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• cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And to install a custom ROM you need to unlock your boot loader and root it anyways. Do custom roms even come with a non-root option? I haven’t done it in years.

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You don’t have to root to install custom ROM

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  • DesolateMood@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Grapheneos doesn’t require root before install or allow root after install

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  • Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You… Dont need to root your device to install a custom rom? You can very well unlock your device, flash a custom rom, and use it unrooted. Nowadays quite a lot of custom rom come with a kernel prepatched for KSU, but that’s obviously not a requirement…

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    • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Bruh, last device I rooted and unlocked was in like 2015. Lost the need to do it.

      Back then though, I’d never heard of a custom ROM that doesn’t have root enabled by default. Is that where we are at now?

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      • Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I still custom rom my devices to get rid of applications I don’t need. Plus root is useful for automatizing the updating of my apps from third party stores ; but Shizuku exists so that’s not the only way to do it.

        But yeah, nowaydays you need usually to flash magisk to have root, or to use a kernel compiled with support for KSU.

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