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So after having a metric f**k ton of issues trying to get a custom recovery to work on 6.0.1, I gave up trying to install a custom rom and eventually went back to stock unrooted. After updating to 7.0 and waiting a bit, I gave it another go and managed to get TWRP to work and rooted my phone. Now I'm looking to install a custom ROM and have a few questions.
Is there anything I should know before going in? Any prerequisites I need to get before/after flashing a custom ROM so certain features will work?
Can I use any custom ROM that is listed as compatible with 7.0/G925F? Or do I have to be more specific as to what version I get?
What should I keep an eye out for? Any features that are good/bad?
Anything else I should know?
As for my choices, it's currently between Nemesis and Noble. Anyone used either and care to share your experience? Any other recommendations?
ProdigyThirteen said:
So after having a metric f**k ton of issues trying to get a custom recovery to work on 6.0.1, I gave up trying to install a custom rom and eventually went back to stock unrooted. After updating to 7.0 and waiting a bit, I gave it another go and managed to get TWRP to work and rooted my phone. Now I'm looking to install a custom ROM and have a few questions.
Is there anything I should know before going in? Any prerequisites I need to get before/after flashing a custom ROM so certain features will work?
Can I use any custom ROM that is listed as compatible with 7.0/G925F? Or do I have to be more specific as to what version I get?
What should I keep an eye out for? Any features that are good/bad?
Anything else I should know?
As for my choices, it's currently between Nemesis and Noble. Anyone used either and care to share your experience? Any other recommendations?
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The first and most important thing to do is make a backup. A nandroid backup is fine but make sure you back up your EFS folder. If this gets corrupted you will corrupt your IMEI and have no signal permanently. So backup efs and store somewhere safe like your pc.
I recommend doing full wipe before installing a custom ROM just so it's a clean install.
After that your pretty much good to go.
You can use any ROM that's compatible for your model only. So any G925F ROMs will work fine. Most support a number of models like G925F/I/V etc.
Most s6 edge custom ROMs are stable and have very few issues, and if there are issues then generally there are fixes for them.
Nemesis and Noble are both good stable ROMs. Also Omega ROM is a good choice. But my favourite that I used for over a year is CarHD ROM. It's customisation is endless.
One more is AlexisROM. Good ROM used for a while.
Hope this helps.
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So after a painfully long download, I installed CarHD and I'm liking everything I see. My only issue is trying to get SafetyNet to pass. I've removed SuperSU, installed Magisk and its kernel and now whenever I check SafetyNet, it fails with "CTS profile mismatch". I've looked around on a few different threads about it and everything I've tried hasn't worked. Mostly because they revolve around MagiskHide, which isn't showing up for me.
My first thought is to completely uninstall magisk, go back to a stock kernel and start off fresh, but I'm not going to do that just yet as I wanted your opinion first. Is that the best thing to do or would it cause more harm than good?
And if it wasn't already obvious, yes I'm still pretty damn new to this, but I'm trying not to **** up as I quite like my phone working.
Edit: solved the MagiskHide not showing.. I'm an idiot and forgot it was under settings and not enabled by default.
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So after a painfully long download, I installed CarHD and I'm liking everything I see. My only issue is trying to get SafetyNet to pass. I've removed SuperSU, installed Magisk and its kernel and now whenever I check SafetyNet, it fails with "CTS profile mismatch". I've looked around on a few different threads about it and everything I've tried hasn't worked. Mostly because they revolve around MagiskHide, which isn't showing up for me.
My first thought is to completely uninstall magisk, go back to a stock kernel and start off fresh, but I'm not going to do that just yet as I wanted your opinion first. Is that the best thing to do or would it cause more harm than good?
And if it wasn't already obvious, yes I'm still pretty damn new to this, but I'm trying not to **** up as I quite like my phone working.
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You don't need any kind of custom kernel to use magisk, or at least you shouldn't. It should work perfectly fine with stock.
Try updating magisk manager app from xda labs and magisk hide should appear.
If it does then just enable magisk hide and hide all apps that require safety net, hide knox also if it's still on the ROM. Then you should pass.
If this fails I recommend to flash the ROM again, no need to wipe data and then choose magisk in aroma installer and flash again.
Let me know if you need help :good:
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You don't need any kind of custom kernel to use magisk, or at least you shouldn't. It should work perfectly fine with stock.
Try updating magisk manager app from xda labs and magisk hide should appear.
If it does then just enable magisk hide and hide all apps that require safety net, hide knox also if it's still on the ROM. Then you should pass.
If this fails I recommend to flash the ROM again, no need to wipe data and then choose magisk in aroma installer and flash again.
Let me know if you need help :good:
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Fixed the MagiskHide issue, but simply enabling hide on the apps that I want to use doesn't work. I tried reinstalling the ROM as you said, but it never gave the option to choose Magisk over SuperSU. Then when I switched from SuperSU to Magisk, SuperSU was removed normally, but Magisk is installed and saying I don't have root access. Flashed Magisk kernel from CarHD as TWRP wasn't allowing install of Magisk with the other that came stock, then flashed Magisk again. Magisk saying I now have root access, but Magisk isn't installed and when I try to install it, the app crashes. Currently checking Magisk threads for a solution for that.
Tried reinstalling Magisk and clearning data/cache to no avail... I still have root access, but can't install Magisk through the manager.
Uninstalled Magisk, flashed stock kernel, re flashed magisk and now SafetyNet is passing, but still can't install Magisk through the Manager
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Uninstalled Magisk, flashed stock kernel, re flashed magisk and now SafetyNet is passing, but still can't install Magisk through the Manager
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If you have root access and safety net pass then I don't understand what you mean by can't install magisk through the app?
So you have magisk manager app installed?
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If you have root access and safety net pass then I don't understand what you mean by can't install magisk through the app?
So you have magisk manager app installed?
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Yeah, the manager is installed, but when I open it, it says there is an update available and under status says Magisk is not installed, v130 is available. There is no option to enable Magisk hide or any other extras available for download.
Screenshot of magisk
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It's the magisk manager app. You need to install the new one. Delete the one you currently have installed and download latest one from magisk Thread here or from xda labs.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/official-magisk-v7-universal-systemless-t3473445
Should look similar to this.
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It's the magisk manager app. You need to install the new one. Delete the one you currently have installed and download latest one from magisk Thread here or from xda labs.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/official-magisk-v7-universal-systemless-t3473445
Should look similar to this.
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Tried to uninstall it, no option to. Downloaded something to uninstall system apps, tried to uninstall it, still there. Tried to install a new app over it, gave an error saying app already installed with same name.
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Tried to uninstall it, no option to. Downloaded something to uninstall system apps, tried to uninstall it, still there. Tried to install a new app over it, gave an error saying app already installed with same name.
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You should be able to uninstall it with titanium backup or any app to remove system app.
Infact you should be able to just remove it as you would remove any other app.
Use what you used before to remove it when it didn't go and then reboot and it should go. If not flash the uninstaller from magisk thread.
Then start again, if you flash the newest magisk from the thread on here then it also should install newest magisk manager app.
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You should be able to uninstall it with titanium backup or any app to remove system app.
Infact you should be able to just remove it as you would remove any other app.
Use what you used before to remove it when it didn't go and then reboot and it should go. If not flash the uninstaller from magisk thread.
Then start again, if you flash the newest magisk from the thread on here then it also should install newest magisk manager app.
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No app that removes system apps can remove Magisk Manager it seems... TB says "Failed to locate the apk file", NoBloat Free says it removed it, but even after rebooting it's still there. Flashing the uninstall doesn't remove it either. I would manually uninstall through root explorer, but there's a risk I delete the wrong file and screw something else up.
Edit: Found Magisk Manger in root/system/app/magisk, backed it up, deleted it, rebooted, seems to be gone. Will try intalling new APK
Fixed it. Had to manually delete the apk, then installed the updated version and now it's showing as magisk is installed perfectly fine. Thanks for all the help.
Third and hopefully final edit: Getting kernel is not seandroid enforcing. Tried uninstalling magisk, flashing stock kernel, reinstalling magisk and still getting it. But it doesn't seem to be messing with anything, can still boot fine, safetynet is still passing so all looks pretty good.
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No point starting a new thread when I can just ask here as it's a somewhat follow on question. I can't seem to get V4A to work. I've installed the module from Magisk, installed the APK, restarted my phone, loaded up the app and checked the driver just for it to say Status: Abnormal / Audio Format: Unsupported. Can't seem to find anything about a fix for it, been searching for about an hour, so either I'm blind or there's nothing on it (I'm betting it's the former).
When I open the app, I get a message prompting me to update/install the driver, despite it already being installed through Magisk. I've tried both the standard v2.5.0.5 apk and Nougat test fix, standard doesn't do anything and test fix has update/install prompt.
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No point starting a new thread when I can just ask here as it's a somewhat follow on question. I can't seem to get V4A to work. I've installed the module from Magisk, installed the APK, restarted my phone, loaded up the app and checked the driver just for it to say Status: Abnormal / Audio Format: Unsupported. Can't seem to find anything about a fix for it, been searching for about an hour, so either I'm blind or there's nothing on it (I'm betting it's the former).
When I open the app, I get a message prompting me to update/install the driver, despite it already being installed through Magisk. I've tried both the standard v2.5.0.5 apk and Nougat test fix, standard doesn't do anything and test fix has update/install prompt.
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Good stuff. As for the seandroid message on boot you can just ignore it. It's not an error and will stay but doesn't affect anything.
As for viper first thing to try is remove the currently installed app and remove it from magisk manager modules.
Install busybox.
Freeze sound alive with titanium backup (don't delete just freeze)
Then flash this through TWRP
https://mega.nz/#!CV5wQYSa!i-V1UvJ_Lh9YoZDPN9rUUXuJNgXWcXRlhBE83fYH7e8
After this if it doesn't work let me know and I'll tell you next steps.
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Good stuff. As for the seandroid message on boot you can just ignore it. It's not an error and will stay but doesn't affect anything.
As for viper first thing to try is remove the currently installed app and remove it from magisk manager modules.
Install busybox.
Freeze sound alive with titanium backup (don't delete just freeze)
Then flash this through TWRP
https://mega.nz/#!CV5wQYSa!i-V1UvJ_Lh9YoZDPN9rUUXuJNgXWcXRlhBE83fYH7e8
After this if it doesn't work let me know and I'll tell you next steps.
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Tried that, still getting abnormal/unsupported.
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Tried that, still getting abnormal/unsupported.
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Now check that magisk module is enabled and the audio modification module is enabled.
You may also need a permissive kernel to get viper to work.
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Now check that magisk module is enabled and the audio modification module is enabled.
You may also need a permissive kernel to get viper to work.
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Googling permissive kernel is just coming back with a bunch of threads saying get a terminal emulator, type su / setenforce 0. Tried that, trips safetynet and doesn't change Viper.
I feel like it's not changing viper because I need it to stick through reboots, enable it, then reboot, but it's not persistent. How would one go about making it stick?
And honestly, is viper really worth all this hassle?
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Googling permissive kernel is just coming back with a bunch of threads saying get a terminal emulator, type su / setenforce 0. Tried that, trips safetynet and doesn't change Viper.
I feel like it's not changing viper because I need it to stick through reboots, enable it, then reboot, but it's not persistent. How would one go about making it stick?
And honestly, is viper really worth all this hassle?
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You can try Hacker kernel
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...l-hacker-kernel-s6-universal-t3254487/page234
Or arter kernel
http://arter97.com/browse/exynos7420/kernel/22.0/g925fi/
As for is it worth it? In my opinion yes 100%.
It depends really if you like the stock effects enough. Personally I love music and love been able to customise it. It sounds 10000x better in my opinion.
Hi, something peculiar is happening: I successfully rooted my US998 V30+ several months ago and never had any issues. Since one/two weeks, after boot I suddently lose root - when the phone roots, magisk 17.1 works, greenify (with root) works, etc.. after a couple of minutes all root related stops working, Magisk tells me that it needs to be installed, greenify tells me that it needs a rooted phone to work..
is this related to a new version of magisk? Any suggestions on what to do?
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Hi, something peculiar is happening: I successfully rooted my US998 V30+ several months ago and never had any issues. Since one/two weeks, after boot I suddently lose root - when the phone roots, magisk 17.1 works, greenify (with root) works, etc.. after a couple of minutes all root related stops working, Magisk tells me that it needs to be installed, greenify tells me that it needs a rooted phone to work..
is this related to a new version of magisk? Any suggestions on what to do?
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Maybe related. Did you completely uninstall the older Magisk before installing the new one?
ChazzMatt said:
Maybe related. Did you completely uninstall the older Magisk before installing the new one?
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I completely, to 100% did not. I'll try today.
Thanks!
Haven't seen anything about a March update. Aren't they released on the 1st Monday of the month?
samnada said:
Haven't seen anything about a March update. Aren't they released on the 1st Monday of the month?
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Yo last month the update came on 5 february (tuesday)
it's live.
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2019-03-01.html
Updated and re-rooted the wife's Pixel 3 today. Magisk 18.1 with TWRP 3.2.3-0 (.img only). ElementalX 1.05 with EX Kernel Manager direct flash. All worked normally. Couldn't do my 3XL this month since I am on dotOS. I did have to clear cache and app data (hide with Magisk of course) to get Play Store to re-certify the device which then showed a Google Pay update. Even though they claim no security fixes, clearly there are some.
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Yo last month the update came on 5 february (tuesday)
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The Feb bulletin was published on Mon the 4th. Patch is dated the 5th. I had read they always patch on the first Mon, but apparently sometimes not quite. March bulletin is out, so good to go.
Guys, upon checking for updates, my phone seems to be stuck on "Preparing system update.." while the spinner just keeps going.. Any suggestions?
Prasad said:
Guys, upon checking for updates, my phone seems to be stuck on "Preparing system update.." while the spinner just keeps going.. Any suggestions?
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I'm not sure you want to update at this time. I just did the update and now my screen has that weird green flash when ambient display is on. Might want to hold off if you can.
bobby janow said:
I'm not sure you want to update at this time. I just did the update and now my screen has that weird green flash when ambient display is on. Might want to hold off if you can.
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Actually I just sideloaded it and all seems well! I'll keep an eye out for the aforementioned issue though.. thanks!
Personally, I'm not seeing a noticeable camera app loading time improvement..
Prasad said:
Actually I just sideloaded it and all seems well! I'll keep an eye out for the aforementioned issue though.. thanks!
Personally, I'm not seeing a noticeable camera app loading time improvement..
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Just updated my wife's phone and it's not happening on hers yet. Some are saying it takes a little time. We'll see. Camera app was never an issue for me.
For those rooted with twrp, did you download the 1.7gb zip from Google and flash through fastboot, then reinstall twrp and magisk?
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For those rooted with twrp, did you download the 1.7gb zip from Google and flash through fastboot, then reinstall twrp and magisk?
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I just got my pixel 3 today. It had the January update installed on it. I downloaded the March factory image, removed the -w and flashed via fastboot and then unlocked bootloader and installed twrp and magisk 18.1 with no issues. I was not rooted before hand though being as the phone was brand new. Only issue is slow charging at the moment but I'm not sure if it was like that before the update since I rooted right away out of the box.
I have my pixel 3 rooted and TWRP installed. Can i flash the march ota.zip via TWRP and then install TWRP and magisk again? will that work?
Would love if someone could share their patched_boot.img please
Here Ya go (problem uploading
I tried to do the update yesterday (like i've done it the last 3 times before), but came into bootloops to the point, where i had to factory reset everything. After resetting and reflashing in fastboot, it would start again. Today I wanted to flash magisk 18.1 and went straight into bootloops again. So that seems to be the problem. How do I get the uninmod.zip from my phone to my computer? I tried the command push adb "file" "sdcard" but it gave me a "adb: error: failed to get feature set: no devices/emulators found"
thanks for your help!
Anybody else has problems with google pay on march update?
i got magisk 18.1 installed, magisk hide checked for g pay, cleaned cache and everything, but g pay still tells me phone is rooted.
any help appreciated.
Bluffer94 said:
Anybody else has problems with google pay on march update?
i got magisk 18.1 installed, magisk hide checked for g pay, cleaned cache and everything, but g pay still tells me phone is rooted.
any help appreciated.
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GPay now seems to be reporting if your device in not showing as certified by Play Store. Hide Pay store, clear app cache and data for Play Store, and reopen it and check settings to see if it is certified. Did you get the new GPay the other day? That update didn't show immediately after the update because you needed to re-certify.
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GPay now seems to be reporting if your device in not showing as certified by Play Store. Hide Pay store, clear app cache and data for Play Store, and reopen it and check settings to see if it is certified. Did you get the new GPay the other day? That update didn't show immediately after the update because you needed to re-certify.
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Play Store is certified. Google pay is up-to-date.
Gesendet von meinem Pixel 3 mit Tapatalk
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Play Store is certified. Google pay is up-to-date.
Gesendet von meinem Pixel 3 mit Tapatalk
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Is GPay reporting the root when you open the app or when you touch a terminal to pay? My wife's Pixel 3 (which I updated) is able to open GPay with no issue, but she hasn't used it at a terminal since the update. My 3XL is running a custom ROM, so it got the GPay update but not the March update. Mine also opens fine but I haven't used it at a terminal.
Hello all, I tried search the Q&A threads for any solution to my problem about Google Pay complaining about altered phone.
I have an unlocked US998 V30 variant (Nougat) that I almost never updated till now.
I followed the WTF guide using Magisk 18.0 and 20b KDZ file.
Then afterwards, I downloaded 20e, f, g, h TWRP files and flashed them via TWRP using zip queue.
In the same TWRP proces, I accidentally flashed Magisk 19.3 and that caused my phone to go into bootloop error.
I managed to fix this by going using hardware buttons to go back into TWRP, resetting everything and flashing Magisk 18.0 and the other two verity/rctd zips.
As I am reinstalling and resetting up everything, I had to update Google Play Services for Ebay (and other) apps to work (Not sure if this information is important).
When I got to trying to setup Google Pay, it complains about the phone being rooted and altered in some way.
I've tried removing phone permission from Google Play Service/Store (no go).
I've seen people suggest updating Magisk to 19.x, but I am wary of that after my bootloop fiasco.
Anyone have any suggestions or am I SOL on Google Pay?
At least on my VS996, you can upgrade Magisk outside of TWRP. In other words, have the Magisk Manager update itself, and Magisk directly (I think it's called "Direct Install").
I'm on 19.3 now without issues. This also solves the GPay issue, because nothing would let it work properly on 18.x in my experience... you have to be on 19.x for Gpay to work.
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At least on my VS996, you can upgrade Magisk outside of TWRP. In other words, have the Magisk Manager update itself, and Magisk directly (I think it's called "Direct Install").
I'm on 19.3 now without issues. This also solves the GPay issue, because nothing would let it work properly on 18.x in my experience... you have to be on 19.x for Gpay to work.
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Can anyone else confirm this works with a US 998 Unlocked variant? I am not sure if I should upgrade my Magisk again and go through all that.
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Can anyone else confirm this works with a US 998 Unlocked variant? I am not sure if I should upgrade my Magisk again and go through all that.
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Yes, it works. As said, update Magisk through the app, IOW, when u boot the phone and Magisk says there's an update, do it.
Also, be sure to have gpay hidden from Magisk, in the 'Magisk Hide' section. Not sure if it matters but I also have google play services and google play store hidden.
Cheers
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Yes, it works. As said, update Magisk through the app, IOW, when u boot the phone and Magisk says there's an update, do it.
Also, be sure to have gpay hidden from Magisk, in the 'Magisk Hide' section. Not sure if it matters but I also have google play services and google play store hidden.
Cheers
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FWIW, I did not have the Magisk Hide anything, and Gpay is still working...
As the above mentioned posters said, installing it directly from Magisk Manager worked (19.3)!
However, after I rebooted, SafetyNet was failing and I found out it was due to Systemless Xposed Module.
Uninstalled that through the Magisk Manager, which worked and was able to successfully use Google Pay after hiding Magisk itself.
It is a shame I cannot use both Google Pay and Xposed at the same time.
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It is a shame I cannot use both Google Pay and Xposed at the same time.
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You can use Xposed and pass Safety Net. There's a guide I wrote.
You have to install THIS version of Xposed (called edXposed), enable it, then download specific Xposed modules which work with it.
Xposed and Safety Net Pass -- How To!
(with Gravity Box links)
There's link for Gravity Box, and you can look in the edXposed repository and see other Xposed mods in which you might be interested.
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Then afterwards, I downloaded 20e, f, g, h TWRP files and flashed them via TWRP using zip queue.
In the same TWRP proces, I accidentally flashed Magisk 19.3 and that caused my phone to go into bootloop error.
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That was not the issue.
1) If you made a backup in TWRP, all you had to do was delete boot and then restore boot from the backup.
2) You never flashed the Magisk uninstaller before updating magisk. This is a common issues going from V18-V19
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Bootloop after latest Magisk Update....now no root!
This popped up, so i updated.....been on that Rom for ages and i'm not a newbie....but 1 hour later STILL white LG logo!!!
pretty please help me out?
Not sure what to tell you, but I've been on 20.4 for a while now with no issues (VS996 if that matters).
I'd suggest going back into TWRP, reinstalling Magisk (maybe an older version like 18.3 as I've heard newer versions sometimes have issues), then letting Magisk update to 20.4 from there once you're back in. I recall that I think I had to do that when I first installed this ROM... I had to install Magisk a few times for it to "take". I may have even used Magisk Uninstaller before installing it the last time.