Oneplus 6 rooting disadvantages

[Elekted]

Hello,
I'm buying a oneplus 6 very soon and I'm probably going to root it. Now I obviously know the advantages but what exactly are the disadvantages?
As far as I know, oneplus doesnt void warranty, right?
Will I still get updates for the phone? With Magisk that should still work or am I wrong?
EFS can be lost?
Are there any other negative sides?

Thanks for the infos and a good day.

Elekted

 

[gulshanstrider]

There are no disadvantages of rooting if you know what you are doing.
Worse you can end up having a 560$ brick if you mess up big time.
Some minor risks are :-

I) Bootloops : If you flash wrong boot.img or wrong kernel . Anything which is half baked or not for op6 can cause this problem. It can be custom font, substratum themes, Wrong or half baked ROM which is not tested properly.

II) warranty:- although one plus claims that unlocking bootloader doesn't voids your warranty but if you read the statement carefully then you will find a loop hole on the statement.

"The technical process of rooting or unlocking the bootloader does not void the warranty of a OnePlus device. However, we strongly suggest for you to only root or unlock the bootloader of your OnePlus device if you are confident in your understanding of the risks involved.
By accessing resources regularly unavailable to the software, you may damage your hardware during or after the procedure. Such damage is not covered under warranty. In warranty handling, we will first need to verify that any faulty behavior is unrelated to rooting / unlocking."

So basically they can deny your claim if you over clock your cpu and they can prove it.


Other than these 2 I don't think there are any risks involved

 

[Stripedew]

There is one considerable disadvantage to rooting the OnePlus 6 specifically.
Stock ROM, locked bootloader = Widevine L1.
But if you unlock the bootloader, Widevine changes to L3, which means Netflix/Amazon Prime Video/Google Movies will all play at no higher than 480p.
And no, Magisk does not fix this. Magisk allows you to download and use Netflix, but Widevine will still prevent the quality from going above 480p.

 

[vercetti]

does this only affect streaming or also if you download the videos to watch offline?

both Amazon prime and Netflix let you download content to view offline. will those files also only be 480p?

 

[Stripedew]

does this only affect streaming or also if you download the videos to watch offline?

both Amazon prime and Netflix let you download content to view offline. will those files also only be 480p?

I'm not rooted so i can't check that sadly, but I assume it affects streaming and downloads. The idea behind Widevine is to limit the ability to screen record or rip videos, so offline watching is very likely to be affected too.

 

[vercetti]

maybe someone who's already rooted can test this!

I hardly stream Netflix and Amazon prime videos. but I download them and watch them on the go sometimes. would be cool to know if it affects downloaded videos too.

 

[gulshanstrider]

maybe someone who's already rooted can test this!

I hardly stream Netflix and Amazon prime videos. but I download them and watch them on the go sometimes. would be cool to know if it affects downloaded videos too.

I am rooted please tell steps so that I can test

 

[vercetti]

hmm, just did a quick search and came up with the following:

"...Netflix videos are stored in a proprietary format and are only visible to the app"

they are stored in:
Device Storage > Android > data > com.netflix.mediaclient > files > Download >.of. If you get to the "Download" folder and don't see anything, you need to enable the ability to see hidden files

each movie is on its own folder which is titled with numbers.
in there are a couple files, but unfortunately you can't open these with a video player app like "VLC".

so I don't know how to actually figure out what the quality and resolution of the downloaded video is. the only simple way to check is to switch the download quality in the Netflix app to "high", then download a movie. in high quality an hour should be around 500mb. while you're downloading something in the Netflix app you can see how big the download is once the download starts.

so I'd recommend to just try out this simple verification.

 

[Elekted]

There are no disadvantages of rooting if you know what you are doing.
Worse you can end up having a 560$ brick if you mess up big time.
Some minor risks are :-

I) Bootloops : If you flash wrong boot.img or wrong kernel . Anything which is half baked or not for op6 can cause this problem. It can be custom font, substratum themes, Wrong or half baked ROM which is not tested properly.

II) warranty:- although one plus claims that unlocking bootloader doesn't voids your warranty but if you read the statement carefully then you will find a loop hole on the statement.

"The technical process of rooting or unlocking the bootloader does not void the warranty of a OnePlus device. However, we strongly suggest for you to only root or unlock the bootloader of your OnePlus device if you are confident in your understanding of the risks involved.
By accessing resources regularly unavailable to the software, you may damage your hardware during or after the procedure. Such damage is not covered under warranty. In warranty handling, we will first need to verify that any faulty behavior is unrelated to rooting / unlocking."

So basically they can deny your claim if you over clock your cpu and they can prove it.


Other than these 2 I don't think there are any risks involved

Cool thanks for the infos. But what about updates? Will I still get update and be able to install them?