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No solution to installing Magisk on official firmware of SM-A9080?

Last week I bought the Galaxy A90 5G (SM-A9080, China version), and immediately searched for ways of Magisk installation.
Indeed there are multiple articles from Google showning the methods. I tried most of them and regretfully all failed.
Even I followed the instruction from this forum, however, I still failed.
This is because of my current model? Because the current version of Magisk is not updated enough? Because of the mechanism of Samsung's Android 9 OS?
I also got the Galaxy Note8 running Android 9, and the way of Magisk installation on Android 8 and previous ones does not work on Android 9.
I do need Root/Magisk due to my requirement, but there is likely a huge barrier preventing me from the Root.
Thus, there is no possible solution?

jasonc417 said:
Last week I bought the Galaxy A90 5G (SM-A9080, China version), and immediately searched for ways of Magisk installation.
Indeed there are multiple articles from Google showning the methods. I tried most of them and regretfully all failed.
Even I followed the instruction from this forum, however, I still failed.
This is because of my current model? Because the current version of Magisk is not updated enough? Because of the mechanism of Samsung's Android 9 OS?
I also got the Galaxy Note8 running Android 9, and the way of Magisk installation on Android 8 and previous ones does not work on Android 9.
I do need Root/Magisk due to my requirement, but there is likely a huge barrier preventing me from the Root.
Thus, there is no possible solution?
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I own a A908B (German Version) and I'm on Android 10 running Magisk on Stock OS. This is the tutorial i followed and it works. Since there is no Custom Recovery yet the only thing we can do right now is patch the AP-Image of every single update we get... And be prepared to backup everything you have because it's going tor require a full data wipe

Thanks for your advice.
Last night I upgraded my SM-A9080 to Android 10 and managed to get the phone rooted via Odin3.
yomama163 said:
I own a A908B (German Version) and I'm on Android 10 running Magisk on Stock OS. This is the tutorial i followed and it works. Since there is no Custom Recovery yet the only thing we can do right now is patch the AP-Image of every single update we get... And be prepared to backup everything you have because it's going tor require a full data wipe
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[Question] Compatibility with SM-G965N (Samsung S9+)

Hello!
I'm a bit of a noob with the whole Android scene, but I hope to one day be able to fully understand the root process and how magisk works, but as of right now I'm in a bit of a conundrum.
As some of you know, Samsung is pretty rough when it comes to rooting, particularly with the OEM problems and the Knox e-fuse. Dr. Ketan made a fix for the OEM problems, using a special tool which installs magisk 18.
However, I want to upgrade to magisk 20, but I'm not sure if the SM-G965N (S9+, Korean version) can actually run it.
Now, the question:
Does anybody know if I can just install it normally via TWRP like with any other phone? Or I'm stuck on magisk 18 until another developer updates the ketan OEM fix to magisk 20?
And secondly, can I update my phone to Android 10 and still install magisk normally, if the latest version of magisk supports the S9+? A while back they released the Android 10 update in Sammobile, but I don't know if I can flash my phone and still be able to run magisk in it.
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: I used the old Android 8 method (No-verity-opt-encrypt 6.0, RMM Bypass and Magisk 20.3) and it just bricked my device. It was stuck on the Samsung S9+ screen, so that was a no go. Had to revert to my latest backup via TWRP

New with a Merlin - Want it to root and install custom recovery

Hey guys,
So, I've got a Redmi Note 9, not that I'm not happy with the stock firmware but the reason I got this phone was so I could play around a bit with other ROMs (had a replacement iPhone X and was just bored with it).
So, I'm not exactly new in Android world, all my previous phones were HTC, Samsung, Nexus, and all rooted and running custom roms.
Just so I don't feck up the process, can someone guide me to the process? I'm guessing I need to root it first, then install the custom recovery and go on from there?
Any specific advice ?
Thank you so much in advance.

Just flash the pathed vbmeta.img together the magisk patched boot.img and your device will be rooted.

I assume it's fine that in on miui 12 official & stable ?

Everything is working perfectly on miui 12 android 10 and miui 12 android 11.

Thanks, I'm going to start digging tomorrow.

Huawei P9 EVA-L19C636B393 Android 7-Nougat

I have this phone P9 since 2016 and I still love to use it, but I can't update it anymore.. I have already rooted the phone and install TWRP recovery, is there a way to update this phone to android 10?

jtabugon said:
I have this phone P9 since 2016 and I still love to use it, but I can't update it anymore.. I have already rooted the phone and install TWRP recovery, is there a way to update this phone to android 10?
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Huawei stopped supporting the phone, last official updates were Nougat.
For Chinese market last update was Oreo - by rebranding, you can install and use it worldwide (find and follow HWOTA-7 thread from the ROMs section ).
Upon rebranding and installing that Chinese Oreo, you can install LOS (AFAIK, 16.0 - again, look into the ROMs section
There is no such thing as A10 for this phone (maybe you could find A9 GSI - again, upon finishing HWOTA-7 and Chinese Oreo), but of questional usability

Magisk installation instructions are complicated for beginners!

For the first time, I tried to install Magisk using its standard method. So I went to https://topjohnwu.github.io/Magisk/install.html
In the first parts, I came across this sentence and was a little confused:
"If you are using a Samsung device that is launched with Android 9.0 or higher, you can now jump to its own section."
My device is Samsung Galaxy J7 Core (J701F) with its latest update, namely Android 9. But this device was released with Android 7.
Which way should I proceed now? And if I continue the first method, the device data will be deleted?

@topjohnwu

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