• 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.

      • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
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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.