It is indeed a risk AND you must pin your current OS version, so no new update including no new feature (not sure which one one would need for now though) but more importantly no security updates.
That being said… if you do not actively try to mess it up, i.e. doing precisely what has been warned against NOT doing, it should be safe.
In doubt, if you can’t afford another headset, have no actual need for rooting and have never done that before, definitely safer to wait.
LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Actually, those steps are the ones necessary to recover from a hard brick (re: the device is unusable because you did something you shouldn’t have as root).
The actual process to root the device is simply running a few
adbcommands (so a prereq is having Developer Mode enabled).Once you have ran the exploit, your root escalation is temporary until the device is rebooted or you take additional steps to persists your root privileges (thus, potentially leading you towards a hard brick).
source: The docs
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
I get that; the whole reason I want to root it is to FAFO tho. So I’ll wait until the worst I could do is need to factory reset it. lol