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Rooting an Asus Zenfone 2 Laser Z500KL
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2016 3:27 am
by gradial
Anyone know about rooting android phones? Pretty new and from following a guide all I've managed to do is get my phone stuck in a bootloop...
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2016 7:34 am
by FuraiTHD
Hey,
What phone? What are you trying to do with it? Why do you want to root it? I've been as far with my android phone (SGS II) that I've even repartitioned it and I'm running on it newest android 6.0.1.
I might be able to help you.
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2016 7:55 am
by gradial
Awesome! Its an Asus Zenfone 2 laser ZE500KL and the bloatware takes up all the room on my phone to the point where I can hardly download 2 apps... I have an SD card with the phone but the Marshmallow android update made it so you cannot put apps on the SD card without rooting
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2016 9:56 am
by FuraiTHD
Most of the rooting methods I've just found on xda forums make you totally wipe the phone.
This seems like something that might work. Still, there are not a lot of threads that are useful. I recommend searching either xda forums or cyanogenmod forums. There are usually some useful threads. I'm sorry that I can't help you more.
As to the bootloop - wipe might help.
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2016 11:02 am
by gradial
Ah thanks for trying!
I've been trying to follow this
onebut was having trouble with getting the root to stick. I ended up asking a more tech savvy friend of mine and it turns out that the supersu install wasn't actually happening, had to manually move the files to the appropriate locations myself. So I have a rooted phone! Now I just need to figure out how to move apps over...

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2016 11:26 am
by FuraiTHD
Actually, I'd just do all of that with ADB.
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2016 11:23 pm
by gradial
Ehh? move the files over or move the apps with ADB?
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 7:24 am
by FuraiTHD
I don't know really what do you want to achieve. Root might have not been needed at all. You just go to sytstem settings > apps and move individually each app to SD card. If that's possible and if the app supports it. Manually moving won't really help. You can use ADB to remove some of the preinstalled system apps, but you have to know what you're doing.