What is the purpose of the Root Genius application?

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kriticar

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Jun 24, 2012
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I know that one step in the rooting process is to use application like Root Genius.
Curious as I am, I would like to know what exactly this application is doing?
I would like to know whether whatever this application does, I can do by hand.
 

l3Nni

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Nov 3, 2014
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Depending what firmware you are right now on it may be possibly (definitely possible with any B6xx and higher rom) to flash the newest SuperSU.zip through a custom recovery. This way you gain root access. To be full rooted you may also delete the set_immutable on B6xx roms.

So, I'd definitely recommend to use the recovery-methode..
 

kriticar

Senior Member
Jun 24, 2012
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Depending what firmware you are right now on it may be possibly (definitely possible with any B6xx and higher rom) to flash the newest SuperSU.zip through a custom recovery. This way you gain root access. To be full rooted you may also delete the set_immutable on B6xx roms.

So, I'd definitely recommend to use the recovery-methode..
So, actually step for using Root genius, iRoot or Kingo android root is not necessary.

If I flash custom recovery, than supersu, I believe that I have to flash rooted boot partition as well.

Still I would like to know what these applications do.