[Magisk] Mejilan:
Hey folks. Been a happy user of Magisk for many months now, since jumping ship from the formerly unbeatable SuperSU. My 2015 Moto X Pure has been having issues since I updated to the 11/23 beta build of 14.5. It would periodically reboot itself for no reason, either from the lock screen or while in any app or activity. Up to a few times an hour. Previously, I had been using the 14.3 beta since my last custom rom clean install without any stability issues whatsoever. Rock solid.

This morning, I figured I'd finally do something about it, and tried to revert to 14.3 by installing it over 14.5 vis TWRP recovery. Awful idea. After clearing the caches and rebooting system, I'd get as far as the expected Motorola boot logo before the phone would buzz and loop back to the same boot logo. It'd never get to the boot animation or beyond. OK, so I hardware-reset my way back to recovery, ran the uninstaller (a 9/28 version I downloaded alongside 14.0 stable, IIRC), and then tried reinstalling 14.3 beta again. No luck. Same rapid boot loop. So back into recovery, ran the uninstaller again, cleared the caches, and rebooted system without installing any version of Magisk or any othe root solution. Took a while, but it did reboot back into Android. So far so good.

So I tried rebooting back into recovery and installing 14.3 beta, clear the cache, reboot system... Rapid boot loop again, just as before. Another uninstaller pass, cache clearing, and reboot (without Magisk) and I'm back in. So I tried returning to recovery and installing 14.0 stable instead. Again, rapid boot loop. It seems like either the 11/23 version of 14.5 or my overwriting shenanigans has "ruined" something integral to the phone's stability, and no amount of experimentation with various stable/beta builds of Magisk will allow me to return to a rooted state.

Since I have regained access to my now non-rooted phone, I've dumped all of the installers and uninstallers and downloaded clean and updated versions of Magisk 14.0, 14.3, 14.5 (11/24 version), and the newest version of the uninstaller. I'm going to continue experimenting with these new downloads and hope for the best. But do you guys think this is a fool's errand, and that I should just restore from my latest TWRP backup? I did a clean install of what presumably is the final Dirty Unicorns Nougat build for my phone (they're working on Oreo builds now) about a month ago, and have a TWRP backup of my environment just prior to that clean flash. I'd rather avoid the nuclear option.

If these new downloads of Magisk and the uninstaller do the trick, I'll post back here with an update. But if not, I hope folks have some additional advice for me before I resort to going nuclear and deleting everything and clean flashing my Dirty Unicorns ROM again. At the very least, I'd like to get root going one last time and run a Titanium Backup, since those too haven't been updated in over a month... I suppose a quick SuperSU install would do the trick for that much, at least. Not going to bother to TWRP backup my current, unstable environment.

---------- Post added at 12:28 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:23 PM ----------

Sorry for the double-post. But a combination of the 11/23 uninstaller and the 11/24 14.5 Beta has fixed the rapid boot loop issue. I'm currently at the boot animation stage of boot up, which I have not been able to get since I started messing around with this earlier this morning. Time will tell if system stability is back to what it should be (the random reboot issue caused by 11/23 14.5 beta), but this is progress. I'll report back one final time if all is well, or if the instability continues.

When in doubt. Junk your installers and uninstallers and download fresh ones, folks. And don't be lazy like me. Do an uninstall before trying to install over a current Magisk build with an older one. Seriously... I know better. Honest. That's what I get for dicking around before my morning shower/coffee.