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Root ZTE Zmax Pro Official Root Discussion

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I've been working with this phone for a few months now and have come no closer to rooting it. This sucks. I think its time we set up a reward. A cash prize of some sort, to the first person to successfully give us root. Any ideas on how to do this and keep track of how much?

There are many options of rooting this phone, it's just that we need to find them and/or use exploits to get root as ADB doesn't work
 
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I think everyone gave up

Because the situation is futile; the Zmax pro is old news and it's EOL at this point. Those of you who are offering $100 to the pot should sell your Zmax while it's still worth anything. That plus a hundred is a good chunk toward a phone you can actually root lol. Go buy an Axon already.....
 
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Hello, I tried to root with kingo root desktop and (I know) it failed! But my concern is that now root checker says that I am not rooted but I have busybox installed. My question is that if it's gonna affect any possible OTA that Metro PCS might release if i install such an OTA?
 

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Hello, I tried to root with kingo root desktop and (I know) it failed! But my concern is that now root checker says that I am not rooted but I have busybox installed. My question is that if it's gonna affect any possible OTA that Metro PCS might release if i install such an OTA?

This makes me feel like you had a temp root... I'm skeptical. If you could reproduce that and install messi's twrp, you could flash supersu as a zip from recovery. And.... BOOM!! ROOT!!
 
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imrock666Hello, I tried to root with kingo root desktop and (I know) it failed! But my concern is that now root checker says that I am not rooted but I have busybox installed. My question is that if it's gonna affect any possible OTA that Metro PCS might release if i install such an OTA?
This makes me feel like you had a temp root... I'm skeptical. If you could reproduce that and install messi's twrp, you could flash supersu as a zip from recovery. And.... BOOM!! ROOT!!

Well, I'm not quite sure about it... But, is it normal that kingo root install busybox commands eventhou didn't install su binaries? Kinda confused! And I ask again, you think it is gonna affect any OTA?
 
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