xiaomi-jasmine-magisk-boot

Contains Magisk v16.0 patched boot.img for Xiaomi Mi A2 (Jasmine), from build number OPM1.171019.011.V9.6.5.0.ODIMIFE. All boot images are located within the build number directory.

The original boot image is named boot.img, and the Magisk patched boot image is named patch_boot.img.

How to flash the patched boot.img to get Magisk (and root)

If you are already familiar with fastboot and the commands in general, simply go to Fastboot flash to check out the flashing commands.

You will need fastboot command to perform the flash.

Restart into fastboot via button presses

Simply reboot the phone. Hold down the Volume Down button just at the instance when the phone turns dark to start the boot sequence. The phone should instead boot into fastboot mode.

Restart into fastboot via ADB

You will need the adb command.

Below assumes Linux bash environment with both commands located in PATH, and the phone should have already been connected to the machine.

If the phone is already booted into Android, you can go into:

Settings > System > About phone

and scroll down all the way, and keep tapping on Build number, to enable Developer options.

Now go back one screen and enter into Developer options, and enable Android debugging to allow the machine to send commands to the phone via adb.

Once done, go to the phone and accept the host key. Then go back to the machine and in bash run

adb devices

to make sure that the phone is being correctly detected.

To reboot into fastboot mode, run

adb reboot bootloader

Fastboot flash

In fastboot mode, run

fastboot devices

and make sure the phone is being correctly detected.

To flash the patched boot image to install Magisk, run

fastboot flash boot_a patched_boot.img
fastboot flash boot_b patched_boot.img

Note that this is a destructive action and may cause bootloop if the build number of your current build is different, so make sure that the build numbers on the phone and the directory name match.

Reboot the phone with the following command

fastboot reboot

The phone should hopefully reboot back into the Android OS successfully.

Now you should have the Magisk v16.0 installed, which means your phone can now perform root operations.

Acknowledgement

The payload.bin file was extract from the OTA dump zip file in https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-a2/how-to/ota-v9-6-5-0-odimife-t3823445.

The original boot.img is then extracted from the above payload.bin using extract_android_ota_payload.