• penquin@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I have never met a person that just rooted their phone without slapping a custom ROM on it. The initial motive for rooting is normally to install a custom ROM, but that makes sense I guess

    Edit: yup, I’m wrong about needing root to install a custom ROM. My apologies, my last rooted device was the galaxy note 3 back in 2013/2014. My memory is very rusty.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      You don’t necessarily need to root to install a custom ROM

      On a Fairphone at least you can practically flash the device OOTB after unlocking the bootloader, no root needed.

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      1 year ago

      I have never met a person that just rooted their phone without slapping a custom ROM on it.

      Now you have

      The initial motive for rooting is normally to install a custom ROM

      I think there are some misunderstandings.

      Root is not needed to flash a custom ROM. That does not (usually) happen from a running system, but through fastboot or the recovery, and those don’t ask for root permission, only an unlocked bootloader.