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That seals the deal for me on rooting my pixel. I've been hesitant about rooting ever since I bricked an extra galaxy s3 and nearly bricked my (main device) Verizon galaxy s5
If you have a factory pixel, you don't need to root. You can unlock bootloader and install a rom that has it (calyxos or grapheneos I know have them). You can root, but you don't have to.
Putting graphineos onto my pixel was the easiest thing I've done in a long time, the installer is just pressing buttons and waiting for the next button to be ready pretty much.
How does it work for stuff like bank apps? Do they freak out about it?
And does it require unlocking the bootloader? I prefer to keep mine locked if possible.
My bank app works fine and I can use the NFC chip for payments as well, it might pay to search up your bank name and graphineos to see if anyone's had an issue, that's what I did to make sure.
You have to unlock it to install but once installed they prefer you lock the bootloader back up again.
Same question as catloaf but with less ambiguous things like banks: does Netflix, safety net, fox sports Australia and Google pay work with graphene os?
Google wallet doesn't work at all, but if your bank offers its own NFC payment system then that should work.
The only app that I've had an issue with was uber, that refused to install from either play store or aurora store, but beyond that I haven't had any issues. Just search graphineos and the app you want to check, or check out their forum.
My bank apps all work (though YMMV.) Ticket app worked (AXS.) I haven't actually used google pay or google wallet for anything to know if they work.
Authy is the only miss I've found and it wouldn't have mattered if i hadnt been caught in the midst of migrating to another app for that when they decided to be assholes.
GrapheneOS is the easiest ROM install bar none. Get the en browser (needs to be chrome-based) to the install url, hook the phone cable, and let it run. It's super straightforward. It's not rooting though, you don't get root access by default.
Wow things sure changed about Android roms! I still remember how difficult it was to try to simply install a rom through Knox
samsung devices are still a different beast, they have their unique little everything and the standard tools don't work there
You can add the function easily using https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.llamalab.automate, no root needed.
It's either root or having access to my bank accounts. 🙄
Change banks.
Have a 20 year mortgage with that bank so no.