Hi, I followed exactly the procedure in the link above and I got no error message. I use Magisk 25.2 (hidden).
After having the boot loop I started in fastboot and switched the the other slot (in my case b) and restarted successfully without root and without the OTA installed. So I ran the update again and rebooted after that unlike in the original instructions. The I boot via fastboot into some recovery (LOS or TWRP), run dd to get the boot.img and re-root from scratch (first patch the extracted image, boot it via fastboot and the install Magisk directly.
Is there a way to check the two slots for inconsistencies? A hardware issue should produce other problems, too IMHO. And after the second OTA run a is active (before it was b) and it booted successfully so I doubt that there is a hardware problem
Not really, you can check if the partitions match the expected hash, but in the case of /boot that’s not really helpful since you modified it by patching it with Magisk.
Hmm, maybe the issues has something to do with Magisk hide. Never used it and it’s not active on my family members phone either.
Which modules are you using? Anything that could modify the system partition? Maybe we aren’t looking at a Magisk issue here, maybe one of the modules doesn’t properly survive the update
For what it’s worth my Magisk is also hidden and I didn’t encounter a single issue while applying OTA.
As a matter of fact I don’t even need to uninstall magisk before installing OTA. Just installing Magisk on alternate slot before rebooting does the trick.
Feels like there are some modules messing up stuff here
I think I have the same problem as @Lars_Hennig since a couple of OTAs. When I go to Settings/System/Updates, I can see the animation running for a second or two and then it returns to the home screen. With Magisk hidden I uninstalled it (reinstalled the original images) successfully, but still can’t access the update.
After unhide Magisk the uninstallation does not work at all and I have the same behaviour acceding to OTA. The only way to do the OTA is to uninstall Magisk, reboot, do the OTA and reinstall Magisk from scratch.
My installed Magisk’s modules :
Well, in my case everything worked fine with my hidden Magisk until it finally came to the final reboot after patching the inactive boot image.
This time I was able to make it even worse myself: Just before the OTA procedure Magisk installed the beta update 26 (I had activated the beta upgrade path) and after that it was not able to find the stock image backup.
So I uninsttalled Magisk completely and started rooting from scratch this time
Had the same problem (on Calyx), which I kind of expected to happen. I ended up just downloading the factory images to the phone and dding the boot.img via Termux before starting the OTA update, worked fine
Thank you @hirnsushi . I saw your answer after I completed the upgrade and reinstalled Magisk from scratch. At the next OTA I will capture a logcat. But I couldn’t even get to the OTA startup screen, because after a second I was back on the home screen
I tried to root my FP4 but after this, my phone have been blocked in a bootloop.
I’m a bit lost and I tried to check every bootloop issue and there is always an other problem with mine.
I need some more information about what you did and what the current state is:
What boot.img did you use?
Did you flash the image (like that YT video tells you) or fastboot boot as you are supposed to?
If you fastboot booted it, did the initial boot fail or did it stop working after you pressed Install in the Magisk app?
What FPOS version are you on (check the version shown in recovery as well)?
If you flashed the boot.img, the next step would be to boot from a stock (unpatched) one. Since you already downloaded the factory images just take the included boot.img and try booting from it with fastboot boot boot.img.
If that succeeds you can flash it and we’ll start process again from there.
Those instructions are quite old, the (up-to-date) instructions those are based on are here:
So you downloaded version FP4.SP21.B.048 from here, right?!
Those are outdated, the current FPOS version is FP4.SP25.B.058, which we don’t have factory images for yet.
For future reference, no matter what people tell you, don’t flash it (if you don’t have a good reason to), that only creates problems, and you loose the ability to restore the stock images through the Magisk app before an OTA update.
That recovery doesn’t seem right, I would expect 12/SKQ1.220201.001/SP25 if you are on the latest release, notice the 12 for Android 12 at the beginning and that bold part at the end FP4.SP25.B.058.
Check your current slot with fastboot getvar current-slot, set it to the other one with fastboot --set-active plus a or b (depending on which one you’re in) and check that recovery version. I think your phone switched slots.
Bootloader is what we want. I assume your phone didn’t boot from the outdated boot.img, right?
I check, I’m on the a slot, so I change it with fastboot --set-active=b and now on recovery it’s 12/SKQ1.220201.001/SP25
I boot on the bootloader your stock and it works ! It shows"Hi there"
But I don’t want make more mistake, I input this “fastboot flash boot FPOS–B.058-boot.img” in the bootloader now ?
No, this doesn’t reset any data, all we are doing is restoring the boot partition to its vanilla state, so you can complete the rooting process from there.
In case you have any issues flashing, flash it explicitly to the b slot with fastboot flash boot_b.
