Am using my redmi note 8 with lineageos built in custom recovery. And my device was rooted. Recently i installed a OTA update and i loose my root access. As i don’t own a laptop (i used my friend laptop to flash custom rom and magisk) it’s cery inconvenient to lose root on every OTA update.
I researched about it and find magisk don’t root android in a deeper level but in a surface level, thats why an OTA update wipes root access.
So recently i was looking at custom recovery like orangefox and twrp fir fixing this issue. For my device orangefox dropped development and rwrp have updates only one a year and last one was yeras ago…
What should i do ? How can i really keep root on an OTA update without a PC or Second device with OTG cable ?
Is there any other root manager that don’t allow to lose root after OTA updates ? And is this issue caused by updating the recovery along with the OTA update ? Just so confusing!
Or should i avoid rooting at all ?
What’s your fear in relation to using older recovery?
Try Lygisk, it’s a fork of Magisk that’s meant to survive OTAs for devices that only have one system partition. I’ve used it on a previous phone and it worked great.
Is there something you absolutely need root for? Or can you get away with not having root? It is always better to not have root capability, as that is a huge attack vector.
Root gives me more control over my device and many powerful apps like shizuku and sdmaid works better than non root. Usually i don’t use magisk modules. And one another use is it installs app updates without a waring like play store. That’s it.
You could use aurorastore. Sdmaid is useless IMHO. I don’t see the point in it. I used to be rooted but now using GrapheneOS I am not anymore and although I miss customising the navbar pill and notification bar height it is safer this way.
