Edit: Replaced “Restrictions” in place of the word “Ban”

  • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    No more over-the-air updates, no more locked bootloader. Those are both significant security downgrades that usually come with rooting Android.

    Edit: downvoters apparently dont know that the main rooting methods all modify the boot partition, which prevents OTA updates from succeeding. Updates are very important to protect your phone with security patches against zero days and other vulnerabilities. Likewise modifying the bootloader requires unlocking it - which means no more secure boot and anyone who takes your phone can happily boot whatever they like on it. This is also bad.

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      1 hour ago

      no more locked bootloader

      Likewise modifying the bootloader requires unlocking it - which means no more secure boot and anyone who takes your phone can happily boot whatever they like on it. This is also bad.

      Except for Graphene. The last step in the installation is locking the bootloader back, and the phone clearly says it’s locked.