yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Esja:
Old method still works for the latest patch released 2020/03/02 (WW-16.0420.1912.16).
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] eecoog06:
Thanks for the update!
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Einheit-101:
Does edXposed work with the Pie update? I am still on oreo because i fear that Pie wont work as great as Oreo and i dont want to ruin my phone...

Btw. Magisk 20.4 breaks edXposed on Oreo, beware.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] you.archi.2017:
Hi there,

I followed this way to root,but I failed. What's worse, when I tried to fastboot my phone, then it became a brick finally.When I flashed it back with QFIL, it lost its baseband and IMEI. I can no longer use my SIM card to make calls or to access the Internet. Would any good man would like to share their QCN file with me?

I could provide my IMEI first.

Please help~ :crying:
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] murasio3:
det här handlar om asus rog-telefonen zs600kl jag hade avinstallerat magis manager i förrgår jag fick ett meddelande från min telefon var tvungen att starta om ord efter att det slutade fungera med start han gick bara till återställningsmenyn så lyckligtvis fick filerna som rå fil lager firmware det är en zip-fil med firmware orginal så jag satte me-telefonen zs600kl i fastboot oja och min boot loader låstes upp jag placerade den i fastboot och körde den rå filen efter att min telefon formaterades och bootloader är igen återlås oo youtube de bryr sig inte om den här bara Asus Rog 2-telefonen men sedan ville jag uppdatera min telefon jag visste inte hur man gör zip-filen så hade sett YouTube ladda ner firmware för

zs600kl telefonen och packa inte upp zip-filen i roten till din telefon starta om din telefon så snart den startar om så kommer du att få en pop up som den har hittat en uppdatering och om twrp Jag använder inte kan du root din telefon genom låsa upp startladdaren och lapp sedan upp din boot-img via magisk manager och efter det installerar du din telefon via magisk kommer du att starta om ord efter omstart ladda ner ett program apk för att testa om det är rotat om ja, så är du klar ingen twrp bara magisk det är allt
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] BattousaiDeDo#:
For me it always shows that magisk is not installed, even so i did flash it.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Zvaon:
Hi guys, I've followed all the steps almost smoothly from here,but on the payload dumper/ boot image step I get this problem at the end when I run the injector program and won't create image?

If any know how to deal with this is be very grateful.

Cheers
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] eecoog06:
Has anyone tried rooting with the recent firmware release?
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] eecoog06:
It works FYI
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Rotary Heart:
Does anyone have a working link for the raw WW firmware? The one at the OP doesn't work
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Einheit-101:
I just updated to Pie and the phone does not boot when flashing magisk_patched.img with latest firmware 16.0420.2003.24. It gets stuck at the white ROG logo.

€DIT: I just flashed the original (payload dumped) boot.img and phone refuses to boot either. Any suggestions? I cannot access ADB anymore, i can only access fastboot...... Maybe the boot.img is corrupted because the payload dumper is too old?

Maybe someone can share a stock and/or prerooted boot.img of latest 2003 Firmware?

€DIT2::: It looks like my Python installation was corrupted, you guys need to take a look at the boot.img file that gets created and you need to look at any error message that the payload dumper throws! You can get corrupted boot.img files that look absolutely fine, but they dont work.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Tesla74:
I don't have this phone anymore, but I found this website. I don't know if the files work.

{Mod edit: Link removed - Oswald Boelcke, Moderator}

If this works for you or you found another source, please let me know and I'll add to the OP.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] anandverma458:
Can anyone on the latest pie firmware (WW model) confirm if the method still requires using the old version of Magisk Manager that is provided in the OP, or can we use the latest version now?
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] miman04:
yes we can no problem.. but you cant play PUBG no more.. they already detect magisk root. game will force closed on its own.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] anandverma458:
Oof, I mainly play PUBG on the phone, guess will have to wait until Magisk tackles the detection
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] eecoog06:
I'm on the latest version and rooted with Magisk and am able to play PUBG just fine.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Moha1155:
How you rooted i make old method patch boot.img and flash it but stock in fastboot mode
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] eecoog06:
I updated to the latest firmware version by downloading the latest ROM to the main folder and rebooting. Then rooted by patching the boot.img file and flashing in fastboot mode as you noted above.

PUBG still works fine for me but I have also enabled Magisk Hide, "Hide Magisk from various forms of detection" and selected the hide option for PUBG. Hope that helps.

Magisk Installed: 20.4

Magisk Manager Installed: 7.5.1
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Jiannystein:
Thanks for the guide!

Just to share my experience and steps based on guide provided, hopefully it would save someone's time in case the FRP step somehow decided to slap you hard (no idea but **** happens)

1. OK

2. Downloaded everything and used unlock tool from https ://www .asus. com/Phone/ROG-Phone/HelpDesk_Download/ instead because the apk posted didn't work for me

3. Bumpy for me, no idea why my credential didn't work, bypass FRP using this guide instead, https ://www .youtube. com/watch?v=CaDbVQkd6Nk - I backup a copy of the files in the video in case they go missing anytime in the future at http ://www .mediafire. com/folder/cb4z0r4eoyng5/ROG

4. OK

5. My firmware is already the same with latest WW version

6. OK, it took awhile to do its thing but complete at last

7. OK, basically copy the boot.img from step 6 and Magisk it to become magisk_patched.img on the same download folder

8. With cable unplugged, shut down phone and vol up + power until into fastboot, the rest of the steps are straightforward
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] anandverma458:
Wow, thanks for sharing! Also, I fear that flashing a raw firmware might erase the IMEI and Baseband information from the phone (I think I read about a similar thing happening to a ROG II user), and I've looked online for a QCN backup of the ROG I, but to no avail ? Enabling USB Diagnostics requires root for ASUS, and that's what I want to do but I'm afraid of erasing the IMEI ? If you could, could you backup your QCN file from the ROG Phone and insert some dummy IMEI in the file, so that we all will be able to fix that if it happens to us (as you said, FRP can be a pain ??)
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] anandverma458:
So I (finally) rooted my phone today, and it went pretty well. Everything works as intended. But is there any way to disable that orange warning screen that comes up after you restart the device, cautioning that the bootloader is unlocked? It's annoying ??
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] 1nv1n:
Can't get to Pie

I wonder what I'm missing. I was unlocked & rooted & on WW-15.1630.1811.46 for the longest time.

Went through this thread yesterday & started my updates.

From OP instructions, I was able to sideload & boot from:

15.1630.1811.46 -> 15.1630.1812.68. -> 15.1630.1902.80 -> 15.1630.1903.89 -> 15.1630.1907.98

I'm currently on 15.1630.1907.98 & have Magisk installed & the magisk_patched.img for this firmware fastboot flashed.

But no matter what I try, I cannot update to the next version, Pie (16.0410.1910.91).

I've tried sideloading, it fails with: "adb: failed to read command: No error"

I've tried putting the ZIP at the root of Internal Storage, but I get no prompt to update/upgrade.

I've tried unzipping & placing the contents at the root directory, no upgrade.

I've tried flashing: twrp-3.3.1-0-Z01Q-16.0410.1910.91.img, but that does not get past the boot stage - phone stays stuck on the white Asus logo.

Any ideas on how to get to Pie? I saw some posts mention a RAW ZIP file, but I can't find any place to download it from. Does anyone have a backup they could upload for me?
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Einheit-101:
Maybe these links work?

https://addrom.com/raw-rom-for-asus-rog-phone-zs600kl/
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Tesla74:
Cool!! That is even better! Good luck! I've updated step 5 in the guide.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Tesla74:
I was wondering, were you using stock recovery?
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Tesla74:
I think update might be okay if using stock recovery.

@ kgptzac and Marco589

We are able to extract boot.img

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=78188293&postcount=39
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] regenwurm16:
I tried that package but my Kaspersky detects it as a generic trojan and immediately deletes. Is it safe to use?
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Tesla74:
Bummer. I don't know, it might be false postive?

Scan this one. It takes a little longer to use, but works:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=78188293&postcount=39
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] trias10:
I used it, it comes from a reputable source, is hosted on a reputable site, and is linked against by multiple threads in the OnePlus forum, where several others have been using it successfully, so I doubt it's a trojan.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] regenwurm16:
Thanks I already did the Python route.

Are the firmware files supplied by ASUS full firmware files? They are all 2GB in size after all and contain a hell of a lot of single .img files I don't even know where to flash to in fastboot.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] kgptzac:
Yes I was. I called Asus and their technical support said that I was supposed to extract the content of the zip and then place it in internal storage. I pointed out to him the official Asus FAQ said I should directly place the zip to internal storage, which is what I had done, and the tech support then said the FAQ is wrong.

At that point I already OTA'd to version 48 so I would not be checking if what he said is correct.

The payload.bin dumper does not require an elevated privilege to execute, and my Windows Defender did not flag it. Sounds like a false positive and you should consider changing your anti-virus software ;)
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Tesla74:
Do you have stock recovery? Flash latest firmware with stock recovery. Then patch the boot.img and flash to get root.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Tesla74:
I don't think he is right. Usually flash the whole zip.

Were you able to do OTA after unlocking bootloader?
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] kgptzac:
I did not try. I wanted to have latest firmware before using the unlocking apk and I've done exactly that. And maybe as a result, I did not observe the issue where others said requiring a non-existing PIN after bootloader unlock's factory reset.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] regenwurm16:
I know that's possible and already did that as well but my intention was to have a backup plan in case something goes wrong/ a brick happens.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Tesla74:
I thought that might be the case, but was just hoping that OTA didn't get disabled. Interesting that the PIN screen didn't come up.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Tesla74:
If anything goes wrong, there is also this post:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=78160485&postcount=24
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Tesla74:
Bad news. My Windows Defender detected trojan.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] trias10:
I never trust off the shelf virus detectors, and certainly not Defender. Use old fashioned programming principles, walk through your ps output and individual process trees, examine your MBR block against a recent backup, check your MSConfig for rogue entries, setup a Wireshark sniffer to examine outgoing packets, I've done all of these things, I see no evidence of anything which signals an infection has occurred on my system.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Funk Wizard:
Moderator Notice: Link Removed | Torjan Detected | Report Attached
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] trias10:
That file is linked all over the place here at XDA, for example:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=76644431&postcount=3

and

https://xdaforums.com/mi-a2/how-to/guide-install-payload-bin-twrp-t3865319

I just scanned that file with Malwarebytes 3.6.1 and Spybot Search & Destroy 2.7, and both came back negative for trojans/malware.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Rashad83:
Indeed it's not a trojan. My Bitdefender doesn't detect it as a malware or a trojan.

That's why i dislike using Kaspersky it detects many apps as malware when they are not.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Marco589:
just to be sure,

My situation is fw ....23 twrp and root

I have to flash the boot.img (23) via fastboot

fastboot flash boot boot.img

the phone should reboot as normal (just without root and twrp) with all my data

right?

then I need to update the firmware

I put the zip file in root folder of the phone, then flash with stock recovery?

EDIT1

I did it!!!

It works!

[MENTION=3342391]Tesla74[/MENTION] I attached 2 pics, maybe you can add in the guide (if you need them)
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] faericia:
Hoping this sideload fixes the problems I just had. patching root caused bootloop. Tried restoring but wifi wouldn't turn on, and phone kept crashing. :\
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Marco589:
Which magisk did you use to patch the boot.img?
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] regenwurm16:
I can't tell you if OTA notifications will be disabled as I'm already running the latest version but you can sideload the OTA firmware zip with stock recovery even after your Bootloader is unlocked without losing data or anything. So this should work for future updates aswell I suppose.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Marco589:
That's what I did too ;)

EDIT

not the OTA but the full firmware, I've flashed.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] baconmaster5:
Is there any change to the boot splash animation after unlocking bootloader and root? My last phone shows a large red warning sign after unlocking...
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Tesla74:
Thanks! I've added the photos to the OP. I've removed the TWRP method from the guide until we get updated TWRP.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] deep32:
Thanks, Guys.

Patched_boot.img method works perfectly also on newest firmware WW.48 with Magisk 17.3.

Saftynet passed and Google Pay works too.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] regenwurm16:
I was talking about the ~2GB firmware zip you can download from ASUS.

I am not quite sure if this is a full firmware as the raw firmware version downloadable for .23 is 0.7GB bigger.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] faericia:
The latest version of magisk manager linked in the first thread. Either way, sideloaded to older fimware. Then reflashed using another adb instead of the minimal on this thread and rooted just fine.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Tesla74:
The minimal ADB didn't work for you?

Anyone else have this problem also?

If this ADB isn't working, please post link to working ADB and I'll update the guide.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] faericia:
Looks like it is working for everyone else so it might be another variable because I am pretty sure I changed multiple variable at once that made it work. But the link I used was

https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools-latest-windows.zip

No clue if that was what worked or if something else I did.

EDIT: Okay, the WW.48 version is not working for me with the patch method.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Tesla74:
Edit: deleted double post.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Tesla74:
Did you extract the boot.img from the 48 firmware? The boot.img has to match the firmware version installed on your phone.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] faericia:
Yes. I matched the boot.img from the 48 firmware. Just went in a bootloop so Ill stick with 43 for now. If they ever implement VoLTE, ill probably just remove root then anyways so whatever.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Tesla74:
Did you flash back the stock unpatched boot.img for firmware 43 before updating to firmware 48? Also, older Magisk will bootloop.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Marco589:
I did it sunday on my one and it worked well no issue at all...

try to tell us what you did step by step
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tdrake2406:
Are you using VoLTE on Verizon with the ROG right now?
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] thugsta1:
Are people using the CN version or the WW?

Can't get this to work on the current latest firmware for WW .48 as it always bootloops.

EDIT:- Ok i see the error (at least for me, doh!) you got to make sure to change the Magisk channel to Beta to install the latest version which works for WW .48
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] faericia:
Here are the steps I took:

I had .43. Flashed the boot.img after uninstalling Magisk.

Sideloaded .48 then installed Magisk manager.

Flashed patched .48, and bootloop.

I did boot after each step to make sure phone boots before going to the next step. I did not however, (at least yesterday) use the Beta channel although I am sure i did that a few days ago. I can try again later today.

And no, I do not have VoLTE on verizon. The volte provision option keeps switching itself to off. If i reboot the phone, the options shows up until it detects the Verizon sim and it vanishes again.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Tesla74:
Sounds like old version of Magisk.

Maybe try this:
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] faericia:
Yeah, the beta channel got it working. I thought I had it selected before, but maybe I didn't patch using that or something. Anyways, Thanks.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mikeman0120:
I ended up having to do the same thing to not get a bootloop after the flashing of the patched_boot.img file. My only issue now is that there is no recovery installed. Every time I try to boot into recovery, whether using the hardware method or 'adb reboot recovery' method, it boots into the OS instead of recovery. Also, my magisk app says magisk not installed. What do I do after flashing patched_boot.img to finish obtaining root and have a recovery (preferably TWRP).
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Marco589:
For having the twrp you Need to downgrade to fw 23, as It Is not updated.

If you havent the recovery you made a mistake somewhere. (The recovery Is into the boot.img)

Are you sure to have used magisk 17.3? Did you flash the boot.img extract from your firmware?
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mikeman0120:
Thanks for the quick reply. Yes I made sure it said 17.3 installed at the top of the magisk manager 6.0.1 app. As far as twrp goes, I'll wait for the update. I extracted the fw from UL-WW_15.1616.1809.48-1.1.12.zip from the Asus website using payload dumper. I did try sideloading this update file and reflashing the patched_boot.img file but I had only tried this method using the older magisk (17.1) boot.img file. Should I try it again with 17.3 magisk patched_boot.img file?
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Tesla74:
That might be the problem. Worth a try.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Mcfeels_Guy:
Does anyone think it's worth rooting at this moment? There's some root apps I'd like to get using again that I used from previous rooted phones, especially xposed. I'm all ready for rooting my ROG. Got everything set and ready. I'm just really hoping this phone gets a working twrp and resurrection remix rom in the near future. Also, quick question, if Asus puts out more updates. Can I just patch those new firmwares with magisk and flash them in adb, or do I have to Uninstall magisk then flash stock firmware then start over with the directions in the op of this thread again? Heaven forbid I root and then cannot flash important Asus updates.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Rashad83:
Personally I haven't rooted yet and I don't think I will until the warranty of the phone is expired. Rooting had its advantages 1 year ago but currently with recent OS updates(Especially our phone having missed functionalities) and third party apps working without the need of root it made the need for it unnecessary. Also 1 more excuse to not root is OTA updates and losing warranty. It's a pain in the $$$ to download and sideload the update every time there is one. I used to root to remove ads and disable the navigation bar which I can do currently without root.

Now to answer your questions; yes you will need to go through the whole process of patching the boot image using Magisk with every update and you will need to flash the stock boot of the current firmware before you flash the new update firmware.

By the way regarding exposed, you can get that without rooting the device. Check this thread: https://xdaforums.com/xposed/virtualxposed-xposed-root-unlock-t3760313
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SeanBlader:
My reason for contemplating rooting is to see if I can use the ROG to replace my web dev environment on my notebook. Sure I could use some Android based editor, but since the accessories are there to plug into a big screen why not run full Linux and get VS Code running with a full desktop browser. And at the moment it looks like rooting is the only way to get a desktop class window manager like XFCE, which would probably be ones best bet for performance.

If anyone has any suggestions to avoid that effort and stick with Android is be willing to try it out.
[Asus ROG Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Mcfeels_Guy:
Thanks! I'll check out virtual xposed. Don't know why I never came across that. I know exactly what you mean about the ROG phone warranty too. Given that you have to pay full price and is not offered by carrier. Also another small reason I wanted to root, but I forgot to mention is storage issues. I'd like to keep space on my rog free and I have a tiny micro SD card to USB c adapter. I'd like to run large rom files and other large files off the external SD. My phone recognizes it with no problem and I can browse it and cut and paste files between it and the phone. However, I can't get any of my emulators or other apps to recognize external storage. Chainfire had an app called stick mount that I used for another phone and worked great. It was mostly for nexus devices but worked with other phones too.

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I see what you mean. I myself am looking to get the desktop dock. Never had full Linux on a phone. Had Ubuntu on my nexus 6p tho. I guess I don't really have a reason for it tho. Still, I can't wait to do big screen gaming on the desktop dock, as my ROG phone is blowing my Nvidia shield tv away in gaming.