Now you can root Honor View 10 by using latest Magisk Manager. It is based on Android 8.0 Oreo. This is possible due to all developmental work by XDA developer topjohnwu. Those who like to tinker with under the hood stuff and want to explore the scope of Android, this post is for you. Rooting provides the superuser access to a user and enables installing custom ROMs, flash TWRP. The Honor View 10 comes with support for project Treble. According to the developer, the device has a kernel partition, a ramdisk partition, and a recovery_ramdisk partition. Both boot and recovery share the same kernel, but with separate ramdisks on separate partitions. Since Magisk modifies the ramdisk in boot images, the patches will have to be applied to the ramdisk partition. He also suggests this should also work on Huawei Mate 10(Pro) since these devices are very similar.
Huawei Honor View 10 is a dual SIM smartphone launched in November 2017. The phone comes with a 5.99-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1080 pixels by 2160 pixels. It runs on 1.8 GHz octa-core Huawei Kirin 970 processor and 6 GB of RAM. It comes with Android 8.0 Oreo out-of-the-box. This device packs a 128 GB of expandable internal storage. Honor View 10 brings a 16-megapixel primary camera on the rear and a 13-megapixel camera on the front.
Below we have given the download link to get the latest Magisk, Honor View 10 image file etc. We will also use the ADB fastboot method. To root Honor View 10 using Magisk First, we will patch the stock ramdisk image. Then we will flash the patched ramdisk using fastboot. Check out the steps in details below
Download Latest Magisk Manager to Root Honor View 10
Here is the link to grab the latest magisk manager along with other required image files and ADB fastboot files.
How To Root Honor View 10 Using Latest Magisk
Before moving ahead to the rooting process, follow these,
Pre-Requisites
- Ensure your device has 70-80 % of battery charge.
- This process and tools are exclusive to root Honor View 10. Don’t use them on other devices.
- Install USB drivers for your device.
- You have to install ADB Fastboot on your phone.
- Take a backup of your phone’s data.
- GetDroidTips will not be responsible if your device bricks or any damage happens during this process.
Steps To Root Honor View 10
Like we said above we will first patch the stock ramdisk image.
Step-1 Download and Install the Latest Magisk manager from the above link.
Step-2 Open Magisk > Settings > Update Channel > Tap on Custom
Step-3 Then insert the following custom URL, https://goo.gl/jefZKH
Step-4 Next you will be prompted to install boot image file via Magisk
Step-5 Since these devices no such boot image file, you have to patch the stock ramdisk.img.
Step-6 Go to the storage and select the BKL-L09_ramdisk.img file.
Step-7 You can locate the “patched_boot.img” to /sdcard/MagiskManager/
Step-8 Now we will flash the patched ramdisk using ADB fastboot.
Step-9 here first we will move the patched image file to the ADB folder.
Step-10 In the white space Hold Shift Key + right click to open the command prompt.
Step-11 Now enter your device into Fastboot mode by long pressing the Volume Down + Power button
Step-12 Connect your device to the PC.
Step-13 Finally, enter the following command. This will root Honor View 10
fastboot flash ramdisk patched_boot.img
Step-14 In the very final step, reboot your device using the fastboot command.
fastboot reboot
So, that’s all you have to do. Now you have successfully rooted Huawei Honor View 10 using Magisk. Follow the steps carefully.If you have any queries do let us know in the comments section.
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