[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries,] Dothraki:
Firstly, want to thank everyone in the community… I am not very experienced so your help when you get a chance would be greatly appreciated and may help others who are also in the same situation.

I just read the entire thread… but the more I read the more confused I got… things change so rapidly in the span of a few months....

Here is my journey so far.

Bought a secondhand SM-N9750 (Hong Kong Model) 2 days ago. Officially updated it to:

BOOTLOADER:	N9750ZSU2BTC1

PDA	N9750ZSU2BTC1

CSC	N9750ZSU2BTC1

I initially simply rooted by this method:

1.	using 7-zip with the Official AP file and extracting the boot.img.lz4 file and archiving this to boot.img.tar

2.	Copy this boot.img.tar to the phone along with Magisk Manager APK.

3.	Install Magisk Manager APK

4.	Start Magisk and patched boot.img.tar to create a new file “magisk_patched.tar”

5.	Copied this file back to the PC. Turned off phone and went into Download Mode.

6.	Used Odin to flash this “magisk_patched.tar” into the AP section.

7.	Restarted immediately into recovery did a Wipe date/factory reset and reboot… after a few reboots all good and Magisk installed and ROOT access confirmed….

I then realized I wanted to have TWRP as I do now on my (soon to be sold) Note 9. Mainly just to be able to do a Nandroid Backup every now and then.

I went into ODIN patched the version I found on the twrp site which unless I am wrong should be the d2q version for the SM-N9750.

twrp-3.3.1-1-d2q.img.tar.

After flashing immediately tried to go into recovery but it came up with an error such as invalid recovery os partition or some such error (should have noted it).

Restarting the phone continuedly failed and ended up on the same screen. So I couldn’t even get into TWRP or restart the phone normally.

Tried to reflash the magisk_patche.tar in the AP section again via ODIN but no luck…

Had to do a stock full official reflash and this is where I am now back to original state (Bootloader confirmed still unlocked and grey so that is good).

So I thought I would like to follow the process in this guide and install TWRP before Magisk but would really appreciate some clarity with some points which I find confusing.

Here are my questions.

1.	You linked the official TRWP files

twrp-3.3.1-1-d2q.img.tar

twrp-3.3.1-1-d2q.img

twrp-3.3.1-0-d2q.img.tar

twrp-3.3.1-0-d2q.img

But also the following via MEGA

TRRP_Q_N9750_3.3.1-12.img

TRRP_Q_N9750_3.3.1-12.tar

The contents of which are different so for step 1. “Flash TWRP.tar in Odin”

Which file is correct? Assume that the “TRRP_Q_N9750_3.3.1-12.tar” is it but then why are the official ones linked?

2.	“Reboot directly into TWRP”. – No question here if the flash worked should be fine

3.	“Format data, reboot recovery” – Does this mean go into the “Wipe” menu in TWRP and select an option there? Dalvik/ART Cache, Cache, System, Data, Internal Storage…. assuming its “Data” but just want to be sure. Then Reboot Recovery option to reboot again into recovery?

4.	“Flash kernel” – Is this the “WETA_Kernel_N9750_5.01_TA1.zip” file?

5.	“Flash encryption disabler” Is this “Disable_Dm-Verity_ForceEncrypt_05.21.2019” file?

6.	“Unmount system, Flash Magisk.” Assuming this is just an option in the “Mount” menu where we have to choose “system”? Then Install the latest Magisk.zip via the Install option?

I think that sums it up…. feed back on this would be appreciated.