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Do you know if Nexus 4 will be harder to root (without custom ROM) after this update? Thanks.
by pbz 13y ago
Do 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.