[HOWTO] Flash a blank vbmeta

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Awesomeslayerg

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Hey guys,

As some of you know samsung made had a bunch of different changes since the release of Android 10. It took me a week to figure it out but it was really simple. I had to do two things: Repatch the the magisk boot image with Preserve AVB 2.0/Dm-verity and file encryption or whatever unchecked and i had to manually edit out AVB from the fstab since samsung moved it to the vendor partition..

So first thing is first:
1. Follow my guide https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-tab-s6-lite/how-to/howto-unlock-root-galaxy-tab-s6-lite-t4132289
2. Use your favorite root explorer, (I use es file explorer), mount vendor then navigate to /vendor/etc
3. Open up the exynos9611.fstab. look for anything containing the word avb and remove that and save it.
4, Reboot completely.
5. Download the Vbmeta.tar i attached to this post then use Odin to flash it via AP and USERDATA,
6. Reboot into recovery and do a factory reset.
7. AFter the factory reset its going to reboot a few times. Let it do that
8. Reinstall magisk manager again and open it up and make sure magisk does it things and reboots.
9 Now we have to patch the samsung_vbmeta. Download the samsung_vbmeta , extract the vbmeta.img to your tablet to .sdcard/Download
10., Open up adb and make sure developer option is enabled with usb debugging on, then use do adb shell and then su
11. Put this code in:
Code:
dd if=/sdcard/Download/vbmeta.img of=/dev/block/by-name/samsung_vbmeta
12. Hit enter then reboot. Now Both vbmeta and samsung_vbmeta should be unsigned and should be able to flash any usigned parittion!
 

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aryanhington

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Hey guys,

As some of you know samsung made had a bunch of different changes since the release of Android 10. It took me a week to figure it out but it was really simple. I had to do two things: Repatch the the magisk boot image with Preserve AVB 2.0/Dm-verity and file encryption or whatever unchecked and i had to manually edit out AVB from the fstab since samsung moved it to the vendor partition..

So first thing is first:
1. Follow my guide https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-tab-s6-lite/how-to/howto-unlock-root-galaxy-tab-s6-lite-t4132289
2. Use your favorite root explorer, (I use es file explorer), mount vendor then navigate to /vendor/etc
3. Open up the exynos9611.fstab. look for anything containing the word avb and remove that and save it.
4, Reboot completely.
5. Download the Vbmeta.tar i attached to this post then use Odin to flash it via AP and USERDATA,
6. Reboot into recovery and do a factory reset.
7. AFter the factory reset its going to reboot a few times. Let it do that
8. Reinstall magisk manager again and open it up and make sure magisk does it things and reboots.
9 Now we have to patch the samsung_vbmeta. Download the samsung_vbmeta , extract the vbmeta.img to your tablet to .sdcard/Download
10., Open up adb and make sure developer option is enabled with usb debugging on, then use do adb shell and then su
11. Put this code in:
Code:
dd if=/sdcard/Download/vbmeta.img of=/dev/block/by-name/samsung_vbmeta
12. Hit enter then reboot. Now Both vbmeta and samsung_vbmeta should be unsigned and should be able to flash any usigned parittion!

how does your vbmeta differ to the vbmeta found on the stock rom?
 
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Hey guys,

As some of you know samsung made had a bunch of different changes since the release of Android 10. It took me a week to figure it out but it was really simple. I had to do two things: Repatch the the magisk boot image with Preserve AVB 2.0/Dm-verity and file encryption or whatever unchecked and i had to manually edit out AVB from the fstab since samsung moved it to the vendor partition..

So first thing is first:
1. Follow my guide https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-tab-s6-lite/how-to/howto-unlock-root-galaxy-tab-s6-lite-t4132289
2. Use your favorite root explorer, (I use es file explorer), mount vendor then navigate to /vendor/etc
3. Open up the exynos9611.fstab. look for anything containing the word avb and remove that and save it.
4, Reboot completely.
5. Download the Vbmeta.tar i attached to this post then use Odin to flash it via AP and USERDATA,
6. Reboot into recovery and do a factory reset.
7. AFter the factory reset its going to reboot a few times. Let it do that
8. Reinstall magisk manager again and open it up and make sure magisk does it things and reboots.
9 Now we have to patch the samsung_vbmeta. Download the samsung_vbmeta , extract the vbmeta.img to your tablet to .sdcard/Download
10., Open up adb and make sure developer option is enabled with usb debugging on, then use do adb shell and then su
11. Put this code in:
Code:
dd if=/sdcard/Download/vbmeta.img of=/dev/block/by-name/samsung_vbmeta
12. Hit enter then reboot. Now Both vbmeta and samsung_vbmeta should be unsigned and should be able to flash any usigned parittion!

Hey guys,

As some of you know samsung made had a bunch of different changes since the release of Android 10. It took me a week to figure it out but it was really simple. I had to do two things: Repatch the the magisk boot image with Preserve AVB 2.0/Dm-verity and file encryption or whatever unchecked and i had to manually edit out AVB from the fstab since samsung moved it to the vendor partition..

So first thing is first:
1. Follow my guide https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-tab-s6-lite/how-to/howto-unlock-root-galaxy-tab-s6-lite-t4132289
2. Use your favorite root explorer, (I use es file explorer), mount vendor then navigate to /vendor/etc
3. Open up the exynos9611.fstab. look for anything containing the word avb and remove that and save it.
4, Reboot completely.
5. Download the Vbmeta.tar i attached to this post then use Odin to flash it via AP and USERDATA,
6. Reboot into recovery and do a factory reset.
7. AFter the factory reset its going to reboot a few times. Let it do that
8. Reinstall magisk manager again and open it up and make sure magisk does it things and reboots.
9 Now we have to patch the samsung_vbmeta. Download the samsung_vbmeta , extract the vbmeta.img to your tablet to .sdcard/Download
10., Open up adb and make sure developer option is enabled with usb debugging on, then use do adb shell and then su
11. Put this code in:
Code:
dd if=/sdcard/Download/vbmeta.img of=/dev/block/by-name/samsung_vbmeta
12. Hit enter then reboot. Now Both vbmeta and samsung_vbmeta should be unsigned and should be able to flash any usigned parittion!
can u help me disabling the vbmeta on samsung galaxy a20s .... its kicking me nutts
 

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    Hey guys,

    As some of you know samsung made had a bunch of different changes since the release of Android 10. It took me a week to figure it out but it was really simple. I had to do two things: Repatch the the magisk boot image with Preserve AVB 2.0/Dm-verity and file encryption or whatever unchecked and i had to manually edit out AVB from the fstab since samsung moved it to the vendor partition..

    So first thing is first:
    1. Follow my guide https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-tab-s6-lite/how-to/howto-unlock-root-galaxy-tab-s6-lite-t4132289
    2. Use your favorite root explorer, (I use es file explorer), mount vendor then navigate to /vendor/etc
    3. Open up the exynos9611.fstab. look for anything containing the word avb and remove that and save it.
    4, Reboot completely.
    5. Download the Vbmeta.tar i attached to this post then use Odin to flash it via AP and USERDATA,
    6. Reboot into recovery and do a factory reset.
    7. AFter the factory reset its going to reboot a few times. Let it do that
    8. Reinstall magisk manager again and open it up and make sure magisk does it things and reboots.
    9 Now we have to patch the samsung_vbmeta. Download the samsung_vbmeta , extract the vbmeta.img to your tablet to .sdcard/Download
    10., Open up adb and make sure developer option is enabled with usb debugging on, then use do adb shell and then su
    11. Put this code in:
    Code:
    dd if=/sdcard/Download/vbmeta.img of=/dev/block/by-name/samsung_vbmeta
    12. Hit enter then reboot. Now Both vbmeta and samsung_vbmeta should be unsigned and should be able to flash any usigned parittion!
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    Need to re upload the vbmeta but hopefully pushes forward with development.
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    Hey guys,

    As some of you know samsung made had a bunch of different changes since the release of Android 10. It took me a week to figure it out but it was really simple. I had to do two things: Repatch the the magisk boot image with Preserve AVB 2.0/Dm-verity and file encryption or whatever unchecked and i had to manually edit out AVB from the fstab since samsung moved it to the vendor partition..

    So first thing is first:
    1. Follow my guide https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-tab-s6-lite/how-to/howto-unlock-root-galaxy-tab-s6-lite-t4132289
    2. Use your favorite root explorer, (I use es file explorer), mount vendor then navigate to /vendor/etc
    3. Open up the exynos9611.fstab. look for anything containing the word avb and remove that and save it.
    4, Reboot completely.
    5. Download the Vbmeta.tar i attached to this post then use Odin to flash it via AP and USERDATA,
    6. Reboot into recovery and do a factory reset.
    7. AFter the factory reset its going to reboot a few times. Let it do that
    8. Reinstall magisk manager again and open it up and make sure magisk does it things and reboots.
    9 Now we have to patch the samsung_vbmeta. Download the samsung_vbmeta , extract the vbmeta.img to your tablet to .sdcard/Download
    10., Open up adb and make sure developer option is enabled with usb debugging on, then use do adb shell and then su
    11. Put this code in:
    Code:
    dd if=/sdcard/Download/vbmeta.img of=/dev/block/by-name/samsung_vbmeta
    12. Hit enter then reboot. Now Both vbmeta and samsung_vbmeta should be unsigned and should be able to flash any usigned parittion!

    how does your vbmeta differ to the vbmeta found on the stock rom?
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    Is this only for exynos ?