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all roms need root.

• gruez 4y ago
  What do you mean by "need root"? To flash? A few comments above people were mentioning how grapheneos was explicitly against rooting, so not giving users root during runtime is definitely a thing.
  • petodo 4y ago
    he means you can't install custom ROM without unlocked bootloader which is essentially root access
    • yoavm 4y ago
      Root access and unlocked bootloader are very different things. Many apps need root access to work, and having an unlocked bootloader won't help. On the other hand, installing another ROM requires an unlocked bootloader, but having root access won't help with it.
      • petodo 4y ago
        you can't have root access without unlocked bootloader, simple as that I can access everything as root from recovery with unlocked bootloader without having actual root in system, root just make it more convenient after proper boot
        • gruez 4y ago
          > you can't have root access without unlocked bootloader, simple as that Various EoP exploits for the kernel begs to differ. That said, even though your statement is broadly true, conflating unlocked bootloader and root access in the OS under an umbrella term of "root" is still sloppy terminology. The terms are related, but don't mean the same thing. For instance, many x86 PCs essentially have locked bootloaders by default (secure boot), but you can still get root access on them because the operating system explicitly allows it.