[TheNoname]

Hi everyone! Over the past few days, I have been working on rooting the Nova Air C and I finally got it to work, so I figured I would write up a guide to help others.

Big big thanks to Renate for their patience and help and their awesome edl.exe utility!

Note: This guide assumes you have developer mode enabled and that you have adb installed.


Grabbing boot.img from your Nova Air C

1. Download a copy of Renate's EDL tool from here: http://www.temblast.com/edl.htm
2. Download Zadig from here: https://zadig.akeo.ie/
3. Download the Qualcomm 662 Loader attached to this post. MD5: cd7a91985353e0a1a6d581b423e1325c
4. Rename the loader to q662.elf, place it in the same folder as edl.exe
5. Run this command to reboot your Nova Air C into EDL mode:

    adb reboot edl

6. Using Zadig, change the driver of your device to WinUSB.
7. Run this command to grab the boot.img:

   edl.exe /lq662.elf /r /pboot_b boot.img /t /v

8. You should now have a boot.img file in the same directory as edl.exe and q662.elf.

From here, the steps are the pretty much the same as Cascade94's post here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...9&postcount=52 I copied them and put them below:

Originally Posted by Cascade94

Patching boot.img

1. Download the latest Magisk APK on to your Note Air 2 and install it
2. Copy your downloaded boot.img to your device
3. In the Magisk app, select "Install", then select "Patch a file" and finally select your boot.img
4. It'll save a "magisk_patched" boot image in to your Downloads folder, copy this file back over to your PC

Testing & making permanent

1. Reboot in to fastboot mode - this'll take us to fastbootd (adb reboot fastboot)
2. Now go in to bootloader mode (fastboot reboot bootloader)
3. Now boot from your patched boot image (fastboot boot magisk_patched.img)
4. The device should power on normally. Open the Magisk app, check that Magisk has installed correctly...
5. If everything looks fine, select "Install", then select "Direct install" and wait for it to complete.
6. When you reboot, you should be still rooted - success!

I did have some trouble with the fastboot portion, so here are some of the things I did to sort it out:

1. Get the latest Google USB driver from here: https://developer.android.com/studio/run/win-usb
2. Go into Device Manager and change the USB driver of the device to the fastboot driver
3. If for some reason you can't pick the correct drivers. Follow these instructions to temporarily disable driver signing and try again: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/disab...cement-windows

Hope this helps someone else, and thanks again Renate for your assistance!