Finally... Android 10 with working root!!!!

[Zooandbio4me]

So i've been having a hell of a time getting the latest image working on my phone... For a bit, I was soft bricked, even after running deuces and formatting user data and what not. For a while had to go back to android 8.1 (kinda nice having PIP/split screen mode!!). Finally figured it all out today... Download: The latest Magisk, the latest TWRP both .img and installer .zip. Then latest factory image, extract with winrar, go to extracted folder and extract the big .zip again with winrar, load deuces into that folder, put phone in fastboot (hold vol - and power or adb reboot bootloader).
Open an admin command prompt (admin maybe not necessary) and here we go: fastboot --set-active=a
Run Deuces, once finished go to admin command prompt and: fastboot boot twrp-3.3.0-0-taimen.img adb push twrp-pixel2-installer-taimen-3.3.0-0.zip /sdcard adb push Magisk-v19.4.zip /sdcard
Reboot, took a while to start, open magisk, says not installed, so click install, download zip only or patch boot? I just went to the factory image folder, pushed "boot.img" to phone, and selected that.
Read a bunch of threads saying like, find/extract your own boot image (which i don't think was necessary) but if you did want to do that, the location for pixel 2 xl is: /dev/block/sde8
Hopefully that makes sense, let me know if you have comments/questions/smart remarks

 

[tripLr]

noob

So i've been having a hell of a time getting the latest image working on my phone... For a bit, I was soft bricked, even after running deuces and formatting user data and what not. For a while had to go back to android 8.1 (kinda nice having PIP/split screen mode!!). Finally figured it all out today... Download: The latest Magisk, the latest TWRP both .img and installer .zip. Then latest factory image, extract with winrar, go to extracted folder and extract the big .zip again with winrar, load deuces into that folder, put phone in fastboot (hold vol - and power or adb reboot bootloader).
Open an admin command prompt (admin maybe not necessary) and here we go: fastboot --set-active=a
Run Deuces, once finished go to admin command prompt and: fastboot boot twrp-3.3.0-0-taimen.img adb push twrp-pixel2-installer-taimen-3.3.0-0.zip /sdcard adb push Magisk-v19.4.zip /sdcard
Reboot, took a while to start, open magisk, says not installed, so click install, download zip only or patch boot? I just went to the factory image folder, pushed "boot.img" to phone, and selected that.
Read a bunch of threads saying like, find/extract your own boot image (which i don't think was necessary) but if you did want to do that, the location for pixel 2 xl is: /dev/block/sde8
Hopefully that makes sense, let me know if you have comments/questions/smart remarks

I have just bought my pixel2xl, and recieved it the DAY 10 came out.
I have not had an a/b device, my last phone was the note 4 verizon, and the tabs2 i currently have.


could you perhaps make a simple list, of what this has ?
Currently i can adb devices with linux in my phone, and fastboot reboot bootloader ?
what is "run Deuces"

i presume fastboot --set-active=a means you are setting to write to the a partition ?
the first part,is where do i download the factory image ? google ? then unzip and sideload " push boot.img ?" the file to the /sdcard folder with the other files for twrp and magisk ?


thanks a lot for the announcment. i seriously just got my usb cable attached and ran fastboot, when i searched in xda and found your post. thanks alot

 

[tripLr]

Ok.
I got it kinda figured out.

Gonna make a how 2 for noobs

Step 1. Download magisk and Google image for your device to your favorite machine.

Step 2. Dow load the newest adb tools from Google to your machine. Install and make sure your adb tools are in your $PATH
On my Linux machine, I unzipped the files and copied them to my local binary folder in ~/bin

3. Extract the Google image for your device, the extract the partitions zip file.

4. Go-to the folder and Sidleload the image to your phone

 adb push *.img /sdcard/

5 . GOTO where you downloaded your magisk*.apk
And install with adb
adb install *.apk

6. Open your phone, and open magisk.
Patch the boot.img file you placed in /sdcard/

7. Pull the new patched file from your phone to your computer.

adb pull /sdcard/Download/*.img

That's as far as I got this morning.

Will update you all with the finished commands then copy it over to a how-to guide for noobs.

 

[tripLr]

Yayy

 

[ne0ns4l4m4nder]

Everytime uninstall magisk and get it working reboots bootloop, and or I try to install a module it boot loops