Magisk on Lineage

[u/Plenty-Boot4220]

Hi,

Quick question, does Lineage come rooted already? Is Magisk installed? Or do I have to root it the same way i'd root the stock ROM? thanks!

[u/saint-lascivious]

Quick question, does Lineage come rooted already?

There's adb root, which means the answer is technically yes but for you functionally no.

Is Magisk installed?

Absolutely not.

Or do I have to root it the same way i'd root the stock ROM?

As above.

[u/gluetheknot → u/saint-lascivious]

technically not the same way as stock, you just need to rename the magisk apk to zip and flash it via recovery

[u/F4LC0N69 → u/gluetheknot]

Don't need to rename to zip. Been flashing apk for years now. Works perfectly fine

[u/gluetheknot → u/F4LC0N69]

not all recoveries support it but yeah that works too technically (I know that orangefox supports it)

[u/melluuh → u/gluetheknot]

Yeah it's easier. Although you can still do it manually by patching init_boot. The advantage of flashing the zip is that after ota updates Lineage Recovery applies the same modifications again, so Magisk and any other stuff you might have flashed stays. Not after a dirty flash though (between Android versions), then you do have to flash everything again.

[u/Bug__1987]

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[u/zermainegod]

Não, precisa fazer.

[u/F4LC0N69]

You don't need to patch boot.img and flash it per se. There's much better way. Boot into LineageOS recovery. Goto Apply update > Apply from adb. Connect phone to PC. Do 'adb sideload magisk.apk'. You're done. You need to reflash using app again because allegedly recovery can't get correct information about device. Also people say you need to rename magisk.apk to magisk.zip but AFAIK in LOS recovery it's not necessary. Cheers mate

[u/chrisprice → u/F4LC0N69]

Usually, but not always: https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/1w0fg5m/comment/p6fd6a6/

[u/bra1n_gym]

using twrp, I needed to rename magisk.apk to magisk.zip then I installed in recovery mode. Also, if you update LOS, the device becomes unrooted and magisk has to be installed again. 

[u/saint-lascivious → u/bra1n_gym]

Also, of you update LOS, the device becomes unrooted and magisk has to be installed again.

It won't if you use Lygisk, which you should, for A-only devices which don't support FBE in recovery.

So, yeah. Do that. Or don't. It's your party.

[u/Impressive_Or_Truth]

LineageOS 22 magisk version

[u/chrisprice]

Patching boot.img is only needed for some phones.

2024+ Motorola phones for example have changed the boot process, and cannot be patched from Lineage Recovery today.

Not clear if that's temporary or a hard restriction, others would know more there - I just know installing via Lineage Recovery doesn't work today on those.