Your Knox is already disabled if you rooted. Install lsposed as a app or magisk module. Can you set system two in stock recovery. If not, i found a little known way that i can tell u about.
There is a lot more that can be done with TWRP than just backup and restore. But if you don't need it I don't think you should install it either.
Solved. On A13 if root is having issues Sticking:
Did u do the part where u install magisk on the tablet and then patch the AP file, then send that new file called magisk something back to your PC?
1. Rooting, and even if your bootloader is already unlocked still requires a data wipeHi . . .
I'm waiting for the tab purchased yesterday.
Since unlocking the bootloader erases the user partition, it erases any applications that may have been installed, resulting in a lengthy initialization of each application - for each app to install to which are added the numerous bluetooth pairings...
In my case more than 24 wasted hours
Regardless of installing root and recovery, which I won't do right away, is it useful, advantageous, to unlock the bootloader as soon as you receive the device so as not to waste dozens of hours afterwards?
On Samsung, does unlocking the bootloader void the warranty or activate some signal like the old yellow triangle? Is it reversible?
Thanks
Just flash the original rom again. Lock the bootloader again and probably Ota updates will come.
The short version of a much longer post I could write is that I kept on bootlooping on the new X900XXU4BWD8 (SM-X900_2_20230428104940) firmware (coming from the previous SM-X900_2_20230216135940) for my Tab S8 Ultra after flashing the updated, rooted firmware except for one seemingly random time it booted successfully, but a further reboot went back into bootlooops.
I then flashed the firmware using the unrooted AP file, but still the HOME_CSC, and then it said it was corrupt and needed a factory reset after all. After that, everything behaved normally.
Edit: And I had checked MD5 hashes of the AP file on both ends of the process, both before and after rooting it.
I haven't tried reflashing the rooted AP, or re-rooting the AP file yet. I'll try re-rooting the AP file, compare the hash to the already rooted AP file I have, and then re-flash it either way that turns out.
Edit 2: I re-copied the AP file to the tablet, checking the MD5 hash after, re-rooted it using Magisk 26.1, copied it back, checking the hash before and after yet again, flashed it, and the tablet bootloops a few times after Odin passed every check, then the tablet came to Android Recovery where it says data may be corrupt. Yay, again.
Tablet booted fine after another factory reset.
My next trick will be to re-download the firmware, allow it to be re-extracted / unencrypted, then I'll compare the hash of that AP file to the one got the first time, although I don't expect that to be an issue since the new AP worked fine as long as it wasn't rooted.
Edit 3: AP file has the same hash as before after re-downloading and extracting. Argh. Anyone else able to update to the new firmware rooted on any of the S8 models?
1. Rooting, and even if your bootloader is already unlocked still requires a data wipeHi . . .
I'm waiting for the tab purchased yesterday.
Since unlocking the bootloader erases the user partition, it erases any applications that may have been installed, resulting in a lengthy initialization of each application - for each app to install to which are added the numerous bluetooth pairings...
In my case more than 24 wasted hours
Regardless of installing root and recovery, which I won't do right away, is it useful, advantageous, to unlock the bootloader as soon as you receive the device so as not to waste dozens of hours afterwards?
On Samsung, does unlocking the bootloader void the warranty or activate some signal like the old yellow triangle? Is it reversible?
Thanks
Unlocking bootloader only shows a warning. an fuse only gets triggered upon rooting (Tripping knox)
I've found over the many years (note 4) with Samsung devices that ability to freeze apps with TiBu (debloatIng) is a huge +. I have gone to rooting for that reason almost alone. Plus now I have some apps that require root I can't do without.
Not sure when, but somewhere in an update, the ability to download modules from magisk directly was removed. You can download them using an app called Fox's Magisk Module Manager. You can search for modules just like you could on Magisk, and they'll be added once you install them and reboot. Also, for the netflix thing, your device may not be passing safetynet. Checking this was also remove in an update, but you can check it with YASNAC.
