Is Rooting still as essential as it used to be? - eviltoast

Back in the day - rooting Android phones and installing custom ROMs were such a big part of Android. I remember so well using titanium backup and Greenify and Cyanogenmod and the list goes on.

Is it still necessary to root in 2023 though?

I have been on vanilla Android without root access for the past couple of years and at this point most root features have made it into the vanilla Android OS. What are your thoughts?

  • ctrl@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I still root my phone for system-wide adblock, call recorder and Xposed modules I have been using since Jelly Bean.

        • Illiterate Domine@infosec.pub
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          1 year ago

          I’m using the BCR magisk module for recording on a Pixel 7. BCR seems to be pretty universal, but some dialers (OnePlus dialer is one) have recording disabled via config and can be reenabled with adb.