Root Root Zte warp elite N5918

[deansouth8]

Thanks to hroark13, we can keep our root shell through reboots...

http://androidforums.com/threads/semi-permanant-root-shell.1039076/#post-7319070

....and maybe get rw.

Did anyone confirm this works and can confirm the validity of the comment there that the system partition is write protected unless you are booted from recovery? When you do this then what happens when you try to mount system r/w in recovery or FTM mode from ADB when connected to a PC?

 

[iamjohnm]

Hello, I am new to phone tech and its unique problems, is it possible to get a firmware and flash the device with something allready rooted and just be done with it?
Serious question, again new to rooting phones

No the bootloader is locked

 

[coolbeans2015]

Incredible, this phone is actually going down in the non-root pile.............. seriously??!!!!!!!!​

 

[Millertime904]

I have temp root

 

[bcrichster]

Incredible, this phone is actually going down in the non-root pile.............. seriously??!!!!!!!!​

Seriously. The Warp Sync & Zmax are pretty much the last Rootable ZTE devices available.. For now. We can probably thank Boost Mobile for that one.

 

[Millertime904]

I have temp root

I can get temp root with Kingo Root PC but when I restart my phone it goes away

 

[Millertime904]

I have temp root

I can get temp root with Kingo Root PC but when I restart my phone it goes away

 

[Millertime904]

Seriously. The Warp Sync & Zmax are pretty much the last Rootable ZTE devices available.. For now. We can probably thank Boost Mobile for that one.

That's not true I had a zte prestige that I had prem root on

 

[bcrichster]

Perma Root?

 

[Millertime904]

Perma Root?

Yes

 

[01011111]

So this phone is so buttcheaks with all the bloatware on it and all the uneeded stuff on it. But temp root is better than no root. I guess

 

[GrimGrem]

So this phone is so buttcheaks with all the bloatware on it and all the uneeded stuff on it. But temp root is better than no root. I guess

You can disable most of these by going into settings>apps.

 

[Millertime904]

Ok I got temp root by doing Kingoroot on PC and installing supersu deleting kingoroot superuser app. Now I'm trying to update supersu binary and I'm having a issue doing it.

 

[_n6]

New user here. Been lurking this thread for a while hoping someone would have success.

I tried the Kingo Root program on my PC. It said that root was successful, but I couldn't uninstall any bloatware from my phone.

 

[coolbeans2015]

I can get temp root with Kingo Root PC but when I restart my phone it goes away

My brother has this phone in another city. Trying to help him out with root. If there is no kdz available, would be suicide to try substituting cfroot for temp.............

 

[bcrichster]

My brother has this phone in another city. Trying to help him out with root. If there is no kdz available, would be suicide to try substituting cfroot for temp.............

This is a ZTE device.. No .kdz available since the .kdz files are LG only [emoji41]

 

[Millertime904]

If we can get reboot disemmcwp to work on this device we can get full root.

 

[bcrichster]

If we can get reboot disemmcwp to work on this device we can get full root.

I read somewhere it has to do with the type of bootloader lock..

Edit: as far as Rooting is concerned

 

[Cammers1995]

If someone could finally manage to break this bullshit bootloader lock zte has for the newer phones it could pave the way to get the maven and other zte "unrootable" phones to be rooted.

 

[bcrichster]

Boost don't want us to have access to a recovery to do what we want

 

[Cammers1995]

Another great reason this phone should be available through somewhere else. Boost has been trying this with other handsets too. The warp elite is a very good phone. I wish someone could figure this out. Can anyone confirm if the temp root allows removal of the bloatware? I want boost zone permanently purged.

 

[deansouth8]

Another great reason this phone should be available through somewhere else. Boost has been trying this with other handsets too. The warp elite is a very good phone. I wish someone could figure this out. Can anyone confirm if the temp root allows removal of the bloatware? I want boost zone permanently purged.

Nope no access to /system partition. However I was able to remount "/" as read write so looking for something to get excited about. /sbin is in the $PATH and made some things execute from there apparently as root, as soon as your reboot /sbin goes back to default as well as sever other changes I made. I kept having to move su back to /sbin in order to keep useing it in an extremely limited fashion.

So no ability to remove Facebook or the Yahoo Contacts app. There is some kind of lock on that /system partition along with others or just the entire phone. I would go as far as saying it was a special lock of some kind. Annoying.

 

[deansouth8]

Boost don't want us to have access to a recovery to do what we want

Likely because they are concerned about security holes in their network and fear root access could bleed over to reveal what their default ROM and apps really are capable of and lead to bad things for them. I can't necessarily blame them but, we trust them too much with every aspect of our lives. They could at least do the same for a fair playing ground. Right?

Trying to remember that logging software that was on every phone and devs got hold of the phone, dissected the rom, and apps, discovered that it recorded and sent every stroke on the phone to some company and then got the pants sued off them while denying it. It was on my old Samsung Galaxy Prevail.

 

[deansouth8]

Okay... Hopefully useful information. Don't see anyone talking about it in any detail. I see hardly any mention DFU mode. I was able to get the phone in what I'm pretty sure is DFU mode a few times (I THINK) by holding VOL UP+VOL DOWN+POWER from off state with USB connected.

Not sure where I got the driver from or if auto detected, it installed and wanted serial port 6 for me. ZTE Handset Diagnostic Interface(DFU)

The hardware ID in Windows is...
USB\VID_19D2&PID_0112&REV_0000

I tried to Putty to the serial port just to see. There appeared to be a connection, (usually putty bombs out if there isn't something on the other side). Putty simply would echo 0 several times for everything I typed giving the impression someone is home.

Not sure what can be done from here with the right tools and knowledge. Not sure if there are any probe tools that can be downloaded or toys to play with or possible foothold to send commands to it.

 

[deansouth8]

Sorry for spamming the forum. My brain works like this and I just can't help it. I'll stop after this.

disemmcwp
Who was the first to discover it?
More importantly, how & where did they discover it?
Doubt it was by accident and likely not provided as a result of a support call. If the info just leaked then meh.

I'm thinking that if there is a place this command was discovered at, for example looking at a flat file that exists on the original phone. We maybe could look there with our temp root and see if it's there or changed, maybe.