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farfromrefuge · 11-20-2024, 08:16 AM

I am about to buy an air 3c hoping i ll be able to root it.
Renate i see i should use your edl software here http://www.temblast.com/edl.htm.

Now i see from the first page that i should use the Qualcomm factory loader and that it should work. Anyone can confirm we have loader that works?
After that comes the question of the A/B partition. Looking at this thread https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...=355147&page=5 it seems i should do both boot_a and boot_b. But Renate you seems to be saying in first page we should not bother with A/B partition. What does that mean in terms of the command to run?

Maybe it would be nice to have a list of commands to run so that people can clearly see what to do (knowing we need to use your edl with the correct loader). Would be nice to also have commands to backup/restore stock to ensure we can go back.
Maybe those commands exist somewhere but tbh i have search quite a bit and could not find something definitive based on latest updates not supporting fastboot.

Now i have a different question. I want to modify some android system jar. Do you think that would be possible? Like decrypt the image, extract android system jar, then build it again, then encrypt into upx again. Not even sure that would be possible.

finally a dumb question. Do I need an edl cable to root an air 3c (seeing we use edl commands make me wonder)? If so any cable.will do ? Or do we need some specific cable?

Thanks again for this community and the great job they do

EDIT: btw actually if we use the boot.img extracted from the upx to root using magisk, why do we need edl command? Must be a dumb question i am sure but seems like i could (if the bootloader is unlocked?) update air 3c to latest, download the corresponding upx, extract the boot.img, open it with magisk app, let magisk do the rest.

11-20-2024, 08:16 AM	#30
farfromrefuge Member Posts: 25 Karma: 24 Join Date: Dec 2016 Device: none	I am about to buy an air 3c hoping i ll be able to root it. Renate i see i should use your edl software here http://www.temblast.com/edl.htm. Now i see from the first page that i should use the Qualcomm factory loader and that it should work. Anyone can confirm we have loader that works? After that comes the question of the A/B partition. Looking at this thread https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...=355147&page=5 it seems i should do both boot_a and boot_b. But Renate you seems to be saying in first page we should not bother with A/B partition. What does that mean in terms of the command to run? Maybe it would be nice to have a list of commands to run so that people can clearly see what to do (knowing we need to use your edl with the correct loader). Would be nice to also have commands to backup/restore stock to ensure we can go back. Maybe those commands exist somewhere but tbh i have search quite a bit and could not find something definitive based on latest updates not supporting fastboot. Now i have a different question. I want to modify some android system jar. Do you think that would be possible? Like decrypt the image, extract android system jar, then build it again, then encrypt into upx again. Not even sure that would be possible. finally a dumb question. Do I need an edl cable to root an air 3c (seeing we use edl commands make me wonder)? If so any cable.will do ? Or do we need some specific cable? Thanks again for this community and the great job they do EDIT: btw actually if we use the boot.img extracted from the upx to root using magisk, why do we need edl command? Must be a dumb question i am sure but seems like i could (if the bootloader is unlocked?) update air 3c to latest, download the corresponding upx, extract the boot.img, open it with magisk app, let magisk do the rest. Last edited by farfromrefuge; 11-20-2024 at 11:14 AM.