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Originally Posted by Herschenglime
After trying for many hours in October, giving up, and trying again today, I was finally able to get root working on v3.5.4!
Many thanks to Renate for their pointers here and in the forums as a whole. I primarily struggled with actually getting the edl utility to work with my device as no matter what I tried (or what version of EDL I used) I couldn't get it to work except at one time.
I eventually stumbled upon a post in the XDA forums from Renate mentioning that some EDL loaders have a timeout that prevents the tool from working in some instances, and sure enough, as long as I started the EDL commands quickly after putting the tablet in edl mode, it would actually connect to the device. For example,
Code:
adb reboot edl && edl rf flash-backup.img --memory=ufs --loader=q662.elf
is what allowed me to backup all of my system partitions with bkerler's EDL utility on Linux.
Following that, I was able to easily flash my patched boot partition with edl like so:
Code:
edl w boot_a magisk_patched-27000_RNHDQ.img --memory=ufs
After reboot, everything worked as expected! I just had to open the magisk app and let it reboot the system one more time.
The rest of the rooting process is mostly the same as the standard Linux procedure for a Boox device, but if anyone reading this down the line needs extra guidance please let me know. |
Can confirm procedure is working for Note Air 2 Plus, initially had trouble installing edl utility on my distro(tried Windows 10 VM in QEMU but device just couldn't connect properly, you can read in post, few posts back), followed advice from experienced python users:
https://github.com/bkerler/edl/issues/574
Installed edl on distro, and followed Herschenglime approach but changing write partition to boot_b
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edl w boot_b magiskboot.img --memory=ufs --loader=q662.elf
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Magisk showing as installed, "System UI app is not responding" on startup, have experienced the same issue from previous fw update after rooting nevertheless all that is needed by me is working correctly.
Thanks all contributing for your time and patience!