Easy Method To Root Moto G7 and G7 Plus Using Magisk [No TWRP needed]

Remember,

• After Rooting, it may void the warranty of your phone.
• Rooting will block the OTA updates

Before moving on to the flashing steps, you need to follow a few,

Pre-Requisites

• Make sure to have enough battery charge on your phone to avoid interruption during the patch installation.
• Before performing any modification take backup of your device data.
• This image file is strictly for Moto G7 and G7 Plus only. Do not use it on any other OnePlus or other Android devices.
• Download ADB and Fastboot files. (Windows/MAC)
• A PC/Laptop and a micro USB cable.
• Drop the Patched boot image file inside your ADB/Fastboot folder
• Install Motorola USB Drivers.

How To Install the Patched Boot Image on Moto G7 and G7 Plus

Assuming that you have used our above instruction and unlocked the bootloader, we will continue on flashing the patched boot image.

• First, let’s begin by booting our phone into fastboot mode.
• To boot into fastboot, press and hold the Power button + Volume  Down Keys for sometimes.
• Now connect your device to the PC/Laptop via USB cable.
• If you’ve not downloaded, download the patched image file and
• Move that file into the ADB folder on PC.
• While you are in the ADB folder, press right-click + shift key in the empty space. You will see the below dialog box popping up.
• Click on Open Powershell Window here. Basically, the command prompt opens up upon clicking.
• Now type the following command and press enter

  fastboot devices

• This command will return a device ID to confirm your device is connected properly.
• This is an important step. Type the exact command without quotes
• Below command, nameofimg is the file name of the patched boot image

  fastboot flash boot <filename>.img

• This will patch the Magisk ramdisk to your device and your phone will get rooted.
  

  Check if the device will boot as expected and take a look at the Magisk Manager APP to check if everything has succeeded.Sometimes this will not always work as expected. If your device stuck at the Android one screen try to flash the image directly (See next step)

• fastboot reboot

• When the phone got booted download magisk manager here and install it.
• Make sure you checked “Preserve force encryption” and “preserve AVB 2.0/dm-verity”.
• Click on Install and select Direct Install (Recommended)
• Wait till it’s installed and ask you to reboot your device, reboot it.

So, that’s it. Now that you have rooted your Moto G7 and G7 Plus, you can try this out. If you have any queries regarding this, do let us know.