11-11-2022, 07:14 PM | #1 |
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How to root a Boox Leaf (7")
How does one root a 7" Boox Leaf?
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11-11-2022, 07:32 PM | #2 | |
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Excellent instructions here:
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11-11-2022, 10:02 PM | #3 |
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Fastboot hangs for me:
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$ fastboot boot magisk_patched-25200_ujCaA.img Sending 'boot.img' (13213 KB) |
11-12-2022, 07:04 AM | #4 |
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Yeah, I was thinking, "That ain't going to work".
Sometimes, on some devices, it does work. I believe the problem is that it doesn't get the right command line processed when you do it that way. Just make sure that you have the original boot image around for backup. Code:
C:\>fastboot flash boot magisk_patched.img C:\>fastboot reboot |
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11-12-2022, 12:53 PM | #6 |
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Hmm. This is the "old" Leaf (not the one out in the last week)?
Are you using Magisk 25.2? Does fastboot itself never return as done? There's no ADB running when it tries to start? If you have Windows you should do a "sanity test" on your image. http://www.temblast.com/imgutil.htm Code:
C:\>imgutil.exe /v magisk-whatever.img Last edited by Renate; 11-12-2022 at 01:41 PM. |
11-13-2022, 07:15 PM | #7 | |
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Yes, the one released earlier this year.yesno.
That's correct. Quote:
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$ wine imgutil.exe /v magisk_patched-25200_ujCaA.img Header0: 1,632 (00000660) Kernel: 12,867,424 (00c45760) 00001000 Payload: 12,566,106 (00bfbe5a) DTB: 301,318 (00049906) Ramdisk: 653,952 (0009fa80) 00c47000 Padding: 1,320 (00000528) 00ce7000 Command: console=ttyMSM0,115200,n8 androidboot.console=ttyMSM0 earlycon=msm_serial_dm,0xc170000 androidboot.hardware=qcom user_debug=31 msm_rtb.fil ter=0x37 ehci-hcd.park=3 lpm_levels.sleep_disabled=1 sched_enable_hmp=1 sched_enable_power_aware=1 service_locator.enable=1 swiotlb=1 loop.max_part =7 buildvariant=user veritykeyid=id:7e4333f9bba00adfe0ede979e28ed1920492b40f |
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11-13-2022, 08:06 PM | #8 |
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Well, that all looks quite sane.
Wait a minute. When you say Code:
C:\>fastboot flash boot magisk_patched.img C:\>fastboot reboot Do you mean the flash itself doesn't work or that when you reboot it isn't running Android. If you don't quote the response I don't know what it did. |
11-13-2022, 09:13 PM | #9 | |
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When I reboot, Magisk says it's not installed. |
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11-14-2022, 06:43 AM | #10 |
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About three seconds.
Something's wrong. Probably USB connectivity, possibly corrupt fastboot. Since you're on Linux maybe you should check dmesg for USB timeouts and the like. I'm not drop-dead impressed by Google's handling of USB generally, especially on Windows compatibility. Still, if you've got access to a Windows box you might try that. (Remember to install the drivers.) If you've got Windows you can also try one of my utilities, ImxLink, which is designed for something else but supports the Fastboot protocol. If you have a working system you can "adb reboot edl" and get to that. With the right EDL loader and a client program you can also flash the boot partition from there. I do use stock Android platform tools on Linux, but I've got more custom stuff for Windows. |
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fastboot reboot I also tried checking Magisk's "Patch vbmeta in boot image" option, but that didn't fix the fastboot hang issue. Holding the Leaf's power button for 30 sec. when it's in fastboot mode makes it reboot and kills the Code:
fastboot flash boot magisk_patched.img Last edited by Geremia; 11-19-2022 at 03:16 PM. |
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11-19-2022, 03:19 PM | #12 |
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That freezes the Leaf.
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11-19-2022, 06:07 PM | #13 |
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Well, it gets you to EDL mode, I meant.
Have you dealt with that yet? A long press will get you out of that too. Is your USB working normally in the unrooted Android system. Do you use ADB? Is that working normally? That is, does the problem appear to be with fastboot or USB generally? Does this work (in fastboot): Code:
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11-19-2022, 06:09 PM | #14 |
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Well, “freezes” might be a wrong term to use here. Yes, the screen won’t show any progress at all. But most important question is whether the edl works properly or not.
As a starting point, here is the edl github: https://github.com/bkerler/edl Renate has an edl.exe which works the same, though I haven’t tried that yet, I used only python version |
11-19-2022, 06:11 PM | #15 |
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In fastboot, did you unlock the bootloader?
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