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).

Here are the steps to root the Titan 2. Keep in mind that I used Linux, where adb and fastboot are pretty-much preinstalled. You might need to get those (and some ADB and fastboot drivers) if you’re running Windows.

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. 🙂

I will probably update this post with further useful instructions, if neccessary.