Now that we have the first reports split in a few topics I would like to bring all reports together, therefore this topic. When you root your phone, be aware that this comes with a risk to brick the phone. Official Magisk instructions can be found here The FP4 Instructions should be a summary of …

[image] yvmuell: In Magisk press :wastebasket:Uninstall Magisk → “Restore Images” If you have unfortunately uninstalled Magisk (picture above) and restarted your phone because the OTA Update failed: Get the boot.img for your actual build (you have to extract it from the actual zip file http…

iodéOS 4.10 OTA (February) Update went smooth as last time. (and with the same simple approach) [image] Smojo: OTA install (via Settings > System > Updater ) don’t reboot install Magisk in inactive Slot → reboot

with current v144 (same in previous months with v141, v131, v127, v112) update i have same problem with on-phone reroot and must still use this (re)root via PC method so last working reroot on phone for me be with v106 (= 2023/09 patches) every next month i hope “now will be without problem”, but…

I am looking for a “good” instruction to root CalyxOs on the phone FP4 and later also FP5. This instructions from the XDA is that also applicable for CalyxOs? I look a bit critical to this because it is mixed up the file boot.img from the ROM of the manufacturer with the CalyxOs. I am not sure if t…

Just look at the first post here for this instruction from FP4 working on the FP5 as well

Hi, I’ve been a happy Fairphone 5 user and I recently rooted my phone using this guide so that I could backup my data using Neo Backup . I have messed around with Magisk’s DenyList but I removed it and I have no modules installed. Now that Android 14 has been released I wanted to know how I could u…

I moved your post to keep the information at one place. [image] Can't update to Android 14, even on stock firmware Fairphone 5 i update to A14 with unlocked bootloader without problem… BTW: don’t have TWRP installed in Magisk Uninstall/RestoreImage (and don’t uninstal…

I tried the update as described by k3dar. Works fine, but instead Step 3 (because after Magisk was uninstalled, root access is denied), I copied the boot.img from the factory.zip in the mentioned link, posted by _tmp above, and patched this with magisk. Thank you all for the information.

After step 1 don’t reboot, root is still avaiable ;-)

Assuming it should be, but trying to copy with dd, it tells me no files found, permission denied. So I tried the workaround with the boot.img from the zip. :blush:

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