How to Root ZTE Nubia Z11 MAX NX523J and Install TWRP Recovery
If you are a owner of a ZTE Nubia Z11 MAX smartphone, and also want to customize your smartphone, then you have visited the right page.
The ZTE Nubia Z11 runs on Android 5.0 out of the box, and powered with Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 MSM8976 Octa-core Processor, clocked at 4×1.4GHz + 4×1.8GHz. The display is large 6-inch, which is an AMOLED screen, supporting full HD resolution of 1920×1080 pixels. There is 4GB of RAM, along with 64GB of internal storage, and supporting TF card up to 200GB. The main camera on the rear is a 16 megapixels shooter, while a 8 megapixels camera is provided on the front for taking selfies. The phone has a gorgeous design, and available in various countries, including USA. However it supports limited carriers, and reportedly doesn’t supports T-Mobile LTE. Though being an Chinese origin phone, it’s operating system includes Chinese touch.Â
If you are an Android Enthusiast, and want to Root and Install TWRP recovery on your beloved, then you have landed on the right page. In the due course of the article, we will guiding you through the process to install TWRP and root ZTE Nubia Z11 MAX.
The TWRP features the material design, and attractive user interface (UI), and by following this guide you can install latest TWRP for ZTE Nubia Z11 MAX. You can download TWRP Recovery from the links provided in the pre-requisite section of this article. Kindly note that this is a <official/unofficial> TWRP recovery and is only for ZTE Nubia Z11 MAX (Kindly confirm the model by going to Settings>About). The process given below is merely for rooting and installing TWRP on ZTE Nubia Z11 MAX, do not try out this method on any other device.
If you want to unleash the full potential of the hardware of your ZTE Nubia Z11 MAX, then rooting and flashing the TWRP is the main concern. The Stock ROMs have often limited and unsupported features in the sense of Customization. When you have a rooted device and also flashed TWRP recovery, then you are free to install any Custom ROMs, Mods, Kernel, and Xposed etc., as well as many apps which requires root access to work properly.
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Brief Details and Advantage of TWRP Recovery
TWRP (Team Win Recovery Project) is an open source, community development project. By flashing the TWRP, your device will be enabled to install any custom firmware, rooting your smartphone, mod zip files for customizations, Xposed Modules for customized features, one click root and unroot processes. Apart from that, it allows you to take Full Nandroid Backup and restore it later, one click image file flashing, remove bloatware, overclock and underclock. Using TWRP, one can easily clean Wipe, Cache and Data after flashing any image file to reflect the changes and rectify minor errors due to cache.
For installing the TWRP, your ZTE Nubia Z11 MAX phone must have the Unlocked bootloader. That means you have to firstly unlock the bootloader to root your device as well doing any customization.
About TWRP Recovery 3.0.2 by stalence:
- Multilanguage
- Full and correct russian translation by frost_ua
- Add additional backup items like NVRAM and etc. by frost_ua
- Minor fixes
Disclaimer: The AndroidWeblog.com covers although everything in a very neat and a processed manner so that our readers get exactly what they want, still there are meager chances of basic issues that may arise out of the listed steps here. Hence it is in sole interest of the user to follow the steps very cautiously so as to stay away from any mishappenings with your device.
Rooting and flashing the Custom ROM firmware, certainly without any doubt voids your devices warranty and AndroidWeblog.com in no way will be held responsible for warranty void or your bricked device.
Prerequiste
Ensure to check your model number, which must be:
- ZTE Nubia Z11 MAX
You must have to ensure that prior to rooting your phone , you have read thoroughly the disclaimer and you agree to proceed further on your risk.
- Phone Should be Charged
Your phone must be 70% charged atleast else, it may lead to complications sometimes while experimenting. Why to take risk, try to charge it fully.
- Back Up
If you are either going to root your phone or install a Custom ROM, it is a good habit to make a back up of your phone. Make a back up of all your media like images, videos and all on your PC and your contacts on Cloud.
- Enable USB Debugging
You must enable USB debugging option by going in to Settings, Applications and Developer options.
Downloads For Rooting ZTE Nubia Z11 MAX
Download TWRP Recovery for ZTE Nubia Z11 MAX from here:
TWRP Recovery (Login required)
Download SuperSU by Chainfire from here.
Steps to Flash/ Install TWRP on ZTE Nubia Z11 MAX
Step 1:Â Begin with downloading all the files mentioned above in the prerequisite section.
Step 2: Unzip the TWRP zipped file downloaded into the folder, and note down it’s path.
Step 3: Enable USB debugging on ZTE Nubia Z11 Max (Settings > About phone > Tap 7 times on Build numer > Back to Settings > Other system settings >Developer options > Enable USB debugging) and, then connect the device to computer.
Step 4: Now, navigate to the folder extracted in the Step 2, and then check and double click to run ‘recovery.bat’ file.
Step 5: If there is any need, install Drivers (Select 1), otherwise skip to Step 6.
Step 6: Now, just Type ‘2’, and then hit ‘Enter’. This will begin flashing the TWRP.
Step 7: If you wish to Root, and want to have ‘Root privileges’/’SuperSU’, then simply Select 3, and this will root the device (Temporarily).
Step 8: If you wish to install Stock Recovery 1.23 , type ‘4’. If you wish to install TWRP recovery in the fastboot mode, select ‘5’. Finally, if you want to install the Stock recovery 1.23 in fastboot mode, select ‘6’.
Step 9: If you either rooted or flashed recovery through ‘Stalence Tools’, then you are good to go. To make it more clear, you can root your device, by simply navigating to the ‘TWRP Advance> Stalence Tools> Click ‘Root’, and this would root the device.
Congratulations, now you have rooted ZTE Nubia Z11 MAX and also flashed the TWRP. Now, you can install Xposed Framework, and customize your smartphone as per your preference. If you wish to verify, you may download and check the Root Status through Root Checker app.