How to Root the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro!

If you want to root your Pixel 6 or 6 Pro device, THIS is the video for you!
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Magisk Canary (Android 12 Support) - www.xda-developers.com/magisk...
DM Verity Command (ensure you have placed vbmeta.img file in platform-tools folder):
./fastboot flash --disable-verity --disable-verification vbmeta vbmeta.img
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[@allenevan9287]

Finally sam back to his basic.... welcome back to android world men.... excellent video

[@GraemeGunn]

Really? You're ok with how you typed all that? It appears that you can surf, but you can't spell/speak properly? Why don't people care about this?

[@jahidhasan8908]

@@GraemeGunn Can you kindly show us the mistakes ? We actually want to learn grammar.

[@xp3895]

@@jahidhasan8908 yeah

[@emperornephew6487]

@@GraemeGunn spell, he's not speaking.

[@EvanKGuitarEKGuitareislife]

@@GraemeGunn Bro calm down, you're way too aggressive for nothing

[@ProjectsbyBrian]

Hey I just wanted to say a huge thanks for making this video. It gave me the confidence to root my Pixel 6 Pro. It's also really good to see high quality channels like yourself dive into the "enthusiast" market with videos like these.

[@michelksuthosa]

do u now how i update now my rooted pixel 6? January update is out...need some help plllss :)

[@ish.3734]

Love your videos, man!

[@_mr.__phoenix8884]

Noice.... Keep em content comin... Much Love❣️❣️

[@rarehex]

Need your review ASAP! Great video as always brotha

[@420jamu]

Great, very informative. Thank you, it worked!

[@SoCalRhetor]

Thanks for showing folks how to approach this with a Mac. Much appreciated.

[@6yphon]

Your videos are so consistently good wtf

[@6StringPassion.]

@Sam Beckman Great work! Lots of detail. Is that a Maton 808 hanging on your wall?

[@Therr2137]

Worked as shown in video with Pixel 6 pro. Thank you very much

[@sean_rodean]

Good to see that it's so easy to unlock Pixel's bootloader. Unlocking a Xiaomi phone's bootloader is a pain.

[@hoonetic]

I haven't rooted in years, but I might have to try this on my P6P. It seems that rooting is still somewhat the same after all these years. :)

[@clarkcant]

This made me feel really nostalgic. Might just root my OnePlus 8T

[@lighthouse2000ify]

I've been using Nova launcher on my pixel 6. They finally updated it to work with the gesture navigation. I'm liking it so far😊

[@Lansky1213]

Yup me too. Works almost perfect. Just the animations are not as smooth even going back to the home screen from a opened app. But still pretty good

[@vedaryan334]

Correction: Nobody did anything tbh. It was never Nova's fault for the third party gesture thing. It was Google's fault. And they had updated nova for the new animation for home months ago

[@malekqaddarah]

I have nova launcher on a Xiaomi device. How do i use gestures?

[@jerrriell]

@@malekqaddarah root your device and flash an AOSP rom

[@im4ch3t3dimachete5]

Great video 👍

[@kingstonrock2465]

Good old days hard to find such videos these days

[@paspeedtestingadventures7503]

Warning don’t try this on December update, google patched something and it doesn’t work.

[@pranavdupati9164]

This video made me enter into the beautiful rooting community. Rooted all my Pixels, Pixel 6, 7 and 8!

[@DanielCardenas23]

Hi long time android user here. I plan to upgrade my Samsung s9 to a pixel 6. I'm so glad rooting is this simple for the pixel 6. I remember rooting my T-Mobile G1. Man how time flies. I missed having a rooted device. Samsung makes it impossible to root their phones.

[@SoCalRhetor]

Followed this on my Mac and it worked exactly as described. Thanks. Question, though: no Magisk modules are available in the app. Do we need to hunt these down on xda?

[@dafyddr8678]

Good project to do this weekend. Will I be able to use my banking apps ? or is that too risky now ? Cheers in advnace mate.

[@einturkey]

Amazing! Quick question, does the rooted version of the pixel 6 enable Miracast?

[@techwithizzy]

Very interesting 💥 hope to root my one too 👀🤘

[@shivamkadbhane5856]

Thanks for this kind of content. Love it ❤️

[@hummuslord6521]

would be awesome to have a vid showing how to OTA update on pixels while keeping root, your videos are phenomenal man. Thank you for the knowledge :)

[@nottsoserious]

There's an easy method: go to magisk and restore images. Then you can download the OTA update but don't restart for install yet. Go back to magisk, install to inactive slot, and then restart to install the update.

[@musibs]

Thank you for this video I'm subscribing but I was wondering were you able to install a twrp recovery On this phone ?

[@mahmodblack]

First of all thanks for the great work Second i do want to root but lot of stuff stop working so is there anything i can do to make it work Like banking apps and other root blocked apps

[@aqibnawaz8158]

Very nice ❤️

[@venon666]

great video

[@86kid.]

Thanks mate

[@anthonywilliams9415]

Haven't rooted a phone since the good old days of the Nexus 4. Using the Nexus root tool kit

[@whitefang1381]

I feel like there are only few channels that creates quality vedeos on root and costamisation ....and this channel never disappoints😍😍😍

[@JustinMumma]

Very nice video thanks, maybe next time mention to start the downloads at start of video

[@Ottotroph]

Would you recommend rooting this devices for remote control purposes? I have family with severe parkinsons I'm look to give a him a rooted phone that I could use to play music and tv for him. I'm also wondering what apps to look into, maybe they don't need root at all. TIA

[@trtertretererterterter510]

Cheers mate followed ur guide and it worked. One thing I noticed on magisk the modules should load up in a list but the modules don't download so I can see them. But luckily I already had the module files on my previous phone and just copied them over and installed from storage did you notice this.

[@trtertretererterterter510]

Fixed the module issue. It was because of the canary magisk app. After I used ur canary app to mod the boot file and all that when the phone running I then get magisk to download the stable version of the app then I uninstall the app then I go to file a manger downloads and install the app. And the modules now load.

[@michelksuthosa]

@@trtertretererterterter510 do u know how i can update my rooted pixel 6 to the new january update?

[@scottmumford8295]

As of this typing, I had to use Magisk 24.3 to root my Pixel 6. The Canary build would only open to a black screen. And I had to do a factory reset, despite first rebooting back to the bootloader first (as suggested in the comments).

[@sumirandahal76]

Do you still get updates from Google after unlocking bootloader and rooting with Magisk ??, If so then what would happened if you update OTA with Magisk installed ?

[@teodortoshev8386]

Hey, I go the same boot loop...But unfortunatly my recovery does not boot into fastboot mode. Tried to flash the init_boot.img to revert to boot, but still stuck in bootloader, any ideas?

[@benjaminracchi]

This method will allow you to install OTA updates? Can I follow this same method on my Pixel 4a?

[@terencemayans8222]

Make the Lawnchair Setup videos.

[@reviloje8443]

How did you get that android recovery menu in the last step? I am also boot looping, but I didn't get that. Please help! Thank you.

[@dxsp1d3r]

Very difficult to see the screen of your computer even in 4K. Can you root the pixel with the latest applied patches ?

[@thatslimguy]

Is it possible to do this at all now without a wipe ? Or no matter what you need to do a full wipe ?

[@graphic9876]

What about OTA after this? Will that work or no updates after root?

[@KingGeneral21]

Great stuff! Would you pick the pixel over Xiaomi mi 11?

[@anhourofmusic9988]

For rooting, probably yes, because Xiaomi doesn't make the rooting process easy

[@armand631]

I just want to add that when I did this today, I came across an issue where even a factory reset didn't fix the bootloop. Turns out the reason was because I had downloaded the wrong version of the Pixel 6 Pro image. Because google pulled the December 2021 update from the images page, but my Pixel shipped with it, I downloaded and tried to flash the October update. This meant my boot image was incompatible, and recovering involved flashing the entire software image from October and starting again.

[@michelksuthosa]

do u know how i can update my rooted pixel 6 to the new january update?

[@armand631]

@@michelksuthosa Not sure as I have not tried yet

[@martinhenry6478]

I did the same, flashed wrong image and now i can't figure out how to flash the right one as my phone can only go to fastboot or recovery mode

[@martinhenry6478]

Got it

[@kingkona5270]

@@martinhenry6478 what did you do im stuggling with that now

[@kaxxxxx]

Hope you can upload one for the pixel 7 soon

[@Deathsead747]

The reason why I love android, the level of control and the fact that devs allow you to truly make the device, yours. Even though after switching to the OP8 Pro, I really haven't had the need to root my device like back in the day, I do seriously miss it. The plethora of ROM choices, the advanced levels of Substratum customization, Xposed modules, Audio engines. However, I've had my fair share of headaches and unstable roms over the course of the last decade but I can't deny your video has reignited the itch! Why you do this to me Sam! P.S your videos are on a whole other level

[@jackygrush]

Hey mate, kiwi here, sadly VoLTE and 5g, despite being supported by both the pixel 6 and our local network carriers, is not available here on the pixel 6s as its locked by google. I was wondering whether you knew how to unlock this by rooting the phone and if you could do a vid on that or direct me to one that shows it? Cheers Brother

[@MrMajikall]

Does this allow miracast capability to firestick? Huge feature I'm gutted is not on my P6P and not mentioned when getting this over ssmsung

[@ernyrsg]

Hi Sam. I've been a Nova Launcher user for ages. Does it work with Quick Switch? Thank you.

[@not_ayan]

Nope

[@blaster915]

Can't wait to Root my Phone to make sure I can NOT see any adverts on my phone!! 🥳🥳🥳

[@vinotux]

What do you use?

[@blaster915]

@@vinotux pixel 4 but going to buy a pixel 6 Pro and root following this.

[@vinotux]

@@blaster915 no, I meant which magisk module?

[@mayumi1603]

@@vinotux I woud like to know as well :)

[@WeldonWen]

Successfully root my Pixel 6a running Android 13. Encountered some problems in the process: 1. At 4:38, be sure OEM unlocking is enabled under Developer options, otherwise you'll get "flashing unlock is not allowed" error. 2. If you don't see the Magisk icon at 9:43, simply download the apk from online again.

[@skinkvilevergarden4842]

Hello.my google pixel 6 is always rebooting, I did everything as per the video about the problem is the same as the author of the video, but I can't get out of the reboot cycle. Please help me

[@KarnikDew]

Just bought a Pixel 6 Pro and like always i wanted to unlock Bootloader and root when i have the least amount of data saved... So I just wanted to know if I'll have to re-root my pixel everytime I get an OTA? (I came from a OnePlus 5T) and is there a way to hide the splash screen from showing the Bootloader unlocked warning?

[@HafidzJaisy]

then, how to update the android version? manually flash the .img again? or can we install the twrp to the pixel phone?

[@daridima2]

but excuse me, when in a month there will be the new update, if I install it I would have to reboot the boot.img modified by magisk to solve it afterwards, and this would not be a problem. But again though it will ask me to restore to factory data? because saving the data every time is impossible

[@CatOfCulture]

Please make a video on rooting xiaomi phones!

[@joshua7551]

In case anyone thinks that rooting is the only way to get rid of the launcher , Nova and other launchers are able to replace your home screen and add customization without root

[@sino7282]

You're such a great teacher

[@musibs]

Sam will this work with the 6a?

[@topi2425]

Great tutorial! Since the Magisk Hide feature is removed, I can't hide that my phone is rooted to certain apps... do you have any solutiond about this?

[@mayumi1603]

Just configure the deny list. It essentially does the same thing. It actually "unroots" your phone when it has to deal with certain apps that you add to the list. Works great for me (though I haven't tested it on my P6 yet!).

[@maccrutzen8511]

This method doesn't work anymore with the pixel 7 pro. Play services gets unhides it self in the magiks app after a reboot. Will there be a updated version for Android 13?

[@Asian_paper]

Hey sam, i recently followed your video "How to Root the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro!" I gotten into the bootloop issue and it didn't say how to resolve it, would you mind helping me?

[@kdt85]

so, can we still use banking apps with this? sorry i missed it

[@joseterrazas9027]

Is there a new video of this? I have a Android 13 version (Pixel 6)... And I dont know if is the same process

[@Vixen5290_]

is it normal to be on a screen with the google logo and a loading bar after flashing? should I be worried?

[@jackyvivid]

Truly a dream phone

[@anasalias5493]

Review the full lawnchair launcher and homescreen setup please!!

[@kabapkazserem_]

Thank you do much 😍 but i have a in magisk i dont have any module :c how to fix that

[@jibril222]

Can rooting enable 5g in unsupported countries, can you please help

[@Mouwcat]

when doing the flashing unlock command step my phone does not give the option to unlock bootloader only to restart bootloader is this accepatble?

[@ca7986]

Do we receive updates after rooting?

[@adelessa3434]

I need to learn these thing its open another world ilike the idea of being the one who control the device

[@jaydenmayburyy6152]

my command prompt when i put fastboot flashingunlock just says < waiting for any device >

[@vuze1887]

when i flash the patched magisk it over ill get a bootloop so i tried temporialy flashing with fastboot boot "boot file" but it didnt work so i reversed the changes i dont know what was going wrong there. The first time i rooted my phone same thing happened but factory reseting makes it and the root work and i didnt had a problem with it bc it was new but on my current pixel 4a i dont want reset it again and it should work without it but it didnt. does someone know why flashing the file doesnt work? To name more details i also used the latest image since my phone is on the latest version

[@Soporonix]

this is my question, in my case it bootlooped because i assumed the top img was the latest (it's actually at the bottom) and when I tried to do it with the updated one i got that corrupt screen which i just reloaded because i used the temp command and i got back to my (unrooted) factory rom

[@iamyotka]

How about Magisk Hide? Does Google Pay works well?

[@nikotin420]

why cant you just choose the launcher as standard launcher in the settings? that works for nova launcher as far as I know

[@jaydenrre]

Have you done an OTA update retaining root?

[@makisekurisu4674]

Bro, is the Magisk hide still there. I heard they were gonna remove it!

[@brandonnguyen1486]

Can you do a 8pro magisk video?

[@infinitepranav8396]

Sir, I want to ask you a solution. I have Redmi Note 10 Pro and it has not been working on kwgt widgets miui launcher since it got 12.5.9 update you told last video that please any solution 😇

[@velezdjsti]

I would like to know if this will enable the 5g network on my pixel 6? Since pixel 6 5g is not working here in Philippines. Thank you.

[@dmytropuyda9719]

Cannot decide whether to do it or not. I want it because I want to convert Japanese to Global. On one hand everything seems pretty simple, on the other hand you never know what can go wrong, I get scared when I read some comments from people who failed to do this...

[@felix6487]

I also used root and quick switch on a google pixel 4a now i am unrooted and its 10 time better my opinion😅

[@anonymitaet2853]

can you do a video how to update a rooted device??

[@SuperMax_____0.0_____]

According to my bank app Rooting is like being a terrorist...I think I need two drivers one rooted and one legal to have that bank shit

[@JohnOfAllTrades27]

I get fastboot error cannot determine image filename when trying to flash magisk img

[@jhevier]

Super eagerly waiting for your pixel 6 pro review. My buy depends upon your review

[@spravodlivykritik2439]

Do I still get security updates as normal if I root my phone?

[@kabapkazserem_]

I have a question can you make video how to update root magisk pixel via ota

[@JosiahJ]

Can we follow this method to root other pixel devices?

[@prostofm43]

people with the verizon version : *cries in oem unlocking greyed out*

[@TheGreatShorts]

A little nerd here but Can I get software updates after rooting my phone?

[@jacobborden3803]

Do you have a video on how to root a OnePlus 9??

[@michelksuthosa]

How do i update now my rooted pixel 6? January update is out...need some help plllss :)

[@mizarddo]

My problem is...when you install an update and need to flash a patched boot image again, is it going to act up and require another factory reset?? That would be terrible.

[@Fallen_Angels]

you can update your phone with android flash tool and uncheck factory reset.

[@mizarddo]

@@Fallen_Angels Well what I worry about is an "issue" upon the boot that forces you to factory reset, otherwise I can already flash the build with one line of command without wiping anything, no flash tool necessary.

[@Fallen_Angels]

@@mizarddo oh okay, well when I do it I just disable my modules, uninstall magysk then flash but whatever works for you.

[@DaytonBelAir]

hey i need some help.. my Pixel 7 pro is stuck at the fasstboot mode and says reason boot failure.. wen i select recovery mode it just brings me back to fastboot mode... the device is also not listet in cmd by adb devices. I hope somone can help me

[@kingkona5270]

how do you get to the recovery menu im stuck in a bootloop

[@btomek9126]

Excited to play with my new 6 Pro. Anyone use the tethering/hotspot hack on the 6 Pro?