How to root the Fairphone 3?

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Rooting is now easy thanks to @k4y0z work. I am going to make a simple guide on how to root using the open source root tool called magisk.

  1. Download the TWRP boot img from https://github.com/chaosmaster/android_device_fairphone_fp3/releases Also download magisk manager from https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases and locate the apk on your SD card, install it and ensure that you press ‘install’ inside magisk manager, locate the zip on your SD card.
  2. Install ADB on your computer and ensure that your device has ADB Debugging enabled.
  3. Once you have a ’ privileged’ connection via ADB run, ‘adb reboot bootloader’ Your phone will now boot into fastboot mode, this is where we can boot custom images
  4. Run ‘fastboot boot (path-to-twrp).img’ Your phone will now boot in to TWRP
  5. Find the install section of TWRP
  6. Navigate to the SD card, find the magisk zip, select it and now swipe ‘flash’
  7. Voila! Reboot back into the OS and you will now have full root access.
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