Manufacturing Mode set to YES after running me_cleaner on Zenbook

[G0rd0n]

Hi team,

I just flashed the Asus Zenbook UX305F yesterday and wanted to check something.
After running me_cleaner script with the -S flag I re-flashed the modified firmware to the bios chip and got a fully working machine. It ran well past the 30-minute mark, so I dare to confirm a successful procedure.

The intelmetool output however shows me a mildly concerning message regarding 'Manufacturing Mode', which to my understanding is exactly the reason we would want to deactivate IME in the first place. (before the procedure it was Manufacturing Mode : NO)
ME: Manufacturing Mode : YES

Full output:

ME: FW Partition Table : OK
ME: Bringup Loader Failure : NO
ME: Firmware Init Complete : NO
ME: Manufacturing Mode : YES
ME: Boot Options Present : NO
ME: Update In Progress : NO
ME: Current Working State : Initializing
ME: Current Operation State : Bring up
ME: Current Operation Mode : Debug
ME: Error Code : No Error
ME: Progress Phase : BUP Phase
ME: Power Management Event : Clean Moff->Mx wake
ME: Progress Phase State : 0x4d

ME: Extend SHA-256: [stuff_be_here]

ME: failed to become ready
ME: failed to become ready
ME: GET FW VERSION message failed

Is it supposed to look like this, or will I have to perform some additional modifications?

I will later write a clear guide for this model, just to help out future forum visitors. There was quite some hacking and hot-glue involved though, so it won't be anything fancy I could recommend to a novice.