i thought i read somewhere that if we rooted there could be a chance it would affect the lte when it rolls out. any credence to this?
im tip toeing on rooting or not for the obvious reasons.
dunno if i should or not, development is still kinda early.
im also aware of the nfc google wallet reset before hand. little things like that scare me if i root and months down the road find out some features have been trashed because of it. thanks for any clarification.
bamp. lol 232 views? dis real life?
I haven't heard anything about it messing up LTE. I did root my phone the moment I got home, but I have yet to unlock it.
I haven't even ran Wallet yet either, so I'm not worried about that (although I do know that if I do use it that you have to wipe data from the app before flashing new ROMs). Wallet did ask me for root and I give it the big F-U and noticed that when I reboot my phone I'll see a message on my phone saying it was denied root access (again, I haven't even opened the app yet so I'm not worried about it bricking the chip)
Here's the boat I'm in...
My phone right now is stock, although I've had Android phones and custom ROMs since G1 days. I've downloaded everything I need to to root, watched QBKING77 videos, and put them aside since I didn't have a time or particular pressing need to root yet. I even went through a dry run of the process to make myself comfortable with it.
I'm going on a business trip, flying out Sunday. I'm travelling with a coworker so my need still isn't critical, but it turns out we've had a lot of employees flying to customer sites this week, and there were no more MiFi wireless hotspots to grab. My coworker has one, so we're OK for this trip, as long as we're working together at least. I'd prefer to have one of my own as well, but it's not critical.
So the benefit of rooting would be that I could use wireless tethering if I found myself needing to work independently of my coworker, since I couldn't secure a MiFi for the trip. It's a "maybe" need.
I obviously need my phone - that IS critical. I've got it fully configured, it works, my Exchange setup, etc.
The risk:
I could root my phone quick - I'm confident in the process. My concern is, there's some risk that something might go wrong, and/or I have to wipe/reset my phone, and that would put me in a bad place with no time to recover before this trip.
Given your experience rooting, am I making too big of a deal of this risk?
Should I just root it, don't worry about it, the odds of something going wrong are about as slim as winning the lottery?
Or should I hold off for a time where I've got time to recover in the event I have to wipe or reset?
Rooting is for pleasure. Business first before pleasure. So don't root.
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Why root unless you actually need root for an application .
jje
Flashing CF-root takes seconds. But I wanted to get rid of the flash count so I used triangle away which is risky, but it all went without fail. But if you don't need root now don't do it now.
JJEgan said:
Why root unless you actually need root for an application .
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I have potential need for wireless tethering, since I don't have a MiFi to bring on this trip.
Do you mean you want to use S3 as wifi hotspot? If so you don't need to root.
I root every phone I own and never get any problem attributable to rooting. But I heard a few bank apps purposely don't work for rooted phones.
So I am an absolute root noob, I figured I'd preface the post with that. Anyway A while back I had one of my buddies root my gs4 just for optimization purposes. Anyhow all was great until we left for school pretty far away. I switched to my brother's old iPhone due to some issues with hooking up to wifi. Well now that iPhone is **** (shocker) and I wanted to switch back over to my gs4. I factory reset it and it is stuck in the downloading screen. And I don't have access to any backups. Please help.
I cannot even find any information on this device let alone a root method. Apparently from my searches methods for the zenphone may work but im not sure if I want to risk bricking this device, but verizon would just replace it anyway. I guess its fairly new? It came with MM and already has an OTA which i keep putting off while I am going to try out various methods to get this one rooted and unleashed since one verizon store essentially scammed me over my new s7 edge so another store refunded everything for me. Now I got this 4g tablet I want to fasten in my car and it would be nice to root or unlock and put some custom vehicle firmware on it or something like that.
I have the same issue with my new Zenpad 3 8.0 . KingRoot and some other rooting apps didn't work for me.
At least someone finally replies.... I am still stuck trying to root this thing. I've tried nearly everything to no success. Even the temporary cwm wouldn't work for me
Same here buddy. Why did ASUS remove such features as App to SD and multi user support?
Anyone found anything? I have the tablet too...
Well damn this sux, Verizon stuck me with another unrootable device, at least I can say I got my pixel in time to unlock the bootloader and route it but not much activity for it since decided to lock them down. I thought I learned with my G4 that's why I got the pixel got home just to find out they're going to be locked down too lol Oh God how I loath Verizon
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Well damn this sux, Verizon stuck me with another unrootable device, at least I can say I got my pixel in time to unlock the bootloader and route it but not much activity for it since decided to lock them down. I thought I learned with my G4 that's why I got the pixel got home just to find out they're going to be locked down too lol Oh God how I loath Verizon
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I hear ya. I have this tablet too: Asus Verizon Zenpad Z8 ZT581KL with V.3.4.23. Despite my best efforts, the damn system update notification keeps coming up telling me to update to Android 7--which I DO NOT want to do since doing that very well could kill any small hope I have on rooting the device. Since this is a Verizon branded tablet, they made an agreement with Asus to lock it down like Gitmo, so any official bootloader unlocker will not work with Verizon. Maybe one day when Verizon get's their head out of their ass and understands that people have the right to screw with their phones, they will allow unlocking options--though I doubt it.
This would be a great little tablet, if Verizon gave us more control over it--Jesus Christ, you're still getting $$ from me on your non-unlimited data. Bunch of ****-tards---I used to work for them back in the day at one of their corporate locations in Folsom, CA. Sadly, I think it's that prison mentality (Folsom Prison) that must have been carried in the air a few miles to the Verizon offices there. That was WDTS (Wireless Data Tech Support)....I was there right when EVDO just came out/expanding (Before Iphones...closest thing would have been a BES-Enabled Blackberry, or a fancy PDA)--oh those were the days...
There are rooting options available if you understand Chinese--but even its for older software versions 3.3.x, etc, and from what I can understand, the flash might actually take (hackers take note: if the flash can take..maybe we can piece together a flash with proper rooted versions)...but since this is a Sim/LTE tablet by doing that it will screw up the radio (Cellular) and recovery partitions. But maybe something round-about could be done that does that, then reflashes modified signed firmware to root it--I dunno.
My google-fu is pretty good and I came across some cached, or snippet that said SRSroot might root 6.0.1 on the ZT581KL, but not sure now legit it is.
Unless more people get this tablet/devs play with it, I don't think we will get root/bootloader/recovery anytime soon. I wish I lived in a country that allowed multiple wifes, because I would do a bounty for root on this devices and give away one of my wives for payment.
I used the tablet mostly for navigation, but I want root/twrp for backup purposes, if I need to wipe the device crossing the border since police now wanting to look at peoples phones/tablets. I love using Waze since I'll be driving down the road with a FAT blunt smoking away, so it's good to know if cops are around.
Zenpad z8 running on Fi
I also have this pad. I bought it from Verizon because it's USB-C and I loathe micro USB and even more so because the helpful sales guy at Verizon let me try my Google Fi data only sim...and sure enough it works awesome after setting h2g2 as the apn. Would love to root it though I hate how I can only have one user account on this for now.
Kind of off-topic, but I can't find any clear answer to my question about the Z8 and Z8s. I'm considering buying one, but I do not want a data-plan. Do these tablets work without a SIM in them, or will I be stuck at a home screen that says "Insert SIM..."?
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Kind of off-topic, but I can't find any clear answer to my question about the Z8 and Z8s. I'm considering buying one, but I do not want a data-plan. Do these tablets work without a SIM in them, or will I be stuck at a home screen that says "Insert SIM..."?
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Of course you can use it without a SIM.
I just ordered this tablet. I'm sad I can't root it, but I mainly use root for adblocking. I will have to use DNS66 or BlockThis instead.
This method doesn't work?
https://neopodapsi.com/how-to-root-asus-zenpad-z8/
replica9000 said:
This method doesn't work?
Nope, just a scam to fill out never ending surveys
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Zenpad P008 Verizon root - no luck
I just tried One Click Root and that didn't work either. Upon chatting with support they were stymied by the lack of an 'OEM Override' debug mode setting.
Can anybody help, I'm new at this stuff. Plus I'm teaching myself. I've rooted some devices. Did some firmware jobs, kinda' familiar with Odin. But I've tried everything from KingRoot PC to adb tryna' root this thing (P008). Between this thing and that Knox MDM shizzle. Man!, Anybody got anything on these topics......
Anyone try Magisk?? I also want to root this thing. Cannot get a usb gaming controller to recognize either.
I have received a Verizon QMV7B tablet from my youth pastor (who owns his own business doing estate sales) and came across a tablet that he was hoping I could help him with. I own my own IT business and was willing to help but not sure of a couple things.
1. Once it's on, it doesn't seem to want to turn off so that I can perform the power+volume up sequence. I have only been able to do reboots. Maybe the answer here is to let the battery drain, charge just a little, and try to do power+volume up.
2. It is password protected via the number pad, so I am not able to get past that part either
I am not sure where to go from here. I have rooted a couple of my phones in the past so I do have a little experience with that. I am not looking to root but is there a way that I can have this thing booted up, connect to the computer, and run a few commands that would either A. boot me to the system menu, or B. allow me to do the reset right from the command line? I seem to remember doing a similar task a while back when I was rooting my HTC Thunderbolt when I was setting it up to be rooted.
Any ideas how to do this? Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you