I need help on how to flash "Magisk" to Remix OS - Remix OS for PC

Read the title.
Flashfire can't seem to work.
Hope you can help me.

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vinnce143 said:
Read the title.
Flashfire can't seem to work.
Hope you can help me.
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Obviously you can't use flashfire as RemixOS doesn't have and can't exactly use a recovery.img
What would you need Magisk for? I did try a while ago to install it manually but that didn't work... I might try again as I know slight more about how it works; but can't really see the benefit of it on Remix.

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benefit of magisk on Remix OS:
be rooted but able to quickly and easily unmount root for apps that use safetynet, such as pokemon go.

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trevorcobb said:
benefit of magisk on Remix OS:
be rooted but able to quickly and easily unmount root for apps that use safetynet, such as pokemon go.
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I'll take another look but I don't think RemixOS would pass safety net, regardless of magisk.
And I'm not sure why anyone would want to play Pokemon GO on a PC/tablet

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HypoTurtle said:
I'll take another look but I don't think RemixOS would pass safety net, regardless of magisk.
And I'm not sure why anyone would want to play Pokemon GO on a PC/tablet
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you make a good point about passing safetynet even with magisk installed and functional.
people play Pokemon Go on a PC/Tablet by using a GPS location spoofer, which is usually accompanied by an Xposed module that hides that mock location is turned on, so they don't get banned by Niantic. this enables people to "walk" around with a little on-screen GPS. my interest is because I have Nougat on my N6P and there is no Xposed for Nougat yet.

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trevorcobb said:
you make a good point about passing safetynet even with magisk installed and functional.
people play Pokemon Go on a PC/Tablet by using a GPS location spoofer, which is usually accompanied by an Xposed module that hides that mock location is turned on, so they don't get banned by Niantic. this enables people to "walk" around with a little on-screen GPS. my interest is because I have Nougat on my N6P and there is no Xposed for Nougat yet.
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I have just now made a ramdisk/magisk.img for magisk with 64bit 3.0.205.
Only done the magisk part (no magisk SU or xposed yet)
Screenshot attached - using stock ro system (system.sfs). Essentially that would be the limit of ro system; I could add a magisk SU and have the magisk app claim proper root installed but all disabling root would do is revert back to the stock com.android.setting su
To use it properly I'd say you would need to unroot system:
boot with REMOUNT_RW=1
Install SuperSU and let it replace com.android.settings su
Unroot with SuperSU
Then probably optionally to convert system_dev.img to system.sfs to make it ro again
@trevorcobb the selinux might be an issue with SafetyNet - see if you can boot without that added to grub {gonna check on mine but doubt it'll boot}
My point about Pokemon Go is that there more/better apps than that if you don't play it properly with GPS; but I guess that's just the orienteer in me...
I'll post a build of magisk with SU and Xposed added {it'll be up at least tomorrow}. Install will be the similar to Systemless SU/xposed [a modified ramdisk and a /data/magisk.img file]
UPDATE phh superuser added to magisk which has turned root off {blocks com.android.settings} - but can't seem to install phh's supersu apk; so stuck unrooted {ALT&F1 still has su but it uses phh's su now}. Will need to recheck with the x86 version.
UPDATE2 not going to get anywhere with phh due to the the superuser baked into settings; going with SuperSU should be fine - it just means another .img is needed.
UPDATE3 Having a bit more trouble with this. Tried Magisk; Magisk superSU [essentially just Systemless-SU] and Magisk xposed but can't get xposed to activate. Will try with Magisk, SuperSU and Systemless xposed - but don't know if there is actually any benefit here [would need an updated x86_64 xposed version for suhide to work]

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HypoTurtle said:
I have just now made a ramdisk/magisk.img for magisk with 64bit 3.0.205.
Only done the magisk part (no magisk SU or xposed yet)
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I'll post a build of magisk with SU and Xposed added {it'll be up at least tomorrow}. Install will be the similar to Systemless SU/xposed [a modified ramdisk and a /data/magisk.img file]
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holy chit! thanks so much!!

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I am jumping in to follow along.....for the record I am using this solely to play Pokemon Go with my son.

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I modify initrd.img，use /mnt/$SRC/su folder，and mount su/sbin、su/init.rc，needn't modify ramdisk.img ，I edit more su/sbin/launch_daemonsu.sh ，delete mount img .
about “magisk”，I just edit su/init.rc，symlink su /magisk，I edit more /su/sbin/magic_mask.sh ，delete mount img .

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youling257 said:
I modify initrd.img，use /mnt/$SRC/su folder，and mount su/sbin、su/init.rc，needn't modify ramdisk.img ，I edit more su/sbin/launch_daemonsu.sh ，delete mount img .
about “magisk”，I just edit su/init.rc，symlink su /magisk，I edit more /su/sbin/magic_mask.sh ，delete mount img .
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@youling257 Just to clear up anyone elses confusion... you are running on a ext4 partition, right?
The issue is more with the xposed version. For this to be of any benefit over systemless, you`d need suhide to work, which needs v86.2 and we don`t have a version for x86_64, there is one for x86 so I`ll try and get around to making a x86 magisk.img I already have modified the installer script for it.

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HypoTurtle said:
@youling257 Just to clear up anyone elses confusion... you are running on a ext4 partition, right?
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please see this screenshot，i use f2fs partition

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trevorcobb said:
holy chit! thanks so much!!
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youling257 said:
I modify initrd.img，use /mnt/$SRC/su folder，and mount su/sbin、su/init.rc，needn't modify ramdisk.img ，I edit more su/sbin/launch_daemonsu.sh ，delete mount img .
about “magisk”，I just edit su/init.rc，symlink su /magisk，I edit more /su/sbin/magic_mask.sh ，delete mount img .
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Mind doing a walk through for the less genisus in the group.

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laserspeeddemon said:
Mind doing a walk through for the less genisus in the group.
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I am sorry if this is annoying, and please don't hold any ill towards me for this, however genius in plural is genii (I had also thought that it is geniuses before I had learned this a few years ago).

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moriel5 said:
I am sorry if this is annoying, and please don't hold any ill towards me for this, however genius in plural is genii (I had also thought that it is geniuses before I had learned this a few years ago).
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In this usage it is actually geniuses, if it was the original Latin use [to refer to a genie/jinn] the plural would be genii but the meaning of intellect is old English, so the plural is geniuses...
Any way what @youling257 did was take the changed files from the ramdisk that would be made to run magisk and add them to another folder in his RemixOS folder along with what would be the contents of magisk.img and had the initrd.img mount them where they would originally be. This can be done using a folder instead of an .img as youling257 is using a linux partition [ext4/f2fs] with fat/ntfs you can't do this with a folder but could with a .img

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HypoTurtle said:
This can be done using a folder instead of an .img as youling257 is using a linux partition [ext4/f2fs] with fat/ntfs you can't do this with a folder but could with a .img
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of course . ext4/f2fs , mount /mnt/$SRC/su folder on /android/su , /android/magisk link to /android/su ; ntfs/fat , mount /mnt/$SRC/su.img on /android/su , /android/magisk link to /android/su .
needn't /android/data/su.img and magisk.img .

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moriel5 said:
I am sorry if this is annoying, and please don't hold any ill towards me for this, however genius in plural is genii (I had also thought that it is geniuses before I had learned this a few years ago).
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HypoTurtle said:
In this usage it is actually geniuses, if it was the original Latin use [to refer to a genie/jinn] the plural would be genii but the meaning of intellect is old English, so the plural is geniuses...
Any way what @youling257 did was take the changed files from the ramdisk that would be made to run magisk and add them to another folder in his RemixOS folder along with what would be the contents of magisk.img and had the initrd.img mount them where they would originally be. This can be done using a folder instead of an .img as youling257 is using a linux partition [ext4/f2fs] with fat/ntfs you can't do this with a folder but could with a .img
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First, I'm not annoyed, I was tickled.
Second you're both are wrong as I simply typo'ed "genius." When I said "less than genius" this was an adjective referring to a group of people using a noun. When applying a adjective-noun to a noun, the adjective-noun is singular.

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youling257 said:
of course . ext4/f2fs , mount /mnt/$SRC/su folder on /android/su , /android/magisk link to /android/su ; ntfs/fat , mount /mnt/$SRC/su.img on /android/su , /android/magisk link to /android/su .
needn't /android/data/su.img and magisk.img .
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I was going to do exactly that a few months ago after I got the systemless SU setup done. Does the SU toggle on/off properly for you with Magisk?
Are you running this on CM13 or N? If CM13 have you tried adding xposed to it - I haven't gotten magisk xposed working on x86_64 - I probably could just use the systemless-SU files though.
@laserspeeddemon, I know you typo'd, that's why I didn't quote your post

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HypoTurtle said:
I was going to do exactly that a few months ago after I got the systemless SU setup done. Does the SU toggle on/off properly for you with Magisk?
Are you running this on CM13 or N? If CM13 have you tried adding xposed to it - I haven't gotten magisk xposed working on x86_64 - I probably could just use the systemless-SU files though.
@laserspeeddemon, I know you typo'd, that's why I didn't quote your post
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I modified initrd.img and use su folder ，two month ago，July 22nd ；I first tried magisk link to su ，magisk v2，the first ten days of August .
these two month，I used Chainfire supersu and my system less idea on 6.0 and 7.0 ; the first ten days of August ，your idea /su/xpo，I modifed rovo89 xposed x86 v86 app_process ； the x86_64 xposed，we only has MIUI x86_64 v85 June，we still use /su/xpo . I didn't know magisk too much，I didn't try magisk in September .
about xposed system less，why we need topjohnwu magisk method ? why we use his ?

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youling257 said:
I modified initrd.img and use su folder ，two month ago，July 22nd ；I first tried magisk link to su ，magisk v2，the first ten days of August .
these two month，I used Chainfire supersu and my system less idea on 6.0 and 7.0 ; the first ten days of August ，your idea /su/xpo，I modifed rovo89 xposed x86 v86 app_process ； the x86_64 xposed，we only has MIUI x86_64 v85 June，we still use /su/xpo . I didn't know magisk too much，I didn't try magisk in September .
about xposed system less，why we need topjohnwu magisk method ? why we use his ?
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The only reason for magisk xposed here would be for PokemonGo to bypass the SafetyNet check that they added. I couldn`t get phh to work with Magisk as there is already a superuser added to Remix via Settings. Which means 86.2 is needed for suhide which is needed if using superSU.
The benefit of magisk over systemless would be probably with allowing adding files to ro system and modifying ro. entries in build.prop (although that wasn`t working on Remix last I checked).
I`ll try and get around to a simple patcher for this. Had planned on a initrd auto-patcher for sometime as well - for continued ota support.

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HypoTurtle said:
The only reason for magisk xposed here would be for PokemonGo to bypass the SafetyNet check that they added. I couldn`t get phh to work with Magisk as there is already a superuser added to Remix via Settings. Which means 86.2 is needed for suhide which is needed if using superSU.
The benefit of magisk over systemless would be probably with allowing adding files to ro system and modifying ro. entries in build.prop (although that wasn`t working on Remix last I checked).
I`ll try and get around to a simple patcher for this. Had planned on a initrd auto-patcher for sometime as well - for continued ota support.
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menuentry "6.0.1 (DEBUG mode)" {
set DIR=/6.0.1
search --set=root --file /32/kernel
linuxefi /32/kernel root=/dev/ram0 androidboot.hardware=android_x86 DIR=$DIR SRC=$DIR intel_idle.max_cstate=0 i915.enable_psr=0 DEBUG=2
initrdefi /initrd.img
}
menuentry "remixos 64" {
set DIR=/remixos
search --set=root --file /64/kernel
linuxefi /64/kernel quiet root=/dev/ram0 androidboot.hardware=remix_x86_64 DIR=$DIR SRC=$DIR intel_idle.max_cstate=0
initrdefi /initrd.img
}
menuentry "cm13 (DEBUG mode)" {
set DIR=/cm13
search --set=root --file /64/kernel
linuxefi /64/kernel root=/dev/ram0 androidboot.hardware=android_x86_64 DIR=$DIR SRC=$DIR intel_idle.max_cstate=0 DEBUG=2
initrdefi /initrd.img
}
I use the same kernel、modules、initrd.img with 6.0、cm13、remixos ; kernel 、initrd.img on fat32/esp partition .
auto mount f2fs partition on /mnt , auto mount /mnt/modules ; /mnt/6.0.1 , /mnt/cm13 , /mnt/remixos， if ota，just update /mnt/remixos files