After following this guide, you can also un-root your Xiaomi Mi A2 and install a modded GCam app, for example, and Camera2 API will still be enabled. Before you begin, there are a few things to be aware of. This method will not touch your /system partition, so you can continue to install OTAs (assuming you unroot or follow a rooted OTA update procedure). This method also does not require a modified boot partition, so you can keep your bootloader locked. The Camera2 API will still be enabled after OTA updates, best of all. This method however does require temporary root access – so if your Xiaomi Mi A2 is not rooted, you should see Appual’s root guide for this device. And if you do not follow our instructions exactly pertaining to the temporary unlock procedure, you can (and probably will) lose all of your data.
Requirements:
ADB and Fastboot (see Appual’s guide How to Install ADB on Windows)Patched_boot.img
First you need to enable Developer Options on your Xiaomi Mi A2 (Settings > System > About Phone > tap Build Number 7 times until Developer Mode is unlocked). Now go into Settings > Developer Options, and enable ADB (USB Debugging) and Bootloader Unlock. Now connect your Xiaomi Mi A2 to your PC via USB, and launch an ADB terminal (hold Shift + right click inside your main ADB folder, and select “Open a command window here”). In the ADB terminal, type ‘adb devices’. This will open a prompt on your device to accept the pairing between ADB and your phone, so confirm the pairing dialogue. Now turn off your device completely, and reboot it by holding Power + Volume Down, but do not release Volume Down key. This should boot your Xiaomi Mi A2 into Fastboot Mode, where we can continue to send ADB commands to the phone. In the ADB terminal, type: fastboot oem unlock Now copy the patched_boot.img to your main ADB folder on your PC, and type into ADB terminal: fastboot boot patched_boot.img Now reboot your Xiaomi Mi A2, and download Magisk Manager – you don’t need to install Magisk itself, just the Magisk Manager app. Now launch the ADB terminal on your PC again, and type: Now turn off your device again, then reboot into Fastboot Mode (Power + Volume Down while holding Volume Down continuously). Do not let go of the Volume Down button at any point – yes, you will need to type ADB commands with 1 hand. If you release the Volume Down button, your Xiaomi Mi A2 will perform a factory reset – your entire data partition will be erased. Then in the ADB terminal, type: fastboot oem lock This will re-lock your bootloader, of course. And then you can type: fastboot reboot Release the volume down button only after the phone starts to reboot into the Android system! Now you can install GCam with Camera2 API persistently enabled. In order to fix the front camera issue with modified GCam, just go into Gcam settings and enable “Camera.Enable_Hwhdr” from Developer Settings.
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