Thread: Max 3 Rooted
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Old 12-09-2020, 07:16 AM   #88
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Device: Max3
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Originally Posted by shunf4 View Post
Now (I'm not sure whether it's BOOX upgrade or Magisk upgrade that caused it), directly installing Magisk in Magisk Manager won't make Magisk last permanently.

Though the original post says Magisk should be installed to recovery partition as per Magisk installation instruction because "Our device uses 'system as root'", I found that we can actually patch the boot image and make it work. Just patch the boot.img extracted from update.zip, boot from it under fastboot, and it should work. If you want permant installation, flash it to boot partition under bootloader.
yes, this was discovered awhile ago. i posted an update in the OP that a lot of the posts on the first few pages are no longer relevant as there was an early OTA update that changed the boot.img of our device. the boot.img by default does not have a ramdisk and instead the ramdisk is loaded from the recovery.img on boot. BUT for whatever reason, if a ramdisk is put on boot.img for our devices, it also gets loaded as well. i believe this can change with an ota update in the future, but it probably wont. ill update the OP again to make this more clear
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