I rooted my Chinese phone without a custom recovery (haven't bothered for last few phones).
However, I am considering putting TWRP on and when I had a quick look on the Internet to see if one was around for my phone (being a Chinese phone) I naturally came across rooting guides and I noticed they seem to talk about flashing a no-verity-opt-encrypt zip file.
I do not understand why this file is needed?
To cut a long story short...
I extracted what I needed from the stock rom, patched with Magisk as normal and flashed using fastboot.
Then to bypass a bootloop from a signature mismatch because of Android verified boot, I flashed vbmeta using the following options:
--disable-verity --disable-verification
Android boots fine and my device is rooted (verified by Magisk and root checker app).
So why is there the need to flash the additional file no-verity-opt-encrypt zip?
People seem to be using it on many devices so there must be a reason I am missing.
However, I am considering putting TWRP on and when I had a quick look on the Internet to see if one was around for my phone (being a Chinese phone) I naturally came across rooting guides and I noticed they seem to talk about flashing a no-verity-opt-encrypt zip file.
I do not understand why this file is needed?
To cut a long story short...
I extracted what I needed from the stock rom, patched with Magisk as normal and flashed using fastboot.
Then to bypass a bootloop from a signature mismatch because of Android verified boot, I flashed vbmeta using the following options:
--disable-verity --disable-verification
Android boots fine and my device is rooted (verified by Magisk and root checker app).
So why is there the need to flash the additional file no-verity-opt-encrypt zip?
People seem to be using it on many devices so there must be a reason I am missing.