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That's correct. adb doesn't give you root privileges. For example, you cannot install system apps with adb unless you have a rooted device already. You certain
by Fradow 7y ago
That's correct. adb doesn't give you root privileges. For example, you cannot install system apps with adb unless you have a rooted device already.
You certainly have access to a lot of things with adb, but it can hardly be considered root on non-rooted devices.
- kllrnohj 7y ago> adb doesn't give you root privileges. That's not true. It does have root support built in with 'adb root' that then runs future shell commands as root. The factory image has this disabled, though, so you do need to flash a build that supports it. That would be a 'userdebug' build variant ( https://source.android.com/setup/build/building#choose-a-target https://source.android.com/setup/build/building#choose-a-tar... ) So strictly speaking you can have root through purely first-party, open source, AOSP tools exclusively. It does, however, require doing a full build & flash yourself. That process is at least documented, though, so there's that. Just think of it like Gentoo