@@toib765 agreed 100% Root more often than not makes my life with my phone so much easier and smoother. For example, people can't easily access android's data and obb folders on a12+ (there's a workaround on a11 that google has fixed) when you want to install or modify some games and stuff. With root no such restriction can stop us. We can access files much deeper than the average person. Then we have quality of life features I had to leave behind when moving to a custom ROM due to miui's heavy, laggy nature...things like Dolby Atmos, floating windows and mi screen recorder. Thanks to some awesome community contributions and magisk modules, I got those and a lot more back no problem.
@@toib765 true but use a secondary device. my old daily driver had custom rom and root. when it works its fine but sometimes it can be unstable and cause problems
Came back to rooting and modding after years of not doing so. Thing got a bit more complicated I see having either an A-only or an A/B device, recovery can't simply be hotbooted or flashed until you know where exactly is it in the phone (in boot, vendor, dedicated recovery partition, etc.), finding alternatives for some favorite but outdated modules. Man, these were nasty but I think I'm getting the hang out of it, especially when I'm lucky enough to get my hands on some Xiaomi phones.
I recently got introduced to the channel when I was searching for a nothing phone review and thank god I subbed to you. The quality content you produce is beautiful! I love your work ^-^
I'm on the android 13 update and it is WAY better than it's ever been!!! Definitely takes it above and beyond, feels like an iPhone running Android if that makes sense. It has that iPhone smooth, feels better than the pixels that I came from on android 13.
@@thetechrealist I am looking for a budget phone with a clean UI good cameras and a good in hand feel ...and Nothing phone 1 happens to provide all of them .... Pixel 7 is sadly out of my budget coz i am still a student 🙂
Potentially another one - Disabling hearing warning forever. Or changing some locked settings in adb. In Tasker you can only disable WiFi/password lock or enable GPS if you are rooted. So you can't make an automation to disable wifi and enable password lock when going outside.
To add my most needed feature here: Backups! Still very sad, that there is no other way (yes, even in 2024) to easily backup and restore app data from one phone to anther without rooting the phones first. (and by backup and restore, I mean 'including app/account data as well') Also Button Mapper is pretty neat with root and the NFCScreen Off Module.
So I have rooted my phone for multiple times and for various reason and I can assure you 1 thing. There can't be security concerns if u only give root access to the apps you trust. But i can relate with the part that you mentioned about detection of root from many aspects. There are obvious various ways that u can get it undetected fully by kind of every app , but that usually implies more research time for a complete newcomer in the community. The conclusion remains that you should root your phone only if you have a solid reason and the time to allocate in all the research and problems that may come ahead.
This! I just rooted my Lg G8 Thinq, but I feel soooo lost about what to do with it. I want to turn it into multi-media device since it has a dedicated LDAC and Dolby Atmos, but I don't know where to begin
@@deveshkhoda I have used magisk and odin for my Samsung M31 Haven't put a custom rom yet because I wanted the stability from the stock rom, but I am looking into that as well
Picked up my Pixel 7 Pro Jan this year after moving on from my rooted OnePlus 6 couldnt handle its final OTA Android 11 update. Been surviving un-rooted for now, but I'm getting heavy withdrawls from the root expierience. Most important things to me were systemwide Adblocker, RU-vid Vanced & trying out different quality of life modules. OnePlus launcher had so much more customisability compared to Pixel Launcher... Looks like this pixel wont be locked up for too much longer after seeing this video ;)
I use Verizon phones and, as such, my despise for them grows every day. They refused to allow users to do what they like with their device. I can't root my phone because " I could break it." If I'm rooting my phone, I know what I'm doing. So let me do it
I’ve been jailbreaking iPhones for years. Is this similar? Also, Where can someone find tutorials for home screens customizations? There aren’t any on RU-vid, only for iOS 🤷♂️
Great video! I started out Years ago Rooting Samsung Phones but they got harder and harder to Root so then I switched to cheap Unlocked Motorola Moto G Phones because they were good and easy to Unlock the Boot Loader with and they still are but they only give you like one or two Years of Android Updates so then I switched to Google Pixel because of that reason. I still Root because some Apps I use require Root like AdGuard so I can install the Ad Blocking Certificate into the Root System Store to Block Ads in Apps and Terminal for using certain Commands and SSH for my Raspberry Pi and if you have a Google Pixel it's pretty easy to Root using Magisk and it's Free so why not? You might as well make your Device as useful and as powerful as possible.
@@antoncorsey9501 If your Phone is Carrier Locked you might not be able to Root it unless a Developer has made a specific Root method for it. If it's Unlocked then you have to Unlock your Boot Loader in order to Root with Magisk and if those things don't work try using other Versions of Magisk such as the Stable Version the Beta Version or the Canary Version. I've found that sometimes it might not work on specific Versions of the Magisk App for example when I got the Google Pixel March Update I had the Magisk Canary Version installed and it wasn't letting me Root my Phone so I tried the Beta Version of Magisk and it still wouldn't let me Root it so then I tried the Stable Version of Magisk and then it let me Root it so it seems to depend on what Version of Magisk you use for specific Devices and for specific Android Updates at least that's how it seems to be for me.
You forgot the main reason above all: being able to uninstall and completely remove all the bloatware crap and spyware crap that vendors put on your phone as well as being able to delete the facebook and dozen other useless vendor specific apps as well as google's speech listening app which can be abused and exploited.
I use root access to run a script for installing and running an sshd daemon, and I combine it with a bash script I can run to copy all my important data on my internal storage (pictures, text messages, downloads, etc.) to my Linux backup server via sync. If you're running a WireGuard server at home too, you can use it to backup your phone from anywhere in the world at any time, as long as you have a decent internet connection.
So if I understood right you SSH into your rooted phone ? If that's the case that's really cool, rooting really doesn't improve the possibilities with phones
@@ancestrall794 that is correct. LineageOS has a built in SSH server you can configure, there's a few guides online for doing so. Combine it with a couple of scripts (one that creates symkinks at boot to store keys at /.ssh on your phone) and one that uses rsync to copy data to a destination server, and bam, custom cloud backups. The SSH daemon binaries and configs can also be ported to stock ROMs too. All of this requires root though.
Definitely past rooting my primary phone. But I've been out of the game so long and I want to get back into it so I'm considering picking up the nothing phone. At least if they restock the us beta 😓
@@kaijiro68 I am scared as well. My phone's camera is Incredible and I doubt that playing with system might mess that camera and also there's a risk of bricking the phone so I didn't do it
@@r_atharv11 ah nice , I'm actually watching Sam's ''why you shouldnt root your phone'' and ig i get it , so I'm thinking of not doing it too . Anyways good day , thanks for replying :D
Biggest question for me is how the hell to root my phone I've bricked and completely ruined so many phones in the past with rooting I've bought all the great so called apps like titanium back up and others and when I needed them they failed but I did enjoy customs roms
I physically can't root my S22+. I'm planning on getting a pixel just to use it as my secondary device and root device. I have always dreamed of rooting, I've tried s fee times but ALWAYS ran into roadblocks...adb not functioning correctly, bootloader can't be unlocked, other bugs with software I used to attempt to root. There's always issues, but If it's easier to unlock the bootloader on the pixel, I'll definitely get one.
@@sleepy_szn xda developers has been an absolute god send in that respect. I've been rooted since a few weeks after the phone came out. Absolutely loving the freedom of it still
@@SuperBoop my last few phones were samsung and I always found them harder to root, plus Knox etc. Pixel was the easiest root experience I've had and I honestly couldn't go back to an unrooted phone. Everything from proper theming options, ad blocking, it all works flawlessly. You won't regret it
@Barry S yes, some cases it's completely impossible to even unlock the bootloader on a lot of US samsung phones, which is annoying. I'm wondering if I flash the latest firmware if the oem unlocking feature will show up. I have an S21 FE, and my S22+ I'll keep my s22+ stock and try to mod the s21 fe. But the S21 FE still has the problem with not being able to unlock the bootloader. But it's not under warranty anymore so I don't care about tripping Knox, I wanna install stock android firmware on it, and degoogle it
I'd probably only root a device that I got as a spare. I heard rooting a device leaves your device exposed to malware, (but if im surfing safely , i should be fine)
Your device is always exposed to malware even without rooting. If you know what you are doing, a rooted phone might be even more secured than the none rooted one
I've always rooted my phone. When I buy a new phone, I do a research on the ability to have root access and community support for custom ROMs. Right now I'm stuck on Redmi Note 5 Pro(Whyred) because I can't find a phone to replace it. I also prefer IPS screens, not Amoled ones.
I have a Galaxy Tab A7 Lite, Android 13. I've done my best to optimize my battery and performance by making my device as minimal as possible Unfortunately, there were a LOT of useless apps that I wasn't able to disable. Some are serious privacy & security concerns that won't let me disable location, deny permission access to things, or just disable in general I uninstalled all updates, disabled auto updates within the Galaxy Store, cleared all app data, and left those apps to hibernate. Despite my best efforts, those apps are still consuming my RAM. When I clean my RAM, it shows itself closing the very apps I cannot disable. Completely useless bloatware running in the background, consuming my performance, battery, and probably my personal data, too, and I cannot simply remove them By giving myself root access, will it allow me to override the inability to disable said apps? That's really all I want to do I've also considered switching to GrapheneOS, but the risks and complications regarding that OS is too complicated for my pea-brain. I'm almost certain I'll mess something up I've modified consoles, installed custom OS to my PCs, etc, but I don't have that same confidence with mobile devices
@Andrew-xl2lz I disabled unwanted apps, cleared their storages, denied permissions, removed extra homescreen pages, I don't have any apps on my homescreen other than the menu at the bottom, I use "Sensors Off", etc I optimized it more for battery, privacy, and security, but minimalism does also help performance. I keep my internal storage as clean as possible and move errything to my MicroSD. The more space in your storage, the better the performance I looked up a bunch of Android optimizations on RU-vid
Yeah with root you can disable apps, even disable system apks, you can also uninstall bloatware or uninstall system apks on your phone... You can also overclock your phone Cpu, Gpu, Memory, to make it more faster... My phone has been rooted and i overclocked it and the performance was massively Change...🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@SHADOW47196 I've modified consoles and installed custom OS to PCs, but never rooted a mobile device successfully. How did you do it? When I attempted to root my last tablet when I first got it, I ended up freezing the thing and had to wait for the battery to die to turn it off since it stopped working completely. Idk what tutorial will work smh
I really really really want to root my device, but something about Knox is holding me. I hate Samsung for doing this. I don't use any of the Knox related apps, but still I'm paranoid. Someone please help me try to realize it's worth it.
Same I'm also scared that Knox might break something cause the first time I rooted a Knox phone it bricked for no reason even though I followed the entire process without any mistakes.
Haven't rooted since my Motorola Droid. It was so much fun back then installing new and different kernels. All the different roms. Cyanogen. Hours of trying to fix mistakes and errors. Boot loops. I just don't have any interest in complexity anymore. I just want to pick it up and have it work. And my s23 ultra does everything I want stock . Make an app with one click root that also installs every relevant app automatically. Then configures it to my taste for me. That's about all that's necessary for me to be interested at this point.
i remember back in 2019 i was obsessed with rooting and when i tried it, my phone died during the process and never turned on again i had to pay a technician to fix it.... ever since then i have been afraid of rooting my my android devices even tho i know how cool the concept of rooting is
I'm fed up with apps detecting the root. Especially security and bank/paying apps. So no root for me anymore. Only thing that I miss is automation andcall recirding without root.
@sambeckman Thanks alot for the video! Could you please tell me how did you get the nice interface/ui for strp x performance mod because I cannot find it (only the command line works...). Thanks in advance.
The only reason I do not root my phone anymore is because the banking and website software token apps no longer run.. And they're quite essential..and magisk hide feature doesn't help
I am using LineageOS - BUT now it has become a PITA. I need PingID to access my company's website, but PingID says that it will not work unless I have Google Play Store. Sigh.
Also with root you can unlock the monitor mode of your qualcomm wifi adapter ! This allows you to do pentesting and try to hack wifi You usually need a linux laptop to do this
Is there really unlimited photo storage ? Please someone tell. Pixelify Google Photos one is actually looks super useful, gonna root my phone for that.
Well, if it says so, you can always unroot just as easily if countermeasures like magiskhide, Denylist and safetynet fix fail, ... or is it that you get perma-banned on every device you try to sign in to the bank app because they detected root on one phone? I doubt that.
Personally I live in a country where I can confidently assume 80% of banks don't even have security measures that even slightly cover rooted devices. Probably cus the heads of businesses aren't that tech savvy. Heck, a massive chunk of the population isn't. I've opened banking apps from 3 different banks on a rooted device and all have no idea what the heck a "magisk" is. No Denylist, no magiskhide. They all just work lol
@@toib765 nah. 80% is just right. Considering I live in Nigeria. A lot of People still get shocked that custom ROMs exist, don't know what developer options are used for, and don't even know what launchers are. Yes. launchers. It's not a mockery, it's just what I've seen since 2015
I rooted my Poco X3 to install Evolution X rom 13 based on pixel but was having problems in banking apps even after the hacks and patches so had to unroot the custom rom :(
@@mchlvncbln There is always problem with banking apps when I flash Magisk in any rom with the patches and fixes I may work for few weeks but then again it stops working. Those fixes are temporary and not reliable for daily life users.
I've always rooted all my phones, but I got a S21 FE last year in September. Waiting for the 1 year warranty to expire and will then prolly root it. Don't wanna burn the physical knox chip while the phone still has warranty.
If you download the hacked version of pdanet+ and untick the "usb debugging" setting when you go to install it on your computer you get a message telling you to enable usb debugging and as you are installing that program on your pc and the option to enable OEM unlocking is no longer grayed out. At least on windows 11 lite with your phone connected. Of course under the developer settings after you become a developer, you enable both and continue with the installation process of pdanet+.
@@YASHKUMAR-rw1en Some banks have begun putting up security against Magisk, LSPosed, SafetyNet and Unlocked Bootloaders hence the need for developers to make workarounds and update spoofs constantly.
Every time I've updated my poco f3 there's something new I don't like. Updated to mini 14 the other day and it's pushed me over the edge and now I'm very tempted to root my phone for the first time ever and flash a custom rom. So much effort trying to back everything up though
@@BtorGuac Xiaomi phones are one of the easiest thoo. You just need to wait for a week when you unlock the bootloader for the first time. I have a Poco F1 (running Project Elixir) and my mom has a Poco X2 (running Pixel Experience), both of which are rooted. To the popular belief that rooting is unsafe, I have a different opinion on root. I believe it returns back the power of the device that you own, back to the user. For example, I have a LSPosed module called XPrivacyLua that can give fake permissions to apps, which is useful when a certain app asks for a permission to work but, you don’t want to give it that permission due to privacy reasons. I also use KDE Connect but, now that Google has restricted apps from accessing the clipboard (which I understand due to privacy reasons but, they should let us choose which apps can access it, instead of blocking it totally), KDE Connect doesn’t work seamlessly. Back then I could copy something on my phone and paste it on my laptop and it worked smoothly and now since, the clipboard is restricted, this process isn’t seamless. A Magisk module called Clipboard Whitelist used to solve this for me by only allowing KDE Connect to access the clipboard but, after upgrading to android 13, the module no longer works and the project is dead. Basically for me, root is a good thing if you know what you’re doing...
