Z7 max rooted with CWM and international CM11 ROM
I got my Z7 max from ET in china. LTE works fine in France (Orange) .
The problem: I wanted to root the ROM (international version) and it didn't work.
I used the instructions in
http://www.androidpit.com/forum/617128/nx505j-nubia-z7-max-root-cwm-recovery-and-cm11-rom-tutorial
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This tutorial is referred to in the following.
But I couldn't root with the towelroot.apk as described in , maybe due to the special ROM on my phone. If you can skip step 1.
1. What I did was to install the chinese ROM version 1.38 through recovery mode (volume up +power on) and insatll "update.zip" (
2. then I was able to root (towelroot), install supersupro and reboot
3. I could not go in fastboot mode to change recovery to CWM (volume down+poweron). what I did was to install the "flashify app" and put the CWM recovery.img on my phone. My flashify the recovery was flashed.
4. I rebooted and got the CWM menu. I installed the international CM11 ROM (wipe data/factory) of the tutorial.
5. As "gogle play" was not on the NX505J CM11 ROM edition II (nighly status), I rebooted and installed gapps.zip thru "recovery" then rebooted
6. Everything worked fine except that the "menu" and "back" buttons were not placed ass I am used to ("back" on left)
7. finally to swap "back" and "menu" buttons, I followed the steps given in "
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2005377"
Then everything was allright for me. ROM is OK so far I recommend this phone who has dual sim full hd screen, LTE and is cheap..
All the files I used can be found here:
https://mega.co.nz/#F!FBQhxKpY!NJTLD-sk3JkzsD0IaXBzMA