Android rooting tools?
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For extended phone lifespan, useful for thirdworld countries when OEMs stopped shipping updates to older models. Rooting/Unlocking can give you option to stay in stock and install security updates yourself or installing custom roms like Lineage OS. I use Samsung S9 which it doesn't recieve updates anymore but I like keeping it so I rooted it to keep up with modern standards.
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thanks i just wish i know about them one year ago
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yeah, its not about usability its about the preinstalled FAANG
also don't judge not all people can buy pixels or oneplus (even if they had the money) so they have to buy whats available to them (price or brand)
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Did you read my comment?
If you are referring to fastboot oem unlock, there are almost no phones that don't have dual or even triple bootloader partitions, so that won't work by itself.
click the buttons on the web page
I wouldn't trust a chrome USB TTY permission to touch anything hardware of mine.
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The wall of shame is fantastic, thanks for sharing it.
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Several years ago I came to the conclusion that, for the kind of device models that I personally use (i.e. cheap ones), rooting has now become too complicated and dangerous (if not impossible) and that it's better simply to move my computing back to the desktop while waiting for a more open and free mobile platform to emerge.
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My phone still comes preinstalled with a bunch of crap and I want it gone. Like I'm never going to use Google Games, I'm never going to use LinkdIn, I'm never going to use YouTube Music, or Opera Web Browser. None of these apps I can remove without root.
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It depends on your phone.
- Non Samsung devices: https://topjohnwu.github.io/Magisk/install.html
- Samsung Devices: https://xdaforums.com/t/official-samsung-odin-v4-1-2-1-dc05e3ea-for-linux.4453423/
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You can flash twrp or download app to phone. Windows is sefinetly not a requirement because I only have Linux machines
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Magisk is the only one I know of.
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You might be able to by connecting it to a pc and using console commands. I was able to do it with a cheap onn tv box.
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Increase phone life by avoiding scheduled software obsolescence...
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You can disable apps using adb.
I personally use AppManager (FOSS). In the settings, change the working mode to Wireless ADB. The app should give you the instructions but you can also ask here. Then from the app list you should be able to disable any app you want. The app even tells you which apps are bloatware.
But if you want, you can use adb on Linux too. Download adb and then from terminal run the commands as explained here: https://www.xda-developers.com/disable-system-app-bloatware-android/
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It makes me kinda uneasy to see Google way down the list...
This seems suspicious as fuck ! Not about the person who made the list, but when something so evil makes something so easy to unlock, make my eyebrows twitch ! -
Not only to unlock also install custom key for bootloader and lock bootloader again same way graphenos doing that
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How do you keep up to date? LineageOS just stopped updating S9 in December
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Can we get that udev rule? Or at least a rough idea how to put it together? I had to put a windows box up just to get this phone talking to a pc
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There are various guides, and don't forget to use Sudo with fastboot command.
https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-windows-linux-how-to-unlock-your-bootloader-official-and-unofficial-way.3885578/Udev rules https://github.com/M0Rf30/android-udev-rules
