[Guide] Root Pixel 3 XL Android 13

[newkydawg]

Attempted the update last night, when flashing Magisk Canary Patched boot.img, the touchscreen is non-responsive on boot.

Flashing the stock boot.img and the touchscreen works.

Tried flashing the full image (no -w) and OTA with same result both times. Tried switching between active slots as well, no dice.

Any ideas?

Had the same issues as you last night. Tried it again just a few minutes ago and it worked! This time when I installed and ran Magisk Manager, there was an update. Looks like TopJohnWu updated the canary files 7 hours ago. Magisk Manager is now 298 and the zip is 20425.

 

[jjlane86]

Anyone successfully do the Magisk OTA update from 10 to 11? Any tips?

 

[Infin8cyn]

I cannot get root/canary/Magisk to work on Android 11.

• I was rooted running stock Android 10.
• Installed Magisk Manager Canary (Forgot I had 20.4/7.51 Installed)
• Unpacked boot.img and patched it with Canary.
• Installed Android 11 by flashing the full (not OTA) (without -w)
• Android 11 started
• Rebooted to bootloader
• Flashsed magisk_patched.img with "--slot all"
• Android doesn't boot. I get the G logo with the bar below it, and I've left it for 40 minutes.
• I get to the bootloader with PWR+Vol. DN
• It says "Boot slot: b" & "No valid slot to boot".
• If I flash the stock boot.img, it boots.

I can't get magisk/root installed. I'm unsure if that's because of having it installed previously or what it could be.
Since there isn't a recovery that works at the moment, I can't run the uninstaller.

 

[krs360]

Anyone successfully do the Magisk OTA update from 10 to 11? Any tips?

I just did it. Worked fine, no issues at all.
Just the normal procedure - restore stock image via Magisk Manager, don't reboot, mash the system update until it installs, return to Magisk without rebooting, install to inactive slot.

 

[Slim2none4u]

Now just need to wait for GB for android 11 and I'll be very happy ?

 

[ultimatepichu]

I cannot get root/canary/Magisk to work on Android 11.

• I was rooted running stock Android 10.
• Installed Magisk Manager Canary (Forgot I had 20.4/7.51 Installed)
• Unpacked boot.img and patched it with Canary.
• Installed Android 11 by flashing the full (not OTA) (without -w)
• Android 11 started
• Rebooted to bootloader
• Flashsed magisk_patched.img with "--slot all"
• Android doesn't boot. I get the G logo with the bar below it, and I've left it for 40 minutes.
• I get to the bootloader with PWR+Vol. DN
• It says "Boot slot: b" & "No valid slot to boot".
• If I flash the stock boot.img, it boots.

I can't get magisk/root installed. I'm unsure if that's because of having it installed previously or what it could be.
Since there isn't a recovery that works at the moment, I can't run the uninstaller.

I had the same question and have asked in Tulsadiver's thread. There was a solution offered but I have already started afresh. You can try it here.

 

[Infin8cyn]

:cyclops:

 

[mgp53]

Now just need to wait for GB for android 11 and I'll be very happy ?

Likewise.. 11 seems very solid.

 

[ultimatepichu]

I tested this earlier. I do not believe this command does anything:
"adb wait-for-device shell magisk --remove-modules"

I don't have the phone on me, but the message was like "Unknown shell magisk"

my opinion is, if you have followed until that point 10, you could already disable or remove the module(s) that causes bootloop manually (by entering magisk manager app) right?

 

[C5Longhorn]

Once you have root with Canary, can you just install the nightly Canary builds through the Magisk Manager app?

 

[Slim2none4u]

Once you have root with Canary, can you just install the nightly Canary builds through the Magisk Manager app?

Yes. Direct install option.

 

[Reclaimer122]

Stupid question. So since the OTA method didn't work and I ended up with unrooted 11, then flashed a patched boot.img to get root back, how can I use the OTA update feature in the future? I believe Magisk is now missing a stock boot.img to revert to, correct? This happened back on 10 as well so I was never able to take OTAs and always had to sideload updates.

 

[vlucchetti]

Little mixup when I tried OTA as I got steps out of order. Stupid of me as I had done it correctly in the past when it worked.

Regardless, I did the Magisk install to inactive slot first, then set/sys/sys up, then restore image. rebooted and was still on 10 but unrooted. Pulled out my saved patched-image, installed it and I was back to rooted 10.

Now the system update shows "restart now" as apparently it all downloaded. Guessing I should start the process again doing it the correct way and I believe I should be good and have 11.

Wanted to float the thought out there for feedback from the users. Or I can do the Canary Magisk install and update that way.

 

[jjlane86]

So, funny story but related to my root...I flashed and setup the google account after flashing, only to realize I had extracted android 9 to the platform tools directory. Realized this, then just OTA to 10 and then OTA to 11 and rooted with canary. No issues though. Working great!

 

[Homeboy76]

Once you have root with Canary, can you just install the nightly Canary builds through the Magisk Manager app?

Huh. What 'nightly canary' builds?

 

[nitramus]

Magisk Canary Manager 20424
Yes!

So stable does not work on 11?

 

[BostonDan]

So stable does not work on 11?

Correct. Must use canary.

Unfortunately, I updated to 11 and all seemed good but I lost youtube vanced. Tried to reinstall it and it would not install. Tried hard reboot (power and vol-down) and the phone tried booting, went into recovery after some time. Then the phone started bootlooping and would not allow me to get into bootloader (it could get into bootloader and then the phone would either reboot with any button press (vol up/down or power, or after about 3-5 seconds). If I let the phone try to boot, I see the unlocked bootloader warning and then the Google name for a split second, and then the phone reboots. Not sure if they are related or if my battery might be failing.

Went out and got a 1+8 5G (sprint/t-mobile) as a new daily driver (since I need a phone)

Currently I have a new 3xl battery on order and the phone disassembled in my workshop. Hope to revive the phone but it could be that the ram is faulting/failing or the power circuitry has an error (blown cap?). Will find out in 10-15 days.

Don't underestimate how hard it is to disassemble this phone! Very difficult due to the glue/ip67 (68? Not sure).

Guess this message became more a *****-fest. Sorry about that.

Cheers,
B.D.

 

[phoenixpb]

Hi

I have used the OTA method
Uninstalled modules of magisk, unhide magisk, restored imgs, and unistalled magisk -> OK
I have rebooted the phone and installed the OTA -> OK
I have followed the point 9 -> OK

All went smoothly phone is in android 11 and rooted

Thanks a lot for the post.

 

[jlokos]

Hi

I have used the OTA method
Uninstalled modules of magisk, unhide magisk, restored imgs, and unistalled magisk -> OK
I have rebooted the phone and installed the OTA -> OK
I have followed the point 9 -> OK

All went smoothly phone is in android 11 and rooted

Thanks a lot for the post.

On my pixel-2-xl, I installed the Canary debug (over the stable magisk manager). It automatically updated and I was able to flash canary build. However, on my wife's 3xl, I tried the same method but it didn't work. Any suggestions?

 

[nitramus]

fixed my boot loop.
Steps missing in OP for patching boot.img in this case since we need canary
Installed Canary but was patching boot.img before setting channel to canary which was causing boot loop
changed channel to canary first, patched boot.img and then flashed magisk_patched.img
Now everything is working fine.