All what you are saying is conflicting with the root idea, of companies trying to collect as much money as possible from the user. and still not giving them the freedom to do what they want to do.> if you want to have your phone bloated with unused apps
storage space is not a problem on a 128GB or higher phone. I can disable or ignore apps I dont use. this is a non issue on unrooted devices
>ads, if you want to watch youtube with Ads,
buy a youtube permium subscription. pay for the ad free service instead of rooting then stealing / cheating
>and listen to the same nordVPN sponsor every day
Again perhaps the paid for nordVPN is the morally responsible way to use their service without ads.
>and have your phone sounds normal not as good as a rooted phone with viper4android.
nothing is remotely wrong with quality of sound on my phone and i mainly stream to headphones or soundbar over BT.
So that's another non issue irrelevant to 99.9% of smartphone owners who have not rooted.
>and want to ignore battery-saving tweaks like Greenify.
Hooray! At last one potentially useful root-enabled phone feature that is available.
How much % increase SOT do you get? If its 5-10% its not not worth rooting for. If 50% or 100% SOT increase you win the point this time.
>OTA. (Response from another post). if you flash magisk via patched boot image. you can get the OTA without bricking the phone. while keeping the root. the only downside is that your phone will download the full frimware again 5Gbs+ rather than downloading a 200MB update. which doesn't matter. and magisk will patch the new frimware boot image for you. before restarting. without the need of a computer at all.
Compromise and extra work and increased data usage. Most definitely not acceptable reason to root for me thank you
>(some) Risk of trippig knox - no warranty in EU with tripped knox
perfect reason never ever to root a samsung phone ever.
>Some apps dont work after rooting (but magisk can get them working again)
Can ALL apps that dont work with rooted or knox tripped devices be made to work 100% again? Secure Folder, Samsung Pay, Banking Apps, etc.
Seems to me we can just agree that anyone who wants to root their device can do this if they know & accept all the pros and cons.
Anyone who doesnt need the "benefit" of a rooted phone or decides the risk and compromise are too great does not.
I know which side me and 75% of XDA F4 owners are on lol.
Totally agree. Rooting a phone in 2022 is as useful as buying a house with an outside toilet. Not many want this feature in their life.Yeah, AFAIK it blows the knox fuse, so anything with personal data from Samsung stops working. That includes pay, wear, health, sec folder etc. Also Google stuff becomes a pain. Probably work around for that, but honestly, doesn't give you anything, and just causes issue, so don't bother
#MeToo. I am a recovering root-a-holic from late 2000s to mid 2010s but rooting a samsung in the 2020s is more trouble than benefit for anyone who is not an active XDA custom rom dev.Rooting doesn't make any sense anymore. on the contrary it brings so many issues especially regarding banking and password managing applications.
I was a flashcoholic during the good old days, and rooting a phone was the first thing I did when I purchased any phone.