There is very little here on rooting that isn't fairly old, most of the methods use tools which have been updated or are no longer applicable because of updates to the stock firmware and evolving methodology. For this reason I thought I would get a data point out there about rooting with magisk. This is only one way and won't be suitable for all users but it works for those who like me are picking up this device on sale as it reaches end of life and want root.
With that said here is what I did... I let the tablet update itself to the latest possible firmware which put it on a USA variant of 7.0, I found the exact version of the installed firmware and downloaded it to my PC. I installed the magisk app on the tablet. With those things set up I unzipped the firmware and snagged the boot image. I transferred that to the tablet and let magisk make a modified boot image. I then transferred that back to the PC and flashed it with Odin. A person could also do this with fastboot but I don't my laptop set up for it making Odin the go to choice.
Worked fine and the tablet is rooted. Keep in mind this is root only solution. I find I only use my tablets for media consumption so I don't care about having a custom recovery as I don't need to make any significant changes. A person should peruse the magisk thread opening page to get detail instructions and there are a number of YouTube videos showing the process for those that haven't fiddled with this stuff before. Do remember you will need to adjust the settings in magisk depending on whether you're going to go Odin or fastboot.
Bottom line, it worked fine.
With that said here is what I did... I let the tablet update itself to the latest possible firmware which put it on a USA variant of 7.0, I found the exact version of the installed firmware and downloaded it to my PC. I installed the magisk app on the tablet. With those things set up I unzipped the firmware and snagged the boot image. I transferred that to the tablet and let magisk make a modified boot image. I then transferred that back to the PC and flashed it with Odin. A person could also do this with fastboot but I don't my laptop set up for it making Odin the go to choice.
Worked fine and the tablet is rooted. Keep in mind this is root only solution. I find I only use my tablets for media consumption so I don't care about having a custom recovery as I don't need to make any significant changes. A person should peruse the magisk thread opening page to get detail instructions and there are a number of YouTube videos showing the process for those that haven't fiddled with this stuff before. Do remember you will need to adjust the settings in magisk depending on whether you're going to go Odin or fastboot.
Bottom line, it worked fine.
