Rooting the Unihertz Titan 2 and installing Magisk

Today I finally received my Unihertz Titan 2 and the first thing I naturally do on a new Android phone is to root it, so I can install a system-wide adblocker (thank you, AdAway) and YouTube ReVanced (because I hate ads, shorts and other bullshit on that enshittified platform).

Notes for Windows users:

You will need adb, fastboot and the MTK USB Drivers (without the drivers, fastboot will not be able to find the device).

The easiest way to get those tools is probably to first install ADB & Fastboot++. Just fetch the .msi file and install it. Afterwards, get the MTK Auto Driver Installer v5.1632.00.zip and install it using the DriverInstall.exe included in the .zip file.

Here are the steps to root the Titan 2:

1. Enable the Developer Options (tap on the build number in “About the phone” a few times).
2. Go to Settings -> System -> Developer Options and enable USB Debugging as well as OEM Unlock.
3. Get the Magisk.apk and install it.
4. Get the latest firmware and extract the init_boot.img from it.
5. Copy the init_boot.img to the phone, run Magisk, patch it and then copy the patched image back to your PC (it’s called something like magisk_patched-29000_xxxxx.img)
6. Run

   adb reboot bootloader

   on your PC.

7. Wait for a little bit and then run

   fastboot flashing unlock

   and Press Vol Down on the phone to accept it.

8. Now flash the patched boot image with

   fastboot --slot all flash init_boot magisk_patched-29000_xxxxx.img

9. Run

   fastboot reboot

   and you have a rooted device with Magisk. 🙂

Update to a new firmware version

When Unihertz releases a new firmware, the inbuilt updater (under Settings -> About the Phone -> System Update) will indeed tell you that there is an update, but trying to install it will not work – it only displays the loading bar for a bit and then jumps back to the initial screen.

This happens because of the patched init_boot.img. You will have to flash the stock init_boot.img back, reboot and then run the update.

Check the updater for the version you are currently running on the phone – in this case, it is EEA 20250902:

Download the firmware that starts with this date from here, extract the stock init_boot.img from it and flash it:

adb reboot bootloader 
fastboot --slot all flash init_boot init_boot.img  
fastboot reboot

Now you can do the update. Afterwards, reinstall Magisk with the same steps as before (make sure to patch the init_boot.img for the new firmware version you installed).

If the inbuilt updater cannot find any new updates but you are sure a new one has definitely been released, download its OTA package from here and install it using the “Local Updates” function of the update tool.