Recently, Xiaomi added two new phones to the POCO series of mid-range phones, the POCO F4 and the POCO X4 GT. Both the F series and also the X series by Xiaomi are famous chains of users globally because they offer very excellent specifications for the low price compared to other Android phones in the same price category. So, if you happened to buy a POCO F4 recently and the general Android tweaks and customization options are not enough for you, then I am happy to tell you that you can now root your POCO F4 with an explanation of how to unlock the boulder now by following some instructions Detailed pictures supported below.
Root Poco F4
If you don't know, the POCO F4 is the new and upgraded version of the POCO F3 that was announced last year, but with a new design and of course better hardware. Several years ago now, the phones of the Chinese company, Xiaomi, were distinguished by the ease of modification and customization, and bypassing the factory lock, to go beyond just changing a wallpaper, launcher, or new icon set, so that it became just a mention of the possibility of rooting and installing an advanced recovery or even changing the official ROM, immediately the answer would be a phone from Xiaomi company.
Steps to “Unlock Bootloader”
If you want to enter this wonderful world, you will need first of all to bypass the system lock set by the company on the phone, which is called the Bootloader, a lock whose only task is to “prevent you from tampering” with anything from the system that you are not supposed to change! These things include installing custom recovery, flashing custom ROMs, etc. Fortunately, the process of unlocking the bootloader on all Xiaomi phones is identical in steps, yes the process is not easy but it is nevertheless possible.
So, what we're going to do first here is we're going to unlock this lock, and here's how to do it in detail:
- Backup all your content on your device.
- Download and install the Xiaomi drivers on your desktop device ( direct link) .
- Download and install Mi Unlock on your desktop device ( direct link ).
- Download and install Platform Tools on your desktop device ( direct link ).
- On your phone, go to Settings and sign in to your Xiaomi account.
- Wait for 7 days. And if you've been logged in for more than a while, just skip this step.
- Again open Settings > Mi Account > activate 'Sync' & 'Find Device' options.
- Back in Settings > Then About Phone > and keep tapping on the MIUI version until it says “You are now a programmer.”
- Go back to Settings > Additional Settings > Developer Options.
- In Programmer Options, enable OEM and Debugging options.
- Connect your phone to the Internet.
- In the programmer options, in Settings, go to Mi Unlock Status and make sure it is linked to your Xiaomi account.
- Reboot your phone into Fastboot mode:
- turn off the phone
- Hold down the Volume Down + Power buttons
- Release the buttons when you see the Xiaomi rabbit logo
- Connect your phone to your computer and open Mi Unlock tool and sign in to your Xiaomi account.
- The tool will recognize your phone, after that click on the ' Unlock Now ' button.
- Now the tool will start to unlock the bootloader, knowing that during the process the phone will be reset to factory settings.
Necessary requirements
Have you finished the steps to unlock the bootloader mentioned above? Well, before you actually start the steps of rooting, there are some necessary things that must be provided first and they are as follows:
- Make sure the builder is unlocked.
- Again, back up the phone's contents.
- Download Magisk App ( Direct Link ).
- Install Platform Tools.
- Download the official ROM for your phone (same as the current version).
- Go to phone settings > About phone
- From the top options, download the latest official ROM for your phone
- After the download is finished, you will find the ROM file, the internal memory > the folder downloaded_rom
Steps to root the POCO F4 phone
- After downloading the official ROM for Poco F4, extract its contents on the computer and search for the boot.Image file in the extracted files from the ROM.
- Move the boot.Image file from the previous step to the phone's memory (internal/external).
- Download the latest version of Magisk.APK from above and install it on the phone.
- From the mobile apps, head over to the Magisk Manager app and launch it.
- From within Majestic, click on the Install button.
- Now click on the Select and Patch File option.
- Now browse the phone memory files to the boot.img file that you moved to the phone memory in the first step and select it.
- Once you have selected the bot file, click on the Let's Go button , which you will find in the left corner at the top of the screen.
- Now the process of modifying the official boot image file takes a few seconds, wait.
- Once you have completed the previous steps, you should now have a new file in the Downloads folder on the phone called magisk patched.img , and in the next steps we will use this file to finally root the phone.
Flash the magisk patched.img file
- Go to the Downloads folder on the phone and find the magisk patched.img file and move it to the platform-tools folder on the computer.
- Now, inside the same folder, type CMD in the address field above and hit Enter - this step will launch the black command window on Windows.
- Now in the command window, type the following command to reboot the phone into Bootloader mode ( you can copy this command with your mouse ):
adb reboot bootloader - Now the phone will reboot into Fastboot mode, and it will be as follows:
- Finally, in the next step, type the following command to start flashing the boot.img file modified by Magisk:
fastboot flash boot magisk_patched.img - Now you are done with the rooting process, you just need to reboot the phone back into the system by typing the following command:
fastboot reboot
Beyond Root!
Only now you can use Magisk Manager to try the best Magisk models/extensions and get all root powers of the apps you need, and you can make sure that you have rooted by using Root Checker app. Now you should also read about the 50 most powerful applications that you can use on the phone after root as well as the best post-root applications and also do not forget to visit the topic of some necessary things to do after root and also the 15 best applications after root.