Vanced doesn't need root to run. On non-root devices, Vanced can run with microG. Also, while home ad blocking is great, the experimental SponsorBlock API within Vanced allows you to skip certain segments automatically within videos, such as creators asking for subs, sponsored parts of videos, etc.
Im using vanced for years, bought premium now just to try it out, but mainly for offline yt music. Will be back to vanced if i didnt have spare money tho 😂
From an ex XDA senior member, this is an awesome list. Clearly have an interest and/or have done good research. Well beyond most other RU-vidrs and journalists. Good advice and explanations too.
I REALLY appreciate that your aspect ratio on this video is meant for bigger phones. Now i dont have to zoom in to fill up my entire screen. Thank you for that
Titanium Backup sadly doesn't work that well on newer android versions. Sometimes it can't backup certain apps or restore backups as it used to in the KitKat era. I think the best alternative is the Migrate, which lets you backup almost your whole system into a zip file that you can flash back with the app.
you can backup but cant restore due to device id unless the apps didnt get the device id it will restore smoothly I'm using XEU A11 Titanium still working 😁
A couple of these things can now be done without root: 1. Vanced can be used without root, but rooted version seamlessly replaces the RU-vid app which is great. 2. Blaotware can be removed with a simple ADB command and since you can now run ADB without a PC, you don't need to be rooted anymore which is awesome. I have a video on this actually _wink wink_ . Dope video Sam! I wish I had the courage to root my Samsung because I bricked my Xiaomi doing that LMAO. Unlucky.
That battery charge limitation is definitely something I tried to find and though it didn't exist. Such a great thing. Other super nice thing is the battery charging pass through of the new ROG phone. Amazing...
It has quite a long update support though, no? By the time it stops, maybe you will get a new smartphone already, no? You can already root the device and use the official firmware, BTW. Just annoying to re-root after each manual update of it though.
I'm pretty sure rooting/unlocking the bootloader doesn't void the warranty for pixel devices. So I don't kniw why you waited until the end of it's life cycle?
@@mmorales508 Only thing I said was; that I don't understand why you're waiting until the end of it's life cycle when you could've done it the same day you got the phone. You're the only one who's lacking reading comprehension, bud.
@@RedPill420 You clearly said "waited until the end of its life cycle" First, P4 is still getting updates and second I meant that when it actually stops getting updates THEN I'll root to keep it for longer. Obviously I'll get a new phone as a daily but I like the P4 build quality so hence why I wanna hang on to it.
Custom ROMs have came a long way since back then do some research on your phone now and try. stability reliable and hella more I'm on my OP6 and I can be with out root or ROMs
@@sgringo u don't need to root your device to flash custom roms. And Custom roms have came long way in development and stability. M even using oxygen os port on my poco f1 and it's clean asf. I always wanted OP6 but not anymore.
@@hondurasen3632 tbh corvus was a big deal until their lead developer left that project. That's why they haven't made corvus based on android 11 for many devices. And why u flashing custom roms on ur OP. Bro Oxygen OS is so fucking good. I feel like it's way fucking better than any rom based on stock android.
So many Android phones have a locked bootload. It's a real gut wrencher when you find out your digital chum is un rootable. However, I must say that various companies will offer a free option to allow you to have an unlock code to use via fastboot etc. Just a shame that other companies don't. But you have done a super job of explaining the details and apk available. Thumbs up and keep up the great work. This is priceless knowledge to behold when people realise how powerful their phones become when unlocked and able to be free to tweak.
Awesome video but just a note RU-vid vanced works works on rooted and unrooted phones, I have it on my S10E and it works great. Another thing you should probably tell people is that if your phone is under warranty you could Void it if it's been modified.
It's not, because it has 1 big problem. If you backup your phone and you install another rom you're not be able to restore your backups because swiftbackup backups can only be restored at the same rom. So if you reset your phone, it will work, but if you install the same rom again, because something crashed it, then you're not be able to restore your backups.
I actually just switched from a Galaxy S10 to a Pixel 4XL "Google Edition", for 2 main reasons. 1) Bootloader unlockable -able to flash custom roms, kernels, recoveries - and 2) I love a really big high res screen without any of that notch BS. I have bricked this phone in one week more than I've brushed my teeth every day but nowadays there are actually mainline tools to repair or recover, and since it is an unlocked variant it is still modifiable after the fact. Lot of trial and error but I finally did it, and honestly... I used my OnePlus 5T as a guinea pig before I attempted my Pixel. Edit: the WORST part of any unlockable phone is the warning every time it boots up. That thing is super annoying.
1. For youtube vanced you only need vanced manager. the rooted version has more advantage but if you're not a root user or you don't want to risk bricking your phone with the root access, you can go to their website and download the vanced manager. 2. if you don't want ads in your phone app without rooting, starting from android 9 you can always use adblocking DNS that's blocking the ads server address.. this will block 99% of the ads. even free apps with so much intrusive unskippable ads won't show ads. since they cannot access the ad server.. most apps does not run ads on their own server and just code a hotlink to show an ad content provided by adservers. this is why you see same ads across apps. the adblocking DNS will block access to these ad providers so your app will not be able to show ads no matter how intrusive and unskippable they were coded as long as the app is using these well known external ad providers. the exceptions are in-house-ads which usually offers a pro or upgraded version of the said apps since these ads aren't connected to an external ads servers. you can search what ad blocker dns is best in your country. the downside is you can't access targeted ads when you're planning to buy something. they still show up in the search results in google but when you click it you can't access it.
Great video. Really interesting and kept me watching, mainly because of your presentation style, which is fantastic. I used to root my phone years ago, but found when fingerprint access bacame a thing that my banking and some shopping apps dont let fingerprint access work when rooted, so don't root anymore.
So, only reason probably most Indians stopped rooting is Payment Apps...Here, in India, we use a lot of Payment Apps which use a common architecure call UPI, these and other banking apps tend to not work after rooting, even if it does....inbetween it tends to break, like after updates.
True. I'm kinda looking towards managing a very budget phone for only payments and calls and keep my ROG 2 for social media, games and tweaking around with custom roms, rooting and stuff. It's kind of the only way to enjoy being rooted, UPI is too huge a factor to root my phone.
@@ravitheja715 true, thou I just want to use a phone with Adaway and all the good shit that root gives us with daily use apps like payment apps. When did Android get so locked in man!
Another reason is you have full control of "your" phone. Rooting might seem intimidating at first because of the process but once you are comfortable doing it then it's amazing. :D
I think you should also warn people that rooting your phone can cause banking apps to stop working. Most banking apps detect rooted devices and reject any sort of transaction. Easily fixable through Magisk Hide though.
Don't use Titanium Backup anymore, use Swift Backup, that's still updated and supported and will give the same functionality. If you're rooted you can backup/restore apps with their data. Great for moving between phones or restoring apps with data if you try different custom roms. You can even back/restore using Online sources or even FTP now. Install FileZilla server on your computer and you can quickly backup/restore periodically. 6:58 Probably because a lot of Banking or Financial apps, as well as Google Pay, will refuse to work on unlocked/rooted phones. You can try Magisk Hide but some of them still won't work if they see an unlocked bootloader which is required for root.
@@akashmohanty4585 well, my banking app openly states that it requires unrooted phone. My phone was once rooted, and the banking app simply won't work.
You can use magiskhide to hide the root from your banking but i dont think its safe to use a rooted phone with custom roms and tons of modules with banking stuff
Hey! I use autoclickers for games, but after the latest android update the phone close every third part app as I open a game. Do you know a way around this? Any settings or apps that can help? Ty😀
For newer phones its exceptionally complicated to root. When the Galaxy a71 was released I had ordered it 3 months later. Took me 2 weeks to fully understand and properly root it. Never regretted it
101 question- why are Samsung's so difficult to root? I have an old S7 Edge ( haven't had it activated in years), also have a newer one just for a backup # ( J3 prime, truly a piece of junk) and thought I'd use the 7 ( or the 3) to experiment on since I haven't rooted a phone before. Is there anything I should REALLY be aware of re: Samsung beforehand? Any input would be greatly appreciated.
In my personal experience, rooting phones has been something that I’ve done more out of necessity rather than fun. Android manufacturers just have this absurd habit of not giving control to the buyer, us. Therefore we can’t tune our phones the way we want in detail. I am honestly one who plays with CPU and GPU frequencies. I don’t root solely for Android versions, as with root, you give up most of the security anyways. iPhones are even worse, but at least they operate in a very optimized ecosystem and a when you run games, they will actually give you all the performance they can as long as the temperatures allow it. Android scales frequencies in such a jerky manner (Save for ROG Phone, that is a godsend and an example of how all Android phones in depth controllers should be). More modern Android phones are becoming far harder and less rewarding to root. OnePlus and Xiaomi remain easy. But Samsung is getting harder and if you root, they disable your camera. Probably the most rewarding phone I’d ever suggest anybody to root though, it’s the N960F. That is the walking definition of why I root out of necessity. By rooting and installing a custom kernel on it (as long as you are on One UI 2.0), you can get performance so high as the Exynos 9820. Samsung messed up badly with the 9810, and refuses to fix their mistakes, so we have to do it ourselves.
How do u play with CPU ? I want to reduce the power because my Snapdragon 888+ overheats. Do I need to root my phone? And which app do I use to tweak the CPU
I would prefer swift backup instead of titanium backup Bcz titanium backup is so old and now outdated. Even sometimes it fails to restore its own backup. In other hand swift backup has very good looking user friendly ui , working all the time . It's easy to understand
Indeed. While it's not so free, it's better than Titanium backup because it can handle split-APK files too (AKA app-bundle apps), as opposed to Titanium backup . Plus it has a nicer UI.
@@Barnone_ If Titanium Backup would have handled those cases fine, I could still use it though. Sadly it hasn't gotten this important change and yet Swift Backup seems to get better while being on the nicer UI. UI isn't everything for me, especially for such tools, but it's a nice thing to have when it doesn't affect other aspects. For example I still use Total Commander even though the UI is considered old.
If I root my device, for example, my Galaxy S10, will I still receive software updates by the manufacturer? I know you can still download manually the updates through PC, but I just want to know.
Actually I used RU-vid Vanced for a short period. Because I want to support the good channels by viewing ads. So I watch ads a lot of them🙂 Love my youtubers. And don't worry Sam i watch ads for you too🙂
I've tried the rooted version but it all reconfigures into the stock RU-vid app. Having a separate application is better, but sometimes Vanced MicroG doesn't work.
@Ryan's Random Videos Is preventing that a thing on rooted versions? If so, I haven't really heard about it. If you mean that using the non-rooted one gets RU-vid to ban your comments, I'm certain it doesn't. But if RU-vid bans your comments (due to hate speech, etc.), then it's entirely on RU-vid
I love his choice of phone for rooting, i just recently unbricked my oneplus 8t and rooted it.. i had to get a laptop to get msm tool working correctly though but its surprisingly easy to do on windows 10 and i love that i can unbrick it so easily, i can see myself using this phone for a very long time.
from what i remember it was essentially hard coded into vanced by the vanced devs and would take awhile to create such a feature or even allow it to be disabled in general.
the only dude that made me watch videos about android phone while im an apple products user :))) .. well done mate.. you're doing your job so damn good! kudos
I can imagine the work that you have put on this video and I cannot wait to see more to see what more I can learn. Thanks for your time and effort. I sub and like to support you and see more of this informative and good quality videos.
Few more apps recommendations: • *Swift backup* uses the same concept as titanium backup but more modern in UI design • *SD Maid* , handy tool for cleaning storage also improve databases • *Cellular-Pro* , used for band locking purposes, may not for everyone but this app is really good if you want to lock your band for better mobile signal
First thing, Sam you're an absolute treasure. Just the other day I was thinking about mentioning yt vanced then I thought, "no he'd never go for it since it would be in direct conflict with this monetization etc... Lo and behold 1 week later I see this video 😂 I would love to donate to your channel to show support. Anyway with that out of the way, I think being to turn a carrier only device to a global one would be an amazing root feature and it's why I'm considering rooting on my 8t
I was using my Pixel phone outside the supported countries, I came across this video and got the confidence to root my device without worrying too much. Glad I did because it helped my pixel speed up like anything because of many features started working only when I enabled the root
This video is impressive. Thumbs up! I'm familiar with every app mentioned in the video and using almost all of them everyday (those particular apps are usefull as hell in our life !!!)and highly recommending them and also from now I'm subscribing to this guy, since he really knows cool stuff about android.
Hello sam , I am using youtube vanced since some time but i did not root my phone but it still works . Well , when i downloaded the app it didn't say to root my device .
Yep...You can ...But the rooted version is more device friendly & battery efficient...+ you won't have to keep the official youtube which otherwise there will be 2 apps .. consuming more power
The battery charge limit thing seems kinda pointless since there are already limits implemented into your device, 100% charge doesn't actually mean the battery is at full capacity and 0% doesn't mean its empty either.
I swear I had all the modes you mentioned on my Xperia Z back in the day, before switching to an iPhone. Miss having the options, but learned to appreciate the benefits of Apple's ecosystem as well.
Excellent video! Except that I disagree with the claim that it it is easier to root a phone than before. The cell providers, and the manufacturers (likely under pressure from the cell providers) go to increasingly intrusive lengths to make the phones harder or impossible to root. I bought three Samsung phones in the last 6 months, even after looking them up to see if they could be rooted and finding false claims that they could. Often the problem was that they would be rootable if I bought the same model in China or India, or bought the "international version", none of which would work with my carrier. I have used Samsung phones for years because they are not made by the Chicoms. But Samsung and Google have both gone to a LOT of trouble to make it impossible to use apps that I need for my work and hobby. So I need a rooted phone to restore my phone to it's useful state. I had to buy a non-Samsung phone, one made by the Chicoms, to do that. It disgusts me. And I prefer the Galaxy OS. But I am done with Samsung. If I purchase a product, I consider that product mine, to do with as I please. Any company that think they still own something after I pay for it and take possession of it, and feel they have the authority to decide what I am allowed to do with it, is not a company I am willing to trade with.
@@RedPill420 that true but in the recent time the oneplus has slowed the performance of there phone to save the battery my 9pro just wend to a slower performance peak so I just removed oxygen os and moved to the dot os
@@hkpv1840 Oh really? I haven't noticed tbh. Maybe because I'm still on Android 10? But yeah OnePlus is not what it used to be. They're also pretty slow with rolling out updates etc
been running vanced for past few years on 3 of my devices of which only 1 is rooted- all work exactly the same(typing this on non rooted shield for example), i used to root all of my devices since first smartphone in 2006(HTC wizard) but rooting became irrelavant over the years pretty much
1. RU-vid Vanced (no ads) 2. AdAway (generall no ads) 3. Brave (no browsing ads (no root required)) 4. Greenify (block apps from BG running while not opened) 5. Battery Charge limit (spare battery. when you have a new phone, you dont need that much b-live. Save it, and when it got worde, crank the max charging % up) 6. Viper4Android (custom (much better) sound equalization) 7. Titanium Backup (easy EVERYTHING backup, and remove/freeze("kind of remove") all selected apps) 8. Flux (Customice Phone: Font, Emoji, Boot Animation like Watchdogs(app called: Out of Oxygen. I think only for oneplus)). More apps: FontFix, Substratum Theme Engine, QuickSwitch, Lawnchair for Android 11, Emoji Switcher but check them for running to much in the BG. 9. Permission Ruler (custom permissions like: "no app can acces any permission e.g. location / Mic as long my phone is off")
I couldn't use my main phone without root and you make some good points, but: 1. RU-vid Vanced works without root. I used it on a vanilla Galaxy Tab 8. 2. Adaway significantly slows down browsing experience because it adds thousands of lines to the "hosts" file which is a text file designed to hold several lines. As a result, every URL is first looked up in the text file and only then a browser processes to pull it form the internet. Instead, I recommend using adblocking DNS, like PiHole. 3. Greenify made sense in the days of Android 4-7. Recent versions of Android have most of that functionality baked in and I doubt it makes much of a difference. The main battery offender in Android phones is gapps (Google Apps), which work constantly in the background. If you install a Lineage-based custom ROM on a phone and do not flash gapps, you will soon discover the phone lasts 2-4 times longer than it used to with gapps installed.
I've got a Xiaomi Mi 10T 5G and it's rooted, I first unlocked my bootloader, I flashed TWRP, then I flashed Nusantara OS, a beautiful custom rom, then flashed Magisk for root, and can still pass SafteyNet on Android 11 and yes Vanced RU-vid is by far the best, no ads it's beautiful
I was a root head before. Rooting each and every phone i had. Changing the OS every now and then. But now, the need of root access is very low and our every banking and credit card details in our phone makes it way more dangerous right now.
3C All in One Toolbox is also great for app management and phone tweaking. You could do a whole video on its features alone. It does have ads, but you won't see them if you already have Adaway running.
1. RU-vid Vanced can be used without root with no difference. I'm root and I prefer to use rootless version. 2. I used AdAway for half of a decade. Then I switched to Blokada and Blokada was way better. Now I'm using Adguard and this is the best adblocker and don't requires root. 3. Titanium Backup is worse than Migrate and Swift Backup. I recommend use of Migrate.
The only reason i rooted my old phone was because of me being unable to reach my wifi connection since the router is in another room. I searched around before forcing myself to buy a wifi extender, just to find an app that allows my phone to act as a wifi extender. It's honestly a miracle, saved me $30 or so.
I've been rooting my phones since 2011 and I've rooted nearly every phone I've had. I don't think I can go without it at this point. I'm running a rooted, bootloader unlocked pixel 5.
Great video! Really want the reasons not to root video! I feel banking apps would be a big issue for me? Also, its odd, but How To Men released a video of dead apps today, and he said Titanium is dead?!
Should I have an antivirus and spyware installed before rooting my phone, and if so, what are the best apps for protection? Also, what is the best way to root a LG Stylo 5? The reason I am considering this, the storage on my phone is getting to the point of lagging. Before LG offered the ability to put apps on my memory card, but eliminated this 2 years ago. Will I have this ability after rooting my phone?
It is indeed a fantastic thing to have on your android, it sucks for some brands such as Samsung which for example it does more harm than good to my S21U and that's why I carry a second root phone, my trusty MI9T Pro.
Why is this, I keep reading this about Samsung's and I'm not clear on why this is? Can you ( will you!) give me advice if you can, I have an old S7 Edge ( hasn't been activated in a long time) as well as a j3prime ( a terrible phone), the latter I have for a backup number only. I'm thinking about using either ( probably the 7) to root, have never done so before and I don't want to do anything undoable to a new phone. Any input is greatly appreciated. Thank you
Systemize (terminal) & debloat (terminal) are basically must haves. Also you mentioned bromite in another video, but the browser isn't the only thing to mention. "Bromite webview" by either nanodroid magisk module or webview switcher (by sndroidacy)
@Aryan Banyal it systemlessly removes it, which is safer than removing it. I don't ever suggest anyone edit their /system. If you want to fully remove, that is your prerogative, I'm just not suggesting lol, understand.