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[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] RootTheAndroid:
I installed ED XPOSED Installer APK. (V 2.2.4 working on my A70)

Through MODULE option in MAGISK, first install RIRU EdXposed framework SANDHOOK MODULE ZIP. (V 0.4.5.1 beta (4463) (sandhook) by Solohsu, Ganyao 114 & MlgmXyysd working on my A70)

REBOOT. (Always REBOOT WITH VOLUME UP + POWER buttons until the WARNING FOR UNLOCKED BOOTLOADER appears. Then release the buttons. OTHERWISE THE SYSTEM WILL BOOT WITHOUT ROOT.)

Install RIRU CORE MODULE ZIP through Module option in MAGISK (V 19.4 by RIKKA working on my A70)

Again REBOOT (Power + Volume Up)

Open the Ed XPOSED Installer installed from apk.

It will show XPOSED FRAMEWORK ACTIVE.

Plz Note: Some tutorials tell to install both zips through Magisk without a reboot in between. But it caused my phone WiFi issues. It didn't connect to any network. I found out by hit and trial that a reboot between installing the two modules sorted this issue out.

Good luck mate.
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] Clasimodo:
Thanks for the answer. This is exactly what I did (again), but no luck unfortunately. Magisk working fine. No idea.
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] Clasimodo:
Does anybody happen to know how to update the firmware after this root? Will I lose all installed apps and settings?
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] Clasimodo:
Maybe usefull for others: Somehow Magisk was on 'core only mode'. No idea why, but everything including xposed is working now.
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] jedtan025:
can i ask what xposed will work and how to uninstall netflix ? or how can i run netflix with rooted a70? thanks
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] mingkee:
You can download 6.26 apk from apkmirror

Avoid 7.x because it won't work
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] crisx1310:
I would like to know if you lost internal memory, because when I root my internal memory decreased to 32GB I wait for your response thanks
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] brambles1234:
How are you getting on with it?

Any issues?
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] RootTheAndroid:
So far so good. No problem at all. VIPER4ANDROID also working on Magisk. Xposed installer with numerous modules e.g. Gravitybox, Call Recording, Fonter, Firefds Kit etc. running smoothly.

I would love to have a TWRP working with Magisk, because I would like to make full ROM backup. However, Titanium Backup is still doing the job to keep all the desired apps backed up.
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] devilhunter47:
Does Netflix work with magisk?
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] RootTheAndroid:
Haven't tried Netflix. I just download the movies and shows directly. Will check and inform later.
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] Vaptain M:
Problem Solved
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] Captain Beretta:
Rebooted with correct buttons pressed (VOL UP + POWER)?
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] Vaptain M:
yes

I tried it many times

volume up + power after bootloader open warning till it vibrates

I don't know if there is something else that I miss

why it lost root in the first place?
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] Captain Beretta:
Here is my situation now:

Phone back from repair, stock image now.

I have bootloader unlocked, wiped phone, back to stock, but not rooted. Set up my phone for daily use, but I miss root.

So I was thinking:

I installed Magisk Manager and patched the AP-file of my current setup.

I want to flash magisk_patched.tar in Odin in AP + HOME_CSC, but NOT wipe my phone and KEEP my current settings, data, everything. Only difference is that it is rooted now.

Is that possible?

Edit: just tested and nope, need a factory reset after this, or else it says Android is corrupt.
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] hqdvista:
Tried on A60 but won’t work. After flashing custom AP, the phone won’t enter recovery mode, stuck at “you’re using a custom image” and displays some status info, but won’t continue
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] hqdvista:
BTW anyone tried on SM-A7050 and succeeded?
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] hqdvista:
BTW has anyone tried on Hong Kong version A7050? Wondering if I should bought one.

Thanks.

Update: successfully rooted A7050. Thanks for the guide.
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] B__B:
Does this work for a70mn/ds
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] russellglen72:
a70 root

Thank you for your root guide. Good work:good:
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] waelh:
Dear Avicohen21,

I need your help please. After patching my AP with magisk and reflashing it with Odin, for some reason, the phone goes intoa bootloop. Any ideas ?

Regards,

Wael
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] y.erenbektas:
while flashing with odin, it is always stuckin at system.img ? does anyone know how to deal with this?

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If anyone lives this problem, the solution is using the Odin3_v3.13.3 . I hope this helps someone.
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] RootTheAndroid:
Uncheck the AUTO REBOOT option in Odin. When the Odin shows PASS message, manually press VOL DOWN+POWER buttons. As soon as the screen goes blank, switch your finger from VOL DOWN to VOL UP. Keep the POWER button pressed all the time. Keep them pressed untill you see the stock RECOVERY. Chose the FACTORY RESET option. When it's done, POWER OFF the phone. DONT REBOOT!!! Now turn the phone on by VOL UP + POWER combination. This time when you see the UNLOCKED BOOTLOADER message, release the buttons and let the phone start. This time you won't have any bootloop.
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] waelh:
Ill try that later today and will get back to you. Another question, so after i follow your instructions, will i need to do the same thing each time i need to restart the phone ?
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] RootTheAndroid:
Yes, you have to reboot every time the same way. Its a little annoying but that is it. Even if u chose REBOOT option instead of POWER OFF, you have to press the VOL UP + POWER combo as soon as the display goes blank.

And one more thing, you may not see the Magisk Manager on the very first boot, after data wipe/factory reset. Just complete the initial phone set up on the first boot, let the phone download the updates etc. Then, reboot the phone as mentioned before. You will see the Magisk Manager among the installed apps.
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] waelh:
Thanks a lot for the update. Do you think soon some root way become available for this A70 which will not require the mentioned steps for booting ? (For example such as ChainFire SU ) and is magisk the only rooting way at the present for this device ?

Thank,

Wael
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] RootTheAndroid:
You are welcome dear. Actually it all depends on when Samsung releases latest kernel source. That's is why the Magisk and TWRP can co-exist on older firmware but not on the latest one because it's kernel source is yet to be released for the developers to play with.

As far as SuperSU goes, my personal opinion is that Magisk is much better option (the only option anyway right now). It has something to do with the latest system layout being employed by Samsung in their new phones, which doesn't favour the SuperSU.

It's called System-as-root structure. You can Google it for more info. BTW I m not a developer, so the above is what I have gathered from different sources.

Anyhow, fingers crossed. There hasn't been much info about SuperSU for A70.
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] waelh:
I am going to begin the process. Is there a way to make android Work Profile" work again ? Because samsung won't let u setup a work profile and other services will stop working if the knox is tripped. I really need to have the work profile feature in order to use apps like Island but I can't because of rooting.

Thank you
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] waelh:
Immediate reboot after Magisk Root

Hi RootTheAndroid,

I followed the tutorial step by step. So after patching the AP with magisk manager and flashing the patched one with Odin, The phone booted fine and I started installing my apps and restoring my files. After, I noticed that Magisk manager app isn't showing in the apps drawer. So I installed the canary provided apk. The app got installed; As soon as I opened the magisk app, the phone froze on the Magisk logo and suddenly it went off (black screen). The only way I could get the phone to turn back on was to hit Vol Down + power and then switch to Vol UP and booted successfully. Now when the phone prompted to enter the SIM pincode, I entered it, at this stage the phone goes off . now each time I boot , the phone will boot and then after entering the sim pin, it shuts down by itself.

Please help, what might be going wrong here ?

Thanks You,

Wael
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] waelh:
Phone doesn't boot after Magisk Root and reboot

UPDATE: I was able to fix my issue by going to the stock recovery screen again, Factory reset, boot the phone, installed a magisk manger apk which I downloaded from the first link posted in the original post located here : https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-a70/how-to/to-root-magisk-odin-t3930099

So only using that apk version, magisk worked and the phone stopped getting shut upon entering the SIM pin code. The version which caused me issues and prevented the phone from booting is the one included in the posted Google drive link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17yjPQ26bFjECKwlmXLua7xBXfW23SsHF?usp=sharing

But at the end, I rebooted the phone and now the phone goes into bootloop again no matter what :(:( I get the attached error at boot time. ( Please note I followed the Power + Vol UP way but the attached error shows immediately.

The error says:

Set Warranty Bit: Vbmeta

Set Warranty Bit: Recovery

You help is appreciated.

Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] RootTheAndroid:
Dear I mentioned in my previous post, u may not see the Magisk app installed upon the very first boot after flashing patched AP. Just ignore it and complete the set up of the phone. Let all the apps update. When it's all done, POWER OFF the phone. Reboot by VOL UP + POWER combo until u see the BOOTLOADER UNLOCKED warning. Let the phone boot. Just give it few seconds after the boot. U will definitely see Magisk app installed in app drawer this time.

The reason why your phone freezes is that manually installed Magisk APK clashes with the already installed (yet invisible) Magisk through patched AP. I made the same mistake once. So to sum up DONT INSTALL ANY MAGISK APK!

Just to be safe, redo the whole process. Flash stock ROM. Then flash patched AP. Rest of the process is as above.

PS. While flashing stock ROM, check AUTO REBOOT, NAND ERASE and F. RESET TIME options.

UNCHECK the first 2 of the above 3 options while flashing patched AP to prevent the phone from booting into system as u have to first manually boot into recovery to do the data wipe/factory reset.

Hope it helps. I have repeated this process numerous times whenever my phone seems to have some issues because I m often doing tweaks with Xposed. Never had any issues in booting the system. Perfect every time.
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] Clasimodo:
Hi all. I am very happy with this rooting procedure. It Works like a charm. Now there is a new firmware in my region, but I was wondering if I can just do the same as in the first post, without going back to an empty android. Basically will I lose all my settings and data or can you upgrade without losing everything?
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] brambles1234:
I have successfully rooted the A70 thankyou.

The problem I have is that I no longer have wifi. Everytime I try to connect via wifi, the button toggles on but nothing happens it just says 'disconnected' can anyone offer any advice?
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] RootTheAndroid:
Basically yes...u will lose your data. But there is a way around this problem. Once u have rooted the phone, install Titanium Backup APK. Whenever u need to upgrade the firmware make a backup of your desired apps + data. SAVE IT ON EXT SD CARD!!!

For how your apps get stacked, or what order they appear in app drawer, u just need to sign in to your Samsung Account. Go to settings...Backup and Restore... and make back up using your Samsung Account option.

Now u can proceed with upgrading (basically fresh installation). When u have rooted your phone again, just install Titanium Backup app again. Transfer the backup made by it earlier, in Titanium Backup folder on your phone storage. Now u can install all the backed up apps along with their data. Next step is recovering how your apps were grouped and how your home screen appeared on previous version. For this, sign into your Samsung Account.....Backup and Restore....you will see a list of options to recover. Just select all and press RESTORE. After few minutes, all your apps, app drawer and home screen will appear the same as they did in previous firmware version.

I have personally done it over and over again. Not a single issue at all.

Cheers.

P.S. U might need Titanium Backup Pro. Non pro version might have certain limitations. U can easily find Pro version on internet.

---------- Post added at 09:09 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:59 AM ----------

Did this problem occur after Xposed framework installation through Magisk?

If yes, uninstall the Ed Xposed module and Riru Core module from Magisk. Reboot the phone (VOL UP + POWER combo)

Now again install Riru Core module. Reboot (same combo)

Then install Ed Xposed module. Reboot. (same combo)

This time hopefully u won't have any WiFi issues.

I faced the same problem initially. Got it sorted out following the above procedure.
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] Clasimodo:
Thanks for your detailed answer. Much appreciated.
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] waelh:
Dear,

Update: I believe I now know when the "bootloop" occurs and what is causing it to happen, please I need your advice.

So, by following your tutorials, I am able to boot to the rooted system normally; but, if I edit the build.prop file, save it and then reboot the phone, ONLY then the phone enters into a bootloop. Any ideas ? how to recover from this bootloop without having to flash the rom again ?

Thank You,

Wael
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] RootTheAndroid:
Well as far as I m aware, u have to clean flash the ROM again. I don't know any way to repair the edited build.prop file from Recovery option.

BTW...Reason for editing build.prop?

Maybe I could provide some alternative.
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] brambles1234:
---------- Post added at 09:09 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:59 AM ----------

I got it fixed I ran the reset network settings thanks

What's Riru Core BTW? I have just been looking at the downloads from Magisk now I'm rooted, im seeing RIRU mentioned a few times?
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] waelh:
The reason I edited the build.prop file was to enable multiple users on the phone by adding the below lines to the build.prop file using a root browser:

fw.max_users=3

fw.show_multiuserui=1

I believe restoring the build.prop file to the original state wouldn't make the phone boot again.

I guess what i will do now is restore the stock rom but do you know if there is a way to flash the stock rom via Odin but without wiping the data ? is there anything i need to exclude from flashing in order to save my data ?

I tried to access my data from twrp but twrp is asking for decryption key and after I enter my key (my password), it says: "trying to decrypt" and then "Decrypt failed".

So in summary, I need to do either of the below:

1- Flash stock rom without losing my data

2- have a twrp which will be able to decrypt my files successfully using my the password

Regards,

Wael
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] jylong_away:
Hi All,

Just got an A70, and haven't tried Rooting a Samsung since Android 7. Back then, a successful Root caused the FRP lock to lock the phone due to Custom Binary if you had a Google Play account logged in. Is this still the case with Android 9 on thr A70?
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] BK☑️:
well its simple , if you bootlooped its cause the build.prp permissions weren't right , you need to do chmod 644 in twrp to fix it and boot successfully ( you can do it too in solid explorer before rebooting to prevent bootloop )
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] waelh:
Dear,

good to know but I already flashed a rom, ill keep it in mind next time. Thanks for the advice.
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] BK☑️:
Does your internal storage show as 15GB left or is it 108GB left? (128)
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] waelh:
108, but it once happened with me (was 15 all the sudden), so at that time I Factory Reset the phone, then it came back as 108
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] trabando:
Does someone here have other website for firmwares which is free for fast download ? It will take me 15 hours to download the firmware ....
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] Carlosk1966:
Hallo.

I used FRIJA.

https://xdaforums.com/s10-plus/how-to/tool-frija-samsung-firmware-downloader-t3910594
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] trabando:
Hi Thanks alot , I downloaded and installed frija. When I enter my model ( SM-A705FN ) and CSC ( PHN ) it says unable to find firmware. Any idea what to do here?
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] Carlosk1966:
Run frija.exe as administrator.
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] Salty31:
wow it actually worked

thank you, sir
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] Salty31:
magisk is not installed after update 19.5

I tried volume + and power

didn't work

any advice?
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] dj75:
this method doesn't work on my A70 SM-7050...

fortunately, i could restore my phone via ODIN installing it's original rom!

any suggestion???
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] Vaptain M:
magisk 20????

does this work for magisk 20?

i wanted to update from Magisk app using direct method and i failed
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] Clasimodo:
I used this method before, but also had problems updating. Now switched to twrp method and prefer that. Easy updating etc. You only have to be very precise in the steps the first time, off course. Thanks for the great work, though.

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-a70/development/recovery-twrp-galaxy-a70-t3955984/
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] Vaptain M:
I tried it many times

it was working good with magisk 19.4

but I cant go back to that because it doesent give me that option

when I finish flashing patched file with Odin it shows a blue screen that says partition vbmeta error

my device doesn't start

i have to reboot it many times to avoid that blue screen

can you hide root in twrp method like magisk?
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] Clasimodo:
I had the same. Just read the opening post carefully.

My first attempt would be:Try to install TWRP through Odin. Then make the Magisk patched install and install this in TWRP.

If this doesn't work: I did it with latest official firmware and then followed the step by step instructions in the openings post. Went flawless.
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] brambles1234:
I originally had root with Magisk and today it showed an update, so I duly updated the Magisk manager and and then tried to update magisk using recommended flash but it rebooted back to the download screen. Now everytime I try to boot using power and volume up it reverts back to the download mode screen.

How do I now restore root without losing my data again,is this possible?
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] y.erenbektas:
Same issue here, it says something about vbmeta at that download mode screen. Phone only boots if I reboot it normally (pressing all buttons till screen goes off). But this way, magisk says magisk is not installed.

Note if needed: When I clicked magisk's update notification, it showed me 3 ways to update. I selected preffered one (3rd one).
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] brambles1234:
It could be that we need to install the TWRP however, that would mean wiping data on phone.
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] y.erenbektas:
Maybe, unfortunately I am far away from my notebook right now and I can't try. Are you also facing a wifi connection issue? I wonder if it's related to this or not.
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] Vaptain M:
Dont upgrade to magisk 20!!

I tried it all ways

directly from application

and twrp and steps in the first post

all failed

and I lost all my data

I think it's better to wait for now till a strong developer find a solution
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] brambles1234:
lal69 has the answer from the following link:

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-a70/help/a70-vbmeta-error-magisk-update-20-0-t3982421

1. Flash TWRP via odin (you will not lose any DATA)

2. Patch .img file via magisk

3. Flash patched magisk .img file via TWRP
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ial69:
here :

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-a70/help/a70-vbmeta-error-magisk-update-20-0-t3982421

this work for me :)
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] Salty31:
after I managed to pass the vbmeta problem, I'm facing a new problem, boot loop
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] mihai2017:
not working anymore

the root worked for me but once i updated majisk to latest version the root broke and i cant install again root here s the odin message on my phone

sw rev check fail vendor fused3- 3 binary 1

partition vbmeta

reason vbmeta error verifiying vbmeta image

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[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] kaho_tam:
Custom Binary(VBMETA) blocked by OEM Lock

I get the message "Custom Binary(VBMETA) blocked by OEM Lock" while downloading files via odin.

Any ideas what is wrong?
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] B__B:
Sounds like you didn't unlock bootloader
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] kaho_tam:
I had checked "Enable OEM Unlock" under developer options, rebooted phone a couple of times and it still says OEM lock is on when I powered up my phone with both volume buttons held.

Edit: The bootloader has been unlocked by long pressing vol+ at the download screen. Now at I'm getting the error message

"only official released binaries are allowed to be flashed" vbmeta
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ial69:
Hello !

First of all you can flash stock rom to restart your phone ^^

Then it maybe more safer to install TWRP then get the AP.tar of your rom, patch it with magisk and flash it (to boot) in TWRP.

Same result (a rooted phone) BUT with TWRP you will have a recovery, with the method in this thread, no recovery...

Hope this help.

PS : With this method (first released to root a70) you will use the recovery to boot with magisk. bye bye recovery, no way to wipe cache for example...

Now TWRP is available for a70. More safer, easy and many usefull option. give it a try ;)

---------- Post added at 07:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:05 PM ----------

If his bootloader was locked and he apply this method to root the phone : hard brick.

The phone will have a black screen and no rebooting any longer.

This is how the bootloader works...
[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] kaho_tam:
Which TWRP should I get for A705FN/DS EU?? The one on this form says it's for the Ukraine version.