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pndwal

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After today's TB checker app update from Google Play, the app is not working, any solution ?
After updating opened fine for me but on running Play Integrity Check I got:
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... Cleared all app data... Seem to get more invasive (annoying) adds now, plus is this new?:
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... Selected Don't Allow and ran Play Integrity Check again... All fine now... (Only strongIntegrity and virtualIntegrity red... All green for Root and Xposed checks.)

Suggest clearing data as seems updated app may not play nicely with old config data... PW
 
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After updating opened fine for me but on running Play Integrity Check I got:
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... Cleared all app data... Seem to get more invasive (annoying) adds now, plus is this new?:
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... Selected Don't Allow and ran Play Integrity Check again... All fine now... (Only strongIntegrity and virtualIntegrity red... All green for Root and Xposed checks.)

Suggest clearing data as seems updated app may not play nicely with old config data... PW
I did everything, TB checker still doesn't work, open error, I found this info in the Cat log 🤷
 

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Updated yesterday to v2.5.5.... after getting Play Store notification. After a while, just ran the app and everything was okay. (Cleared nothing.)
But today, got a message saying 'app is not official'. Went to Play Store and updated again to v2.5.7.... All fine now. WTH!
 

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I did everything, TB checker still doesn't work, open error, I found this info in the Cat log 🤷
Assuming Play Store is still working fine, are you running Hide My Applist, PrivacySpace or similar Xposed/Magisk modules?... Are you hiding Play Store in any templates, in 'apps invisible' or in other hide lists? PW
 
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Assuming Play Store is still working fine, are you running Hide My Applist, PrivacySpace or similar Xposed/Magisk modules?... Are you hiding Play Store in any templates, in 'apps invisible' or in other hide lists? PW
In HMA, I only have 2 apps hidden in the Google Play Store, Lucky Pacher and HManager, nothing else. I completely do not understand why after today's update of TB checker the application does not work at all, error open app ... Yesterday on the previous version it worked normally 🤔
 

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In HMA, I only have 2 apps hidden in the Google Play Store, Lucky Pacher and HManager, nothing else. I completely do not understand why after today's update of TB checker the application does not work at all, error open app ... Yesterday on the previous version it worked normally 🤔
I'm not clear what "hidden in the Google Play Store" means... As I asked, do you have Play Store itself in any templates or 'apps invisible' lists?...

Clearly from your screenshot, TB Checker can't find Play Store... That's why I suspected app hiding... May be some other mod setting or anomaly on your system also... PW
 
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I'm not clear what "hidden in the Google Play Store" means... As I asked, do you have Play Store itself in any templates or 'apps invisible' lists?...

Clearly from your screenshot, TB Checker can't find Play Store... That's why I suspected app hiding... May be some other mod setting or anomaly on your system also... PW
Now it sees google play store but TB checker still not working 🤕. It remains to wait for the next update, and if there is still an error open TB checker, it remains to completely remove Magisk root and check if this application will start working🤕. Unfortunately, I don't see any other option 🤷.
 

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I had a suspicion this was going to happen.
This was posted in the Delta Telegram group:
Assuming that the TG message is not an April fool's joke ...

This would be very sad news! Magisk Delta seems to be the most reliable and functional version.

Because of the complexities and headaches involved with trying to use later versions of Magisk and Android, I have been holding off on upgrading beyond Android 11, where I can still run TWRP and Magisk 23.0. However, I have been considering going to Android 12 or 13, and Magisk Delta would have been my Magisk choice.

If this situation remains the same on April 2nd, I will have then lost my desire to upgrade.
 
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Now it sees google play store but TB checker still not working 🤕. It remains to wait for the next update, and if there is still an error open TB checker, it remains to completely remove Magisk root and check if this application will start working🤕. Unfortunately, I don't see any other option 🤷.
Please explain "2 apps hidden in the Google Play Store".
 

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Please explain "2 apps hidden in the Google Play Store".
The HManager app for the Huawei router and Lucky Patcher is detected as a malicious app in the Google Play store, so I hide these two apps in the HMA for the Google Play store.
What version of TB Checker do you have? v2.5.7.r289.a8dd9b9 seems to work fine.
I have installed exactly the same version as you, I have open TB checker error all the time... Something is blocking the application from starting, but I have no idea what.
 
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The HManager app for the Huawei router and Lucky Patcher is detected as a malicious app in the Google Play store, so I hide these two apps in the HMA for the Google Play store.

I have installed exactly the same version as you, I have open TB checker error all the time... Something is blocking the application from starting, but I have no idea what.
Try without lucky patcher installed it's known to be a factor in root detection (i know it's in HMA but might still be an issue.
 
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    Hi,
    Do someone already try to root the new Android Beta?
    Both Stable 26.1 and Canary 26102 working fine on my Pixel 6 Pro and Pixel 7 Pro running A14B3.
    4
    I'm still not sure if /system/(x)bin was writable on the official Magisk v25 and earlier, or it was specific to Delta (since HuskyDG worked on a module for dynamical mounting during the run-time)

    Nevertheless, about the second part - it's not only good that when you boot without Magisk all mounts/changes will be gone but that is also necessary for new devices - originally released with A11, where SAR (all System paths) are read-only on the file system level (hence even with root, you could not change them). Therefore, temporary mounting can only work

    You can inspect your /vendor/etc/fstab to see if /system or / are defined as "ro"

    Btw, in that case, size of the SAR is full up to the last block (only few KBs might be unused) - hence even if it would be writable (on the file system level) nothing additional could be stored

    Eg, (system/)/etc/hosts file with blocking domains for ad sites would not fit (no space left on /system) - and that's why Systemless hosts is also needed
    Pixel 3aXL
    Lineage 19.1 (20230603)
    OpenGApps 12L (nano?)
    Magisk - Current version.

    I ran your test script.
    I thought it might work on Lineage.
    Sorry to say it did not. 😞

    ---

    Custom ROMs that do not include GApps, leave extra room in system for GApps.
    Size of the rom and the installed gapps package, determines how much free space you have left in system.

    AdAway in root-mode, will write to system/etc/hosts but, the file will be truncated if you run out of free space.
    The updated hosts file will remain even if you boot a non-Magisk patched boot image.

    Magisk patched boot image.
    Code:
    [[email protected] 3aXL]$ adb shell
    bonito:/ $ magisk -c
    5e2ef1b7f-ip:MAGISK:R (26102)
    bonito:/ $ su -c ls -la /data/adb/modules/
    total 30
    drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 3488 2023-06-04 11:48 .
    drwx------ 11 root root 3488 2023-06-04 11:48 ..
    drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 3488 2023-06-04 11:46 busybox-ndk
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 3488 2023-06-03 17:45 iReddit
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 3488 2023-05-27 10:39 iyt
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 3488 2023-05-27 12:54 iytm_arm64
    drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 3488 2023-06-04 11:48 nano-ndk
    drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 3488 2023-04-22 18:03 safetynet-fix
    drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 3488 2023-04-24 18:40 zygisk_lsposed
    drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 3488 2023-06-04 11:48 zygisk_shamiko
    bonito:/ $ 
    bonito:/ $ ls -la /system/etc/hosts
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 287489 2023-06-04 13:58 /system/etc/hosts
    bonito:/ $ cat /system/etc/hosts | grep "#"
    # This hosts file has been generated by AdAway on: 2023-06-04 13:58:55
    # Please do not modify it directly, it will be overwritten when AdAway is applied again.
    # This file is generated from the following sources:
    # - AdAway official hosts:https://adaway.org/hosts.txt
    # - Pete Lowe blocklist hosts:https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&showintro=0&mimetype=plaintext
    bonito:/ $ exit
    Stock boot image.
    Code:
    [[email protected] 3aXL]$ adb reboot bootloader; fastboot boot 20230603/boot-lineage-19.1-20230603-nightly-bonito-signed.img
    < waiting for any device >
    Sending 'boot.img' (65536 KB)                      OKAY [  2.755s]
    Booting                                            OKAY [  6.935s]
    Finished. Total time: 9.739s
    [[email protected] 3aXL]$ adb shell
    bonito:/ $ magisk -c
    /system/bin/sh: magisk: inaccessible or not found
    127|bonito:/ $ su -c ls -la /data/adb/modules/
    /system/bin/sh: su: inaccessible or not found
    127|bonito:/ $ ls -la /system/etc/hosts
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 287489 2023-06-04 13:58 /system/etc/hosts
    bonito:/ $ cat /system/etc/hosts | grep "#"
    # This hosts file has been generated by AdAway on: 2023-06-04 13:58:55
    # Please do not modify it directly, it will be overwritten when AdAway is applied again.
    # This file is generated from the following sources:
    # - AdAway official hosts:https://adaway.org/hosts.txt
    # - Pete Lowe blocklist hosts:https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&showintro=0&mimetype=plaintext
    bonito:/ $ exit
    [[email protected] 3aXL]$ adb reboot

    Cheers. :cowboy:

    PS.
    I remember commits/messages about changing to 'ro' only but, I could not find the one(s) I was thinking of.
    Maybe @pndwal could chime in 😉
    2
    thanks bro, how is the Battery Life on the Beta compare to the A13?
    You're welcome. Have no idea. Only been running it for 4-5 hours.
    1
    I'm still not sure if /system/(x)bin was writable on the official Magisk v25 and earlier, or it was specific to Delta (since HuskyDG worked on a module for dynamical mounting during the run-time)

    Nevertheless, about the second part - it's not only good that when you boot without Magisk all mounts/changes will be gone but that is also necessary for new devices - originally released with A11, where SAR (all System paths) are read-only on the file system level (hence even with root, you could not change them). Therefore, temporary mounting can only work

    You can inspect your /vendor/etc/fstab to see if /system or / are defined as "ro"

    Btw, in that case, size of the SAR is full up to the last block (only few KBs might be unused) - hence even if it would be writable (on the file system level) nothing additional could be stored

    Eg, (system/)/etc/hosts file with blocking domains for ad sites would not fit (no space left on /system) - and that's why Systemless hosts is also needed


    Hi

    I'm still not sure if /system/(x)bin was writable on the official Magisk v25 and earlier, or it was specific to Delta

    I tested with the official Magisk v25 release

    Tests with Magisk v24.2 do have the same result:

    Code:
    ASUS_I006D:/ # magisk -V                                                                                                                                                
    24200
    ASUS_I006D:/ #
    ASUS_I006D:/ # mount | grep "/system/bin "                                                                                                                              
    tmpfs on /system/bin type tmpfs (rw,seclabel,relatime,size=3700224k,nr_inodes=925056)
    ASUS_I006D:/ #
    ASUS_I006D:/ # touch /system/bin/xxx.$$$                                                                                                                                
    ASUS_I006D:/ #
    ASUS_I006D:/ # ls -l /system/bin/xxx.$$$                                                                                                                                
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2023-06-07 13:17 /system/bin/xxx.4613$
    ASUS_I006D:/ #


    regards

    Bernd
    1
    Both Stable 26.1 and Canary 26102 working fine on my Pixel 6 Pro and Pixel 7 Pro running A14B3.

    thanks bro, how is the Battery Life on the Beta compare to the A13?
  • 8
    So as well as making it easier to keep root with an ota we can have the same firmware on the device one rooted and one not? So if magisk hide/safetynet/etc aren't working we can boot to the non rooted firmware to use wallet/banking apps etc and then boot back to rooted. Or is it a bit more complicated than that? Never had a pixel device before
    Others have already addressed your question, but for me, the biggest benefit here is to have a safety valve in place where your inactive slot is bootable (without first having to flash the firmware) in case you get into a hairy situation where your active slot becomes unbootable for whatever reason. May be useful in some situations.
    8
    Hello!
    How do you know?
    You must be an expert or something

    Nigerian-Meme.jpg 😜 PW
    7
    Yeah, if I want to run a custom kernel (Pixel 7) then I need to wipe. Should have sideloaded (not booted up), then gone into bootloader and run fastboot flash vbmeta --disable-verity --disable-verification vbmeta.img to that slot. Once booted after sideload/flashing the firmware it's too late as it's enabled after booting. Don't think it matters if you do it before or after flashing the patched image, just as long as you do it before you boot up. Oh well, lol...

    Nothing to do with what we were testing, just custom kernel related. Seems to also help to avoid getting the red eio corrupt message when things may not go as expected.
    Thanks, I realize it is only needed for custom Kernel cases.
    I should add extracting vbmeta from payload.bin then in addition to boot.img / init_boot.img so that the step can be performed if the options are selected.
    7
    Hello together
    If I tick some apps in the denylist and leave magisk app, some apps untick it themself: Android Auto, Cell Broadcast Service, Google Services Framework, Networkmanager and Tethering. If you wondering why I hide this apps, I just hide all Apps from google. Are there any limitation of hide apps in the list?
    You are not supposed to "hide all apps", you are generally advised to hide as few apps as possible; hide an app only when necessary.

    I don't know whether "hide all apps from google" means "hide from Google all apps" or "hide any app you think was produced by Google", but both are bad ideas.

    In particular, hiding some Google processes can cripple Android.

    There have been posts about USNF or Shamiko (not necessarily both, I just don't remember the details) removing some Google process from the deny list because it (the module, USNF or Shamiko) handled that process specially. I do not remember reading about those other processes you say are getting unticked.
    6
    You guys still aren't using ASH_STANDALONE=1 which forces busybox to use its own applets above what's in the path. Either export it or specify it as a command prefix. It has to be Magisk's busybox or my SELinux busybox to have the patch required for standalone mode.

    export ASH_STANDALONE=1
    /data/adb/magisk/busybox ash /data/local/tmp/test2.sh

    or

    ASH_STANDALONE=1 /data/adb/magisk/busybox ash /data/local/tmp/test2.sh

    P.S. `` (backticks) are just a lazy way to suggest a code/command block since that's what they are when used in markdown, plus if copied whole directly to a shell it just dumps it into a subshell, like $() does, and unlike "".
  • 1094
    This is the place for general support and discussion regarding "Public Releases", which includes both stable and beta releases.
    All information, including troubleshoot guides and notes, are in the Announcement Thread
    156
    Hello, I haven't given much support on XDA lately. It can be resulted from
    • University started and I have limited free time. In fact, I mostly develop during midnight
    • I live in Taiwan, which has large time zone differences between my European/American contributors/testers, which usually forces me to stay up late at night to discuss/test stuffs.
    • The new version is about to come, I don't want to spend effort on supporting old releases
    The planned update is delayed again and again, to some point I think I'll shed some light about what has been happening lately, also along with some announcements.

    New Forum!
    As you might have already discovered, Magisk got its own subforum on XDA! Many thanks to all the support you gave me, and much more information/features/support is about to come!
    **For developers supporting all the devices that are not using standard Android boot format, feel free to create threads in this section (actually, PLEASE do so) for your favorite devices after v7 is out. As I currently know, Asus devices require signing the boot image before flashing, and is model dependant; Sony devices seems to use ELF kernel that is unpatchable, or some has two ramdisks (inner + outer), both requires different workarounds; LG bootloader locked devices has to manually "BUMP" the boot image after flashing Magisk..... and there may be lots of other crazy boot image formats that haven't come up to my attention yet.
    It is impossible for me to support all these non-standard boot images, and I hope the community can collaborate to make Magisk running across all the devices. Overall, community collaboration is what XDA about :D

    The Pixel Phone
    Some of you might already know this news, that the next Pixel Phone right around the corner seems like it does not have ramdisk in boot image, which pretty much wrecked Magisk in all ways. However, it pretty much doomed root itself too. Kernel modifications is inevitable IMO, so I'll try to migrate my scripts to C programs that could possibly be included into the kernel itself. Note that I'm not familiar with linux kernel, I'm not even sure if my idea and concept is correct or not. But once the device is available, I think developers will find a way to bypass all the difficulties, and I'll do my best to learn things ;)

    Current Progress
    In the past month, I've spent quite some time learning SELinux, so that I can avoid using SuperSU's sepolicy patches. Thanks to the helps and tips from @phhusson and @Chainfire, I finally have a much clearer understanding of how SELinux works. The Magisk core parts (the scripts, boot image patches, new features, more supports) are actually done some time ago. What is causing all the delays is the Magisk Manager.
    To be completely honest, although I can code in Java without much issues, Magisk Manager is actually my first Android application, I had to reach out for assistance, and fortunately awesome developers like @DVDandroid and @digitalhigh contributed a lot, which makes the current Manager awesome.
    After the repo system and module management is mostly done, I was about to do some adjustments and release, but what we really done is decided to add another feature: auto-unroot with per-app settings. I decided to wait for it to be finished, and then do my adjustments. Due to reasons that'll be mentioned later, this feature will likely not be available for the next release (should come in future updates)

    Safety Net Disaster
    Those who are using Magisk for Safety Net bypass purposes must have known that Google recently updated the detection method of my Systemless Xposed. I still have no idea what Safety Net is detecting, so currently I cannot fix it on my side (also because I'm busy working on the next update). However, suhide developed by @Chainfire is able to hide Xposed and worked fine.
    However, only my Systemless Xposed v86.2, which is based on SuperSU's su.d, is supported using that method. v86.2 and v86.5 (latest, Magisk based) have nearly identical binaries, and the only difference is the path where the binaries are stored.
    I'm still not sure what's the real issue for it not being supported, I just hope it is not done intentionally.

    Conclusion
    Due to the fact that my Safety Net bypass is not 100% perfect now, I do not want to spend any more time waiting for auto-unroot to be polished. What I'm doing now is finishing up all the things I'd like to change in Magisk Manager (it has been a while since I last contributed to Manager, my fellow developers are doing all the heavy job), which might take a little more time, after that, packed with tons of information to be announced in Magisk Section, I'll release the long awaited update.

    Hope this lengthy post gives you the idea of the whole situation, and again thanks for all your support!!
    121
    Ah, some Chainfire bashing, I hope it is not too late for me to exercise additional villainy.

    First, let me make clear I have nothing against @topjohnwu, nor against Magisk. Magisk is an interesting project and it certainly displays @topjohnwu ingenuity and persistence. I don't doubt we will see more interesting things from his hands.

    -------------------------

    What has happened here is not all that dark and complicated, from either end. I returned from holidays, and someone pointed me at Magisk. My first thought: interesting!

    Among other things, the thread lists some issues with SuperSU, which in combination with the phrase The developer also requests users to not bug Chainfire with compatibility requests for SuperSU with Magisk from the portal article, raised my left eyebrow by nigh half an inch. The popular systemless xposed mod is apparently now based on it, and apparently it now no longer works with SuperSU, and apparently I'm not supposed to fix that, nor any of the other found issues. I found that a bit weird. So yes, I have told @topjohnwu that I was a bit surprised he was posting about issues with SuperSU without notifying me about them (I can't fix or help fix issues I'm not aware of, after all).

    He's also spreading a modified version of the SuperSU package, which is not all that uncommon, nor necessarily a problem. I have not looked into what he modified, I only ran a few quick tests on one of my devices, and found some commonly used commands run as root to be broken. I have informed him of this as well.

    It appears the tool of choice for Magisk is phh's Superuser, because of some of the mentioned issues with SuperSU. That's fine by itself, but fixing issues in that superuser by incorporating SuperSU's binaries into it is a somewhat questionable practise. After all, SuperSU is a commercial closed-source package that helps pay for my dinner, and superuser is a direct competitor. I have informed him that I was surprised he did this without asking for permission. I have expressed similar surprise on him spreading a modified version of LiveBoot (which helps pay for a snack now and then).
    @topjohnwu has also stated that Magisk's scripts are largely influenced by mine (I have not checked). Scripts based on mine are used all over the place on XDA, some people have crafted amazing things based on them, I have never made an issue of this (otherwise I would have just made them binaries). But yes, I have also stated to him that I don't think it's very nice to base something on one program, and then using that to (almost exclusively) push something directly competing with that program.

    tl;dr Towards @topjohnwu, I have:
    - expressed surprise he has issues getting Magisk to work with SuperSU, and has chosen not to inform me about those
    - expressed surprise he is using SuperSU binaries in a competing superuser without permission
    - expressed surprise he is posting a modified LiveBoot without permission
    - informed him of issues with the modified SuperSU he has posted
    - let him know I thought it wasn't very nice to be applying my scripts to benefit seemingly exclusively that same competing superuser

    To be crystal clear:
    - I have not asked for an apology
    - I have not asked for Magisk to be abandoned, neither the root hiding nor systemless module parts, and certainly not systemless xposed
    - I have not made an issue of any of this anywhere, until this post
    - I have not even specifically asked for anything to be taken down (though obviously in my opinion the other superuser package mixed with SuperSU's binaries, as well as the LiveBoot package, should go)
    - I have not reported this thread to XDA moderators for copyright violations or otherwise

    While my conversation with @topjohnwu may not win any awards for being friendly (though it may win some for brevity), I think all things considered my response has been rather mild. To be perfectly honest, until the apology post, I thought this was over with already. I think the apology post was triggered because I haven't replied to his last PM for a while - I was in the zone, it happens.

    To emphasize again, I have nothing against @topjohnwu, Magisk, or systemless xposed, and it is certainly not my goal to see any of them go. If it can be made to work together with SuperSU, great.

    I get it though: you think of something, you want to see if you can make it work, you finally get it to work, you publish it, it takes off - enthusiasm gets the better of you. Maybe in the rush some mistakes are made. That doesn't mean you have to just drop it and run. None of my stuff would make it past 0.1 if I stopped at the first big mistake :)

    Aside from said being in the zone coding, I usually regret actually responding to these sort of things the day after, which has made me hesitant to reply. Surprise me.
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    Thread temporarily closed so everyone sees this.

    The flood of "SafetyNet isn't working for me either!" posts are not helpful, at all. Please refrain from posting further, it will be looked into. Please do not forget that not passing SafetyNet is 100% NORMAL AND INTENDED when you have an unlocked booloader or running custom firmware. These are workarounds and they will be worked around in turn.

    The Flash
    Forum Moderator

    EDIT: Thread is reopened... I will be cleaning any SafetyNet posts for a while to keep the thread clean for real issues.
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    Hello everyone!

    I am aware that Google has updated Safety Net that makes Magisk itself a no go for Android Pay. In fact, I witnessed the change live while I am developing the new magiskhide, which should hide all Magisk modules and Magisk installed root.

    Google is serious about Safety Net now, clearly hunting down all possibility to run Xposed with Safety Net passed. I spend quite some time examining the new security measures last midnight, and fortunately it seems that it is possible to run Magisk and root along with Safety Net if no Xposed is running. I'm glad I removed the old root toggle at the right time lol, that is no longer feasible with the latest detection.

    So stay tuned for the next update, it will come with bug fixes, along with the new magiskhide to bypass that Safety Net.

    Google, how will a few systemless mods do any harm :p:p