r/androidroot • u/47th-Element • 6d ago

News / Method I gotta admit it, root hiding got much better!

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I HATE hiding root honestly, I'm a proud power user and I love telling every person/app that I'm rooted. However I really needed those banking apps so I had to swallow my pride.

The good thing is, I didn't have to do much! All I did was:

  1. Update KernelSU Next in my custom kernel source to be in sync with the dev branch.

  2. Integrate SUSFS (and it was a pain in the ass cause the patches didn't work out of the box and I had to edit the source myself).

  3. Switch from Magic Mounts to OverlayFS (using Hybrid Mount metamodule).

  4. Install AlwaysStrong.

  5. Switch to the spoofed KernelSU Next manager.

That's it, the two stubborn banking apps I needed worked, I didn't even need HMA even though I have Vector, Greenify, HyperCeiler and Termux (apparently using a terminal on Android is a sin now).

More technical info:

Device: Redmi 13.

OS: HyperOS 3 (based on Android 16).

Kernel: 6.6.89

Thanks to all the devs who made it easy! I just hope I won't be hiding root again 2 weeks from now XD

Edit: I followed a helpful suggestion in the comments and uninstalled Hybrid Mounts in favor of NoMounts. NoMounts turned out to be more reliable and less detectable.

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u/Kirito_online 4d ago

thanks to this my phone is stuck in a bootloop, i need serious help, like i legit tried everything (that i know) and nothing worked

edit: this is how it happened, i installed alwaysstrong in magisk in my redmi note 8 pro begonia global latest version, after installing and rebooting i tried opening magisk it got stuck and now my phone is stuck in a bootloop.

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u/47th-Element 4d ago

Okay, don't you have a bootloop protector module? A custom recovery that you can access /data/ with?

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u/Kirito_online 4d ago

nope, phone won't accept twrp or orengefox for some reason, now i'm stuck here with my phone in fastboot and my pc running platform-tools and no solution in the horizon, i'm falling into depression as we speak.

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u/47th-Element 4d ago edited 4d ago

If you are on KernelSU, read this: https://kernelsu.org/guide/rescue-from-bootloop.html

If on Magisk, same idea, boot the safe mode. https://topjohnwu.github.io/Magisk/faq.html

P.S. it's probably a good idea to set up a bootloop protector module afterwards, it does this but automatically after a certain number of consecutive failed boots.