KernelSU – Root Your Phone Without MAGISK !

Are you using MAGISK to root your phone right now ? Here’s a kernel based root solution available for android devices which let’s you to root your phone without installing MAGISK.

We already know that MAGISK is the only available solution to root any android phone. When we install MAGISK on our device, this roots our whole system and for example if you just installed MAGISK for some MAGISK Modules and want to use banking apps at the same time, then you need to do some extra steps to hide the root for that banking app.

But with the KernelSU, there is a proper control on your apps, you can manage root access or super user permission for each and every app available on your phone. You don’t need to install MAGISK anymore on your phone, so that’s why it’s the easiest way to root your phone.

What is KernelSU or KSU?

Now, KernelSU as the name suggests is kernel based SU (super user permissions). This is a simple kernel based root solution for your android phone. No need to install MAGISK for rooting, this allows full control on root permissions on your phone.

How to install KernelSU?

KernelSU is a kernel based root solution so everything depends upon your kernel. Custom ROMS have custom kernels inbuilt and a lot of developers are now implementing KernelSU into their kernels and this allows full access to KernelSU.

KernelSU needs proper compilation into your phone’s kernel which can be done by you (if you know how to build a kernel etc.) or a developer can do this. You can check for KernelSU support for your device’s kernel by asking the developers in their telegram communities or you can checkout on your device’s main telegram channel where all the ROMS and kernels are released on regular basis ( Read the changelogs in the post).

How to install KernelSU On your phone?

If you got the kernel for your device which supports KernelSU, then follow the simple steps to install this on your phone.

• Download the kernel for your phone which has KernelSU Support. Also checkout if that kernel supports your stock rom or AOSP because for example if you are on MIUI ROM and the kernel doesn’t boots on MIUI then you have to change the ROM to AOSP or vice -versa.

• Now Go to your recovery and tap on backup option and select boot and dtbo partitions and rename it , and just swipe to take a backup. This will be the backup of the stock kernel of your current rom. Restore this if you are getting any issues after flashing the new kernel and reboot.
• Search for the downloaded kernel which supports KernelSU and tap on it, swipe to confirm flashing. This will take few seconds and after that you can reboot your phone.

Download KernelSU Apk

Now proper Kernel with KernelSU support is installed on your device. Let’s learn how to use this.

How to Use KernelSU?

Here’s how to use KernelSU on android phone.

• After installing KernelSU on your phone, just download the KernelSU APK from the links given below, install it on your phone.
• Open KernelSU app on your phone, on the top if it says Working with a tick then you have successfully installed the kernelSU on your phone.

Now this app allows you to manage the root access on your phone, Look here in the screen shot given below first is the default Home Screen of KernelSU where this will tell you about your modules, superusers, version, kernel name and SELinux status etc.

Now on the second page you can see superuser permissions menu where you can allow or deny superuser permission to each and every app available on your phone. If you want to control superuser permissions for system apps then click on 3-dot menu and just enable the option show system apps.

On the third page you can install MAGISK Modules on your phone just like MAGISK.
After flashing the module just reboot your phone.

Watch our video Guide on YouTube regarding KernelSU for more details.