Root Root Zte warp elite N5918

Kobalt_K · Nov 17, 2016

Heckerpead said:
You have held the power button until it reboots right. Have you tried a factory reset yet. I think I had to. I think I had to when I tried something similar.

Yeah, I tried that too but still no boot. There's not anyway I can fix it without a signed boot.img from ZTE. I just gave up and got a S5 for $150 that I could root and install roms on. It's a much better phone IMO

RealWelder · Nov 17, 2016

Kobalt_K said:
Yeah, I tried that too but still no boot. There's not anyway I can fix it without a signed boot.img from ZTE. I just gave up and got a S5 for $150 that I could root and install roms on. It's a much better phone IMO

I could give you a copy of the stock boot.img, how would you flash it, though?

woodgaser · Nov 17, 2016

RealWelder said:
I could give you a copy of the stock boot.img, how would you flash it, though?

earlier post he said he used this to flash

Kobalt_K said:
dd if=/sdcard/boot.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p20

RealWelder · Nov 17, 2016

woodgaser said:
earlier post he said he used this to flash

Yeah, but if it won't boot to android, how's he gonna get temp root and type that in the terminal?

woodgaser · Nov 17, 2016

RealWelder said:
Yeah, but if it won't boot to android, how's he gonna get temp root and type that in the terminal?

do not know if this will help..but found this...

http://mytabletguru.com/flash-dead-unbrick-android-phone/

Heckerpead · Nov 17, 2016

Kobalt_K said:
Yeah, I tried that too but still no boot. There's not anyway I can fix it without a signed boot.img from ZTE. I just gave up and got a S5 for $150 that I could root and install roms on. It's a much better phone IMO

Do you still have the n9518? Would you be willing to do some testing since it is bricked? Not right away, but in the near future.

GrimGrem · Nov 22, 2016

Heckerpead said:
Do you still have the n9518? Would you be willing to do some testing since it is bricked? Not right away, but in the near future.

I've got a different phone as my daily. My warp is a glorified mini tablet at this point. Let me know if you have something to try.

Heckerpead · Nov 22, 2016

GrimGrem said:
I've got a different phone as my daily. My warp is a glorified mini tablet at this point. Let me know if you have something to try.

Well I have a kernel cooked up, but I don't want to brick anyones phone. We need twrp. I think every partition besides userdata and cache is encrypted so they will need to be formated before flashing so.... yeah its do or die.

GrimGrem · Nov 30, 2016

So we can get temp root. Has anyone been able to pull recovery and bootloader and modify them? Possibly unlock the bootloader and reflash after temp rooting again?

Heckerpead · Nov 30, 2016

We have source code so if someone could compile kernel( which should be compiled as a debug or eng build or selinux permissive and aboot with the right boot configs flags marked, and find a way to format kernel and boot. Then just dd them and twrp( when messi2050 can compile it) Then we're all set.

Heckerpead · Nov 30, 2016

I have a update.zip that is rooted and debloated and deodexed /system. Also has a permissive kernel, but there is no way to flash it at the moment.

GrimGrem said:
So we can get temp root. Has anyone been able to pull recovery and bootloader and modify them? Possibly unlock the bootloader and reflash after temp rooting again?

GrimGrem · Nov 30, 2016

Heckerpead said:
I have a update.zip that is rooted and debloated and deodexed /system. Also has a permissive kernel, but there is no way to flash it at the moment.

Does flashify with temp root work? Or possibly using adb to install the update.zip? I'm assuming the latter will get blocked by the system checking the file first..

Heckerpead · Dec 2, 2016

GrimGrem said:
Does flashify with temp root work? Or possibly using adb to install the update.zip? I'm assuming the latter will get blocked by the system checking the file first..

Flashify should work, adb fails.

iamjohnm · Dec 13, 2016

Damn, have had this phone since Oct 2015. Can't believe there is not a root yet. That temp root just soft bricks the phone..

lovemuffin · Dec 21, 2016

Has anyone tried these? I was just googling and found this post from November. http://androidrootmania.net/how-to-root-zte-warp-elite-manual/

woodgaser · Dec 22, 2016

lovemuffin said:
Has anyone tried these? I was just googling and found this post from November. http://androidrootmania.net/how-to-root-zte-warp-elite-manual/

...most have been tried...Kingo is only one giving temp root so far...but I am afraid the new update will change that.

RealWelder · Dec 22, 2016

woodgaser said:
...most have been tried...Kingo is only one giving temp root so far...but I am afraid the new update will change that.

Has anyone tested that? About a week ago I installed the update...something about a google patch. Anyways, I haven't attempted to gain temp root since... So I was just wondering if anyone has tried.

Heckerpead · Dec 22, 2016

RealWelder said:
Has anyone tested that? About a week ago I installed the update...something about a google patch. Anyways, I haven't attempted to gain temp root since... So I was just wondering if anyone has tried.

Which update? I'm on b12, and kingo takes a few tries and takes a lot longer to do. I did happen to pull the usb when it was about 88-90% and caught a ton of the scripts that it uses to do the rooting, before it could clean up.

On another note I've been checking out a way to trick app_process and zygote and other early boot scripts and services to get install-recovery.sh to install a permisive kernel to the recovery partition. Just dd'ing doesn't work and and the recovery partition just gets rebuilt upon reboot.

MadMann · Jan 5, 2017

Unfortunately #root is the least of our worries. There's the issue of the system being mounted as ro even as root, there's dmverify...We have to have a unlocked bootloader and a writable system partition. Has anyone tried psneuter or dirtycow?Or has anyone tried pushing su and superuser to data/local/tmp and mounting with Nautilus and tried moving su/super user from data to system? I'm in the field without my laptop but that's my 2¢...

shambasta m · Jan 8, 2017

HDguy181 said:
I hope this is the right place for this sorry if not. I have searched throygh the pages here, but thought asking to make sure wouldn't hurt. I just picked up the Zte warp elite n9518 and I am wanting to root it to get rid of all the bullshit they put on it. Is the root guide sticky the right one for this model. And if yes, should I be worried about it freezing like the guide says?
Thanks y'all

shambasta m · Jan 8, 2017

HDguy181 said:
I hope this is the right place for this sorry if not. I have searched throygh the pages here, but thought asking to make sure wouldn't hurt. I just picked up the Zte warp elite n9518 and I am wanting to root it to get rid of all the bullshit they put on it. Is the root guide sticky the right one for this model. And if yes, should I be worried about it freezing like the guide says?
Thanks y'all

shambasta m · Jan 8, 2017

I have root on this phone.

GrimGrem · Jan 8, 2017

shambasta m said:
I have root on this phone.

Does it persist after reboot?

shambasta m · Jan 8, 2017

GrimGrem said:
Does it persist after reboot?

It goes into fix root mode and stays rooted until reboot but I can use apps like titanium back up.

GrimGrem · Jan 8, 2017

shambasta m said:
It goes into fix root mode and stays rooted until reboot but I can use apps like titanium back up.

What method did you use? And after reboot does it wipe your phone?

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