Even I was fine with my backup strategy (Swift backup + some manual messenger backups), it tooks a couple of hours for me.
But now I have a rooted (Magisk Delta) FPOS 13 with all my needed apps incl. data/settings.
(Even some AdAway problems seems to be solved now, the main reason to root for me, the only thing I’m missing is a reliable vanced youtube replacement).
I’m looking forward to the next OTA and hopefully the build-in magisk mechanism (install to inactive slot) will work then
Thank you, I will ckeck them out. To be honest, I didn’t search too deep for a replacement (since the old Vanced app is still working - for now). But I’ve found only a lot of garbage: non-working, spy-ware, malware and so on. This is what I meant with “unreliable”. I’m not sure if I’ve tried your suggestions - but I will do and let you know my opinion.
I haven’t had time to update my family member’s FP4 yet, sorry, but you can follow these instructions to get it:
If you are extracting the image after the update but before you rebooted, make sure to get the other slot you aren’t currently in. If you are already running the updated system you’ll want your current slot.
If you lost root, get the previous boot.img from the kernel page, patch that and fastboot boot it. You will get some error messages if you are on a different version, but it will do for extracting the boot.img you need.
Just for future memories, I had to extract the boot.img for rooting FP5, and as the phone is not yet rooted the above command is not working (missing “su”)
As TWRP is unable to decrypt user partition I had to insert a MicroSD card, so that’s why I copy to external_sd instead of sdcard
I don’t know if there is a method without external_sd, didn’t find a way to pull it directly to the computer without copying it first to the phone…
Thanks, for helping me.
I am using Magisk Delta exactly of that reason to hide root for other apps. This forks works with a kind of “white list”, i.e. only apps on that list should be able to see root and root is hide from all others.
This works until a couple of days completely independent from current OS OTA update. I use three different banking apps, 2 of them still working (which did not working with original Magisk).
The 3rd has retrieved an update on Nov 8th and detects root now with that version. The same for Google Wallet. I could rollback the banking app to the previous version, it is working. But still no solution for Google Wallet…
I’m a little bit tired of such annoyning games of hide & seek…
get the boot image (for example from slot a)
dd if=/dev/block/by-name/boot_a of=/tmp/boot_a.img
Or use any other dir that is available for storing the out file
Get boot image
adb get /tmp/boot_a.img
reboot and push boot image to download dir
adb push boot_a.img /sdcard/Download/
Install magisk into the image under /sdcard/Download/
Check image file created by magisk install under /sdcard/Download/ and download it via adb
adb pull /sdcard/Download/FILENAME_MAGISK.img
Reboot into bootloader again and boot the rooted image
fastboot boot FILENAME_MAGISK.img
Yes that is also working. But is the kernel image already updated after the OTA process and before the final reboot? That would make it much easier, to regain root after the upgrade
It is, the (delta) OTA update takes the stuff in your current slot, applies its patches to it and writes the results to the unused slot.
Apart from some stuff that can be run after the OTA (if needed), the update is basically finished before you reboot.
OK, I was not aware that I could extract to boot image from the unused slot before the reboot. That makes it even easier to root after the OTA with some steps less.
Hallo everyone, I have a brand new FP4 which I rooted with magisk after unlocking the bootloader. Non change in recovery.
I see now that an update to version TP25.C.095 is available, but I have no idea of how it works on a rooted phone. Will it complete or should I remove root first and then re-root again? Or is it better not to update at all?