Elephone S8 Root Tutorial without custom Recovery( Magisk Systemless Root)

[skeleton1911]

only for Elephone S8

This is a Root Method without a custom recovery .
works to 100%
thanks to topjohnwu for his Magisk Root

important partitions
system : mmcblk0p27
userdata: mmcblk0p29
boot: mmcblk0p22


i Patched the Boot.img from the 20170927 base of the Elephone S8

1. Flash Boot.img (attached) with latest Flashtools ( i used SP_Flash_Tool_v5.1728_Win )
2. Reboot and install the magisk Manager apk
3. Done.

Guide: How to set up Mtk Drivers and Flashtools
https://xdaforums.com/elephone-p9000/how-to/how-to-guideline-install-mtk-drivers-t3344042

Newest SP Flash Tool
http://spflashtools.com/windows

Magisk Manager
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/topjohnwu/magisk-manager/

 

[Jayc11]

Nicely done!

I will definitely have to try this out when I receive mine in a cpl days.
I was wondering if anyone knows if its possible to manually change the GSM band frequencies to match a U.S. based carrier? I'm going to be using the Elephone S8 and iron Metro PCS carrier. I'd really like to have more than a 2G-3G speed capability on such a nice budget phone.
-Jay

 

[wolfgart]

here i am with my S8, ready to go trying your root solution and waiting for a twrp one too.

Do you have guys a lot of crashes on Google Play Services ?

 

[skeleton1911]

here i am with my S8, ready to go trying your root solution and waiting for a twrp one too.

Do you have guys a lot of crashes on Google Play Services ?

No. Google playstore works.

Look your Google version. And go to apkmirror.com
Downloads the newest ..maybe it fix that

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[wolfgart]

No. Google playstore works.

Look your Google version. And go to apkmirror.com
Downloads the newest ..maybe it fix that

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just tried to download from apkmirror last google play services and framework but i always have crashes around all apps coming from Play Store.

How is possible that only me have this crashes ? Bah

 

[skeleton1911]

just tried to download from apkmirror last google play services and framework but i always have crashes around all apps coming from Play Store.

How is possible that only me have this crashes ? Bah

Sorry I don't know.
For me it works . No crashes etc..


Use aptoide for now...

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[wolfgart]

which are all system apps you have uninstalled ?

 

[skeleton1911]

which are all system apps you have uninstalled ?

My room is ready in 2 hours.

Wait a bit and you will have a clean aosp rom

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[wolfgart]

My room is ready in 2 hours.

Wait a bit and you will have a clean aosp rom

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Leave stock FM Radio app inside your rom

---------- Post added at 09:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:17 PM ----------

for the moment just rooted Elephone S8 and it works like a charm

Hope you can add all the new Google framework and apps inside your rom so i ca n see if i ca solve my crashes problems. I doubt could be HW problems

 

[skeleton1911]

Leave stock FM Radio app inside your rom

---------- Post added at 09:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:17 PM ----------

for the moment just rooted Elephone S8 and it works like a charm

Hope you can add all the new Google framework and apps inside your rom so i ca n see if i ca solve my crashes problems. I doubt could be HW problems

If you will follow my installing guide in 2hours.
You will not have a problem

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[wolfgart]

how can be installed your rom without twrp ?

 

[skeleton1911]

how can be installed your rom without twrp ?

Because of no twrp.
We will use flashtools at the moment.

This works the same way..

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[CrashCrash123]

If rooted, will ota from elephone still work?

 

[skeleton1911]

If rooted, will ota from elephone still work?

Yes that will still work
.if not you have to flash the stock ROM.
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[the steve]

Hello!
My Elephone S8 arrived today and I like it very much so far. But like on all of my phones & tablets I'd like to have root access to install a firewall, deal with autostarting apps, etc.
Has anyone tried a one-click-root sollution with success? I tried out Kingo root, towel root, kingroot, oneklickroot, root genius, drfone and root master but none of them worked.

 

[tombase]

Yes that will still work
.if not you have to flash the stock ROM.
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Hi skeleton1911,

unfortunately OTA doesn't work the Elephone_S8_20171018 update failed.

Sincerely

 

[the steve]

Hi skeleton1911,

unfortunately OTA doesn't work the Elephone_S8_20171018 update failed.

Sincerely

Thank you so much for the warning!
I was going to root my phone today with the suggested method and now I'm glad I did not. I think I will wait for a working one-klick-solution without modding the system files.

 

[skeleton1911]

Yep . I also notice it.
In the OTA.zip is a checkroot file [emoji14]
Didn't know that..

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[the steve]

Yep . I also notice it.
In the OTA.zip is a checkroot file [emoji14]
Didn't know that..

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So, what does that mean? Will the OTA updates never work on a rooted device, no matter how it was rooted?

 

[john_L]

Hello skeleton1911.

I flashed your boot.img and my Elephone S8 is rooted. Thank you. But as mentioned before, the OTA update detected root and refused to update. So I flashed the boot.img from the stock ROM and bricked the phone. It will not boot up. So I have to flash the root back again to start the phone.

Is there a way to unroot the phone so that it can be updated? Thank you!