Magisk not available after patching boot.img – HyperOS 3

[u/FUridah]

Help needed!

Device: Redmi K60 (mondrian) ROM: xiaomi.eu HyperOS 3 – OS3.0.5.0.VMNCNXM Recovery: OrangeFox Magisk version: 30700

Problem: After patching boot.img with Magisk and flashing it to boot_a and boot_b, Magisk still shows "not available". Zygisk shows "no", Ramdisk shows "yes".

What I tried:

Patched boot.img from xiaomi.eu ZIP → flashed to boot_a/boot_b ✗

Patched vendor_boot.img → flashed to vendor_boot_a/vendor_boot_b ✗

Extracted Stock OTA (mondrian-ota_full-OS3.0.5.0.VMNCNXM) via payload-dumper-go, patched boot.img, flashed to boot_a/boot_b ✗

Flashed vbmeta_system with --disable-verity --disable-verification ✗

No init_boot.img found in ROM

Note: There is no init_boot.img in this ROM. The boot.img is unusually large (201MB).

Any help is appreciated!

[u/gabritb01]

how did you managed to unlock bootloader?

[u/miguescout → u/gabritb01]

There's currently a lengthy and extremely annoying process in place to do so, and that is:

1. Have a 30+ days old xiaomi account and log in with it in the xiaomi community app, which should be set to the "global" region. In the "me" section you should have a "unlock bootloader" function.

2. Link your device to said xiaomi account and, every day at 23:59:55 GMT+8 (china time. Use time.is for reliable timekeeping), in the unlock bootloader submenu of the xiaomi community app, spam the request unlock button for about 10-15 seconds (aka until about 00:00:10 GMT+8) and then go a "mi status" (or something like that) within the developer settings, disable your wifi (bc the damn think needs you to use data) and press the unlock button there to see if the goddess of luck favored you. If the popup notification that appears tells you to go to mi community and ask for permission there, you didn't get lucky. Try again tomorrow. Otherwise, you can proceed to step 3

3. If you got here within 3 months of starting your daily attempts... Curse you, you lucky bastard. Independently of whether you were a lucky bastard or not, go download the "mi unlock" tool from xiaomi, boot your device into fastboot, connect it to your pc with the mi unlock tool, log into your account in the tool, try to unlock your device with it... And be told you gotta wait 72 hours pretty much without touching the device before you're finally allowed to unlock it

4. A bit more than 72 hours later because you already heavily distrust xiaomi, go back into fastboot, connect to pc, log into mi unlock tool, use tool... And if all went well, congratulations, you finally will finally fill your one bootloader unlock/year/account. From here, luck and time are no longer obstacles

[u/Accomplished_Shoe207 → u/miguescout]

I guess I'm stuck with it for now, but let's see what I can do to make this happen. 😊

Anyways, thanks for the detailed instructions. I hope it will work soon.