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Note that you can totally do all of those if you root your device. Highly recommend.
by chmln 6y ago
Note that you can totally do all of those if you root your device. Highly recommend.
- easyKL 6y agoor by having Privileged Extension (for background installs & auto-upgrading) and a personal repo (for batch installs)
- chmln 6y agoWell the privileged extension requires root, which is what I was alluding to in my post :)
- easyKL 6y agoNot necessarilly. One can enjoy Privileged Extension on an unrooted phone by using a custom ROM, LOS for example. edit: typo
- Youden 6y agoThe privileged extension does not require root. You _can_ install it with Magisk (which also provides root) but it can also be flashed as a regular flashable ZIP (which just requires an unlocked device). Last (and best) of all, it can be added to an unrooted ROM. RattlesnakeOS[0] for example includes it. [0]: https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack
- tetris11 6y agoAh I was wondering what was going on. The newest version of F-Droid updated all my apps with a single one-click update prompt. I remember the pain of previous releases where you had to manually update each and every app.
- dingaling 6y agoRooting is great, where possible. Many cheaper devices though are still unrootable, usually because it hasn't been possible to build a version of TWRP for them.
- Dylan16807 6y agoMany non-cheap ones too, notably Samsung and LG (in the US). If you want rooting and a bunch of storage, your non-cheap options get harshly limited. Looking for such a phone over the last few months, the options for my carrier were Motorola or bust. Which means getting an Edge, which are goofy and expensive and have defective screens. So I gave up and got my first unrootable phone, from Samsung.