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0 pointsnobody99995y ago0 comments

>I am not willing to root Android.

Why is that? I'm not being snarky, I just don't understand why.

The difference between a rooted and non-rooted android is like the being in the wheel group or sudoers file on unix/linux and not being in them.

Personally, I like to have full control of my own property.

What reason do you have for not wanting that?

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Dylan168075y ago

In theory it's nice, in practice are there phones that you can root without leaving the bootloader in a vulnerable state? And it looks like the future is a situation where it's impossible to prevent software from detecting unlocks and refusing to run.

nobody9999OP5y ago

>In theory it's nice, in practice are there phones that you can root without leaving the bootloader in a vulnerable state?

I've always just unlocked the bootloader, then installed TWRP[0] (or similar) and then re-locked the bootloader.

Once a reasonable recovery partition is in place, you don't need keep the bootloader unlocked.

[0] https://twrp.me/

Dylan168075y ago

And then how do you actually do the rooting in a way that doesn't make your phone fail to boot? What model of phone?

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Dylan168075y ago

nobody9999OP5y ago

>In theory it's nice, in practice are there phones that you can root without leaving the bootloader in a vulnerable state?

I've always just unlocked the bootloader, then installed TWRP[0] (or similar) and then re-locked the bootloader.

Once a reasonable recovery partition is in place, you don't need keep the bootloader unlocked.

[0] https://twrp.me/

Dylan168075y ago

And then how do you actually do the rooting in a way that doesn't make your phone fail to boot? What model of phone?

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