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Hi everybody!



First of all i want to say I'm not a "devoloper", just a guy with a phone and a little background in programming, so anything i may write is an interpretation or an idea i made up of something and probably it's wrong, so feel free to correct me (obviusly with proof and documentation)



In another thread we (people with a ze500kl) started to think a way to root our phone and made some try (especially thanks to @wiiliamchung )



Actually we menaged pretty nothing but since we are a community we can share tought and ideas to try to make something working!



For now our best bet is inspired from the root method of the ZE551ML (Point 3.1, method 2)



So we are trying to compile a new recovery to push supersu in the /system folder



@williamchung already tried compiling the CWM but it didn't worked.



Actually i'm downloading on a server the Omnirom source to compile the TWRP.



For compiling TWRP and CWM you need the boot.img, that I have extracted from the official Asus firmware , that is a simple .zip file, so i just opened it and extracted the boot.img, that you can also download HERE, if you don't want to download the 1.3Gb of firmware.



Using THIS guide we can extract the required info from boot.img and start building our recovery, at least in theory!



I'll update this post when we discover something new!