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As far as i have experienced, you can root and run magisk. However after one or two reboots (if you are lucky) it stops working and spontaneously restarts your phone either as soon as the phone starts up or within a few minutes of using the phone. If you boot unrooted (i.e. dont start with vol +...

Oops. Replied to wrong post Original post: I got random reboots with this twrp. If i flash magisk 19.3 after install this twrp the magisk shown is the 20.1.. if i install the magisk 19.3 patched with stock recovery i got no random reboots, and it's the version 19.3 shown. Anyone else with...

Yes very much so. There is presently no root method (or unlock for that matter) that doesnt trip knox. That being said there are levels of tripping knox and this does not brick the phone, but i believe that without magisk hide modules things like android pay will not work.

Can this be dirty flashed over the stock kernel that comes with the ASH2 stock rom? I have unlocked and set up my phone with a decrypted data partition. Just wondering if flashing this will get me root access with switching phones (I have the standard Magisk patched boot.img causes random...

You cannot write anything to the device without unlocking the bootloader. So yes, 100% of the people doing this have unlocked their bootloader.

In my experience, no. I tried all of that including switching to numerous Magisk versions etc. At one time i was under the belief that it was wifi security related and would purge the misc/wifi configs but that was a red herring. I had thought that once wifi tried to connect it would reboot...

sometimes night mode / blue light blocking mode can cause this.

Try whatever you want and report back with the status. You can use the search function like everyone else to see what others have tried.

not at this time.

What Magisk version did you flash?

We're not Samsung Dev's on this forum, you should be checking with your carrier as they control the updates by region not XDA.

It means you are trying to restore a firmware older than was last run on your phone. You probably updated your phone since it was purchased, meaning you need the newer firmware. You need to look up what the latest release for your model is online and try restoring that.

WOW! It works, you the man! I would never have guessed that was how to do it. All the guides and videos are so vague.

Sorry, i have an A505W not FD, the link for the A505W is here: https://filesw.blogspot.com/p/full-firmware-a505w.html

When i do that it boots to twrp/recovery? Perhaps this is the issue. I'd like to understand the process of booting that way, do you first power on then at the press power screen press up vol and power and hold? If so for how long? I wonder what the heck the holding power up does to make it work.