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0 pointsDylan168075y ago0 comments

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.

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nobody99995y 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/

Dylan16807OP5y 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?

nobody99995y 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?

That's dependent on which phone you have and what software you have on that phone.

Here's a few places to start:

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=root%20android%20phone

nobody99995y ago

I'd add that there's a wealth of information (and not just about rooting/unlocking bootloaders) about Android tools, software, development and phone capabilities here:

https://www.xda-developers.com/

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nobody99995y 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/

Dylan16807OP5y 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?

nobody99995y 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?

That's dependent on which phone you have and what software you have on that phone.

Here's a few places to start:

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=root%20android%20phone

nobody99995y ago

I'd add that there's a wealth of information (and not just about rooting/unlocking bootloaders) about Android tools, software, development and phone capabilities here:

https://www.xda-developers.com/

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