutorials since the days of the old htc EVO, great guy..
2. Install TWRP and SuperSU
---- I followed "" Guide for Unlocked Bootloaders "" by dray_jr http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2603358
There are a few problems here though.
At Step 2: After installing the SDK, to make things easy for me I have always created a folder name "" Android "" at the root of the C drive and copied the SDK contents: eclipse, sdk, SDK Manager.exe, to it. It just makes it easier for me. So it in turn sets my path for the fastboot to C:\android\sdk\platform-tools
At Step 3: Make sure to copy TWRP "" twrp-2.6.3.1-ghost-4.4.img "" along with "" mfastboot.exe "" into the directory that your fastboot.exe is located. In my case it would be the C:\android\sdk\platform-tools directory.
After flashing the Recovery, the command "fastboot reboot recovery" didn't work for me. It doesn't have that command available. Instead, go to your phone and use your Volume Down button to choose Recovery on the Fastboot Menu and use the Volume Up button to select. I repeat, use the Volume Up button to select Recovery. I am so used to using the Power button to select that it kept turning the phone off and rebooting since I still had the USB cable plug into the phone. So learn from my mistake and don't waste your time by pressing the Power button.
Other than that, the rest of the instructions from the above guides worked for me. So thanks to qbking77 and dray_jr for their tutorials.
I didn't know qbking77 did motox videos. He was great in the GS2 and GS4 forums.
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Thanks a lot, this was very helpful...pretty much every other thread in existence had me believing it was much more complicated than this and i wasted many hours before I saw this.
Jay10826 said:
Thanks a lot, this was very helpful...pretty much every other thread in existence had me believing it was much more complicated than this and i wasted many hours before I saw this.
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Yeah I wish I'd seen this 24 hours ago. I had to figure much of this out myself. I swear it was easier to unlock and root my old GNex than it was to unlock and root my "unlockable" Verizon Developer Edition Moto X!
Roland Stone said:
Yeah I wish I'd seen this 24 hours ago. I had to figure much of this out myself. I swear it was easier to unlock and root my old GNex than it was to unlock and root my "unlockable" Verizon Developer Edition Moto X!
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Well it should have been easier. That was a nexus....
Seriously though, how hard was this? Unlock bootloader given website key and flash TWRP and flash superSU zip. Took like 2 minutes. Of course it could be longer if you needed to figure out the Sdk.
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Maybe I'm wrong....but with the boot loader unlocked....I'm pretty sure rooting this and my N7 was the exact same procedure.
Sent from my Moto X cellular telephone...
It was just annoying to have to jump through hoops just to GET the Unlock code, which was several lines of gobbledygook that had to be transcribed carefully and then retyped. Some people (like me) aren't conversant with ADB and command windows and such. (Yes I know, maybe people like me shouldn't be rooting around under the hood of our phones.)
May end up ordering a GSM Developer Edition tomorrow. I believe it's the same procedure as outlined here. Can someone confirm this.
larry62 said:
May end up ordering a GSM Developer Edition tomorrow. I believe it's the same procedure as outlined here. Can someone confirm this.
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Yeah, all I did was unlock the bootloader, install TWRP, then installed the SuperSU zip and when I rebooted I was rooted.
Roland Stone said:
It was just annoying to have to jump through hoops just to GET the Unlock code, which was several lines of gobbledygook that had to be transcribed carefully and then retyped. Some people (like me) aren't conversant with ADB and command windows and such. (Yes I know, maybe people like me shouldn't be rooting around under the hood of our phones.)
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Next time copy the cmd text into notepad then copy/paste from there.
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District said:
According to qbking77's video, when you unlock your phone, you wipe your data.
Does this wipe your MMS?
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Yes. Text messages are part of data.
Roland Stone said:
It was just annoying to have to jump through hoops just to GET the Unlock code, which was several lines of gobbledygook that had to be transcribed carefully and then retyped. Some people (like me) aren't conversant with ADB and command windows and such. (Yes I know, maybe people like me shouldn't be rooting around under the hood of our phones.)
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christ, you typed out the unlock data? :laugh:
^--you can't copy/paste from command line. I did the same thing.
I also agree this was a royal pain in the ass. Took me forever to find this information as well. This is not my first rodeo, btw.
Are you guys downloading and flashing SuperSU separately? Because when I flashed TWRP it advised my phone was not rooted and fixed it when I rebooted. I didn't have to download or flash anything separately. It was incredibly simple...after going through the website for the unlock code of course.
And yes, just like the Nexus devices, unlocking the bootloader automatically does a factory reset and erases all data as a safety precaution.
overthatscreen said:
...After flashing the Recovery, the command "fastboot reboot recovery" didn't work for me. It doesn't have that command available. Instead, go to your phone and use your Volume Down button to choose Recovery on the Fastboot Menu and use the Volume Up button to select. ...
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right fastboot reboot recovery doesn't work.
You could do... fastboot reboot bootloader to get into bootloader instead of messing with holding buttons.
unsivil_audio said:
^--you can't copy/paste from command line. I did the same thing.
I also agree this was a royal pain in the ass. Took me forever to find this information as well. This is not my first rodeo, btw.
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You can. It's in the video.
bengadget said:
You can. It's in the video.
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Did not work for me so I manually input the code
Sent on my Gummy running Lenoto X
overthatscreen said:
I know it seems like there's a lot of threads on Rooting already, but I was having the hardest time trying to find the correct thread for me because of the different variants of the Moto X. So I figured I'm not the only lost soul around here and wanted to take help someone else out. So here's I achieved Root after updating to Android 4.4. Keep in mind, Rooting Android 4.4 forced me to Reset my device and clear everything on it. I really didn't have a problem with it because I just got my device on 1/30/14.
1. Unlock the Bootloader
---- I made it easy on myself and followed QBKING77 on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sxgz7jxRMw
I have been following his tutorials since the days of the old htc EVO, great guy..
2. Install TWRP and SuperSU
---- I followed "" Guide for Unlocked Bootloaders "" by dray_jr http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2603358
There are a few problems here though.
At Step 2: After installing the SDK, to make things easy for me I have always created a folder name "" Android "" at the root of the C drive and copied the SDK contents: eclipse, sdk, SDK Manager.exe, to it. It just makes it easier for me. So it in turn sets my path for the fastboot to C:\android\sdk\platform-tools
At Step 3: Make sure to copy TWRP "" twrp-2.6.3.1-ghost-4.4.img "" along with "" mfastboot.exe "" into the directory that your fastboot.exe is located. In my case it would be the C:\android\sdk\platform-tools directory.
After flashing the Recovery, the command "fastboot reboot recovery" didn't work for me. It doesn't have that command available. Instead, go to your phone and use your Volume Down button to choose Recovery on the Fastboot Menu and use the Volume Up button to select. I repeat, use the Volume Up button to select Recovery. I am so used to using the Power button to select that it kept turning the phone off and rebooting since I still had the USB cable plug into the phone. So learn from my mistake and don't waste your time by pressing the Power button.
Other than that, the rest of the instructions from the above guides worked for me. So thanks to qbking77 and dray_jr for their tutorials.
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After i follow the above steps for my GSM Moto X Developer Edition with Android 4.4, will i still be able to get OTA updates as long as I keep the stock ROM ? I like the stock ROM anyways. Also any issues with the hands free "OK Google Now" voice feature after rooting and unlocking bootloader?
After doing this we should be able to retain unlocked and rooted right?
So here's my story,
I bought this Zte phone off someone on craigslist a couple of weeks ago, and I've loved it every since. In fact, I have yet to turn it off, I've kept it on the entire time. Today the new update 29 came out for the US, and I tried downloading. To my dismay when the phone restarted I was greeted with a bootloader screen, and then a TWRP screen. I freaked out and panicked and emailed the guy I bought the phone from since I heard that unlocking bootloader on your phone voids the warranty. He told me he had done it in such a way OTA framework that it didn't void the warranty and also I can always relock the phone but be careful because I might brick it. I'm not a very tech savvy person and have no idea what to do to relock the phone so I can download this new update. Could someone please help me out and walk it out with me step by step so I know what to do. Thanks so much guys!
Look in the section rooms, recoveries,etc... look for one the says roms update stock DrakenFX
Since you are not tech savvy, you could just keep it unlocked and use those twrp flashable files to update B29.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=68873482&postcount=2
credit: @DrakenFX
However If you will wish to restore to locked state without twrp, I will be happy to guide you but you'll have many more steps to do.
Nik2424 said:
Since you are not tech savvy, you could just keep it unlocked and use those twrp flashable files to update B29.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=68873482&postcount=2
credit: @DrakenFX
However If you will wish to restore to locked state without twrp, I will be happy to guide you but you'll have many more steps to do.
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I would much rather just restore to locked state without twrp so I don't have to worry about this situation again. I don't need bootloader or twrp and just wanna remove both. Would you please guide me through this?
ctran1996 said:
I would much rather just restore to locked state without twrp so I don't have to worry about this situation again. I don't need bootloader or twrp and just wanna remove both. Would you please guide me through this?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/axon-7/how-to/b20-factory-image-posted-t3492552 click the link in this post. It will take you to the ZTE site with the official B20 firnware. You flash this in stock recovery and you will have a fully locked Axon 7.
tabletalker7 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/axon-7/how-to/b20-factory-image-posted-t3492552 click the link in this post. It will take you to the ZTE site with the official B20 firnware. You flash this in stock recovery and you will have a fully locked Axon 7.
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How do I flash to stock recovery with teamwin keeps popping up and restarting and not allowing me to flash it?
ctran1996 said:
I would much rather just restore to locked state without twrp so I don't have to worry about this situation again. I don't need bootloader or twrp and just wanna remove both. Would you please guide me through this?
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If you're not tech savvy, you probably don't want to do this. It's not simple and for whatever reason, some people (who would consider themselves more tech savvy) have had some issues.
Your best bet is to copy all of your data from internal memory (just in case), flash a new copy of TWRP (recovery only, you don't need to do boot) using tenfar's tool (http://forum.xda-developers.com/axon-7/development/wip-axon-7-root-bootloader-unlokced-t3441204), then follow the steps in DrakenFX's thread to get B29: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=68873482&postcount=2
I'm happy to write you a guide for getting back to bone stock, but I'm not going to do it until next week when I have time at work and as I said earlier, some folks have had issues. For what it's worth, you likely won't hard brick the phone. So far, we've only seen soft bricks AFAIK.
rczrider said:
if you're not tech savvy, you probably don't want to do this. It's not simple and for whatever reason, some people (who would consider themselves more tech savvy) have had some issues.
Your best bet is to copy all of your data from internal memory (just in case), flash a new copy of TWRP (recovery only, you don't need to do boot) using tenfar's tool (http://forum.xda-developers.com/axon-7/development/wip-axon-7-root-bootloader-unlokced-t3441204), then follow the steps in DrakenFX's thread to get B29: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=68873482&postcount=2
I'm happy to write you a guide for getting back to bone stock, but I'm not going to do it until next week when I have time at work and as I said earlier, some folks have had issues. For what it's worth, you likely won't hard brick the phone. So far, we've only seen soft bricks AFAIK.
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Are they really hard to follow?? I mean my guides?
If I could I love to redo Tenfar tool guide ,but don't think he will allow me recreate that thread in a more clean way (guide wise)
ctran1996 said:
How do I flash to stock recovery with teamwin keeps popping up and restarting and not allowing me to flash it?
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http://www.mediafire.com/file/1jw9b24glt5fd7t/recovery.img put this on your SD card
Boot to TWRP
Push Install (top left)
Push Install Image (bottom right)
find the recovery.img and push it - TWRP will install it for you.
Then reboot into recovery.
You will now be in stock recovery and can use it to install update from SD card and install the B20 firmware from ZTE
BE WARNED - THIS WILL FACTORY RESET YOUR PHONE WHEN YOU ARE DONE!!!!!
DrakenFX said:
Are they really hard to follow?? I mean my guides?
If I could I love to redo Tenfar tool guide ,but don't think he will allow me recreate that thread in a more clean way (guide wise)
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Hah, no, your guides are not hard to follow. They're great
I think the bigger problem is that there are a lot of threads to wade through and there are various posts within in each thread that address specific issues users have run into. If someone who claims not to be "tech savvy" doesn't understand something in your thread (not because it's unclear but because they have zero experience with this and need some hand-holding) and then happens to read something else in the thread and tries that, it can get messy.
rczrider said:
Hah, no, your guides are not hard to follow. They're great
I think the bigger problem is that there are a lot of threads to wade through and there are various posts within in each thread that address specific issues users have run into. If someone who claims not to be "tech savvy" doesn't understand something in your thread (not because it's unclear but because they have zero experience with this and need some hand-holding) and then happens to read something else in the thread and tries that, it can get messy.
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That is my problem entirely! I AM tech savvy as I have worked as a Microsoft/VMware Systems engineer for over 20 years and when I try to make heads or tails of doing some of the things necessary to flash a ROM, or root, or unlock the bootloader.... after my eyes glaze over I just stick with Nova Prime and hope the original manufacturers get everything worked out. What's really needed is a well written manual detailing step-by-step basics on what all these various things do as well as how to do them. Then more specific guides on a per phone basis. I know, it's asking too much! LOL :silly:
ctran1996 said:
So here's my story,
I bought this Zte phone off someone on craigslist a couple of weeks ago, and I've loved it every since. In fact, I have yet to turn it off, I've kept it on the entire time. Today the new update 29 came out for the US, and I tried downloading. To my dismay when the phone restarted I was greeted with a bootloader screen, and then a TWRP screen. I freaked out and panicked and emailed the guy I bought the phone from since I heard that unlocking bootloader on your phone voids the warranty. He told me he had done it in such a way OTA framework that it didn't void the warranty and also I can always relock the phone but be careful because I might brick it. I'm not a very tech savvy person and have no idea what to do to relock the phone so I can download this new update. Could someone please help me out and walk it out with me step by step so I know what to do. Thanks so much guys!
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OK. Step by Step to get it back to B20
1) Move anything you want to save off your internal storage to your sd card or computer.
2) Download B20 image button.
3) Save file to SD card
4) Boot into Recovery by shutting it down and then push Volume Up Button+Power Button
5) When screen comes up boot into Recovery
6) in TWRP click Install, choose Select Storage, Choose Micro SDCard, Locate your update.zip file and click it
7) Swipe to confirm flash
WARNING: This will clean out your phone and turn it to B20. @DrakenFX can tell you how to not wipe the internal storage if you want to edit the update.zip file.
Hope this helps.
Thank you this is exactly what I was looking for. However, when I tried this the other day, it reset my phone as planned, but TWRP and bootloader were still on there. Any way of getting them off?
swehes said:
OK. Step by Step to get it back to B20
1) Move anything you want to save off your internal storage to your sd card or computer.
2) Download B20 image button.
3) Save file to SD card
4) Boot into Recovery by shutting it down and then push Volume Up Button+Power Button
5) When screen comes up boot into Recovery
6) in TWRP click Install, choose Select Storage, Choose Micro SDCard, Locate your update.zip file and click it
7) Swipe to confirm flash
WARNING: This will clean out your phone and turn it to B20. @DrakenFX can tell you how to not wipe the internal storage if you want to edit the update.zip file.
Hope this helps.
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Dear and knowledgeable readers!
Being a longtime lurker, your tireless work and dedication to the community have enabled me to unlock and root many different android devices over the years and I am deeply grateful this place exists.
Right now, I plan on adding the recently released
Lenovo Smart Tab M10 FHD Plus 2nd Gen [ZA5T0302SE / TB-X606F, I believe]
in the WLAN/4GB/64GB variant to my collection. Having grown accustomed to the luxury of root access, I was wondering if anyone already had some experience with rooting the device and would be willing to share his / her knowledge with me.
Especially, I was wondering if this guide for the TB-X605F, which I have successfully used in the past for my older model, would (in principle) be applicable, as long as I could obtain the corresponding firmware for the newer one, which might be available here (as soon as GD wills it).
Any advice / support would be highly appreciated!
[Sidenote]: To my best ability, I wasn’t able to find an existing thread on the topic of rooting the device in question and I hope to have chosen the right forum to post it in (or if the general Q&A would have been the better fit?). If not, dear mods, please be lenient with me and simply move the thread to the proper subforum.
Brotinger said:
Dear and knowledgeable readers!
Being a longtime lurker, your tireless work and dedication to the community have enabled me to unlock and root many different android devices over the years and I am deeply grateful this place exists.
Right now, I plan on adding the recently released
Lenovo Smart Tab M10 FHD Plus 2nd Gen [ZA5T0302SE / TB-X606F, I believe]
in the WLAN/4GB/64GB variant to my collection. Having grown accustomed to the luxury of root access, I was wondering if anyone already had some experience with rooting the device and would be willing to share his / her knowledge with me.
Especially, I was wondering if this guide for the TB-X605F, which I have successfully used in the past for my older model, would (in principle) be applicable, as long as I could obtain the corresponding firmware for the newer one, which might be available here (as soon as GD wills it).
Any advice / support would be highly appreciated!
[Sidenote]: To my best ability, I wasn’t able to find an existing thread on the topic of rooting the device in question and I hope to have chosen the right forum to post it in (or if the general Q&A would have been the better fit?). If not, dear mods, please be lenient with me and simply move the thread to the proper subforum.
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If you download the lmsa tool, plug in the tablet and go to recovery it will download the full stock firmware. Then you can find it c/program data/LMSA/downloads.
I did that then downloads magisk manager. Extract the boot.img from firmware and put in storage of tablet. Then used magisk manager and patch the boot.img it will tell where it is stored. Extract from tablet and put it in same folder as adb/fast boot. Then put tablet in fastboot and fastboot flash boot magisk-patched.img. then fastboot reboot. The will be rooted with magisk
I forgot. You must unlock bootloader to do this.
Dear 11mackey11,
thank you so very much for caring enough to share your knowledge with me!
So the guide I mentioned earlier is pretty much applicable for the newer model as well? What a relief!
I am also grateful for the hint on how to obtain the stock firmware. For all the dirty things I did to my devices in the past, it never became necessary to put the LMS-Assistant to use, but I will gladly change that now.
As soon as my device arrives, I will try to root it as you suggested and will report back how I fared.
Again, many thanks!
It took me some time to finally get to it … delivery problems with the device … busy work schedule …
… anyhow, I now took the leap and am happy to report that, thanks to your advice, I was able to add another rooted device to my ever-growing collection. “Worked like a charm”, as they use to say.
To repeat myself, I am very grateful for you taking the time to respond to my question and reassuring me that this was the path to follow.
Honestly, thanks!
Brotinger said:
It took me some time to finally get to it … delivery problems with the device … busy work schedule …
… anyhow, I now took the leap and am happy to report that, thanks to your advice, I was able to add another rooted device to my ever-growing collection. “Worked like a charm”, as they use to say.
To repeat myself, I am very grateful for you taking the time to respond to my question and reassuring me that this was the path to follow.
Honestly, thanks!
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Hi. I just purchased the same tablet. I would appreciate it if you could write up a guide on this forum. It would be a help for everyone.
I'm not even sure how you unlock the bootloader on this thing!
Hi and congratulations on your purchase! The TB-606F is a solid device in my book.
Although I have by now rooted more than a dozen android devices and guess I have at least somewhat of an idea of what I am doing, I am by far no pro on the issue. Basically, I consider myself more a “guide user” than a “guide creator”, still.
But as I have benefited from the kind- and helpfulness of this community many times before, I can’t leave this call for help unanswered.
The thing is, nonetheless, I would really like to refer anyone poised to root their TB-606F to the guide for the TB-605F which I linked to in my initial post. Rooting the TB-606F, in principle, demands the user to undertake the same steps as for rooting the TB-605F.
There are, from the top of my head, only two noticeable differences or variations from that guide which I discovered:
1) firmware
As I still haven’t found a reliable source to obtain the necessary stock firmware by download from the web, the advice of fellow user 11mackey11 comes in very handy who, in response to my initial post, pointed me to the LSMA to download the firmware from your very own device.
2) unlocking bootloader
At least with my device, the fastboot commands known to me to usually unlock the bootloader (as are “fastboot oem unlock-go”, “fastboot oem unlock” or “fastboot flashing unlock”) did not do the trick. I had to resort to the command line of “fastboot flashing unlock” to finally make some progress. This might be an outlier with me device, though, as 11mackey11 did not mention the issue.
Again, I will gladly provide any assistance I can offer, but as for writing up a guide, I would mostly carbon copy turboperson123’s guide for the TB-605F mentioned above anyhow and it does not seem right to take credit for his contributions.
But if you had any specific question, please don’t hesitate to ask and I will answer it to my best knowledge (which might not be much).
Tutorial
I found this tutorial specific to the X606F https://forum.frandroid.com/topic/2...u-lenovo-tab-m10-fhd-plus-tb-x606f-sans-twrp/ alas in French but Google translate makes a decent job out of it
b4nd0ler0 said:
I found this tutorial specific to the X606F https://forum.frandroid.com/topic/2...u-lenovo-tab-m10-fhd-plus-tb-x606f-sans-twrp/ alas in French but Google translate makes a decent job out of it
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I want to apply it to my device, have you tried this method?
Yes, tried and failed miserably. The tablet is not correctly rooted as reported by Root Checker. The su binary is there and shows it's Magisk but no root proper.
Will try again and report back when done.
b4nd0ler0 said:
Yes, tried and failed miserably. The tablet is not correctly rooted as reported by Root Checker. The su binary is there and shows it's Magisk but no root proper.
Will try again and report back when done.
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thanks, I'm waiting for news from you. The tablet is sold very much in our country. like this in the world. I'm sure the developers will do something about this device.
b4nd0ler0 said:
I found this tutorial specific to the X606F https://forum.frandroid.com/topic/2...u-lenovo-tab-m10-fhd-plus-tb-x606f-sans-twrp/ alas in French but Google translate makes a decent job out of it
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I rooted my device with this method
this method doesn't work
Hello dear Android users...
I've got the 3/64GB version of this device (ZA5T0300US) and this method of rooting did not work for me. When I check root in Magisk Manager, it says ctsProfile:false & basicIntegrity:true, so root doesn't work. I tried multiple times and every time had this same result. My ROM version is TB_X606F_USR_S100055_2001030016_V5.196_BMP_ROW (extracted ROM folder name). Are you sure your root actually 100% worked? What is your ROM version?
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Hello dear Android users...
I've got the 3/64GB version of this device (ZA5T0300US) and this method of rooting did not work for me. When I check root in Magisk Manager, it says ctsProfile:false & basicIntegrity:true, so root doesn't work. I tried multiple times and every time had this same result. My ROM version is TB_X606F_USR_S100055_2001030016_V5.196_BMP_ROW (extracted ROM folder name). Are you sure your root actually 100% worked? What is your ROM version?
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This method is working!
Use the Official Lenovo website to access your original "rom" file and get the "boot.img" file.
Program: Lenovo Rescue And Smart Assistant https://lnv.gy/3d8FHLi
For an article on how to download the Rom file via the program, see here. (Step 3)
https://bit.ly/2yE1nQf
Good Luck!
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Hello dear Android users...
I've got the 3/64GB version of this device (ZA5T0300US) and this method of rooting did not work for me. When I check root in Magisk Manager, it says ctsProfile:false & basicIntegrity:true, so root doesn't work. I tried multiple times and every time had this same result. My ROM version is TB_X606F_USR_S100055_2001030016_V5.196_BMP_ROW (extracted ROM folder name). Are you sure your root actually 100% worked? What is your ROM version?
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You did not enable Magisk Hide
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You did not enable Magisk Hide
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That was it! Thanks! You're smarter & more helpful than Google!!! ))
Hi.
After i root the tablet, i tried to delete youtube and gdrive. Then i restart the tablet but it stuck in fastboot mode. Not booting.
i couldn't install stock rom. What i must do
I did this..
i patched the boot img from the lenovo program. and i like to shut down my devices when i dont use them and now i cant make it boot. im stuck in a bootloop and its says orange alert when i boot the device. i can only get into the fastboot menu. when i try to boot with vol + and power nothing happens and when i release it starts up again in a bootloop. i cant shut it down either. it just loops and loops. cant do the rescue thing with the program either.. anybody that knows how i can fix this?
I have an out of topic question regarding this tablet.
Can The Lenovo M10 Plus (2nd Gen) 10.3" TB-X606F Output Display via HDMI to TV ???
I tried using a powered USB-C to HDMI adapter to output/mirror the tablet to a TV, but it didn't work.
Brotinger said:
Hi and congratulations on your purchase! The TB-606F is a solid device in my book.
Although I have by now rooted more than a dozen android devices and guess I have at least somewhat of an idea of what I am doing, I am by far no pro on the issue. Basically, I consider myself more a “guide user” than a “guide creator”, still.
But as I have benefited from the kind- and helpfulness of this community many times before, I can’t leave this call for help unanswered.
The thing is, nonetheless, I would really like to refer anyone poised to root their TB-606F to the guide for the TB-605F which I linked to in my initial post. Rooting the TB-606F, in principle, demands the user to undertake the same steps as for rooting the TB-605F.
There are, from the top of my head, only two noticeable differences or variations from that guide which I discovered:
1) firmware
As I still haven’t found a reliable source to obtain the necessary stock firmware by download from the web, the advice of fellow user 11mackey11 comes in very handy who, in response to my initial post, pointed me to the LSMA to download the firmware from your very own device.
2) unlocking bootloader
At least with my device, the fastboot commands known to me to usually unlock the bootloader (as are “fastboot oem unlock-go”, “fastboot oem unlock” or “fastboot flashing unlock”) did not do the trick. I had to resort to the command line of “fastboot flashing unlock” to finally make some progress. This might be an outlier with me device, though, as 11mackey11 did not mention the issue.
Again, I will gladly provide any assistance I can offer, but as for writing up a guide, I would mostly carbon copy turboperson123’s guide for the TB-605F mentioned above anyhow and it does not seem right to take credit for his contributions.
But if you had any specific question, please don’t hesitate to ask and I will answer it to my best knowledge (which might not be much).
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Hey, thanks for all this useful info. I'm a noob when it comes to rooting. I have hit an issue, that you guys could probably easily advice me. I have got up to where you enter "fastboot flashing unlock" it comes back with something like "waiting for any device". How do I get past this point? I have tried pressing volum up as I saw on a guide however no luck.
unlock not possible
CMX939 said:
Hey, thanks for all this useful info. I'm a noob when it comes to rooting. I have hit an issue, that you guys could probably easily advice me. I have got up to where you enter "fastboot flashing unlock" it comes back with something like "waiting for any device". How do I get past this point? I have tried pressing volum up as I saw on a guide however no luck.
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I have the same issue, "waiting for device" and adb dies.
I assume, the latest lenovo updates (Android 9) block unlocking.
The current! LMSA tool does not allow to restore an old separately downloaded firmware
Doing anything listed here will void your warranty. I don't know the laws where you are so assume it makes you a criminal. These things are posted here for educational purposes only. Never follow any guide if you don't understand the commands.
Enough BS, let's jump in.
For windows users. Installing drivers:
1. Plug USB cable into PC.
2. On the A3 prime, instead of using USB as charging, select use USB as Updating Firmware (i forget actual wording)
3. A prompt will come up on Windows, install those drivers.
4. Reboot.
Install adb and fastboot on your PC, it is up to you to do this.
Enable developer options on your phone, and enable USB debugging and OEM Unlocking.
In your CMD/Shell/Whatever you have.
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flashing unlock (use volume up to confirm)
fastboot flashing unlock_critical (use volume up to confirm)
Congrats you've unlocked the bootloader.
Use 'fastboot reboot' to reboot if you haven't done so already.
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this is where the progress on this device comes to a halt.
The kernel source is available from opensource.ztedevices.com
The device codename is Z5157V, the Kernel they have is listed under Z5157V Q(10) Kernel(4.4.185)
What needs to happen next? Someone needs to compile the kernel from source.
Once that is done, they can extract the boot.img from it, use Magisk, and make a modified boot.img
Whoila, they will now have root. Once this person has root, they can extract recovery.img from the device, and we can begin making a custom TWRP, or who knows, maybe Team Win will pick it up (unlikely).
Once we have a custom recovery and working Magisk, it's just a matter of time before we start seeing custom ROMS.
If someone will sign up to be a guinea pig, or has an extra A3 Prime laying around I will continue development. I bricked mine because I was impulsive and honestly, kinda stupid. (browse through thread to see my idiocy)
Until such a time that I come to possess another A3 Prime OR someone steps up to provide a firmware dump, I am unable to help.
Good luck developing!
Only managed to unlock the bootloader but can't seem to find any information on rooting it.
The structure is indeed different than what you would normally expect to find. 'recovery' isn't a valid partition when trying to flash under fastboot for example.
The only reason I'm interested in trying to root this device is because The mtk engineering mode app doesn't work on this phone, at least not the visible version, so band locking doesn't seem possible without root and a different rom.
Yeah, I bricked my device by flashing a universal MTK TWRP.
Came here to say this, do not flash universal MTK.
It is a soft brick, bootloops with no access to stock or TWRP recovery.
The phone's model number is Z5157V and the stock firmware is Z5157VV1.0.0B17 for google indexing reasons. Only place that MAY have it is behind a $40 pay wall.
Managed to get the kernel from opensource.ztedevices.com, just beginning to work on it now (not sure how I'm gonna get my phone out of bootloop mode, but I'll solve it later)
I have never compiled a kernel from source, but I'm eager to learn, I have two days in the wilderness planned ahead of me. If anyone would compile the kernel, that is great. If not? I'll get it done when I get back.
Been playing around with the phone and key combinations, I think I have found a way to use SP Flash Tool in it's current soft brick state.
If I am successful in compiling the kernel, I will share it.
If I am able to unbrick this phone, I will write a guide.
If those two things happen, I'll be moving forward to make an AOSP based custom ROM for this phone. Maybe a first for a $100 device, but I like root.
If anyone else knows HOW to compile the kernel, you'd put me a few steps ahead when I get back.
Either way, nearly 200 lurkers on this thread, I hope to have answers soon.
ORANGE
zaduma said:
I was able to unlock the bootloader. Confirmed with a boot message on boot.
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how does that bootmessage read?
does it say : "ORANGE STATE" et cetera ?
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how does that bootmessage read?
does it say : "ORANGE STATE" et cetera ?
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Yeah
Orange State
Device can't be trusted
Booting in x seconds
1st.
zaduma said:
to make an AOSP based custom ROM for this phone. Maybe a first for a $100 device, but I like root.
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why do you think you are first ? their are literally tons of €100 phones in circulation!
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why do you think you are first ? their are literally tons of €100 phones in circulation!
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Who knows, guess I don't have much experience in this area. (Cheap phones) Figured it's usually not worth it to do all this work for a throwaway phone.
That said, I've been wrong before!
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Yeah
Orange State
Device can't be trusted
Booting in 5 seconds
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same here after
Code:
fastboot flashing unlock_critical
(bootloader) Start unlock flow
FAILED ()
Finished. Total time: 21.830s
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same here after
Code:
fastboot flashing unlock_critical
(bootloader) Start unlock flow
FAILED ()
Finished. Total time: 21.830s
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Strange it fails, try flashing unlock first, then flashing unlock_critical, make sure to press volume up on phone when prompted.
fastboot
dude, in order to avoid fuqqing confusion you ought not abbreviate a shell command like you do.
Anyhow, since we two guys have different phones, it makes sense only for me to generally discuss the rooting strategy on a ZTE Spreadtrum phone, as the specifics will differ too much.
I have fastboot on a Lumigon T3 as my "ZTE blade A5 2019" does not have fastboot.
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rooters, come join https://forum.xda-developers.com/group.php?groupid=1925
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dude, in order to avoid fuqqing confusion you ought not abbreviate a shell command like you do.
Anyhow, since we two fuys have different phones, it makes sense only for me to generally discuss the rooting strategy on a ZTE Spreadtrum phone, as the specifics will differ too much.
I have fastboot on a Lumigon T3 as my "ZTE blade A5 2019" does not have fastboot..
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Sorry, for clarity if on Linux type su and your root password, or use sudo to escalate your permissions if you don't have permission to use fastboot as a regular user.
If you're on windows, consider a free upgrade, but also leave out sudo and once in fastboot mode on a3 prime, type
1. (sudo) fastboot flashing unlock
2. (sudo) fastboot flashing unlock_critical
Press volume up when prompted and congrats your warranty is now void, bootloader unlocked. I'm not responsible for your choices.
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Also yeah, the phones even have different chipsets the Z5157V is a MTK phone
fastboot
this "orange state unlock bootloader" has - however - nothing or little to do with "Developer Menu option UNLOCK BOOTLOADER"
do you know more about this?
on my Lumigon these 2 unlockings are independent of each other, never mind the identical name "unlock bootloader".
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this "orange state unlock bootloader" has - however - nothing or little to do with "Developer Menu option UNLOCK BOOTLOADER"
do you know more about this?
on my Lumigon these 2 unlockings are independent of each other, never mind the identical name "unlock bootloader".
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Yeah, you'll need to toggle that option to on in Developer Settings before entering the bootloader/fastboot mode and running the unlock commands or they will fail.
we're screwed !
dude, dammit! they cryptosign bootloaders now LINK
if that is true we're done for! how to hack those cryptochips?
its for Unisoc SC9863A Spreadtrum but also other CPUs.
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Well, I am terribly sorry to hear that, but at least the A3 prime is on mediatek chipsets which I don't believe has any such protection.
Spreadtrum SC9832E, 64bit
zaduma said:
the A3 prime is on mediatek chipsets
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if you are sure that boot.img can be "modded" then the A3 is a superior phone, let me tell you.
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anyway... its kewl u posted at https://www.gizmochina.com/2020/07/01/zte-blade-a3v-key-specs-leak/
s4goa said:
if you are sure that boot.img can be "modded" then the A3 is a superior phone, let me tell you.
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anyway... its kewl u posted at https://www.gizmochina.com/2020/07/01/zte-blade-a3v-key-specs-leak/
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Keep checking for updates, once I'm back in town that's exactly what I'll be working on.
Sorry to anyone following this thread, I will continue working on building the kernel, extracting boot, and getting this phone rooted. I will need a volunteer to test the root solution once it is built, and then if possible follow a few steps and extract recovery.img on your newly rooted device and send that to me.
I just don't have the time today even though I said I would be doing it. If there are any volunteers with an A3 prime let me know!