How To Guide Root OnePlus 9

[ElianLier]

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I am in the oop11 of msm, I download the most recent ota and to update where I do it

estoy en la oop11 de msm, descargo la ota mas reciente y para actualizar donde lo hago

Mod. edit: post translated. alecxs

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I never throw the boot img, neither in the full nor in the incremental

 

[TimmyP]

Remember to get your key you have to go back to the site you sent your numbers to, and check status for getting the token. They sent you no email, or any indication its ready. Just in case this is needed.

 

[RogerGoodlove]

Could someone please share OP9 LE2113 F75 boot.img.. I'm having no luck with Payload Dumper or MSM since I changed laptop. Thankyou.

 

[NLhardcore]

Could someone please share OP9 LE2113 F75 boot.img.. I'm having no luck with Payload Dumper or MSM since I changed laptop. Thankyou.

 

[gullzway]

Hey I just got this phone today from Tmobile. Last one they had around me.

Is rooting this still possible? OEM unlocking is greyed out in developer options.

on security update 5/1/21

baseband ends in 1.796.5.817.2

build number
11.2.4.4.LE54CB

in case any of that is relevant.

Sorry total noob to Oneplus.

Did you try this to enable OEM unlocking? I did this on my TMobile version when I got it last year, though I still haven't rooted it. I may be getting around to doing that now.

OEM unlock despite sim lock

@Ju5t3nC4s3 very kindly shared with me a cool trick to make the Developer Options OEM unlock option work despite a SIM lock. Here is my variant of the trick. Exit Development Settings, then do: adb shell pm disable-user com.qualcomm.qti.uim The...

forum.xda-developers.com

 

[TimmyP]

Im long rooted now. Get a token!

 

[gullzway]

Im long rooted now. Get a token!

Nice. Is a token similar to getting an Unlock code from Motorola?

I'll have to look that up, haven't used this phone since Sprint gave it to me last year because they also gave me a Pixel 6 Pro. My OnePlus 9 is still on Android 11.

Edit: just sent unlock code to OnePlus.
Was wanting to stay on Android 11, but my Asus Router wasn't working with Dual Wan using this phone's USB hotspot. Updated to Android 12 and it's working. Need to root now.

 

[TimmyP]

Used this site right?

unlock token - OnePlus (United States)

www.oneplus.com

 

[gullzway]

Used this site right?

unlock token - OnePlus (United States)

www.oneplus.com

Yes.

 

[Millio345]

[Fixed, see edit]
I'm having some issues getting root back after accidentally installing OTA update without going through Magisk...
I'm on latest version (LE2113_11_F.75) with unlocked bootloader and root through Magisk was working fine before.

These are the steps I've followed:

• I downloaded the official signed flashable zip for LE2113_11_F.75 from the stickied thread on this forum
• I used payload_dumper to extract the boot.img and pushed the boot.img to my phone with adb push
• I then patched the boot.img with magisk (version 26.1) and downloaded the patched image (magisk_patched-26100_xxx.img) through adb pull
• I rebooted into fastboot and used "fastboot flash boot magisk_patched-26100_xxx.img" and then "fastboot reboot"

All steps above work perfectly without error, but I'm still not rooted, Magisk still looks the same (Installed: N/A, Zygisk: No, Ramdisk: Yes) and the "install" option in Magisk only has the "Select and patch a file" option, which I already used before.

Not sure what I'm doing wrong, thanks in advance!

EDIT: Fixed it. I had hidden the Magisk app before and I somehow had both the "Magisk" app and the (hidden) "Settings" app. Opening the settings app did show magisk and zygisk as installed and fixed the issues

 

[zjyoti]

Can anyone help me find updated steps for rooting? My build number is currently LE2115_11_F.21 and running OOS13. I got confused reading all the posts about how to root dated back to 2021. Can any good soul help please?

 

[shadabkiani]

Can anyone help me find updated steps for rooting? My build number is currently LE2115_11_F.21 and running OOS13. I got confused reading all the posts about how to root dated back to 2021. Can any good soul help please?

The summary of the process is this. Your build number says that you are currently on F.21 firmware. In order to obtain root, you need "boot.img" from F.21 firmware so that you can patch this boot.img from Magisk app, then temporarily boot this newly "patched_boot.img" and then root permanently from Magisk app's Direct Install option.

Follow these steps. You need PC for the process. I assume you already have proper drivers for OnePlus installed on your PC.

First you need to obtain boot.img for F.21 firmware (or whatever firmware you are currently on). You can either ask someone to share the boot.img for F.21; or (even better) you can extract it yourself from your phone using MSM Tool. To extract it yourself, download MSM Tool from this link (choose the Global version since your firmware is Global). Meanwhile it's downloading, go to your phone, reboot to fastboot mode, check your current active slot by this command fastboot getvar current-slot and note/remember the output from the command (whether _a or _b). Turn off your phone and DO NOT connect to PC yet. Now once MSM is downloaded, run MSM Tool exe. Press F8 and select either boot_a or boot_b depending on your current slot as checked from fastboot before. In the password section, enter oneplus then go ahead and click Readback. It will say waiting for device. Now come back to your turned off phone, hold both vol- and vol+ buttons and connect phone to PC. The PC will recignize the device but phone screen will still be black. MSM tool will read the phone and extract the selected boot.img to C: drive, and phone will reboot.

Now copy that extracted boot.img from C: to your phone. Install Magisk app. Patch that boot.img. The app will create magisk_patched_boot.img in your phone's Download folder. Copy that newly patched boot.img to your PC. Reboot your phone to fastboot mode, and run this command to temporarily boot the patched boot.img:
fastboot boot <your_patched_boot.img>
Once you phone boots up, go to Magisk app, choose Install and select Direct Install. This will permanently root your current firmware.

Note: When there is a new OTA update, the system will show it's available but it will fail to install because of root. So when there is a new OTA, go to Magisk app, uninstall and restore images. Then proceed with OTA, and after successfull update, extract boot.img again and get root following the above steps.

 

[zjyoti]

The summary of the process is this. Your build number says that you are currently on F.21 firmware. In order to obtain root, you need "boot.img" from F.21 firmware so that you can patch this boot.img from Magisk app, then temporarily boot this newly "patched_boot.img" and then root permanently from Magisk app's Direct Install option.

Follow these steps. You need PC for the process. I assume you already have proper drivers for OnePlus installed on your PC.

First you need to obtain boot.img for F.21 firmware (or whatever firmware you are currently on). You can either ask someone to share the boot.img for F.21; or (even better) you can extract it yourself from your phone using MSM Tool. To extract it yourself, download MSM Tool from this link (choose the Global version since your firmware is Global). Meanwhile it's downloading, go to your phone, reboot to fastboot mode, check your current active slot by this command fastboot getvar current-slot and note/remember the output from the command (whether _a or _b). Turn off your phone and DO NOT connect to PC yet. Now once MSM is downloaded, run MSM Tool exe. Press F8 and select either boot_a or boot_b depending on your current slot as checked from fastboot before. In the password section, enter oneplus then go ahead and click Readback. It will say waiting for device. Now come back to your turned off phone, hold both vol- and vol+ buttons and connect phone to PC. The PC will recignize the device but phone screen will still be black. MSM tool will read the phone and extract the selected boot.img to C: drive, and phone will reboot.

Now copy that extracted boot.img from C: to your phone. Install Magisk app. Patch that boot.img. The app will create magisk_patched_boot.img in your phone's Download folder. Copy that newly patched boot.img to your PC. Reboot your phone to fastboot mode, and run this command to temporarily boot the patched boot.img:
fastboot boot <your_patched_boot.img>
Once you phone boots up, go to Magisk app, choose Install and select Direct Install. This will permanently root your current firmware.

Note: When there is a new OTA update, the system will show it's available but it will fail to install because of root. So when there is a new OTA, go to Magisk app, uninstall and restore images. Then proceed with OTA, and after successfull update, extract boot.img again and get root following the above steps.

Thank you for such detailed guildeline! You are a lifesaver!

 

[downhere]

The summary of the process is this. Your build number says that you are currently on F.21 firmware. In order to obtain root, you need "boot.img" from F.21 firmware so that you can patch this boot.img from Magisk app, then temporarily boot this newly "patched_boot.img" and then root permanently from Magisk app's Direct Install option.

Follow these steps. You need PC for the process. I assume you already have proper drivers for OnePlus installed on your PC.

First you need to obtain boot.img for F.21 firmware (or whatever firmware you are currently on). You can either ask someone to share the boot.img for F.21; or (even better) you can extract it yourself from your phone using MSM Tool. To extract it yourself, download MSM Tool from this link (choose the Global version since your firmware is Global). Meanwhile it's downloading, go to your phone, reboot to fastboot mode, check your current active slot by this command fastboot getvar current-slot and note/remember the output from the command (whether _a or _b). Turn off your phone and DO NOT connect to PC yet. Now once MSM is downloaded, run MSM Tool exe. Press F8 and select either boot_a or boot_b depending on your current slot as checked from fastboot before. In the password section, enter oneplus then go ahead and click Readback. It will say waiting for device. Now come back to your turned off phone, hold both vol- and vol+ buttons and connect phone to PC. The PC will recignize the device but phone screen will still be black. MSM tool will read the phone and extract the selected boot.img to C: drive, and phone will reboot.

Now copy that extracted boot.img from C: to your phone. Install Magisk app. Patch that boot.img. The app will create magisk_patched_boot.img in your phone's Download folder. Copy that newly patched boot.img to your PC. Reboot your phone to fastboot mode, and run this command to temporarily boot the patched boot.img:
fastboot boot <your_patched_boot.img>
Once you phone boots up, go to Magisk app, choose Install and select Direct Install. This will permanently root your current firmware.

Note: When there is a new OTA update, the system will show it's available but it will fail to install because of root. So when there is a new OTA, go to Magisk app, uninstall and restore images. Then proceed with OTA, and after successfull update, extract boot.img again and get root following the above steps.

Cool!

But why not just "adb sideload magisk.zip" instead?

 

[shadabkiani]

Cool!

But why not just "adb sideload magisk.zip" instead?

I don't know if it works without bugs with that method on OnePlus 9. Rooting with extracting/patching boot.img has been the recommended way, although sideloading might work good too.

 

[downhere]

I don't know if it works without bugs with that method on OnePlus 9. Rooting with extracting/patching boot.img has been the recommended way, although sideloading might work good too.

I've never gone the boot.img way but sideload way instead. I haven't experienced any bugs. Although I'm not on stock ROM anymore.

 

[shadabkiani]

I've never gone the boot.img way but sideload way instead. I haven't experienced any bugs. Although I'm not on stock ROM anymore.

The drawback with rooting through recovery's adb sideload is that it doesn't back up the original stock boot.img, so in case you want to remove root and restore images, you can't do that from Magisk's Uninstall function. Also, OOS firmware's recovery doesn't allow adb sideload in the first place. It only works with custom ROM's recovery.

With the recommended method of patching, temporarily booting and then using Direct Install from Magisk app, you can easily unroot your phone and restore stock boot.img from Magisk.

 

[gullzway]

Used this site right?

unlock token - OnePlus (United States)

www.oneplus.com

Unlock Application sent 2 weeks ago, haven't heard a thing from them.
Does it take this long?

 

[TimmyP]

You dont hear from them. You go back to the site and check status (you'll see the link) and they will have the key. I bet its there.

If not, I didn't know you had to check for 3 weeks, so it could be longer.

 

[gullzway]

You dont hear from them. You go back to the site and check status (you'll see the link) and they will have the key. I bet its there.

If not, I didn't know you had to check for 3 weeks, so it could be longer.

Thanks, I've checked. It says
"Status : Applied

Update time : 2023.04.30 19:21:33"

No Link.