Question how to root with magisk?

[mikaelcbr2]

Hi everyone, I prefer remain with the Chinese rom for a while but I'd like to root my moto x40 with magisk.

I've tried but after flashing the patched boot.img the phone boot normally. the firmware has vbmeta so I followed the procedure suggested by the guide in this situations.
the weird thing is the patched root remain exactly with the same original dimensions.

I think this is an a type partition firmware due to boot.img presence but there is also a file called vendor_boot.img. according with this article seems an a/b type.

Vendor Boot Partitions | Android Open Source Project

source.android.com

I attach a screen of the firmware content, the log of patched boot file and the adb process.

Please, can anyone explain me how can I root successfully? thanks

 

[sooyong94]

Did you unlock the bootloader? Once done you need to flash a patched init_boot.img instead of boot.img through fastboot.

This guide should be useful (it's for the Pixel 7s, but should work with this phone, and of course use the init_boot.img from the original ROM file for your phone)

Hope that helps

 

[mikaelcbr2]

hi, thank you for the answer.

yes the bootloader was unlocked.
This rom is the same as my phone's. I had take by lolinet.

unfortunately magisk is unable to patch vendor_boot , I'm trying to attach it.
Is Someone able to patch?

 

[mikaelcbr2]

vendor_boot.img

Shared with Dropbox

www.dropbox.com

This is my vendor-boot

 

[mingkee]

Do you lose VPN access after bootloader unlocked?

 

[mikaelcbr2]

No, I didn't lose

 

[sooyong94]

hi, thank you for the answer.

yes the bootloader was unlocked.
This rom is the same as my phone's. I had take by lolinet.

unfortunately magisk is unable to patch vendor_boot , I'm trying to attach it.
Is Someone able to patch?

You need to patch init_boot.img using Magisk, and flash both init_boot_a and init_boot_b with the patched file through fastboot

 

[mikaelcbr2]

You need to patch init_boot.img using Magisk, and flash both init_boot_a and init_boot_b with the patched file through fastboot

Yes I followed the guide, thanks