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?

  • matt4542@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    KernelSU? Hadn’t heard of that one before.

    Do you get proper compliancy with the Integrity API?

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      1 year ago

      KernelSU? Hadn’t heard of that one before.

      It’s relatively new, few months old at most and started as a joke.

      Do you get proper compliancy with the Integrity API?

      Screenshot_20230804-134241_Play Integrity API Checker

      Feel free to ask more questions if you need. For me getting to this point was quite an experience, so I’d be happy to help.

      • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I’m very interested! Which device is this and how did you get to this stage? I believe GKI only really exists for devices running kernel version 5.10 and over. My device is running 5.4 so I can’t use this. I hope that in a couple of years KernelSU will become mainstream and I can reap the benefits of SafetyNet without having to deal with Magisk + Zygisk + LSPosed and a bunch of other stuff.