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* I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards, thermonuclear war,
* or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please do some research
* if you have any concerns about features included in this ROM/KERNEL
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* you point your finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you.
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I have a Moto E5 plus XT1924-5 (rhannah) in my possession. It is the only device in which this guide has been tested. I should serve for the rest of the rhannah and others moto e5 without problems.
My cust LATAM and the compilation version is OPP27.91-25. Do not make the fast route if you do not have exactly the same device with that same compilation number or if you do not know exactly what you are doing.
The guide is divided into parts. First how to backup everything. Then how to root with magisk (for that there is fast and slow way)
What do you need.
- 1 Moto e5 Plus
- 1 Micro Sd card (minimum 4gb)
- Usb Cable
- Adb and fastboot drivers installed
-. Read the complete guide before to understand what they are doing (5 minutes, no bricks)
- 1 Brain.
- Comprehensive reading
FIRST STAGE (COMMON). BACKUP OF EVERYTHING.
Our phone have its own TWRP, works relatively well, except that it does not allow decrypting and therefore mounting the data partition and internal storage.
The steps.
1.- You open the bootloader. Look at any guide to open bootloader in Motorola, it has not science and is common for all motorala phones
2.- Download the Moto e5 play (james) TWRP (https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-e5/development/recovery-twrp-moto-e-5-play-james-t3796323)
3.- We put the phone in fastboot. For this, we activate the USB debugging and with the connected phone we write in a CMD "adb reboot-bootloader"
4.- In fastboot we write in our CMD "fastboot boot twrp_james.img". This will start our phone in TWRP without permanently flashing the recovery (for no reason to flash it)
5.- The recovery will take something to start and it will ask us for our key to decrypt data. We need to press cancel as the recovery will fail even with the correct key. DONT MOUNT SYSTEM WITH RW PERMISSION
6.- Go to the backup section, we choose as our destination SD and we backup
ALL except data and cache.
7.- Restart the cell phone and we put our backup in one or more safe place (the misfortunes happen)
With this we already have a backup of boot and system so we will not have problems if we make mistakes later
SECOND STAGE (THE DIFFICULT ROUTE) Patching our own boot.img for magisk
1.- In android we download and install he last magisk manager APK (available in my google drive account https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XD7Q7NXmchTNsSJ-oqt2TOXO8osroVJp)
2.- We open it, we go to setting and in "Update Channel" we activate the beta channel of updates (THE DEVICE WILL ENTER IN BOOTLOOP WITHOUT WITHOUT THIS STEP)
3.- In the main screen of magisk we are going to install, we accept to install the version of magisk 16.7 or superior (by no reason a lower one) and we go to "Patch boot image file", we select the file boot.emmc.win of our backup and We wait for you to patch our boot. (sdcard/TWRP/ Backups /ZL5223F3V8 / DATE /)
4.- Magisk will generate a patched boot in /internalstorage/MagiskManager/patched_boot.img
5.- Copy patched_boot.img to our computer, put the phone in fastboot mode and flash the patched_boot.img with the command fastboot flash boot patched_boot.img, and later restart the phone.
Ready!. Magisk perfectly installed our phone. In my case, safety.net passes without problems.
Second stage. (The easy way). SAFE ONLY in the variants indicated
0- Open bootloader
1.- Make the backups (iam not responsable of this)
2.- put the phone in fastboot mode
3.- Flash my boot.img patched for magisk "fastboot flash boot patched_boot.img"
Moto e5 plus XT1924-5 OPP27.91-25
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XHtV1rI1cDPQCAw8otuBRxeSzNBzKWQn/view?usp=sharing
Moto e5 plus XT-1924-8 (Thanks Arslan_Rulex)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zu9mefxd397nr1f/patched_boot.img/file
Moto e5 plus XT1924-7 (MetroPCS) (Thanks theUsualSuspexx)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UzP5NEBLD3_ex_zU2EoijVFs1uiGBEMI
Backups TWRP
Moto e5 plus rhannah xt1924-5 (OPP27.91-25.) Include twrp backup of rooted boot partition with system partition, and untouched boot partition (separated)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Vu0CvgBc0QeSxWOLyRgcMykvJ9ckgQy_
I hope you send yours, since there is only one fastboot image for this phone.
Thanks a lot, now im root in my e5 plus OPP27.91-41, via THE DIFFICULT ROUTE. the easy route give me a softbrick, :highfive:
folken2003 said:
Thanks a lot, now im root in my e5 plus OPP27.91-41, via THE DIFFICULT ROUTE. the easy route give me a softbrick, :highfive:
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What rom are you using bike friend e5?
Rodneyy said:
What rom are you using bike friend e5?
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the stock rom
In case I want to download and install an OTA update, is it possible to undo this by uninstalling Magisk (and its modules, Exposed, etc.) and reinstall the old boot.img via TWRP? Or would that brick the device?
Hinterecke said:
In case I want to download and install an OTA update, is it possible to undo this by uninstalling Magisk (and its modules, Exposed, etc.) and reinstall the old boot.img via TWRP? Or would that brick the device?
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In theory, reinstalling your unmodified stock boot image will remove all traces of systemless root. On OTA installations with most Moto devices, the update.zip performs a number of checksums in order to verify that certain partitions are unaltered. Your /recovery, /boot, /system, /oem, and /vendor partitions are typically included in these checksums. Even if these partitions have never been altered, an OTA will nevertheless fail if any of the aforementioned partitions have ever been mounted as r/w, even if they were not altered or modified. So, if you've ever mounted any of these partitions as r/w via TWRP, your OTA will fail, but the likelihood of a brick is extremely slim. The best way to prepare your device for an OTA is to flash a full factory firmware package via fastboot or RSD Lite. RELOCKING THE BOOTLOADER IS NEVER NECESSARY ON A MOTO DEVICE FOR INSTALLING AN OTA UPDATE.
Alternatively, you may use a UTF-8 encoding capable file editor to remove checksums from your captured OTA package. Then, you can flash it with TWRP even on a rooted device.
So to fully answer your question, you would want to install stock recovery and boot image via fastboot, not TWRP, since the OTA will fail with a custom recovery. The OTA will need to be installed via stock recovery, not TWRP.
I used @avilav 's rooting method he described over here and didn't install TWRP because it would be useless, I actually read the big warning, so still on stock recovery.
Don't have the factory firmware for my rhannah XT-1924-1 (reteu) either so flashing that is not much of an option. Maybe I should just leave it this way cause most MOTO updates, for the cheaper devices, are mostly just security updates, no new features, software, etc.
MotoJunkie01 said:
In theory, reinstalling your unmodified stock boot image will remove all traces of systemless root. On OTA installations with most Moto devices, the update.zip performs a number of checksums in order to verify that certain partitions are unaltered. Your /recovery, /boot, /system, /oem, and /vendor partitions are typically included in these checksums. Even if these partitions have never been altered, an OTA will nevertheless fail if any of the aforementioned partitions have ever been mounted as r/w, even if they were not altered or modified. So, if you've ever mounted any of these partitions as r/w via TWRP, your OTA will fail, but the likelihood of a brick is extremely slim. The best way to prepare your device for an OTA is to flash a full factory firmware package via fastboot or RSD Lite. RELOCKING THE BOOTLOADER IS NEVER NECESSARY ON A MOTO DEVICE FOR INSTALLING AN OTA UPDATE.
Alternatively, you may use a UTF-8 encoding capable file editor to remove checksums from your captured OTA package. Then, you can flash it with TWRP even on a rooted device.
So to fully answer your question, you would want to install stock recovery and boot image via fastboot, not TWRP, since the OTA will fail with a custom recovery. The OTA will need to be installed via stock recovery, not TWRP.
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+1 .If you never mount system rw before backup you should not have problems. It is not necessary to do it with this way of rooting, and in theory if you make a backup system-image you should not have problems , since that is a bit-by-bit backup
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folken2003 said:
Thanks a lot, now im root in my e5 plus OPP27.91-41, via THE DIFFICULT ROUTE. the easy route give me a softbrick, :highfive:
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como lo hiciste?
mickeynews said:
como lo hiciste?
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RTFM
I have the Boost Mobile (Sprint) version which shows as XT1924-8 in the Hardware tab in settings. It has the Snapdragon 435 1.4Ghz octacore w/ 3GB ram 32GB rom. I was able to follow these steps to unlock the bootloader, fastboot into TWRP, did a backup, install magisk manager, patch the boot image and then flash it via fastboot. I might try to get unltd tethering working but for now WOOOOOO-HOOOOOO, this was a rush!
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I have the Boost Mobile (Sprint) version which shows as XT1924-8 in the Hardware tab in settings. It has the Snapdragon 435 1.4Ghz octacore w/ 3GB ram 32GB rom. I was able to follow these steps to unlock the bootloader, fastboot into TWRP, did a backup, install magisk manager, patch the boot image and then flash it via fastboot. I might try to get unltd tethering working but for now WOOOOOO-HOOOOOO, this was a rush!
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That's excellent news. You are encouraged to start a rooting tutorial thread for the xt1924-8. By the way, upload me a system image and boot image from a TWRP backup of your device and I'll compile a TWRP flashable stock ROM for the device.
MotoJunkie01 said:
That's excellent news. You are encouraged to start a rooting tutorial thread for the xt1924-8. By the way, upload me a system image and boot image from a TWRP backup of your device and I'll compile a TWRP flashable stock ROM for the device.
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Sure, I'm uploading the files to mediafire and should be up in a little while.
As for the tutorial basically I did ALMOST everything. I didn't flash twrp and I didn't flash noverity. I did get stuck with no boot when I flashed the patched boot img but figured it out (update channel wasn't set to beta). To fix that boot issue I restarted back to the bootloader then booted twrp and then restored just my boot image from the backup. Then I did the magisk patching and then flashed it and this time I got root.
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Sure, I'm uploading the files to mediafire and should be up in a little while.
As for the tutorial basically I did ALMOST everything. I didn't flash twrp and I didn't flash noverity. I did get stuck with no boot when I flashed the patched boot img but figured it out (update channel wasn't set to beta). To fix that boot issue I restarted back to the bootloader then booted twrp and then restored just my boot image from the backup. Then I did the magisk patching and then flashed it and this time I got root.
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Ok. Got it. You basically followed standard protocol based on the tutorial for other variants.
Cool. Once you get me the files I should be able to cook up the ROM and post sometime tomorrow. Thanks for your efforts and your feedback. This will help other members with your variant.
Ok, here is the link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?6862xg60zi8ai
Edit: I also was able to pull the stock recovery img using the XDA TWRP app in android.
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hi how do you install the twrp backup you posted
seantello97 said:
hi how do you install the twrp backup you posted
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Just like any twrp backup. Put it in your twrp/backups/*your phone's serial number*/*put backup here*
Stuck in bootloader
Hi thanks for that. I flashed Magisk on my e5 plus and rebooted but it takes me to bootloader every time. any ideas?
Hi the boot.img isn't showing up where i put it
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Hello, I was searching for a root for my "new" Samsung J3 Prime (SM-J327W) that I got from my sister. I did the OEM Unlock and in ODIN Mode, it says that it's also "FRP LOCK : OFF". So far, CF-Auto-Root didn't work and all TWRP images, that I found, wouldn't even download on the device . I tried images for the "T", "P" and "U" variants also. The "P" one, lead to bootloop (I recovered stock rom since I got it). So is there any root for this device? It's on the latest versions of firmware and Android available for it.
Did you find anything for the J327W yet? I can only find ROMs for the 320, 327P and 330. I've been having very erratic battery life for over a year. It started after a factory android update. Sometimes my battery life will drop from 70% down to less than 5% in a minute. I've done a factory reset, cleared the cache and replaced the battery but nothing has helped. Trying to put a new ROM OS on this POS is my last hope.
shane_c said:
Did you find anything for the J327W yet? I can only find ROMs for the 320, 327P and 330. I've been having very erratic battery life for over a year. It started after a factory android update. Sometimes my battery life will drop from 70% down to less than 5% in a minute. I've done a factory reset, cleared the cache and replaced the battery but nothing has helped. Trying to put a new ROM OS on this POS is my last hope.
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I think you'll need a battery replacement at this point... I did build a TWRP ROM myself for my popeltecan (code name of J327W in Canada apparently) but, according to a TWRP Builder Developer, my device might have some kernel issues with TWRP so I can share my ROM but I am not sure it will work on your device. Do you have your stock ROM in case?
Here is a GDrive link to my recoveries, there's the stock and the twrp one but be aware that you need all the ROM if there is a problem with the twrp (that means stock : BL, AP, CP and CSC). But you can use the stock recovery to build a device tree.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1dNZGaNvCtd5kinHNfnr8MV5Z6o2_GOj4
MikasuX14 said:
I think you'll need a battery replacement at this point... I did build a TWRP ROM myself for my popeltecan (code name of J327W in Canada apparently) but, according to a TWRP Builder Developer, my device might have some kernel issues with TWRP so I can share my ROM but I am not sure it will work on your device. Do you have your stock ROM in case?
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Replaced the battery about 3 months ago but it made no difference. I have some vacation time coming up so will have a little more free time to look into things.
shane_c said:
Replaced the battery about 3 months ago but it made no difference. I have some vacation time coming up so will have a little more free time to look into things.
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Maybe a factory reset would be a good idea to try. If you want to try my twrp recovery build, you'll be wiping your data anyway. I highly suggest you to get the full stock rom since even just getting back the stock recovery could end up with a weird sort of corruption (like duplicated or unknown options inside the Settings app, or at least I experienced that). I am not responsible if it breaks anything, you were warned to get your precautions such as getting the stock rom.
MikasuX14 said:
Hello, I was searching for a root for my "new" Samsung J3 Prime (SM-J327W) that I got from my sister. I did the OEM Unlock and in ODIN Mode, it says that it's also "FRP LOCK : OFF". So far, CF-Auto-Root didn't work and all TWRP images, that I found, wouldn't even download on the device . I tried images for the "T", "P" and "U" variants also. The "P" one, lead to bootloop (I recovered stock rom since I got it). So is there any root for this device? It's on the latest versions of firmware and Android available for it.
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hi if your still looking. i looked into it and the j327u twrp does work on j327w. i had the same problem trying to gain SU access with the other image files for j327w i had to use magisk zip and install it from twrp menu. had to format data and mount system in twrp.
twrp j327u does work but i could not get supersu or magisk to work, my build is J327WVLS4BSK1 with 8.1.0 oreo. i'm not sure there's a way to get past dm-verity using the boot patch by asphyx in the TWRP threads or the universal dm-verity workaround by zackptg5.
i first flashed twrp j327u using odin, ran up against dm-verity when running supersu. both MikasuX14 and another twrp j327w version i found would also flash and load, but the touchscreen wouldn't register my input. cfar didn't work either
sfirmware (website) has workable firmware for rev 4 j327w builds in case you need to recover your phone from soft brick - i could get my build's firmware to flash using the patched odin 13.3.3 version found on this site
bytwigorlimerick said:
twrp j327u does work but i could not get supersu or magisk to work, my build is J327WVLS4BSK1 with 8.1.0 oreo. i'm not sure there's a way to get past dm-verity using the boot patch by asphyx in the TWRP threads or the universal dm-verity workaround by zackptg5.
i first flashed twrp j327u using odin, ran up against dm-verity when running supersu. both MikasuX14 and another twrp j327w version i found would also flash and load, but the touchscreen wouldn't register my input. cfar didn't work either
sfirmware (website) has workable firmware for rev 4 j327w builds in case you need to recover your phone from soft brick - i could get my build's firmware to flash using the patched odin 13.3.3 version found on this site
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heres what i did. i soft bricked, bootlooped and had to flash firmware from sfirmware a few times to get it to work
i used a twrp for j327u i found on a another similar thread on this topic. i flashed it with odin.
once inside twrp menu i went to wipe menu, i hit format, then back to mount menu, checked boxes data/system (previously data or system wouldnt check off before formatting data).once data and system were mounted i then
plugged phone back into computer while in twrp menu. the phone showed up as J327u cut/paste the latest magisk .exe into the internal storage of j327u (on computer) . i then on twrp menu found and installed magisk exe finally got it to properly install magisk i then in reboot menu hit system and reboot.
the phone restarted after awhile like it was factory reset but once i set up the phone magisk apk was already installed and root access was available. hope this helps.
so i've been busy for a long while before looking back into this. I will try again with the J327U rom. Right now, i struggle to find stock roms of the J327W because i flashed a not working twrp apparently and it locks my boot.
The J327U TWRP didn't work for me. Though, twrp itself works but i cannot get the system to boot and i cannot get to root it, no matter what i tried, i ended up in boot loop.
I managed to root this phone without TWRP. I used Linux tools to do this so I'm not sure if it could work on Windows.
Requirements:
Stock ROM for your phone (I used samfirm.js to pull it from the Samsung servers but downloading from sammobile.com works too)
A way to extract zip files
A way to extract tar files
Heimdall flasher (https://www.glassechidna.com.au/heimdall/)
Magisk Manager APK
An Internet connection on your phone
A compatible USB connector for your phone
Of course, a SM-J327W running the stock Android firmware
Obligatory warning: This WILL void the warranty of your phone and permanently trigger the warranty void flag. It also WILL cause a factory reset, so back up all your data first.
Bear with me, because there are a lot of steps. This will take around 15 to 30 minutes.
You will need to download and extract a stock ROM for your phone. Make sure that you download a ROM for the SM-J327W and not another model. Also make sure to download the latest version available.
Stock ROMs usually come in a zip file containing a few tar.md5 files. You will only need to extract the one that starts with "AP" for this procedure.
Step 1: Extract the tar.md5 file that starts with "AP" from your stock rom.
Step 2: Open the tar.md5 file in an archive manager. You may need to remove ".md5" from the end of the file.
Step 3: Extract the boot image (boot.img) from the AP file.
Step 4: Upload the boot image and the Magisk Manager APK to your phone. You can use ADB to transfer the files. For example:
adb push boot.img /storage/emulated/0
adb push Magisk-v22.0.apk /storage/emulated/0
Step 5: Open the files app on your phone. Navigate to the internal storage and tap on the Magisk APK file to install it. You may be prompted to allow installation from unknown sources.
Step 6: Open the Magisk app. It should say that Magisk isn't installed and it shoulld say "Yes" beside "Ramdisk". Tap the cogwheel icon in the top-right corner.
Step 7: Due to a bug in Magisk, you need to install version 21 instead of the latest version (v22). Set the update channel to "Custom Channel".
Step 8: When prompted, enter the following URL: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/t...d863d3a15c6a2276b1061a280ece80ed7/stable.json" (Without the quotes.)
Step 9: Now it's time to patch the boot.img file. Tap the button to install Magisk and select the option to patch a file. When prompted, navigate to the internal storage and select the boot.img file that you transferred previously.
Step 10: Magisk will patch the file and tell you where it saved the patched file. Transfer the patched file to your computer. You can use ADB for this, for example:
adb pull /storage/emulated/0/Download/magisk_patched_XXXXX.img
Remember to replace the Xs with the the random characters that Magisk added to the file name.
Step 11: Reboot your phone into Download mode. You can shut it down and then hold the power, home, and volume down buttons at the same time to enter Download mode or use ADB: "adb reboot bootloader"
Step 12: A warning may show about the dangers of installing a custom OS. Press the volume up key to continue.
Step 13: The screen should now show "Downloading... Do not turn off target." If your phone isn't already plugged into your computer, plug it in now.
Step 14: Use Heimdall flasher to flash the patched boot image. For example:
heimdall flash --BOOT magisk_patched_XXXXX.img
Again, replace the Xs with the random characters that Magisk added to the file name.
Step 15: After a few seconds, Heimdall should report that the flash succeeded and your phone will reboot. It may take longer than usual. Leave it to do its thing and DO NOT pull out the battery.
Step 16: Your phone will show a notice that unauthorized changes have been detected and will prompt you to factory reset it. Press the button to perform the factory reset.
Step 17: Set up your phone as if it was new. It's not rooted yet, but you're really close if you got so far.
Step 18: Once you reach the home screen, upload the Magisk Manager APK to your phone again and install it like before.
Step 19: Open Magisk Manager. It will show that Magisk is installed and may prompt you to reboot to complete installation. Do not update Magisk to v22 or you will lose root access and you will have to flash the patched image again.
In the (very unlikely) case that your phone doesn't boot after flashing the patched boot.img, you can simply flash the original boot image and it should be fixed.
CONGRATULATIONS! You just rooted your SM-J327W successfully.
I also managed to port TWRP to this phone with the touchscreen working using the kernel from a recovery image for the SM-J327P found here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...-1-samsung-galaxy-j3-emerge-sm-j327p.3573607/. All the partitions are mapped correctly. Due to a bug (presumably with the kernel), the data partition can unfortunately only be mounted read-only. However, this shouldn't affect being able to flash zips on your phone and you can insert an SD card to write backups onto. In the future, I may port CWM recovery to this phone using the stock kernel to be able to mount the data partition read-write.
You can find my custom recovery attached to this reply.
Follow up: It seems that the bug that causes Magisk to fail is fixed in the latest version (v22.1.) As a result, steps 6-8 in my previous post are unnecessary.
MikasuX14 said:
Here is a GDrive link to my recoveries, there's the stock and the twrp one but be aware that you need all the ROM if there is a problem with the twrp (that means stock : BL, AP, CP and CSC). But you can use the stock recovery to build a device tree.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1dNZGaNvCtd5kinHNfnr8MV5Z6o2_GOj4
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link is dead do you have twrp for j327w?
This TWRP recovery is compiled from source & not official yet
Team Win Recovery Project 3.x, or twrp3 for short, is a custom recovery built with ease of use and customization in mind. Its a fully touch driven user interface no more volume rocker or power buttons to mash. The GUI is also fully XML driven and completely theme-able. You can change just about every aspect of the look and feel.
Code:
#include <std_disclaimer.h>
/*
*
* We are not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,
* thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please
* do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this ROM
* before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if
* you point the finger at us for messing up your device, we will laugh at you.
*
*/
Prerequisites
1. Unlocked bootloader.
Bugs
1. No bugs
2. If you have found a bug, please consider posting it to my GitHub Issues.
Instructions
1. Go to the fastboot mode.
2. Download the recovery.img and transfer it to the adb folder.
3. Open the cmd/terminal and change directory into the adb folder.
4. Now confirm/check that device is connected by typing:-
Code:
fastboot devices
If you got your device seriel number there then you are ready to continue otherwise try connecting device again and make sure USB debugging is on and you have granted permission to the PC to debug.
5. After that we will flash this TWRP recovery to the recovery partition by below command:-
Code:
fastboot flash recovery twrp-name.img
BooM ! TWRP flashed successfully.
6. Now unplug your device and then hold power button untill the phone turned off,after that press power button while holding vol down(-) button simultaneously and you will boot into TWRP recovery mode.
Enjoy !
Downloads
Official TWRP Website : https://twrp.me/umidigi/onemax.html
GitHub Release : Here (release name : TWRP-UMIDIGI-One_Max)
Version Information
ROM OS Version: 8.1.x Oreo
Source Code: Device Tree
Based On: TWRP
Credits
Omni Team for minimal TWRP source
@chankruze (myself) for device tree and compilation.
SUPPORT
Official Telegram Group
Official Telegram Channel
Hey ! Good job ! I tried building my own TWRP today but then noticed someone already did it ! Does encryption work ? I cant seem to decrypt the partition after flashing your TWRP.
EDIT : Couldn't wait, ended up formatting with encryption disabled via a zip + magisk
I've then proceeded to flash some GSI for Android 9 (even tried Q Beta 3) and if we want 9.0 one day, some heavy work will be needed : Cellular doesn't work; other than that, it all seems fine to me, camera is only 12mpx, front is 13mpx. Haven't tested more, i'm back to stock
EDIT 2: After comparing camera from stock and gsi, GSI wins easily. The camera is not as slow as stock.
Are there any decent ROMs yet for this phone? LineageOS would be fantastic.
@kgoerbig not to my knowledge. Maybe I'll try porting a 9.0 GSI soon.
I'm not sure if this is helpful or not, but Umidigi posts stock ROM on there forum. Can ROMs be ported based on there code? Or is it more complicated then that?
https://community.umidigi.com/m/?a=viewthread&tid=18692
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Hey ! Good job ! I tried building my own TWRP today but then noticed someone already did it ! Does encryption work ? I cant seem to decrypt the partition after flashing your TWRP.
EDIT : Couldn't wait, ended up formatting with encryption disabled via a zip + magisk
I've then proceeded to flash some GSI for Android 9 (even tried Q Beta 3) and if we want 9.0 one day, some heavy work will be needed : Cellular doesn't work; other than that, it all seems fine to me, camera is only 12mpx, front is 13mpx. Haven't tested more, i'm back to stock
EDIT 2: After comparing camera from stock and gsi, GSI wins easily. The camera is not as slow as stock.
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I have tested LineageOS 16.0 GSI Android 9.0 (and many others ...) and it works well, even GSM and Camera.
The only thing I cannot have is a complete root : I install Magisk 19.3 correctly, but applications cannot get root permission (Titanium Backup cannot have su permission)
Hi to all!!!
I've unlocked bootloader, flashed twrp in post but when I power Off and On+Vol - my device doesn't power up...
Also if I make fastboot reboot recovery, my device reboot in fastboot mode again...
What's wrong??? I would test Descendant_ThreeDotZero_arm64_aonly rom!!!!
Pls Help me!!!!
silviuss82 said:
Hi to all!!!
I've unlocked bootloader, flashed twrp in post but when I power Off and On+Vol - my device doesn't power up...
Also if I make fastboot reboot recovery, my device reboot in fastboot mode again...
What's wrong??? I would test Descendant_ThreeDotZero_arm64_aonly rom!!!!
Pls Help me!!!!
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If you use the stock boot.img with an GSI system image, it will not boot, you must first flash Magisk.zip before reboot!
It will disable dm-verity, and you can boot after.
If it continue reboot in bootloader mode, use spflashtool to flash a stock rom and all will be right
Or if you have a TWRP backup, restore all partitions except boot/recovery/cache/system/data and you can boot
@ dreambo Can you make a writeup of properly unlocking the bootloader/rooting? Or did you use these methods?
https://community.umidigi.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=17376
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM_M5XP--Z8&t=176s
I should be receiving my Umidigi One Max in a day or so, and do not want to bork anything up! I have SPflash installed both on a Win10 laptop, and on a Ubuntu Linux machine.
dreambo said:
If you use the stock boot.img with an GSI system image, it will not boot, you must first flash Magisk.zip before reboot!
It will disable dm-verity, and you can boot after.
If it continue reboot in bootloader mode, use spflashtool to flash a stock rom and all will be right
Or if you have a TWRP backup, restore all partitions except boot/recovery/cache/system/data and you can boot
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kgoerbig said:
@ dreambo Can you make a writeup of properly unlocking the bootloader/rooting? Or did you use these methods?
https://community.umidigi.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=17376
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM_M5XP--Z8&t=176s
I should be receiving my Umidigi One Max in a day or so, and do not want to bork anything up! I have SPflash installed both on a Win10 laptop, and on a Ubuntu Linux machine.
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You do not need to unlock you phone, mine is rooted with Magisk and have TWRP installed without unlock bootloader.
Just use spflashtool to flash a stock rom, but replace the recovery by TWRP and the boot.img by magisk_patched.img one.
Here how I do exactly:
1- in my running stock rom, I install MagiskManager and install Magisk by choosing the last option (patch existing boot.img)
2- give it your stock boot.img (extracted from stock rom) and it create for you /sdcard/Download/magisk_patched.img
3- use this to replace your stock boot.img and use also TWRP.img to replace stock recovery.img and flash the whole rom with SPFlashTool
Can you backup with TWRP with a locked bootloader? Isn't write access blocked with a locked bootloader?
dreambo said:
You do not need to unlock you phone, mine is rooted with Magisk and have TWRP installed without unlock bootloader.
Just use spflashtool to flash a stock rom, but replace the recovery by TWRP and the boot.img by magisk_patched.img one.
Here how I do exactly:
1- in my running stock rom, I install MagiskManager and install Magisk by choosing the last option (patch existing boot.img)
2- give it your stock boot.img (extracted from stock rom) and it create for you /sdcard/Download/magisk_patched.img
3- use this to replace your stock boot.img and use also TWRP.img to replace stock recovery.img and flash the whole rom with SPFlashTool
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Can you backup with TWRP with a locked bootloader? Isn't write access blocked with a locked bootloader?
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If you can run the TWRP with a locked bootloader (and you can in case of umidigi one max) you can do any thing
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If you can run the TWRP with a locked bootloader (and you can in case of umidigi one max) you can do any thing
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One last question. =)
Which boot file from stock did you use to patch with?
Downloadable from: https://community.umidigi.com/forum.php?mod=forumdisplay&fid=211
UMIDIGI One Max V1.0
or
UMIDIGI One Max E V1.0
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One last question. =)
Which boot file from stock did you use to patch with?
Downloadable from: https://community.umidigi.com/forum.php?mod=forumdisplay&fid=211
UMIDIGI One Max V1.0
or
UMIDIGI One Max E V1.0
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I have used the European one, UMIDIGI One Max E V1.0
So I just received my One Max today. I was able to patch the boot image, and root the phone. I also, installed TWRP, but I'm running into an issue. From TWRP, I formatted with a normal wipe, It asked "Do you want to do this, it wipes data encryption Etc". I typed yes, and it did it's thing. Rebooted. Setup my basic settings on the phone. I rebooted back into TWRP, and it immediatly asked for a "decryption" password. It also won't allow me to mount internal partitions or sdcard. This even after I rooted via a patched boot file, and verified root access while booted in android (with root verify app). What am I doing wrong for TWRP to gain access to storage?
"Couldn't wait, ended up formatting with encryption disabled via a zip + magisk"
How did you format without encryption? I try to format from TWRP, type 'yes' , to verify, and encryption is still active. I'd like to disable encryption, so that I can properly backup everything from TWRP.
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So I just received my One Max today. I was able to patch the boot image, and root the phone. I also, installed TWRP, but I'm running into an issue. From TWRP, I formatted with a normal wipe, It asked "Do you want to do this, it wipes data encryption Etc". I typed yes, and it did it's thing. Rebooted. Setup my basic settings on the phone. I rebooted back into TWRP, and it immediatly asked for a "decryption" password. It also won't allow me to mount internal partitions or sdcard. This even after I rooted via a patched boot file, and verified root access while booted in android (with root verify app). What am I doing wrong for TWRP to gain access to storage?
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Search in xda forum a zip that you can flash with TWRP before installing the Magisk zip from TWRP.
its name is disable_dm_verity????.zip, it disable in the boot.img the encryption.
After that format the data partition (format and not wipe, it's important!) and reboot normally, and your data partition will not be encrypted
dreambo said:
Search in xda forum a zip that you can flash with TWRP before installing the Magisk zip from TWRP.
its name is disable_dm_verity????.zip, it disable in the boot.img the encryption.
After that format the data partition (format and not wipe, it's important!) and reboot normally, and your data partition will not be encrypted
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I eventually found all the correct files to remove encryption. I also installed AOSP. I'm kind of torn between the stock and AOSP. AOSP has better performance, but one annoying aspect is that I cannot find anywhere in the settings to switch the navigation buttons in AOSP (Back button is on the far left, I like it on the right side). Seems trivial, but it's annoying. I can now fully backup & restore in TWRP, which makes life a lot easier.
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I eventually found all the correct files to remove encryption. I also installed AOSP. I'm kind of torn between the stock and AOSP. AOSP has better performance, but one annoying aspect is that I cannot find anywhere in the settings to switch the navigation buttons in AOSP (Back button is on the far left, I like it on the right side). Seems trivial, but it's annoying. I can now fully backup & restore in TWRP, which makes life a lot easier.
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Which AOSP ? where do you found it ?
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Which AOSP ? where do you found it ?
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This thread:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/development/umidigi-one-max-custom-rom-modding-t3942521
This Rom
https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/releases
Do a complete backup of stock from TWRP onto microsd or USB first! System, data, modem, nvram partitions etc. That way you can restore from TWRP, and not lose os, data, or nvram (IMEI).
Specifically, system-arm64-aonly-gapps-su.img.xz
1. Download and extract file you downloaded, onto your phone.
2. Do a format (type yes)
3. Install from TWRP as "image".
I tried to root Realme 5 on stock ROM after a lot of failures and a visit to their service centre to flash stock ROM [It's free].
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I am not responsible if anything goes wrong, this worked for me, I am not guaranteeing that this will work for you.
You should know the risks of rooting and mucking around where you are not supposed to be.
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After rooting, stock ROM will show you an annoying red blinking pill in the status bar saying your phone has been rooted.
And no it can't be removed because xposed doesn't support our device.
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You won't be able to set a pin or fingerprint after unlocking the bootloader.
Realme 5 is a pain in the ***, piece of **** phone if you want to root it with stock ROM.
1. Unlock the bootloader.
2. Flash twrp from fastboot mode. Download it from here.
3. Flash patched vbmeta immediately after flashing twrp. Download link.
4. Boot into twrp. Backup System, Vendor, Boot partitions on YOUR SD CARD [important].
5. Format Data (not wipe).
6. After formatting data download dm-verity disabler from here and flash it via twrp.
7. Now restore the backup you took before and download magiskmanager and flash it via twrp.
8. Boot into the system. Voila! your realme SHOULD boot up now with root.
The only thing I need now is a stock recovery for realme 5, can anyone please provide it?
piyushmanolkar said:
I tried to root Realme 5 on stock ROM after a lot of failures and a visit to their service centre to flash stock ROM [It's free].
Code:
I am not responsible if anything goes wrong, this worked for me, I am not guaranteeing that this will work for you.
You should know the risks of rooting and mucking around where you are not supposed to be.
Code:
After rooting, stock ROM will show you an annoying red blinking pill in the status bar saying your phone has been rooted.
And no it can't be removed because xposed doesn't support our device.
Code:
You won't be able to set a pin or fingerprint after unlocking the bootloader.
Realme 5 is a pain in the ***, piece of **** phone if you want to root it with stock ROM.
1. Unlock the bootloader.
2. Flash twrp from fastboot mode. Download it from here.
3. Flash patched vbmeta immediately after flashing twrp. Download link.
4. Boot into twrp. Backup System, Vendor, Boot partitions on YOUR SD CARD [important].
5. Format Data (not wipe).
6. After formatting data download dm-verity disabler from here and flash it via twrp.
7. Now restore the backup you took before and download magiskmanager and flash it via twrp.
8. Boot into the system. Voila! your realme SHOULD boot up now with root.
The only thing I need now is a stock recovery for realme 5, can anyone please provide it?
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Why there is need to restore backup ?
Nivrutti1234 said:
Why there is need to restore backup?
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Because you have to remove encryption and to remove encryption the phone has to be formatted, After a format, you have to install an OS on it, in my case, it was the stock ROM, so I restored the backup of the stock ROM I had taken before.
piyushmanolkar said:
Because you have to remove encryption and to remove encryption the phone has to be formatted, After a format, you have to install an OS on it, in my case, it was the stock ROM, so I restored the backup of the stock ROM I had taken before.
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No need to restore backup, because it only format userdata partition.
Help me my real 5 wifi and sound not work after instal root magisk..
My firm V A23
Or share boot.img V A23
Thanks for all
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No need to restore backup, because it only format userdata partition.
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I specifically said FORMAT data, Format data deletes all of your partitions. Including system.
unlock fail
is there any method to unlock the BL?since mine realme 5 showed this is a carrier customized phone after i start depth test.......
by "patched vbmeta" do you mean that the vbmeta has the magisk? so after that I don't need to separately flash magisk too? just go to directly flash the dm-verity disabler?
proper root for rmx2030 didnt came out till now as i tried everything possible got root access and the device was open but as soon i restarted my phone went to bootloop
So i tried updating my phone and rerooting but as soon as i flashed the patched image something got corrupted and its only been pain now for the last few hours. Ive been super irresponsible in not backing up my phone away from the phone so I would rather not lose everything by flashing the factory image so anything and everything helps. for context it booted into 11 fine but as soon as I touched fastboot and the latest .img files is when stuff started going south.
edit: fixed the issue another way but an answer for that question would be nice to finally have on the internet.
I'm not very clear about what you did... The regular Magisk OTA process is:
1. Uninstall Magisk.
2. Install the OTA (do not reboot).
3. Install Magisk (after OTA).
The more involved process I've used (when the Magisk backup isn't valid) is:
1. Fastboot flash the vanilla boot.
2. Fastboot boot the patched boot.
3. Install the OTA (do not reboot).
4. Install Magisk (after OTA).
If you are doing a fastboot flash or boot you need to make sure the image you are using exactly matches your system. Which is especially important for the initial install. If you boot the wrong image, rebooting will fix it. If you flash the wrong image you have to flash the right image to fix it. That's why Magisk install has you fastboot boot and install from Magisk manager, less chance of a permanent issue
If you were going from Android 10 to 11 with Magisk 20, that will be a problem.
To answer the question in the title... You cannot access user data from fastboot. But you can probably fastboot boot TWRP and use that to access your data. I've done that before, but not on this phone.
Unfortunately the only build of TWRP that anyone has posted is unable to boot on Android 11 and I've not seen any other serious effort.
Assuming you were working entirely with stock ROMs, my best recovery from an unbootable state has been to reflash the stock boot.img, then boot into recovery, and apply over ADB the full downloadable OTA zip. No data wipe occurs.
I just tried to boot TWRP and it didn't work. Odd because it shouldn't depend on anything on the device... Looks like the bootloader is rejecting it
"Error verifying the received boot.img: Invalid Parameter"
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I just tried to boot TWRP and it didn't work. Odd because it shouldn't depend on anything on the device... Looks like the bootloader is rejecting it
"Error verifying the received boot.img: Invalid Parameter"
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It does depend on what's on the device because recovery is no longer its own partition. It's part of the kernel (boot.img). This unofficial TWRP was built against Android 10. And the entire partition layout changes around with the upgrade from 10-11. So it is just not valid and won't boot.
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Assuming you were working entirely with stock ROMs, my best recovery from an unbootable state has been to reflash the stock boot.img, then boot into recovery, and apply over ADB the full downloadable OTA zip. No data wipe occurs.
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I tried to access adb in stock recovery, and it didnt work. I made a new hread specific to it here.
Cant get ADB in recovery mode, but works in live mode, and so does fastboot
On my Rooted Pixel 4a, I can use: Fastboot - I flashed the latest update firmware as well as the rooted boot image ADB Over WiFi - This is the most comnon way I connect for ADB ADB While the Android OS is running What I cannoit get woirking is...
forum.xda-developers.com
Can you see what I a doing differently or have missed that made it work for you?
on a side note...
cmstlist said:
Unfortunately the only build of TWRP that anyone has posted is unable to boot on Android 11 and I've not seen any other serious effort.
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I have built TWRP for one of my previous devices, and i am not sure why no one has built one for A11, for our device; but i can think of a couple of reasons. Right now i have a major sprain In my right wrist/hand, so typing is one handed, and its not my dominate hand. Even if i got it to build, i would be looking for test pilots.
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on a side note...
I have built TWRP for one of my previous devices, and i am not sure why no one has built one for A11, for our device; but i can think of a couple of reasons. Right now i have a major sprain In my right wrist/hand, so typing is one handed, and its not my dominate hand. Even if i got it to build, i would be looking for test pilots.
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just came across this post, which may help explain why TWRP is problematic for our device. But the thread did hint about running twrp from fastboot. (Post by cmstlist)
TWRP 3.7.0-12 for Sunfish[Testing]
[RECOVERY] TWRP 3.7.0-12 - TeamWin Recovery Project Introduction: Team Win Recovery Project or TWRP for short, is a custom recovery built with ease of use and customization in mind. We started from the ground up by taking AOSP recovery and...
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DiamondJohn said:
I have built TWRP for one of my previous devices, and i am not sure why no one has built one for A11, for our device; but i can think of a couple of reasons. Right now i have a major sprain In my right wrist/hand, so typing is one handed, and its not my dominate hand. Even if i got it to build, i would be looking for test pilots.
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As a software developer that's been doing embedded Linux for 20 years, it saddens me that I haven't got past app development for Android
I'd love to help get TWRP going for the Pixel 4a but probably I'd get nowhere. I can certainly test TWRP builds though. My Pixel 4a is my daily driver but it's unlocked and rooted and I've got a solid off-device backup so I'm relatively fearless with hacking
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I tried to access adb in stock recovery, and it didnt work. I made a new hread specific to it here.
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I was not saying you can execute arbitrary ADB commands in stock recovery. However if you have a full OTA zip and can get into stock recovery, you can choose the option on-device to flash an update over ADB according to Google's instructions. This will only work with a signed official OTA zip. But if you happen to have corrupted your stock ROM to an unbootable state, it is a possible path to get it back to bootable so you can access the contents.
Just so that everyone is aware because no one here seems to be aware of anything...
TWRP version twrp-3.6.1_11-0-redfin.img from here: https://dl.twrp.me/redfin/
Works just fine if you just temp boot from fastboot with the most recent OTA SPA2A.220405.003
And you DO NOT HAVE TO INSTALL A KERNEL FOR IT TO WORK, THIS BUILD ONLY
With this build, you can indeed backup and restore your system. I have used this build since it was live, and it works no problem.
I cannot confirm it works with any other build, nor can I confirm you can install it to ramdisk and get it to work.
But it works just fine with temp booting from fastboot. Backup, Restore, etc works just fine for me. I have gone back and forth from my build to the OTA no problem whatsoever, and have been able to restore all userdata from the most recent OTA.
BIG THANKS TO TWRP, AND bigbiff for his work
and, btw, you have to reboot anywhere from 1 to 3 times after a restore for it to completely boot.
You'll see the old boot logo first and it will freeze, then the new boot logo and it could freeze, then the third time it boots just fine. They even have this listed on TWRP's site I believe.
So, if you're having trouble after a restore, just reboot a few times but wait until it hangs before you do. It will eventually come up.
Also, it is possible to install this same recovery to your boot.img ramdisk. You cannot flash this image directly or else you will end up in a boot loop.
In order to install permanently to the ramdisk, you have to disable verity and verification just like for root, then temp boot the twrp.img, then while in recovery adb push twrp.img /
Then go to install, and choose the twrp.img and it will ramdisk install it. Then wipe all userdata--must be done, no way around it.
Reboot to recovery, and backup the boot.img only. Then copy the boot.emmc.win to somewhere on your internal SD card as twrpboot.img.Then you need to boot into the system, install magisk app, and then patch twrpboot.img, then reboot to bootloader and flash the patched boot.
After all of that you will have both a rooted boot.img with permanent recovery in the ramdisk.
I do not know anything about safety net as I don't use any kind of banking apps at all so that will be your own responsibility to deal with.
That's so good to finally hear, looks like I'm going to have to do this. Thanks for the update, off topic but considering making a guide with as many links to projects, roms, kernels, etc that are being made or in process specifically for our phone and differentiating a11 and a12 support
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Then copy the boot.emmc.win to somewhere on your internal SD card as twrpboot.img.Then you need to boot into the system, install magisk app, and then patch twrpboot.img
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This worked for me. I have Magisk and TWRP installed on stock Android 12.1 version 220305.
I was worried because I did not actively Disable Verity or Verification , or unencrypt anything.
But I am able to make full backups, and restore them, which is what i care about
I updated to Android build SP2A.220505.002 (via TWRP 3.6.2, magisk 24.3, and the May 2022 ota update file).
No problems yet..
has anyone updated to Android13 ?