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Originally Posted by Renate
It is empiracally proven that "fastboot boot x.img" is not always the same as "fastboot flash boot_x x.img", <reset>.
You've got backups and EDL, why not flash?
OTOH, why not get a robust recovery first?
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Yes I know I can try flash or edl it. I'm building to that psychologically.
I'll look at your recovery today/on the weekend and start testing on that for you. I'm a little bit nervous without being able to use stock recovery if necessary because I have no volume buttons anywhere but I'm building up to it psychologically as well lol.
I do nevertheless still want to know how one can test the boot image before flashing it on this device. I know "fastboot boot boot.img" and "fastboot flash partitionname boot.img" do different things. I want to know why a boot test doesn't work on my Note Air 2 when Cascade94 has been able to do it
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Originally Posted by Cascade94
Testing & making permanent- Reboot in to fastboot mode - this'll take us to fastbootd (adb reboot fastboot)
- Now go in to bootloader mode (fastboot reboot bootloader)
- Now boot from your patched boot image (fastboot boot magisk_patched.img)
- The device should power on normally. Open the Magisk app, check that Magisk has installed correctly...
- If everything looks fine, select "Install", then select "Direct install" and wait for it to complete.
- When you reboot, you should be still rooted - success!
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See? They're testing to see if the boot image works and Magisk reads it. Now that's what I usually do for Leaf and also previous Android devices generally the only difference is I usually go back and fastboot flash rather than use Magisk to finish installing it like that. It's just what I'm used to doing.
Has something changed? Can other users still use that method to test but not me? Is my device brummy? If so, I've got a ticket open with Boox right now complaining about the delivery and I'll give them a mouthful if it's a weird one that doesn't properly respect fastboot because what you said about fastbootd makes me hella sussy. I'm not doing anything weird. I'm doing stuff that all of us do on the most basic level which if duplicated on my Leaf or Samsung devices it does what I expect it to do.