How to Check if VBMETA has Verity and Verification Disabled

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Video Description
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There are some Android mods that require you to first disable Verity and Verification before they can be installed. I know that before you can install a popular custom kernel on the newer Google Pixel phones, you must first disable those two flags for the vbmeta.img file.

And if you’re going from a device that has these two flags enabled to a disabled state, then you must do a factory data reset before booting back into Android.

I know some people are eager to disable Verity and Verification when they first unlock the bootloader, since both require you to wipe the phone clean afterwards. But others may not remember if they have disabled these on their device.

And sadly, we can’t just look for an option in the Settings app to see if they have been disabled.

So in today’s video, I wanted to highlight a Magisk Module from Android community developer capntrips that will tell you whether or not Verity and Verification has been disabled on your device. Since this requires a Magisk Module in order for the commands to work, naturally you must have root access with Magisk in order for this to work.

To begin, we first need to download the abvctl Magisk Module. I will be including a direct link to download the same version of the module I’m using in the video description below. You will also be able to find the GitHub link for this project down there as well.

Once downloaded, we need to then install the module on our phone. This is done by tapping the Modules tab at the bottom of the Magisk application and then installing the ZIP file from our local storage.

After the module has been installed, we will then need to reboot the smartphone or tablet in order for it to be activated.

Now that the phone has been rebooted, we will either need to install a Terminal application, like Termux, or we will need to open up a terminal window on our PC that is in the same folder as our ADB and Fastboot tools. If we go with the PC route like I’ll be doing in this video, we also need to have USB Debugging Mode enabled as well. If you choose to do this from the PC, you will also need to drop into an ADB Shell before these commands will work.

I’ll be doing this directly from the device since it seems to be the easiest method.

So after opening up the Termux application, we then need to get superuser rights by executing the su command. You should then get a prompt asking if you want to grant root access to the Termux application. This is required in order for these commands to work so let’s go ahead and allow root access here.

Now the first command we’ll be executing is…
avbctl get-verity

This will tell us is Verity has been disabled or not.

The second command we’ll need to type out is…
avbctl get-verification

And this will tell us if Verification has been disabled or not.

We can now see that I have not disabled either Verity or Verification on this device. So I will need to do that before I can install any Android modifications that require those to be disabled.

This is a useful little Magisk Module that can help us to figure out if those flags have been disabled or not. Which can save us a lot of time if we end up forgetting whether or not that has been done previously.

Mentioned Links
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avbctl Magisk Module Download –
avbctl GitHub Project –

Step by Step Tutorial
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