The new #Xiaomi phone with #HyperOS2 is now fully #rooted, with #Magisk installed plus some modules, including a de-bloater that, if I understand that correctly, gets rid of system apps using filesystem overlays (so, they're still there in the system partition, but really unaccessible on a very low layer). The other modules are there for fixing integrity checks, I got google wallet, paypal and my bank's app to work flawlessly. 🥳

Now it should be possible to install some linux dist in a chroot, will probably test that soon.

There were quite a few issues on the way, e.g. a weird location of the init-boot that needs patching to install magisk: a cpio archive inside vendor-boot, unsupported by vanilla magisk, so I had to patch the magisk app first to move on 🤯. Getting magisk installed and the necessary tweaks in place for certain apps to work again took me half a day. Well, the phone model isn't the most widespread one, so finding infos took some time.

And there's still the same general issue with #android #modding community that I already observed 15 years ago, although back then, things were generally simpler: It seems most of the time, people only share some step-by-step instructions without ANY explanation, and people are also only looking for that. It's weird, you see forum posts from people doing the dumbest things by varying these instructions if they don't work for them, because they have no background knowledge whatsoever. What's even worse now, people started putting crappy videos on youtube and tiktok. Don't ever watch any of them, it's a pure waste of time. Instead, work through all the stuff on XDA, it's also full of that pointless "do that, then do that, type foo, click here" nonsense, but occasionally you will find the background info you need to understand what's going on and how to fix your own issues. 🤪