[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pachacouti:
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Ok, it aint as pretty as I thought, but I expected as much..

The Twrp is fine. The Bootloader is fine. the vmeta is fine, buuut....

it's as I read elsewhere...

I KNOW the point of a read only system is that it is what it is, and cant be modified, yes, i read john wu's stuff (respect), but I also think you guys are missing sumat... like why not just put an entire new flash over ther old one if you have an open bootloader voiding warranty, you know, like we do linux to get rid of windows, or apple to get rid of linux...

it's like, so many linux mods laid OVER a ro system that can in fact be completely erased as we do with our desktop machines.

Ok, so here's the problem with my fone.

Twrp can do everything, it's 100% (remove the slider in it, it causes the screen freezes) before we see it, TRY to slide it, while it races back and well, get rid of it and use a damn button, that way we can get to the screen to do at least something else...

I've tried systemrw_1.32, gave up on it, It worked for me, but would not mount the moint points.. as claimed... ok, so it works for PIE, according to those who tested it and failed.

Here's the kicker. With stock boot, I flash twrp to recovery, boot into gui, have normal shell with NO su, tried installing busybox/supersu just to see if root actually worked, with just twrp, as I reckon if we have root, either of these two will install su, but no joy with JUST the twrp. Magisk zips fail... The wonder of this twrp is all is mountable apart from the otg I never use, but I reckon the magisk module bloatware version of otg is the drivers to enable this... however, the module attempts to connect to your google account, so much so google inform you, f**k that.. ( had fn for a year, and have yet to put in a sim with credit, I'm after the gps WITHOUT the sim... ) I can do the systemrw.1.32, from twrp terminal, my 128 gig sdcard is one with the fone at last, so no space problems, Gone. So... root... works... in recovery, 100%

Apart from flashing roms... :O

None can be flashed... no system, even when mounted in twrp and viewable in twrp terminal. I can flash zips ok, just not the custom roms... even nethunter (one of my goals) wont flash the custom rom, I need to use the chroot apk, red letters saying read only come from the twrp'd zip, even though all shows a-ok...

I had no choice but to flash my own bootloader that I magisked using the note9 recovery, just to see the old magisk demand internet. I flashed the canary MagiskCanary23.0.apk because if I did not, the greyed out magisk icon wanting internet, even though flashed with the latest version... did NOT give root that's already there... flashing the apk takes care of su. Internet should be optional, I mean, hey, magisk flashing to magisk patched always fails when offline, but when online we get to use it? Surely by now they must have sussed that it would be benificial to all devs if this was the same for when offline! (Nope) - I say this because we have to be online when we're trying to do things that can and does prevent us being online at times..

The note9 is still doing something even this twrp wont... it mounts all images rw until the desktop launcher ACTUALLY kicks in, ie, you see your dial button. Very defo reminds me of the last firestick problems we had with the black screen before they wiped the twrp, tata firestick I said...

And block all amazon.

Hmm... is it even worth havin a fone nowadays...?