Starting from Magisk version 22, the Magisk (core) and Magisk Manager (companion app) files were merged into one package for your convenience. And one of the advantages of that was the new all-in-one package would also be a flashable zip file recognized by the TWRP custom recovery image. However, it’s also true that you can get root access with Magisk without using a custom recovery […]
Magisk
Magisk was developed by John Wu and is the open-source successor to SuperSU, designed to give root access to the Android operating system. Magisk can root many devices running on Android 5.0 or later. In 2021, Google employed John Wu to work on Android’s security.
How to Get boot.img for Magisk
You can download the latest Magisk app from GitHub here: https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases. SuperSU was taken down from the Play Store years ago and Magisk is not allowed on the Play Store either. Once you open the Magisk app, you want to patch a boot image. This is done by downloading the firmware for your smartphone, extracting it, and then checking in your file explorer for the […]
What Is SafetyNet on Magisk
I want to use Magisk but don’t quite understand what it’s SafetyNet feature is or how it works. Answer: Technically, SafetyNet is a Google feature and not one developed by Magisk. However, it is the feature that made Magisk a household name in the rooting community. Magisk has an option that allows you to turn off root access so you don’t trip Google’s SafetyNet. Before […]
Download Magisk APK for Android 7.1.2 (Nougat)
Rooting of the Android operating system has been something millions of people have been doing now for nearly a decade. Over that span, there were always different tools that would come and go, but there were also a few that seemed always to go on forever. However, times are rapidly changing; it’s not so much that people have lost interest in getting root access as […]
Download Magisk APK for Android 7.1.1 (Nougat)
Over recent years the development of the SuperSU tool has seen many changes. Android kept altering the security of its operating system to make it more difficult for the popular rooting tool’s development. When new applications like Android Pay and Netflix came out, it only got worse. . . . Android had always expressed its disapproval of having root access but never went out of […]
Download Magisk APK for Android 7.1 (Nougat)
The contentious subject of whether rooting the Android operating system should, in fact, be legal or illegal, morally acceptable or completely unethical, has almost sorted itself out naturally no thanks to Android developers. With new applications like Android Pay now available, there’s never been a more important time to preach security than now. When you had a rooted Android operating system in years past, it […]
Download Magisk APK for Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop)
No thanks to new security advancements such as Google SafetyNet, the way people root their devices has now changed. Older versions of Android would allow rooting tools like SuperSU to root a device and use root apps as well as apps that didn’t require root access all at the same time. You don’t get that same kind of opportunity these days anymore. SafetyNet is put […]
Download Magisk APK for Android 7.0 (Nougat)
The Android operating system has always been one with supreme security. When you install applications, they don’t have the chance to move from their own bit of land that they are fenced in by. When you root a device, however, which is something that people have been doing since the birth of the operating system, you are removing that fence which means stuff with bad […]
Download Magisk APK for Android 6.0 (Marshmallow)
Over the course of history, for as long as we’ve had the pleasure of knowing the Android operating system, gaining root access to it has always been possible. Up until lately, when a new feature called SafetyNet was first introduced, all root apps can always be run at the same time as the apps that didn’t require root access. In more recent times, however, we […]
Download Magisk APK for Android 5.1 (Lollipop)
Rooting has been around since the dawn of the Android operating system, and there have been many different tools that have come and gone since then. Oftentimes the Android developers change the way the operating system security works, and then the rooting developers need to create new tools to help get around the roadblocks. That same situation happened again when Android introduced SafetyNet, a new […]
Download Magisk APK for Android 5.0.2 (Lollipop)
If you have wanted to get root access by flashing a zip from inside a custom recovery over the years, the go-to method for getting that done has been to install SuperSU. In more recent times, however, SuperSU, while still being a reliable root method, hasn’t been able to get past Android’s SafetyNet, designed to stop certain applications from running when it knows a device […]
Download Magisk APK for Android 5.0.1 (Lollipop)
The Android operating system has always had the root user account tucked away ever since the dawn of the operating system. Rooting was more popular in years past because there were more applications out there for rooted users that stock Android didn’t have features that it could match. Now stock Android has more features and has taken many of the useful features that were once […]
Download Magisk APK for Android 5.0 (Lollipop)
If you went back five years ago, most Android enthusiasts used their operating systems with root access. There were so many additional things that people could do with root access that it made sense. These days getting root access has become more challenging for developers, and the number of applications that one needs to use with root access is less due to new features being […]
Download Magisk APK for Android 6.0.1 (Marshmallow)
For about as long as I can remember, SuperSU was always the most popular way for people to get root access. Sure, plenty of individuals preferred doing it the easier way with a one-click rooting method, but outside of the one-click root tools, it was SuperSU — and by a long margin. Even if you include the one-click rooting tools, my guess would be that […]