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Rooting services and/or wiki (keepandroidopen.org)
submitted 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by emotional_soup_88@programming.dev to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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Background

Rooting disables OEM updates and makes your device unofficial, so you will probably still be able to sideload apps. Depending on how this shitstorm turns out though, and if there will ever be a need for it, I would love to help people to root their smartphones. There are of course a lot of online guides and videos on how to do it already, covering various devices and methods, so another idea is to collaborate on a wiki that aggregates and documents all rootable smartphones and the methods that work.

Rooting services

We could open up a chatroom on Signal or any other platform that enables voice and/or video chat. People could also send their smartphones to another person that roots it.

The wiki

I could host something fresh from my desktop or create a community on some fedi instance. The wiki would aggregate preexisting information but also be open for continuous updates by the community.

Question

What does the community think of such an idea? I'm just spitballing here, trying to add something to the opposition.

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[–] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Honestly if you're going to use Android just use GrapheneOS

[–] tetrislife@leminal.space 4 points 7 hours ago

Do commercial apps work on such an installation? I have seen them get worse, checking for non-rooted, non-developer-mode-enabled, Google Play Store enabled, etc.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

What phones are running Graphene?

[–] YC99@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

google pixels, and I think they'll extend its compatibility to motorola

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I don't really want to give Google money because of this. They've been doing what a lot of corporations do, use open source as a cheat for good will and then change the license.

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Geez, everytime this point! Don't you guys have a second hand market? My daily driver is a Pixel 6a with GOS and all apps but one (for which I have a substitute anyway) work perfectly.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

or stuff it all inside play services, which is proprietary.