Who's who — RM10 Pro thread contributors
Reference for tracking who's the authority on what when reading the raw extract.
| Handle | Posts | Specialty / role |
|---|---|---|
| Ssmiles | OP | Started the thread; curates ROM links and tooling list in early posts (#5, #245 area). |
| extra98 | 47 | Most prolific. ROM links, fastboot/edl observations. |
| Reminon | 44 | Custom recovery (TWRP/OFRP) lead — see his repo; AVB experiments; manual delta-payload patching wizard. |
| hoahenry | 39 | RE on ztecfg layout; coordinated the data-gathering for signature analysis [#225]; one of the first users to confirm working free-toolbox unlock [#659, #664]. |
| HyoudoIsse | 26 | Active community Q&A. |
hyty (GitHub plompomg) | 32 | Built the OrangeFox recovery for the RM10 Pro — boots, decryption working [#679–#686 p34–35]. Forked from Reminon's TWRP tree. Also general community Q&A. |
| ks75vl | 23 | Cryptographic RE lead — extracted abl_eng RSA pubkey, ran Unicorn-emulated verification [#186, #189, #192]; "boot from USB" speculative bypass [#422]. |
| GigaWrathWave | 22 | EDL tooling experimentation; bkerler/edl ZTE-OEM issue surfacing [#514]. |
| engosen2580 | 20 | Q&A. |
| zcink | 20 | De-Googling-without-root advocate [#501]. |
| Delgado666 | 19 | Q&A. |
| Jole7 | 16 | Q&A. |
| n00b-xda-disciple | 16 | Toolbox version-tracking and link-sharing [#662, #665]. |
| HammadYasin | 14 | Stock-init_boot extraction via dd workflow [#589]. |
| Nicot38 | 13 | Q&A. |
| jstndcllrc0 | 13 | Q&A. |
| DarkestSpawn | (multiple) | Linux/bkerler edl integration [#264]; plain-English unlock-status summary [#392]. RM9 Pro device-tree author whose tree was adapted for RM10 Pro recovery work. |
| AdaUnlocked | (multiple) | Activist / news aggregator for free-unlock landscape across the SM8750 platform [#477, #541, #545, #573]; cross-links RM11 thread. |
| BD_Security | 1 | Single legendary post [#423] — full EDL/firehose root procedure for locked-bootloader RM10 Pro, 26+ hours of debug condensed. |
| MrKonic | 2 (#671, #672) | Forked Redmagic-Control-Center for RM10 Pro; announced public availability of the NX789S kernel source. Wiki maintainer. |
| Oswald Boelcke | (multiple) | XDA Senior Moderator. Polices Telegram/social-media link sharing; one-time-courtesy English translations for non-English posts. Not technical contributor; useful to know who's editing posts. |
| SYXZ (no posts in this thread) | — | Author of ZTE Family Toolbox; on Coolapk; runs the free-unlock private beta. |
Cross-thread reference
The Red Magic 11 Pro free-unlock thread has its own cast. Notable overlap:
- AdaUnlocked drives the rallying / news posts there too.
- SYXZ is the OP / tool author.
- Toolbox technical questions usually get more authoritative answers in the RM11 thread.
See Toolbox cross-reference for the version-history and companion-exploits map.
RM11-thread principals
These drive the RM11 Pro / toolbox work, and several touch the RM10 Pro directly. Posts in this thread are cited as [RM11 #N pP] (search data/rm11pro-unlock.md).
| Handle | Role |
|---|---|
| dev-reverse | The engine of the thread this cycle (146 of the ~676 posts added Jun–Aug 2026). Reverse-engineered a bootable RM11/RM10 kernel (the published ZTE source is unbuildable); leads the GPLv2 escalation and filed the formal Reclame Aqui complaint with its technical audit [RM11 #2367 p119]; published the working 1.2.8-beta2 English toolbox; authored the definitive Option 18/19 explanation [RM11 #2807 p141]. Stepped back from XDA support in Jul 2026 after a moderator warning over off-site links [RM11 #2915 p146]. |
| SnowFuhrer | efisp "mode" bootloader-state work (boot unlocked while presenting as locked); author of the edl-ng EDL client. Confirms the custom efisp work is finished from his side and points at ZTE Toolbox or edl-ng to flash it [RM11 #2885 p145]. |
| n00b-xda-disciple | Also on the RM10 thread; got the RE'd kernel's touchscreen working; shipped the RM11 OrangeFox build (Coding-BR/rm11pro-canoe-dock) and the Canoe Dock guide; drives the Droidspaces / Linux-on-device work. Claims to have reconstructed the missing kernel sources [RM11 #2867 p144] — unverified, no repo published against the claim. |
| astroskyisme | High-volume tester (53 posts) — the abl userdebug / Option 18 / dump-mode failure modes are largely documented through his troubleshooting; surfaced Droidspaces to the thread. |
| IronSingh | Ported LineageOS 23.2 (Android 16) to the NX809J — thread 4791285 [RM11 #2492–#2517 p125–126]. |
| borygo77 | Firmware-compatibility reporting and the "stock ROM + efisp exploit only, no modules" configuration that keeps Wallet and RCS working [RM11 #3024 p152]. Shares EDL backups. |
| christopherrrg | Wrote the reproducible RM11S Pro on 11.5.5_GB procedure with 1.2.8-beta2, including the integrity module stack [RM11 #3019, #3031 p151–152]. |
| -CNote- | First reported Red Magic 10S Pro unlock + root with a working fingerprint [RM11 #2987 p150]; uploaded a full 10S Pro partition backup [RM11 #2966 p149]. |
| kcodya | Author of the REDMAX root module (re-enables features RedMagic OS disables). |
| Haldi4803 | The clearest voice on why not to update — the EDL-loss consequence chain [RM11 #2858, #2881 p143–145]. |
| elrey120 | English-translation work on the toolbox; early "banking/Wallet check bootloader state, not just root" insight. |
| EliteBlackKaiser | Maintains the community mega-guide Google Doc; documents the efisp "modes". |
| superturtlee | Author of gbl_root_canoe (the open-sourced modded-efisp / no-BL-root reference codebase). |
| Grimish2280 | Drafting a native-Linux (bkerler/edl) NX789J unlock writeup [#676 p34, RM10 thread] — WIP, "do not use yet". |
| jolly_roger_hook | Shared the English ZTE Toolbox Drive folder; FOD/calibration analysis. |
| AdaUnlocked | Free-unlock activism & fuse-warning broadcasts (same role as on the RM10 thread). |
MrKonic (you) also weighed in on the RM11 thread, affirming the GPLv2 kernel-source obligation [RM11 #2066 p104].
Verifying citations
Citations use the form [#N pP] — post number N on page P of the RM10 Pro thread — or [RM11 #N pP] for the RM11 Pro / toolbox thread. The raw post text for both threads (extracted to markdown and JSONL) lives in data/ in this repo, so you can search a post number directly with:
bash
grep -n "^### #423" data/rm10pro.md # RM10 thread, post #423
grep -n "^### #2,066" data/rm11pro-unlock.md # RM11 thread, post #2066Or query the JSONL programmatically:
python
import json
with open("data/rm10pro.jsonl") as f:
for line in f:
p = json.loads(line)
if p["author"] == "Reminon" and "```" in p["body_md"]:
print(p["post_num"], p["datetime_human"], p["body_md"][:200])