• phario@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I used to root my Android phones. Then I stopped because all banking apps were disallowing launch if your phone was detected as having root.

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      1 year ago

      yeah i wish there was a reliable way to fix this, last time i checked there werent any. also those apps didnt even show up in play store (ex.: revolut)

      • Kenny Bell@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I’m using revolut on a rooted device, no issues on 3 banking apps. Google Pay can be a hit or miss though, had it working a month ago but now it fails.

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      1 year ago

      People complain about this as if it’s some sort of massive roadblock that nobody’s solved yet.

      Magisk Hide handles this and has been around for years. Venture around on the relevant XDA forum and SEARCH

      • Jiří Král@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        Can approve this. After each clean flash I just install universal safetynet fix module and enable zygisk. I am able to pass safetynet, it took my like 10 mins and I didn’t need any super knowledge.

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        1 year ago

        Back when I looked into this, which was more than half a decade ago, it was a nightmare to figure out what worked and what didn’t. The XDA community is also hard to distangle.

        Maybe it’s changed since then but I didn’t have the time to look into what worked and what didn’t.

    • Hopfgeist@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Rooting your phone and unlocking the bootloader are separate (and mostly independent) things. E.g., by default, LineageOS is not rooted, but it requires an unlocked bootloader to install. Now, rooting without an unlocked bootloader is harder.