root/backup question

[Veid71]

So I currently have a 1TB sdcard in my note8 unlocked US version and I was wondering if I make a back up of my current stuff with root and save it on my SD card and flash a stock version without root so I can go into my banking app and play Pokemon go etc etc would that work? Would I be able to swap back to my rooted one afterwards?

 

[Devhux]

Well, theoretically you could do that, as it's more rooting than an unlocked bootloader that is preventing you from using Pokemon Go and maybe your banking app.

I say "theoretically" because you don't have a 1TB micro SD card in your phone, since they don't exist yet. You might be lucky and not save more than the actual amount of flash memory that is really on that card (maybe 32GB, but I even doubt that), but if you do, that data will be gone forever.

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[Veid71]

Well, theoretically you could do that, as it's more rooting than an unlocked bootloader that is preventing you from using Pokemon Go and maybe your banking app.

I say "theoretically" because you don't have a 1TB micro SD card in your phone, since they don't exist yet. You might be lucky and not save more than the actual amount of flash memory that is really on that card (maybe 32GB, but I even doubt that), but if you do, that data will be gone forever. also my BL is locked im on a snapdragon version

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they exist, i just bought one a couple weeks ago off of groupon for like 100 dollars, but i wasnt sure if when i flash the stock firmware it would erase safestrap/twrp and force me to root again before i could install it or if safestrap would stay regardless

 

[Devhux]

I guarantee it's not a real 1TB card, but go on thinking it is. The phone may even report it is a 1TB card but if you run an SD card tester then you'll see it fails reading at a certain point.

As for your actual question, flashing a stock rom will typically remove TWRP and replace it with stock recovery. You could probably re-flash TWRP at that point.

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[Veid71]

I guarantee it's not a real 1TB card, but go on thinking it is. The phone may even report it is a 1TB card but if you run an SD card tester then you'll see it fails reading at a certain point.

As for your actual question, flashing a stock rom will typically remove TWRP and replace it with stock recovery. You could probably re-flash TWRP at that point.

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hmmm the phone registers it as a 1TB card whats an sd card tester? im assuming an app? i was just reading an article about a company reportedly working on i believe it was a 142TB sd card or something close to that with 1 gb a second speed for reading