Root discussion thread

What is the best rooting method or apk to root your android?
I used KingRoot everytime, but read some shit about "shady practices" (chinks are selling fake copies and IMEIs)

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Don't. Just run an x86 vm if you want to do 1337 stuff.

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I use kingroot to root it first time, isn't all TWRP using the app and flash magisk

>kingroot
>kingoroot
Which one is the right one?

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Kingoroot is shit and just bloats your phone.
I meant Kingroot.

Bump for interest

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Magisk, rest is botnet

im using magisk, works fucking great.

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Magisk. Supersu and kingroot are botnet.

Can it root chinese tablets? Its the only reason I use kingoroot since it was the only apk I found that roots the Dragon Touch Y88X

the best and safest method is installing lineage os

You install it from TWRP. There are no known root exploits since Nougat(and kingroot relies on exploits) so you better get used to it.

Unlocking the bootloader and installing LineageOS is the best method.

Why not just DIY?
Its fun and you learn a bit in the process

>tfw locked bootloader

LOS doesn't have root.

It does tho, but it's facultative.

You can just flash a su zip.

you have only yourself to blame for this.
>i'm retarded
that's nice

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Not built-in. Might as well install magisk.

It is built-in though.

It's official, nice damage control.

It's literally not. Are you using an unofficial knock-off or something? They stopped doing that since 14.1.
Official, but not built-in. You have to download it from extras.
download.lineageos.org/extras

>lollipop
You aren't even using LOS you lying piece of shit nigger.

>King Root
Get out shill

This. Anything else is botnet

You flash supersu thru recovery, almost everything else is bull, almost.
>kingroot.
Just fuck my shit up senpai tier, install shit without telling you, and the chinks will chink you sooner or later.

Now for a real question I'm too lazy to Google, can you set a recovery password or stop flashing on particular partitions?, say you flashed twrp and the device is lost or stolen, anyone with half a brain will turn it off and pull/back up the user data before flashing and formatting the thing, so you're double fucked unless you took other protective measures like encryption.

Can this be mitigated?

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I never root my phone, just flash a lineage rom and boom, root

My android doesn't support root

Hey, seeing as blackberries rely on safety net and magisk hides from it, wouldn't magisk work on a passport?

Locked bootloader.

>rooting old phone, Droid Razr (XT912)
>kingoroot.botnet just werks
>tfw your bootloader cannot be unlocked anyways
just

So lineage has root built in?

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No. Only CM did.

Not built in.

download.lineageos.org/extras

>not using towelroot

What is this, 2013?

You just need to flash a file that is on their website

Kingroot to gain root access, then replace it with SuperSU. It's the easiest method. Android is a shitty OS and the way hardware is built around it is terrible, doesn't matter if you get chinked. If you want a better experience wait for Librem 5.

>not rooting the proper way and allowing a chinese botnet to be installed on your phone

BUMP

How do you flash a rom without rooting retard

fastboot oem unlock
retard

>botnet

>can't hide root to certain apps
enjoy not using snapchat or banking apps

you just don't flash the root file you actual retard

I rooted my s7 edge on nougat with no problem without twrp because my boatloader is locked

>rooting a phone with a locked bootloader
either you're now getting spied on and part of a literal botnet or you're lying

Theres signed engineer builds for a lot of samsung

It's LOS you retard.
>turn off root
>log in
>make backup with titanium
>turn back on root
>restore with titanium
wow so hard
i don't give a shit about paying for things with my phone, and Chase app works no problem lol.
how's it feel to be a stockcuck because you're braindead?

>It's LOS you retard.
Show the "About phone" then you lying nigger.

TWRP + Magisk

suck my cock
choke on it

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From twrp. You don't need root to install twrp.

>just run another layer of useless processes to emulate a unoptimized program

You're a idiot.

> root using userspace android app
Miss me with that gay shit
SuperSU via TWRP is the only viable option.

>whining about security risks when he uses a literal closed source Chinese botnet
if you use SuperSU your opinion does not count.

>connect phone to computer
>put phone in fastboot state
>sudo fastboot oem unlock
>sudo fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
>boot into recovery
>sudo adb devices
>adb sideload lineage.zip
>adb sideload opengapps.zip (optional)
>adb sideload magisk.zip
>reboot
Wow, that was hard. Why would I use an """app""" or something similar for this?

tfw nor LOS nor twrp supports your phone model

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Yeah. It is hard user.

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BUMPED

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>twrp.img

What if there's no TWRP version available for my phone?
Is there a universal TWRP that I'm not aware of?

I did not say anything about security.

no

No, you just have to not be retarded when buying phones

Methods:
*oneclickroot
*flash recovery (for samsung with odin, for old lgs via adb)
-install cm (an old not supported version)
-install los

I haven't ever tried kingroot, and the only time i used oneclickroot its because an old cheap oiece of shit tablet (yezz t7ed)
>remove this su, install another su
And yes you must do it.. You van check if it is properly working..

Btw i am using an old cm build for a non supported device and it has root preinstalled.. The same with los

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>burgers need shady chink exploits to get root on devices they own

Heh

>implying burgers own their phones
They only buy contract phones.

>chinese root methods
>not rooting your phone manually
What are you, a fucking chinklet?

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This, that question is as dumb as asking how to get into a car without turning on the engine

>Kingroot

Isn't that the app that, even after uninstalling, still leaves a bunch of hidden chink stuff on your device?

Is there any good resource to self educate on android root and custom roms without stumbling across a bunch of pajeets from xda shilling their roms or stupid stuff? I mean something like the LFS or Gentoo handbook. I'd like to remove the botnet from the phone as much as possible understanding what's happening, instead of "tap, tap, tap, root".

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Rooting is simply installing su. That's all there's to it.

Android is a shitty OS and rooting it risks bricking it further.

Android is basically a Linux distro with various closed source drivers and binaries from Qualcomm/Samsung/ARM/Broadcom/etc. and the Android stack on top of it, installed on 73 different partitions all with similarly undocumented and proprietary blobs on them. Rooting is just copying and pasting the equivalent of an .exe file that gives anything root permissions when executed. A "custom ROM" is just a build of AOSP with features and modifications (usually Java, or the kernel itself) applied to it and the necessary proprietary drivers/binaries/libraries transplanted from the original manufacturer provided firmware to make sure the thing can actually boot and take a picture with the camera. Usually everything other than /system is also untouched (the bootloader, the partitions with radio/GSM/4G shit on them, etc.) for similar reasons. You're basically doing the equivalent of taking a Fedora system and turning it into Ubuntu by replacing a few files.

If you want to have a "botnet free" Android device you have full control over, go get a Raspberry Pi or something.

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if legacy device, go for the dirtycow exploit.

It sure is.

I've heard SuperSU is a botnet so I unrooted. Is this an erroneous claim?

You should replace SuperSU with Magisk anyway.

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Just boycott everything from Chainfire desu.