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yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks agoDon’t say that on XDA. Half the people there will say you don’t actually need root to do what you want and the other half will demand you justify why you need root before they even entertain the idea that having full privileges on your own fucking hardware is a valid desire.
Eagle0110@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
XDA is dead, and you just described one of the symptoms of a forum being dead.
That said there are still a small amount of people posting detailed posts for rooting Xperia phones, for how to flash OS updates with unlocked bootloader without losing your user data, for how to bypass carrier restrictions to get international model to work with the 5G bands in the US via build.conf edit and baseband flashing, etc. There are perks of a community being small and niche, and I guess not everyone is brained washed by Samsung’s propaganda they use to justify permanently locked bootloader on their phones lol