Hello guys,
I have a private device, but I would like to use it in my work, where is a requirement to have a security software installed, namely [email protected] to access corporate email. Of course you cant have rooted phone, so my question is if I unroot the phone and I guess to remove custom recovery, if it would pass.... thanks...
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I know how to root a phone, and tablet. Install custom Andriod Roms. I want to knw how to tell if a phone, tablet has been rooted or had a custom rom installed?
Thank you,
Donovan Frasure
As far as I know, if the phone is currently rooted, you could connect it to your computer with a usb cable, open terminal, write something like adb, su root, and if you get the root access here, then the phone is rooted.
Regarding adventures from the past, probably no way of knowing. If the user had a rooted phone with a custom rom, and decided to go back to the original firmware, succesfully reflashed it, then the phone is like factory-brand-new from the software perespective.
I doubt if information about having been rooted is stored on the system.
Btw, please don't tell me you're working in some telecom's customer service
No I was helping a friend try to root his EVO Shift 4G I used the Z4 temp root that was on this forum but it made it slow I meen real slow. The he told be he had tried before. The only way I knew how to check is to look at the about this device. That made me wonder if he tried to flash a custom rom and had problems so I wanted to know if there was a way to tell.
If you want to check if ROM is currently rooted, try "Root Checker" from Android market.
Hi All,
First of all, I've searched and searched and searched and could not find the solution to my problem.
The company I work for implemented MobileIron mobile device management for access to email. I had a CM9 on my phone and the MobileIron was reporting that my phone is rooted. I removed the Superuser apk from the phone and removed system/sbin/su folder as well. Still reporting it is rooted.
Installed AOKP, tried using SuperSU to permanently unroot, and MobileIron was still reporting the phone is rooted.
I got sick of it so I downloaded stock firmware from samfirmware and flashed that using Odin. MobileIron is STILL reporting that the device is rooted!!!
Is there a possibility that there is still something on the phone which would indicate that my device is rooted, even though it doesn't have root access any more?
My build is: IMM79D.XWLPW
Kernel is: 3.0.15-1056084 [email protected] #3 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 22 etc etc
Please help!!!
Adi
Delete MobileIron data & cache.
Do NOT wipe in recovery, open the app via task manager.
Sent from the little guy
Hello everyone,
I've been given a Digiland DL5003QL phone
I used Kingroot and successfully manage to gain root access but I'd also like to install a Custom Recovery. I'm kind of new of this kind of stuff and I only knew CWM and TWRP whose unfortunately don't officially support my phone model...
Can I install one whitout throwing the phone in the trash? If yes could you give some hints in the right direction?
Thank you so much!
I started to think about rooting my g960f, it is a week year old device and the ads in apps annoys me so much. I will be using root to disable bixby through root uninstaller, if you have any other suggestions please tell. also I will be using mother of adblock, if you have any other suggestions please tell. I still have some questions.
- Is there any way to root the phone without custom recovery?
- will I be able to install system updates if I root the phone? if not how am I supposed to install them when the device is rooted?
- will it lose any of its features? if yes, which features?
- will I be able to go full stock again and gain all the lost features back?
I wont be installing custom rom as I already liked the stock rom but it needs some modification. I am sure that most of the people has the same questions in their minds so your answers would help many.
Pandemicc said:
- will I be able to install system updates if I root the phone? if not how am I supposed to install them when the device is rooted?
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As long as all you did was root the phone and did not change the OS to a custom one you should be able to get OTA updates. You should be able to install OTA updates normally, but you will loose the root install and have to do it again. Since OTA updates may patch any exploits a root install tool may use you might not be able to root the phone again (at least not until the root utility is updated to use a different method) after an update, so keep that in mind.
Pandemicc said:
- will it lose any of its features? if yes, which features?
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Once you root you might very well trip Knox. If Knox is tripped Samsung Pay, Secure folders is what I can find Google Searching and searching the forum here as what wouldn't work Samsung app wise. S-Health would also stop working, but I've read about potential ways to make S-health work again. I am not sure if those ways still work or not.
Other apps (financial, etc) may not work if the phone is rooted..
Pandemicc said:
- will I be able to go full stock again and gain all the lost features back?
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Sort of... Knox secure apps like S-health, Secure Folders, Samsung Pay will not work. Once you trip knox they will not work on the device ever again. This is because once knox is tripped it is tripped, it's a hardware e-fuse. You can not fix it nor reset it.
Other apps that just detected whether root is installed (or being used) should return to normal
thank you so much for the reply, lastly do you any suggestion for rooting? like the best way of doing it or use this guide and such.
Why root the device? You can use Adhell3 and block all the ads using knox itself
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thank you so much for the reply, lastly do you any suggestion for rooting? like the best way of doing it or use this guide and such.
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Personally I don't have a suggestion on a root method for your phone, but I do suggest you do some research on the subject. You can also look in the Galaxy S9 topic on XDA as that is the model you said you were using (G960F). In all honesty your gonna want to read up on what the process entails, what issues you might encounter and the risks involved... This is kind of a one way trip (metaphorically and essentially literally speaking) because if you trip knox (which you most likely will) you will void any warranty as well as permanently loose rather useful functionality on the phone (Samsung pay does come in handy IMHO). Not to mention root weakens the security of the phone and if your not careful you could (not saying you will, but could) run into a lot of problems.
Granted I am not saying you shouldn't root your phone but I am suggesting that in your case there is a more simpler method of doing what you want to do. Adhell3 was suggested and it's an app I use as well. Adhell3 will allow you to configure knox to do what you are seeking.. Knox can be configured to serve as a system wide ad blocking and it can be used as a way to disable apps on the phone (including bixby). There is more it can do, but I would suggest reading up on it (I can't give you all the answers, your gonna have to discover them also). Since your not trying to install an custom OS or changing cpu governors, cpu frequencies or anything Xposed related I would suggest looking into Adhell3 since that will do what you want without messing with Knox (or any potential issues with your phone from rooting). Also Adhell3 is not a permanent change to the phone, it can be fully removed, it doesn't weaken the security of the phone by allowing root access to the Android OS and file system on the phone and it will survive OTA updates.
Also if your looking to cut down on advertisements in applications I would suggest not installing as many.. Adblocking whether by hosts file or Adhell3 works by blocking the dns lookup of an advertisement. Both methods are not 100% perfect because if an advertisement comes from the same domain as where you are accessing (like facebook or Youtube sometimes do) then the advertisement will still be shown. Still to cut down on advertisements I would suggest going with Adhell3 over root.
- Is there any way to root the phone without custom recovery?
Nope, that means also that once you decice to flash custom recovery your knox will be triggered 0x1 in bootloader and it cant be reversed by flashing stock.
- will I be able to install system updates if I root the phone? if not how am I supposed to install them when the device is rooted?
Most devs here release latest build of their ROMs based on the latest security patches from official stock ROMs. You can just dirty flash the latest build over the previous one.
- will it lose any of its features? if yes, which features?
Samsung pay and secure folder. However you can try google pay as an alternative and you can use MagiskHide to make apps work even if the phone is rooted.
- will I be able to go full stock again and gain all the lost features back?
You can go back to stock, but you wont be able to use the features mentioned above. It's a one way irreversible process.
KevAngelo14 said:
- Is there any way to root the phone without custom recovery?
Nope, that means also that once you decice to flash custom recovery your knox will be triggered 0x1 in bootloader and it cant be reversed by flashing stock.
- will I be able to install system updates if I root the phone? if not how am I supposed to install them when the device is rooted?
Most devs here release latest build of their ROMs based on the latest security patches from official stock ROMs. You can just dirty flash the latest build over the previous one.
- will it lose any of its features? if yes, which features?
Samsung pay and secure folder. However you can try google pay as an alternative and you can use MagiskHide to make apps work even if the phone is rooted.
- will I be able to go full stock again and gain all the lost features back?
You can go back to stock, but you wont be able to use the features mentioned above. It's a one way irreversible process.
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Remember to include Xprivacylua to inhibit apps from seeing what apps you have installed. Have helped me out using bank apps as well
Hi. My phone is Oppo K1 (PBCM30) running Android 8.1.0 with ColorOS V5.2. I buy this phone through AliExpreess, since this phone not yet available in my country, thus give me ColorOS version which designed specifically for China region. I tried many attempt to root my phone with no avail. The closest way to ALMOST successfully root is to install Kingroot, but is is blocked by installation security with message "A high risk threat has been detected. The system has prohibited this installation. This app contain following risk: It contains the root permission, the highest phone permission, which once obtained by an app, can be use to maliciously control your phone." And before you ask, YES, I have enabled the Install From Unknown Source option.
Other way to root that I've tried is to flash SuperSU. But this way requires me to install custom recovery first, which of course impossible for me since the requirement to install custom recovery is the phone has been rooted. Besides, it look like there's no version of TWRP available for this phone yet. Another attempt (by Kingoroot, iRoot, and all kind of ways-to-root, both with and without PC) has failed miserably.
I love this phone, but it really drives me crazy with it's unrootable state. Please help me!!
It's don't make a sense
I mean, for flashing TWRP, my device need to be rooted, but for rooting my device, it need to flash TWRP first. How the heck I do that?