- full local backups and the resultant ability to easily revert any broken app updates, plus being able to restore those backups on a new phone if my phone brea

- full local backups and the resultant ability to easily revert any broken app updates, plus being able to restore those backups on a new phone if my phone breaks or I upgrade to a new device - AdAway in host file mode, i.e. without having to mess around with a fake VPN connection - toggling Wifi, mobile data and airplane mode programmatically all require root on current Android versions (turn on airplane mode automatically at night, turn off mobile data in my home Wifi and back on when I leave it, and turn on Wifi automatically when I'm near my home [1], plus restoring the original separate Wifi and mobile data toggles via e.g. https://f-droid.org/packages/be.casperverswijvelt.unifiedinternetqs/ https://f-droid.org/packages/be.casperverswijvelt.unifiedint... needs root, too) - being able to poke around on the whole file system is sometimes useful - Xposed for fixing miscellaneous annoyances that would otherwise require hacking APKs (doable but somewhat annoying) or outright compiling a custom ROM (which would be way too much effort) -- Google blocking installation of old apps without ADB -- Google introducing a bug in Android 13/14 that breaks options/overflow menus in some apps – there's a workaround, but that's of no use for old apps that won't see any new updates any time soon -- Google blocking selecting the top-level directory of my SD card in the file access folder picker, which again breaks one app that unfortunately won't see any new updates but otherwise still works fine and has no suitable direct replacement -- turning off the aspect ratio restrictions for old apps, especially seeing how I ended up with one of those ultra-tall aspect ratio Xperias as my current new phone (it seems that this might be an official feature in Android 15, but I don't want to wait that long, plus who knows how that'll actually turn out plus what other things Google might break in turn in that version) -- working around the developer of the music player I paid for introducing a #@§+$%[# timebomb in his app (disabling it two years after the build date of the respective update), and then eventually selling the app to some shady company that's mostly interested in extracting as much money as possible from the app before the whole thing probably burns (if user reviews are anything to go by, they've stopped honouring the old paid unlocker APK and are instead demanding a subscription at a totally unreasonable two-digit monthly price – for a music player for local files (!)). - still haven't found a good replacement for QuickPic gallery for my use case (folder-based browsing respecting the actual file system hierarchy, i.e. nested folders) – while somebody has been keeping up a modded version of the app based on the last version before it, too, was sold to some dubious company, I've found that file access restrictions introduced in recent Android versions require some additional root-based workaround for keeping the app working as I want it, too. [1] It seems current Android versions (or is that just a Sony-specific feature?) offer an option to automatically turn on Wifi when you're near a saved network location, but you can't configure that one.