| Stephen R Guglielmo on 7 Jan 2016 08:22:22 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Rooting Phone Experiences |
On Thu, 07 Jan 2016 07:39:51 -0500 Mail List <MailList@NerdWorld.org> wrote: > I would like to root my android phone. It's a Motorola Moto X Pure, which > Motorola officially supports rooting. > > However, their web page has all kinds of scary warnings about rooting, and > I definitely cannot afford to brick this device. It seems like this is a > fairly simple process, but the cost of being wrong is potentially very high > (non-working $400 phone). Before I proceed, I wanted to see how other > people (who are braver and smarter, but not as good-looking as me) have > fared rooting their phones. > > Has anyone on this list had a bad experience rooting their phone? > My experience with my smart phone and rooting/installing a custom recovery and ROM: I've owned a Samsung Galaxy S4 for several years now. As soon as I got it, I wiped it, installed a custom recovery (at the time, I used ClockworkMod Recovery[1], but that's been since discontinued), and installed CyanogenMod[2]. I had one scare when my phone wouldn't boot. The Samsung logo appeared, but nothing happened after that. However, I was easily able to re-flash the CyanogenMod image and it worked fine. I then moved on to the TeamWin Recovery Project[3] and was using the CyanogenMod nightly builds (wiping and reinstalling once a month or so with the latest nightly). Now, I'm using TWRP and a snapshot release of CM. I've really had no problems with it, although Samsung uses the Heimdall[4] tool for flashing the recovery image. I'm not sure if Motorola has a similar tool. CyanogenMod doesn't allow root access by default, but one could enable the developer options. In the developer options, there's a setting to allow root access to adb, apps, or both. I use AFWall+, a firewall, and it requires root access. I can enable the settings to allow apps root access, but even then I still get prompted when an app requests root privileges. I think the way CM does it is pretty safe. [1] http://clockworkmod.com/rommanager [2] http://www.cyanogenmod.org/ [3] https://twrp.me/ [4] http://glassechidna.com.au/heimdall/ ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug