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Want to clean & root old Galaxy A3 (SMA300-FU) but not sure how to do it (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have an older Samsung Galaxy A3 with an already unlocked bootloader (it comes pre-unlocked) that I want to clean & root. I have a few apps like firefox, some games, DraStic, notesnook, etc. as well as my music. I want to keep all of this of course bug remove all the other bloat i dont need. I dont want a custom ROM or anything. The samsung ROM is good enough (android 6.0.1) I am very unaure on the process though & I dont want my old phone to get bricked so I'd appreciage it if somebody helped me out here, thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Magisk is the root tool to use today.

Look for it on XDA.

Basic procedure:

Extract boot image from rom or phone

Install Magisk to phone.

Use magisk to patch boot image

Copy boot image to PC

Use PC to flash boot image to phone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

okay, exactly how should I flash that boot image to the phone? do I put it in download mode? & will this erase all the data?