Metro PCS Zmax Pro Software Update Z981v1.0.0B12?

yknujssab · Dec 30, 2016

Error777 said:
USB debugging??

Yes

Error777 · Dec 30, 2016

yknujssab said:
Download the file and put it in your SD card. Now go to settings/developer options and make sure that debugging and OEM unlock are enabled. Now turn the phone off. Go into recovery by holding volume down and then power. Let the buttons go when the ZTE logo starts. You should be in recovery. Now go to update from SD card option and hit the power button. Scroll down to find the update file, then hit the power button. Confirm update and there you go.
Incase you don't have developer options enabled, go to settings/about phone. Scroll down to kernel and hit it 7 times. Developer is now enabled.

It's didn't let me open up update from sd, all it said in the very bottom was "mounted" something. I had do hold the up volume and power button to go to recovery mode because the down volume and power button took me to a white box with letters "FTM"

yknujssab · Dec 30, 2016

Error777 said:
It's didn't let me open up update from sd, all it said in the very bottom was "mounted" something. I had do hold the up volume and power button to go to recovery mode because the down volume and power button took me to a white box with letters "FTM"

Sorry about that. Did it give you the option at all?

Error777 · Dec 30, 2016

yknujssab said:
Sorry about that. Did it give you the option at all?[/QUOTE
It's all good man, and it did give me an option of clicking update from sd, just not opening it and letting me to find the update file

yknujssab · Dec 30, 2016

When you downloaded it, was it in the internal SD or the external?

Error777 · Dec 30, 2016

yknujssab said:
When you downloaded it, was it in the internal SD or the external?

It went straight to my SD

yknujssab · Dec 30, 2016

Error777 said:
It went straight to my SD

Not questioning you, but are you sure? Did you look for it in a file explorer?

Error777 · Dec 30, 2016

yknujssab said:
Not questioning you, but are you sure? Did you look for it in a file explorer?

yknujssab · Dec 30, 2016

OK, move it to the root of the SD card. Then try that

Error777 · Dec 30, 2016

yknujssab said:
OK, move it to the root of the SD card. Then try that

Where's the root of the SD card?

yknujssab · Dec 30, 2016

Error777 said:
Where's the root of the SD card?

It means to put it without being in a folder.

Mikezmax · Dec 30, 2016

horsecharles said:
Scrolling now very buggy - after performing any action... making a post / or a like / selecting or enabling... in browser / android settings / third party apps... Either of the following occurs :
Screen / page freezes in position or will not scroll past a certain point.

Good luck with correction of the issues. Wish I had help. I just want to say I'm taken back by the issues while two zmax pro's and 1 original zmax in my household run and run and have issue free reps. Just amazes me but there could be lesser QC in every thousand made or a few hundred lemons in a 5000 phone lot. Why else do I enjoy the bragging luck I've had with ZTE? Location? Network? ( I'm MetroPCS on t-mobile 's system) really would like to know where the differences in same devices come into play.

Spec2nirvash · Dec 30, 2016

Mikezmax said:
Good luck with correction of the issues. Wish I had help. I just want to say I'm taken back by the issues while two zmax pro's and 1 original zmax in my household run and run and have issue free reps. Just amazes me but there could be lesser QC in every thousand made or a few hundred lemons in a 5000 phone lot. Why else do I enjoy the bragging luck I've had with ZTE? Location? Network? ( I'm MetroPCS on t-mobile 's system) really would like to know where the differences in same devices come into play.

So would I....

Luckily for me B12 fixed everything on my Zmax. I had many problems with B08 right out of the box and was only couple of days away from smashing it.

Ironically B12 broke enough phones for them to yank the update from their servers... Forget root, I'm afraid to even do that now. Phone works great as is

JIMMYHENDRIX · Dec 30, 2016

Ayee you use showbox to that's lit

horsecharles · Dec 31, 2016

Different factories, subcontractors, dysfunctional coding department, penny pinching, counterfeit code n hardware up the wazoo...what have I left out?

Spec2nirvash · Dec 31, 2016

horsecharles said:
Different factories, subcontractors, dysfunctional coding department, penny pinching, counterfeit code n hardware up the wazoo...what have I left out?

ZTE

TrilbyBoy · Jan 2, 2017

Error777 said:
USB debugging??

Since this could help out some, I screencapped a few screens to show.

Thanks to the other guy for the update, in case I wanted to use it on mine, sounds like I didn't miss much with the bugs it had.

TrilbyBoy · Jan 2, 2017

Spec2nirvash said:
So would I....

Luckily for me B12 fixed everything on my Zmax. I had many problems with B08 right out of the box and was only couple of days away from smashing it.

Ironically B12 broke enough phones for them to yank the update from their servers... Forget root, I'm afraid to even do that now. Phone works great as is

I think I'll stay with B08, I didn't see much to make me want to update anyway and I haven't even used Video Calling when that option was there on my LG G Stylo.

M666p · Jan 2, 2017

I think I found a strange fix for the lag in the B12 update. After trying a bunch of stuff greenify, clearing cache and disabling everything that I could. I tried disabling google keyboard and installed another keyboard (chrooma) and after a reboot the lag is gone and animations are smoother. Please try disabling google keyboard and reply if it really works.

Edit: Please install another keyboard before disabling google keyboard.

Spec2nirvash · Jan 3, 2017

M666p said:
I think I found a strange fix for the lag in the B12 update. After trying a bunch of stuff greenify, clearing cache and disabling everything that I could. I tried disabling google keyboard and installed another keyboard (chrooma) and after a reboot the lag is gone and animations are smoother. Please try disabling google keyboard and reply if it really works.

Edit: Please install another keyboard before disabling google keyboard.

Didn't Google do away with the keyboard app? All I can find now is GBoard, should've updated to that anyway.

Curses.... Not even soon after allowing you to theme your keyboard with a gallery image, they dump it. The GBoard keyboard seems a lot more smoother but just so.... Blah. No theming. Jerks.

Oh yeah, probably not going to see a lot of responses on that. These phones seem to have their own custom tailored, owner-based failures installed. B12 alone eliminated the pixelation on mine, keyboard made no difference in performance with earlier B08 firmware, and I tried 4 different keyboards.

M666p · Jan 4, 2017

Haha, "custom tailored, owner-based failures". lol
It worked for me though.
Yeah, I meant disable gboard and reboot, phone feels 3x as fast for me, I can finally enjoy the system animations.

Enoch1333 · Jan 7, 2017

B13 coming out pretty soon for metro pcs so stay alert.

Bing Crosbh · Jan 14, 2017

My phone does not even have 12 yet??? So they are skipping 12 altogether?

JIMMYHENDRIX · Jan 14, 2017

Bing Crosbh said:
My phone does not even have 12 yet??? So they are skipping 12 altogether?

Yea they paused b12 b13 should be here like any day and there beta testing nougat

Bing Crosbh · Jan 14, 2017

R u sure that is great news

JIMMYHENDRIX said:
Yea they paused b12 b13 should be here like any day and there bet
a testing nougat

Are you sure that is wonderful news

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