First off, a disclaimer: I come from a long line of rooting android phones, from the Nexus of yore to Samsungs and the Axon 7, to now potentially rooting the OP7 Pro. I know what rooting does, I know I can change the ROM, and that will allow me to change the look etc etc. But is there really benefit outside of that anymore?
And what things will I lose by rooting? Will google pay still work? Etc.
I've been getting bored with the stock ROM, not because there's anything wrong with it, I actually have only a 55% urge to root and load up a custom ROM. It's mostly out of boredom to be honest. But I find that as phones progress, my need to root and flash a new ROM shrinks. Especially since this is relatively close to Stock Android in the first place.
EasyTiger6x13 said:
First off, a disclaimer: I come from a long line of rooting android phones, from the Nexus of yore to Samsungs and the Axon 7, to now potentially rooting the OP7 Pro. I know what rooting does, I know I can change the ROM, and that will allow me to change the look etc etc. But is there really benefit outside of that anymore?
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Logon just to agree with what OP said. I, too came from a very long line of android phones (#AndroidMasterRace). As I changed from phone to phone, I eventually find it less and less appealing to root and currently rooting my phone just out of habit than actual needs.
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And what things will I lose by rooting? Will google pay still work? Etc.
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As long as Magisk passed with Safety Net, Google Pay will still work. Other than Warranty, you lose nothing. Rooting just let you gain more control over your phone.
oceanax said:
Logon just to agree with what OP said. I, too came from a very long line of android phones (#AndroidMasterRace). As I changed from phone to phone, I eventually find it less and less appealing to root and currently rooting my phone just out of habit than actual needs.
As long as Magisk passed with Safety Net, Google Pay will still work. Other than Warranty, you lose nothing. Rooting just let you gain more control over your phone.
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You don't even lose warranty.
There is nothing permanent done when unlocking the BootLoader or rooting.
You gain full control.
Do you mean root or custom ROM? You don't need root for a custom ROM...
As for rooting...
Systemwide adblock
Substratum themes
Pixel launcher & recents
Live caption + dark theme assistant
etc
I always root for numerous apps, mods, controls, etc...
Viper4android
galaxys said:
I always root for numerous apps, mods, controls, etc...
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Could you list the ones you use or would root to use, I'm also tempted to root but don't really see a big benefit, maybe you can change my mind
Adaway is my big plus to rooting. Doesn't matter what app or game I use, no ads.
Titanium Backup is my other #1 app to have. If I have problems with a specific OS (in my case, I had to downgrade from Android 10 back to 9), Titanium Backup put all my (game) data back without issues.
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Adaway is my big plus to rooting. Doesn't matter what app or game I use, no ads.
Titanium Backup is my other #1 app to have. If I have problems with a specific OS (in my case, I had to downgrade from Android 10 back to 9), Titanium Backup put all my (game) data back without issues.
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seconded. adaway is the main reason for me too. and Viper4Android
Im looking for a ROM that enables free tethering built in. Does anyone know of any? That's the main benefit of rooting for me.
I've been rooting and ROMing since the HTC Hero. I used to chase nightlies, kernels, new homescreen every day.... all looking to make slow phones faster and more useable.
Phone hardware is actually pretty stellar now, especially this one.
So all I do is root the stock rom, install ad block and Viper4android.
Being able to update firmware from the manufacturer OTA and maintain root with just a few clicks is the best thing since sliced bread for me.
Android manufacturers have finally started adding things to their stock launchers and builds that now make some mods and rooting and obsolete.
But Instill use it to customize my Waze map colors and Adaway. Otherwise, no reason and been thinking of jumping to the new Galaxy S11 plus when it comes out. Will see.
I root for Viper, to try custom kernels and to mod various visual aspects of OOS. You do lose HD quality Netflix and Prime video but I rarely watch them so its worth it for me.
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Could you list the ones you use or would root to use, I'm also tempted to root but don't really see a big benefit, maybe you can change my mind
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For me, I root for substratum, xposed edge, exi for SwiftKey, adaway, custom kernels, (magisk) roms, viper4android, probably a few more but that's just off the top of my head. Also, not the person you replied to.
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You should root you don't loose anything
And i overclocked the phone like crazy fast,
There are many benefits for rooting
I'm not rooting this time cause I dont want to lose the stable system that I have. I like its last of battery and I am okay with the speed of the phone. I think I will pass rooting this time
Adaway, viper4android, google dailer with call screen, downclocking the cpu, getting rid of all unnecessary apps and background processes. Aux camera's in gcams. And i have gpay and banking apps still working....
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Hi guys,
Just got a Nexus 5, had previously had a Samsung Galaxy S3.
My S3 was rooted, mainly to get rid of carrier bloatware and later because I wanted the Android 4.2 camera with Photosphere (my carrier was stuck on 4.1 until a few months ago).
As time wore on my device had numerous problems ultimately I felt related to rooting, I could never find ROM's with at least one major glitch. I ended up on a stock ROM for most the time with the only root change was flashing the 4.2 camera for Photosphere. Rooting in general I found caused more headaches than it was worth.
Anyways, I just got the Nexus 5 and have no real intention to root it. Since it's devoid of carrier bloatware and it runs super fast and responsive, just wondering what the real credible benefits to rooting it are? (and voiding warranty in the process)??
I don't see a lot of bloatware on the device, it's going to get constant updates from Google (as opposed to devices depandant on a carrier), I don't really need to overclock or mess with kernals on an already fast device.
Am I missing something here?
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Hi guys,
Just got a Nexus 5, had previously had a Samsung Galaxy S3.
My S3 was rooted, mainly to get rid of carrier bloatware and later because I wanted the Android 4.2 camera with Photosphere (my carrier was stuck on 4.1 until a few months ago).
As time wore on my device had numerous problems ultimately I felt related to rooting, I could never find ROM's with at least one major glitch. I ended up on a stock ROM for most the time with the only root change was flashing the 4.2 camera for Photosphere. Rooting in general I found caused more headaches than it was worth.
Anyways, I just got the Nexus 5 and have no real intention to root it. Since it's devoid of carrier bloatware and it runs super fast and responsive, just wondering what the real credible benefits to rooting it are? (and voiding warranty in the process)??
I don't see a lot of bloatware on the device, it's going to get constant updates from Google (as opposed to devices depandant on a carrier), I don't really need to overclock or mess with kernals on an already fast device.
Am I missing something here?
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Some people prefer different launchers or ROMs or to have access to certain functions (e.g. full backup) that require root. I've had my N5 for a month and haven't felt the need for it, so I'm still stock, locked, unrooted.
Xposed for me.
Most of the mods from Custom ROMs with the OTA updates from Google
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Xposed framework, Adaway, Lmt launcher, AppOps, AutomateIt Pro... Basicly everything to take control over your device.
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So.....ad blocking apps, minor tweaks, custom ROM's.
eh, not really compelling reasons for me I guess.
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So.....ad blocking apps, minor tweaks, custom ROM's.
eh, not really compelling reasons for me I guess.
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I wouldn't call them minor tweaks at all. There is an extremely wide variety of things that require your phone to be rooted. Often times an app will have limited functionality without root.
Please note that rooting your phone has nothing to do with using a custom rom. (You can in fact have a custom rom that is not rooted) Your problems with your prior phone were not in any way as a result of rooting the phone. If you had problems with the rom (sometimes custom roms have broken components) that has nothing to do with having root access.
At this point, I'd be willing to bet the most common usage of the phone at this point (amongst users of this site) are those who are rooted, but still using the stock rom. More and more users are migrating to the custom roms, but this is because rom development takes a bit of time with major releases.
AdAway is the main reason for me - I HATE adverts with a passion!
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So.....ad blocking apps, minor tweaks, custom ROM's.
eh, not really compelling reasons for me I guess.
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what you consider "minor tweaks", might be a big deal for someone else. Tastes differ.
i root because of 1 main reason, i paid for the device and i believe i should be able to have full control over it.
Another thing is, whatever i do with my phone, i always know what i'm doing and why i'm doing it, so the odds of screwing something up are very little. In case i do need to claim warranty, i know how to set everything back.
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So.....ad blocking apps, minor tweaks, custom ROM's.
eh, not really compelling reasons for me I guess.
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Ehm...why did you buy a nexus? Actually i don't even know what you are doing on xda. No offense but... Sound more like an iPhone kind a guy...
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It's up to you whether to root or not. Whatever problems you had with your previous device, it wasn't due to rooting persay, but rather what you did with root access. Rooting doesn't change anything, it just gives you administrative access to the operating system. Running un-rooted is analogous to accessing your desktop PC through a guest account. Rooting your Android device gives you full access like you have on your desktop as as an administrator.
He just wants to know the benefits. No need to harp on him for not wanting to root. If anything Nexus 5 has less reasons to be rooted then OEM phones.
bblzd said:
He just wants to know the benefits. No need to harp on him for not wanting to root. If anything Nexus 5 has less reasons to be rooted then OEM phones.
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Maybe someday he'll want to tether.
AT LEAST UNLOCK THE BOOTLOADER
Fastboot OEM Unlock
That easy, it'll erase EVERYTHING. So if you do it now you won't lose much. Do it later when you want to root (like my mother and myself) you'll have to unlock and lose everything.
If you ever need you return it just lock it again it's easy. And you won't lose ANYTHING for relocking it.
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Two words....
Franco kernel
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Titanium back up because I'm too lazy to reinstall all of my apps on my previous device.
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Not much reason to if your main use is as a "daily driver".
Mine is rooted mainly due to needing to use it for development work related to my job, but ad blocking and several xposed modules would require root anyways. That and I just can't help but mess with stuff like CPU frequency/voltage settings, etc.
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Two words....
Franco kernel
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I second this.
I was previously on Galaxy S2 rooted. I'd tested some custom roms like chamaleon, cm, but at last, what i realized that I needed wasn't a lot of new features i only wanted a good battery performance and a fc and random reboots free phone.
So I returned to stock roms with the more stock-like rooted kernel with Xposed and some additions. At last I got a good battery performance to keep the phone full day without charging.
Now that my N5 is with me for about 6 or 7 weeks I don't need rooting, modding ... nothing. The performance for my daily use is about 30 hours between charges with almost 3 hours with screen on.
That is all I need!
And for backups (i've payed for titanium backup app for my S2) now I use ADB from command line and it's enought for me
Also, the Nexus in this conditions hasn't hanged yet.
It spent more than 350 hours until I decided to change to Dart and I had to restart the phone. this is much better than my old S2 that needed two or three weekly reboots even with stock rom.
So, i'm very happy with my non-rooted N5 but if I need to root it in the near future it will be not a problem to me doing it.
I use it for Titanium Backup myself, whose backups I periodically have uploaded to Box.com. Obviously it's there for when I want to change phone and want to restore app data, especially for game saves, but you also never know if your phone is going to malfunction and you have to wipe or get lost/stolen. I think it's pretty useful to have an app that automatically takes care of backing up your data for you.
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http://lifehacker.com/top-10-reasons-to-root-your-android-phone-1079161983
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Perhaps I'm a terrible person... but until I can root this thing the magic just isn't there between us. :crying:
I'm sure it will get rooted soon. Usually only takes a couple of weeks after the official release (based on past experiences)
I'm playing with Samsung pay right now and really digging it. Rooting is supposedly supposed to disable samsung pay. Of course having an at&t device may make that a mute point. They've been all but impossible to root lately.
Don't worry, T-Mobile may be in the same boat.
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While there are still advantages to rooting (man, I miss what I did to my old LG Optimus back in in 2011), it's not nearly as big of a deal to me now. With my work email app, I unfortunately can't root anymore (it still detects root even with xposed root hiding apps) and I haven't really missed it. I probably missed it the most on the Nexus 6P due to the fact that it's vanilla Android. But with all the themes and options available now, I'm just fine with stock.
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While there are still advantages to rooting (man, I miss what I did to my old LG Optimus back in in 2011), it's not nearly as big of a deal to me now. With my work email app, I unfortunately can't root anymore (it still detects root even with xposed root hiding apps) and I haven't really missed it. I probably missed it the most on the Nexus 6P due to the fact that it's vanilla Android. But with all the themes and options available now, I'm just fine with stock.
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I mostly agree... these days flashing a custom rom isn't as necessary as it used to be. But boy are there a lot of things I'd like to do with my stock rom:
Titanium Backup
Custom recovery (TWRP!)
Xposed
All the great apps (Root Explorer, Greenify, etc.)
WarAxe said:
I mostly agree... these days flashing a custom rom isn't as necessary as it used to be. But boy are there a lot of things I'd like to do with my stock rom:
Titanium Backup
Custom recovery (TWRP!)
Xposed
All the great apps (Root Explorer, Greenify, etc.)
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Those are all things I like using to make the phone truly mine.
WarAxe said:
I mostly agree... these days flashing a custom rom isn't as necessary as it used to be. But boy are there a lot of things I'd like to do with my stock rom:
Titanium Backup
Custom recovery (TWRP!)
Xposed
All the great apps (Root Explorer, Greenify, etc.)
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Without root there really is no need for customer recovery or Titanium Backup, as those are usually just used for flashing ROMs. So the only things you really want are Xposed and some root apps.
geoff5093 said:
Without root there really is no need for customer recovery or Titanium Backup, as those are usually just used for flashing ROMs. So the only things you really want are Xposed and some root apps.
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Umm... with my new Galaxy S7 Titanium Backup sure would come in handy right now.
And even afterwards I like having app backups so I can restore an app to a previous version or configuration -- I don't do it often, but I do do it. Same thing for having a periodic nandroid backup with all my data (wifi passwords, messages, dictionary, etc... there's a lot of data in there). And besides all the apps there's just a ton of tweaking that you really need root to do. Silence camera, record calls, adblocker, etc etc.
Hey guys.
I have my pixel 2 for 2 months now, came from a Samsung galaxy S8. My whole life I used Samsung since the S2 and I always had the need to root it for cleaner roms, faster kernels and such. This one is the first phone that I don't even feel the need to do root, however I see a lot of people rooting it so I'm wondering which are the advantages? Because there's almost no custom roms for it and custom kernels. I don't think people would root their phones only because of few apps that would work better with root for some more features.
So my question is... There's noticable advantage to root the pixel 2 ? Like on Samsung for faster ROMs, better battery life and performance and so on?
Thanks for your feedback.
Personally, I rooted my Pixel 2 for using Flash kernel and AdAway. If I wasn't so picky about ad blocking, I would not have rooted.
I find that it's a damn good phone and unless you have a very specific need for root, I don't think it's worth it.
It's not for a "few apps that would work better with root for some more features", it's for some apps that can't doi their job at all without root. (And for some of us, coming from Unix/Linux, running Linux [which is the OS that Android runs on] without su is like rowing with one oar. It's just not right.)
Even if I didn't have any apps installed that needed root, the phone still has the ability to elevate the user just in case I need it. (And things like pulling your contacts off the database file they're on, or saving the data of some app that's stored in /data/data/<somewhere> [or recovering a deleted file] are just "go do it", not "you can't get there from here".)
Ad blocking, changing the squeeze actions, change emojis to look normal, and viper 4 Android audio tweaks
One of the main reasons I bought Pocophone is due to XDA support. Never have I used a smartphone without unlock and root.
I could not wait for trying all those roms and kernels out there. I used all those Magisk and Xposed modules. Always trying many tweaks and tools. It was more of an addiction.
But using Pocophone a few days changed my mind. It is fast, smooth and battery lasts long without applying tons of tweaks. MIUI is great as well. It offers solid app controlling features. I have used tons of roms and do not see the need for replacing MIUI. Why use others when MIUI is very decent?
I know I can still root it, tweak it, make it better but I do not see the point as it is already superb. If it weren't those banking apps, I might have decided to unlock & root just for the sake of it but what would be the point then? It would just cause unnecessary complications with banking apps.
So I decided to use it as it is. Not even unlock. But man, it sure feels strange as I am new to this.
Same here, I used to geek around with my previous Oneplus phone, but with this Pocophone I've also decided to keep it as it is, and try to use it as long I as can, and only when they will stop updating it, then I'll look around for some ROM with newer Android version, but for now l'm fine with the MIUI ROM and the Gcam app
It all depends on your usage.
If you want privacy you have to root and install a custom ROM.
But if you like getting spied 24h from many companies at once, then you can stay as you want.
What to say ... if you're happy, that's what matters
I am using MIUI with few modifications ([ROM] [PIE 9.0] [MIUI] AMBASADII POCOPHONE F1 [v1.5.2] [03.02.2019]) is the beta version of the official MIUI rom, I use modified kernel(Sphynx) to get access to my external HDDs, I have no problems with bank apps, whatsapp among others as others complain, so I'm happy and I own MIUI that I love very much, with the resources I need.
Rommco05 said:
Spying everywhere
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If you die you finally won't have spy hardware placed besides you.
Rommco05 said:
would say, enjoy life. I personally don't care about spying me. I not need anything to hide... if Xiaomi or Huawei or Google want to know what I like and what not, no drama. Dont think so they want my money or naked photos... Do what you want to do
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It's not only about your likings. It's about your personality, your psychological situation, your health and there is also about the things your children would concern in future. It's like getting profiled in many ways.
You are just looking at the basic things, but big companies data mining allows much more than that.
What's up with banking apps and the Poco F1? I don't get it. .
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What's up with banking apps and the Poco F1? I don't get it. .
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What's there to not get it? Banking apps detect unlock and root then FC. It is not specific to Poco F1 but with other phones I've used, the need for unlock & root was greater than losing functionality of banking apps periodically.
I used to root and custom ROM when I was young.
Now that I'm old. I just prefer stable official ROM.
Besides, custom ROM is a software cant make the processor , ram, storage , optimization improvement that's so great that deserve the mod.
If u want something better and faster , get the latest hardware .
Too many custom rom . U never know which 1 is good or stable till u try it all
Well this is new age
If you said were true, then why would there be robust custom development in the first place? Why would kids ask which kernel and rom reach 300k antutu with 12-hour battery life?
You should try if you are free. It's not like in the old days wherein rooting is hard and not as worth it as now. Plus, MIUI is a giant bloated spyware.
I know your feel bro.
My 72 hour wait is done, so I can now unlock. In fact, I could have done it over a day ago, but I've sort of just thought.. What's the point, do I really feel like doing this again?
I probably will unlock and maybe root eventually, but I'm currently on the fence right now. It used to be exciting when I was younger, but now I'm not really sure.
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One of the main reasons I bought Pocophone is due to XDA support. Never have I used a smartphone without unlock and root.
I could not wait for trying all those roms and kernels out there. I used all those Magisk and Xposed modules. Always trying many tweaks and tools. It was more of an addiction.
But using Pocophone a few days changed my mind. It is fast, smooth and battery lasts long without applying tons of tweaks. MIUI is great as well. It offers solid app controlling features. I have used tons of roms and do not see the need for replacing MIUI. Why use others when MIUI is very decent?
I know I can still root it, tweak it, make it better but I do not see the point as it is already superb. If it weren't those banking apps, I might have decided to unlock & root just for the sake of it but what would be the point then? It would just cause unnecessary complications with banking apps.
So I decided to use it as it is. Not even unlock. But man, it sure feels strange as I am new to this.
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I would suggest that you try xiaomi.eu rom, It has all the the things that make miui good and removes the bad (system adds,etc) and adds some extra features only available in china versions of miui (AI preloading).
I am still on stock. I haven't used stock roms till now and this a new experience to me. The main thing i rooted in my earlier phones was to install a modified hosts file to block those adverts. Now I have AdGuard i do not feel the need for root. But still when the official support end I will root and go for custom rom .
Same thing happened to me, first with the Mi A2 and now with the poco which replaced that one. Haven't felt the need to even root them and doing it for the lols doesn't cut it anymore. You value your time more as you get older (and have less time to do meaningless crap like this) so I'd just rather have a phone that works. Every time I've gone into custom ROMs in the past they've never been quite stable, there's always been something or some annoying thing that has made me constantly switch between ROMs with all the bs that goes into that.
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If you die you finally won't have spy hardware placed besides you.
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I haven't unlocked or rooted.
I use on-line banking apps as well that detect rooted phone so stop working.
Previous phones I've rooted and unlocked used custom roms and you spend more time updating configuring backing up than you do using it as a phone.
Life is short time is pressuse I've got more important things to do.
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I haven't unlocked or rooted.
I use on-line banking apps as well that detect rooted phone so stop working.
Previous phones I've rooted and unlocked used custom roms and you spend more time updating configuring backing up than you do using it as a phone.
Life is short time is pressuse I've got more important things to do.
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If you don't care about privacy, then it is ok to stay unrooted.
I use banking apps with custom rom, without any problems.
Good for you my banks block them and I've got better things to do with my life than trying to get round them blocking custom ROMs.
Thats exactly what i thought. Never had a MIUI phone before and i was impressed with how smooth and stable the miui skin is. but i said **** it and installed Pixel Experience. Never in my life ever again am i going to switch back to MIUI. You have to give one custom rom a shot. Trust me u wont regret it
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Thats exactly what i thought. Never had a MIUI phone before and i was impressed with how smooth and stable the miui skin is. but i said **** it and installed Pixel Experience. Never in my life ever again am i going to switch back to MIUI. You have to give one custom rom a shot. Trust me u wont regret it
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What is so special about Pixel Experience compared MIUI?
I have used Pixel Experience with a different phone but did not find it interesting. I preferred other roms like AICP and RR.
Furthermore, is ROMing still a thing? I used to stay up late installing Nexus Roms and Paranoid Android and stuff like that.
Well, I was in the same boat as you. Coming from US Snapdragon Samsung's that cannot be unlocked easily.
My Pixel 6a is rooted and running MKVs kernel, AOSP Mods, LSPosed, Xprivacy. The answer is really up to preference.
Until recently Safetynet was something that can be passed, now although Google Wallet works, one of my banking apps does not allow me to login so I have to use their website.
Also ~monthly OTAs will need to be manually flashed on a computer (PixelFlasher seems to be most convenient for this).
Look up the above apps and see their features and decide if it's for you.
The theming and customizations with AOSP Mods has kept me in (holding the power button shortcut for flashlight while the screen is off and status bar tweaks have made it hard to let up for me!).
Rooting is a must for MVK kernel alone. Phone runs better and cooler (uv). Aside from that I disabled the navbar pill, which was driving me insane on stock. Also AdAway module and ACC to limit charge to 85%.
I personally won't bother with a custom ROM because the phone isn't EOL, and runs stock. If this has Oxygen or another skin I'd change.
I root to use Titanium Backup. Google cloud backup is decent enough but not all user settings get saved and I hate reconfiguring apps
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I root to use Titanium Backup. Google cloud backup is decent enough but not all user settings get saved and I hate reconfiguring apps
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Wait, TiBu still works? I thought that was long dead and gone.
I'm in the same boat as y'all. I've been out of the game since my Nexus 5x, so I'm very behind.
Quick question, hopefully you can steer me in the right direction. I'm coming from a OnePlus, and I loved Oxygen OS. I absolutely hate the pixel QS layout - is it possible to get the look of my OnePlus on my 6a if I rooted it?
The last phone I rooted was N6P and I had always rooted my phone for the customization, mostly kernel, but stopped since Pixel 3a (my last phone) since I didn't have the time and energy to deal with all the huddles (I want GPay and all my bank and need the security features) and the battery was good enough.
I don't plan to root 6a.
I started down the rooting rabbit hole with a Galaxy exhibit 4g. That phone was one that required many apps to be installed in the (minimal) ROM. I rooted so i could store apps on the SD card. I rooted a bunch of phones, but got away from it when kit kat came out, as things were getting complicated and memory wasn't really an issue, anymore. I really liked some of the roms i used were very nice. The last rooted phone i had was a Nexus 5, which is still my spare and I'll prolly take with me to India, this fall. I still use the Boötes ringtone i got in a gapps pack. Lately, I've been happy with stock using Nova launcher. I'm not a power user, though.
Ace42 said:
Rooting is a must for MVK kernel alone. Phone runs better and cooler (uv). Aside from that I disabled the navbar pill, which was driving me insane on stock. Also AdAway module and ACC to limit charge to 85%.
I personally won't bother with a custom ROM because the phone isn't EOL, and runs stock. If this has Oxygen or another skin I'd change.
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Lol this is exactly the reason I was considering rooting, to get rid of the navbar. What in the actual hell is the point of the pill especially, but the buttons as well, other than causing burn-in. Simply moronic.
damian5000 said:
Lol this is exactly the reason I was considering rooting, to get rid of the navbar. What in the actual hell is the point of the pill especially, but the buttons as well, other than causing burn-in. Simply moronic.
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Are you still on A12, or have you updated to A13? If so, was it a huge stability & usability improvement?
I have no idea how this reply arrived to this thread and to your comment. It was supposed to be a reply to this post, I have never seen anything like this happen before. Apologies!
damian5000 said:
Lol this is exactly the reason I was considering rooting, to get rid of the navbar. What in the actual hell is the point of the pill especially, but the buttons as well, other than causing burn-in. Simply moronic.
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I use Nova launcher, which allows me to use nav bar or gestures. I use the nav bar, but i have it disappear when i don't need it. Prevents any kind of burn in.
No intention for 'rooting', especially because I simply don't have the energy for all that anymore. I bought a Pixel with the intention of being able to unlock bootloader and install a more privacy oriented version than stock. Initially was intending to use it with GSI (generic system image) until LineageOS become available, but then learned about GrapheneOS and went with that. Very happy with the result.
I was a 'noob-rooter' back when I bought my first un-lockable phone, the Moto G5 Plus with A7/8. Great lil phone to this day even! Then made a mistake after buying a G7 cuz that was when google started this dual partition (slot) crap which killed TWRP more the most part. Bein' the noob I was, I had assumed no twrp meant no root...smh So after A10 + 6 mo., I said I'd spring for a Pixel and their unlock/root-friendly rep. Got a 4a and found out there is 'life after twrp' lol
My main reason for rooting AND kernel-ing is muuch better battery life by better control of apps, the OS and most google (aka GMS). App are mainly magisk mods and apps like Swift Backup, Naptime for taming gms and TONS doze settings in gen., Battery Guru, AOSP Mods (awesome), Nova Launcher and 3C toolbox for nerding out...lol
mnrivera210 said:
Well, I was in the same boat as you. Coming from US Snapdragon Samsung's that cannot be unlocked easily.
My Pixel 6a is rooted and running MKVs kernel, AOSP Mods, LSPosed, Xprivacy. The answer is really up to preference.
Until recently Safetynet was something that can be passed, now although Google Wallet works, one of my banking apps does not allow me to login so I have to use their website.
Also ~monthly OTAs will need to be manually flashed on a computer (PixelFlasher seems to be most convenient for this).
Look up the above apps and see their features and decide if it's for you.
The theming and customizations with AOSP Mods has kept me in (holding the power button shortcut for flashlight while the screen is off and status bar tweaks have made it hard to let up for me!).
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so interesting, where can I find more information about this tweaks? face unlock is possible? thank you
psychedel!k said:
I root to use Titanium Backup. Google cloud backup is decent enough but not all user settings get saved and I hate reconfiguring apps
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user settings backups usually cause app force closes in my experience.
No face unlock
Face Unlock works with root. If latest A13 you need to download the latest version from post 20 https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/11-universalauth-face-unlock-for-all-roms.4419343/