The Samsung Galaxy S10 / S10e / S10 + (Exynos) can now be rooted with the Magisk Canary version

The Samsung Galaxy S10 range represents the best of all the technologies that Samsung can provide to its consumers. If you are currently looking for a premium smartphone, the Galaxy S10 and its siblings will feature in your list of likely purchase options. Now, you'd be happy to know that XDA Recognized Developer has managed to get the root on the Samsung Galaxy S10, S10 + and S10e based on Exynos and has released an installation guide that uses a version of Magisk by Canary.

Before you start, it is important to know that even if he has done his best to make the procedure as user friendly as possible, the learning curve is still long. As such, if you have never installed a device before, or if you have difficulty following the instructions in the order listed, not recommended that you were trying this on your brand new S10. The process has many small complexities that, if you make a mistake, will tinker with your device. The developer has created a separate installation guide for these new Samsung devices launched with Android Pie, that is to say the Galaxy S10 / S10 + / S10e and the Galaxy A50 in particular. Other Galaxy A series devices have also been launched with Android Pie – we do not know yet if the game instructions differ for them.

The installation of Magisk to root the S10 will trigger the Knox trigger, as expected. You also need an unlocked boot loader (which in turn launches a data erase), and installing magisk for the first time also requires a complete data erasure. Unlocking the bootloader on these new Samsung devices is also a different process because Samsung has introduced a "VaultKeeper" service that tries torelocate"The boot loader once the data is erased. After you have "unlocked the boot loader", you must boot the device, perform the initial setup (you can skip several steps as you will still clear), and check again if the unlock option of the start up exists.

Installing Magisk involves downloading the firmware from your device, extracting its AP tar file and fixing it with Magisk on your phone, then flashing the tar file patched as AP in Odin on your computer. There are more details that you need to keep in mind and follow, so that the complete set of instructions is purposely omitted from the scope of this article. Please read the developer's installation instructions in full for more information.

There are also technical aspects involved after installing Magisk. To boot to a system on which Magisk is installed, you must start recovery every time. And since the recovery also exists in the same partition as Magisk, the phone decides the boot method based on how long you press the volume. Topjohnwu summarized this post-Magisk scenario as follows:

• (Normal power up) → (System without Magisk)
• (Power + Bixby + Volume Up) → (boot loader warning) → (release all buttons) → (system with Magisk)
• (Power + Bixby + Volume Up) → (Boot Loader Warning) → (Maintain High Volume) → (Actual Recovery)

As for the Magisk upgrade, you can upgrade Magisk directly in Magisk Manager. But to upgrade your device, you can not flash the original .tar tar file and you would need to pre-patch the firmware before flashing Odin.

If you are looking for more technical details about the process, the developer has created a separate thread.

This new version of Magisk Canary also adds support for Android Q Beta 2.

Root the Samsung Galaxy S10 with Magisk