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TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unlocking bootloader/flashing isn’t so easy for most people. I root every device I get, but for normal users this process isn’t easy. Also some manufacturers aren’t so friendly towards people unlocking bootloaders. I remember Sony lowering camera quality when you unlocked/installed Cyanogenmod back in Z2 times, or more recently Asus preventing you from unlocking completely.

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  • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Eupean banking apps refuse to launch on unlocked phones. And you need said banking apps as mandatory 2fa to log into your online banking system.

    So in EU you gotta choose between banking and rooting.

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    • ISOmorph@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t throw in all of europe into one pot. The banks in my country still sell separate PIN machines for 2FA, which work great.

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      • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh right, I completely forgot about the separate device that you have to plug into your computer and then also plug your card into the deviceand then enter your pin. It’s almost as convenient as having the phone app!

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    • kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Denylist in magisk works for me in eu

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      • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Didn’t work for me on a Samsung S6 or S10. Maybe I will try again some day but for now it’s not worth the risk of never being able to go back, thanks to the Samsung physical one-time fuse.

        My next phone should be a Pixel with Graphene…

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    • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Depends on the bank. Mine (BoursoBank) works on a rooted Lineage phone. I only had to add it to Magisk’s exclusion list.

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      • Grippler@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I only had to add it to Magisk’s exclusion list.

        Yeah you needed to install a program specifically to trick the banking app in to thinking it’s running on a unrooted device, because it otherwise won’t launch (because it’s rooted).

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    • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The apps my bank uses run perfectly well on graphene

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      • progandy@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Which is only available for a limited set of devices, does not have root, locks the bootloader again and is probably professional enough to get banks to approve their signing key.

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      • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        ❤️

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, the bootloader really seems like a challenge. ADB fortunately is extremely easy, especially if you use a tool like App Manager from F-Droid to correspond package names to specific applications.

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  • technohacker@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Add HMD Nokia to the blocking unlocks completely camp

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