No root Magisk 25.2 patch recovery in TWRP for Galaxy

[GreekFire123]

Hi,

I finally got Palladium GSI installed (Android 11)! I rooted my Pixel in the past with Magisk 25.2. Now on my Samsung Galaxy A50 that I installed Palladium, I cannot get root. Here are the steps I did.

RAMDISK=NO in Magisk.

(1) Download Magisk 25.2
(2) extract recovery.img from TWRP 3.6 (that I installed originally)
(3) Open Magisk->Install with recovery mode checked ->NEXT -> select and patch a file -> pick recovery.img -> "let's go"
(4) copy the Magisk patched image to my SD Card
(5) boot into TWRP
(6) Install->Image-> pick the Magisk patched (recovery) image -> select 'recovery' partition -> 'swipe to confirm flash'
(7) reboot to recovery once flashed
(8) open Magisk app, no root

what did I do wrong?

I also tried installing Magisk in TWRP by renaming the extension to 'zip' and flashing, rebooting into recovery... I saw that as another method - didn't work either

I'm soo close trying the two methods above I saw in other XDA forum posts. Did I miss a critical step?

 

[GreekFire123]

Installation

The Magic Mask for Android

topjohnwu.github.io

^ do I need to do the vbmeta steps too? Unsure how I would do that in TWRP though...

 

[alecxs]

vbmeta is afaik patched from maigisk, but you can download vbmeta.img.empty pack it into tar archive and flash from Odin3 as it might still required for twrp in case magisk doesn't work.