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Bad news for all the apps on Google Play that require rooting to use (there are some with millions of downloads), but good news for custom ROMs, I guess. A lot
by lnanek2 13y ago
Bad news for all the apps on Google Play that require rooting to use (there are some with millions of downloads), but good news for custom ROMs, I guess. A lot of people just root their phone and start using the apps they rooted for like tethering, controlling GPS and other secure settings on triggered actions, etc.. Now rooting will still be trivial for complete ROMs, but tougher to root existing ones.
- pbz 13y agoDo you know if Nexus 4 will be harder to root (without custom ROM) after this update? Thanks.
- fluidcruft 13y agoI haven't read anywhere whether 4.3 requires the system to be mounted non-suid or merely operates that way by default. If it's not actually required, it shouldn't be too difficult to re-enable suid mount from a custom recovery (but I don't know about the SELinux parts). Conceivably, this would allow the DRM subsystems to easily detect root-able systems (and perhaps even using some sort of active probing to check whether the kernel has been modified to lie about suid mount status).
- aray 13y agoYou don't need a "root" to get a custom ROM (or any build for that matter) on a Nexus 4. You just have to switch the device to unlocked http://source.android.com/source/building-devices.html#unlocking-the-bootloader http://source.android.com/source/building-devices.html#unloc... Unfortunately non-google-sold devices don't have this capability as standard yet, but the Nexus 4 is good to go.