All of my Android phones are rooted and installed with a custom ROM. Bricking my phone multiple times for learning experience and it's fun. Bad or good depends on how you use it. Even if you use an unrooted phone, if you use WhatsApp to send sensitive data then I doubt it is better than a rooted phone with Signal or Telegram.
Yes, there is an increase in vulnerability, but you also have more freedom to use your phone, such as using Magisk, blocking unnecessary system services, etc. I personally believe it's worth the risk to have a rooted phone. Obviously you should not use it for your 1st choice hot/cold wallet.
Topic: Does Rooted Mobile Devices Good or Bad? - page 2. (Read 624 times)
I do think that rooting phones is becoming less and less popular in the phone market. Mostly around 2012 to 2015 you will see a lot of android phones being rooted to further customize or improve their phones by adding their own personalized theme, removing bloatwares that comes installed in a phone, and also overclocking and undercloking, all of these things I have said can be done now by a unrooted phone. For instance Samsung phones have their own "theme" app or if they aren't satisfied they have launcher apps available in the playstore, users can also uninstall most of the unwanted apps that comes pre-installed with their device and also they can also underclock their phones to improve battery performance or overclock it if needed be. With more and more devices adapting to what the consumers want I do expect most of the members here in the forum are using unrooted phones.
But for members who have rooted phones we all know your phone's security more vulnerable the minute you have successfully rooted your phone. With apps and roms you have downloaded on different websites and security bypasses made by the root you know it's not safe to install a wallet nor any of your banking apps.
But for members who have rooted phones we all know your phone's security more vulnerable the minute you have successfully rooted your phone. With apps and roms you have downloaded on different websites and security bypasses made by the root you know it's not safe to install a wallet nor any of your banking apps.
Rookies who did root their mobile devices should not download a wallet app as you may lose your funds in it if you have put some crypto in your wallet for mobile versions as I have stated in the op that if it is higher vulnerability to viruses.
I had done rooting my devices years back when I need root permission to use some apps on my mobiles. Earlier android version allows apps like Kinguser to root the device without installing a custom rom but after the android pie it looks impossible to root with such apps.
So anyone who don't have enough knowledge about rooting will possibly brick their mobile so before flashing new rom make sure the baseband and kernel match with your device configuration.
Rooting means gives you full control of your device so one who knows what to do and not to do can get the best out of rooting their device but for rookies will end up into vulnerabilities.
Correct, I already mentioned it in the op that flashing new roms in your mobiles may result in hardbrick or softbrick. I did know that rooting mobile phones gave you full control and able to uninstall apps that you can't uninstall in unrooted state. Anyway, thank you for the reply that reminded me of something. So anyone who don't have enough knowledge about rooting will possibly brick their mobile so before flashing new rom make sure the baseband and kernel match with your device configuration.
Rooting means gives you full control of your device so one who knows what to do and not to do can get the best out of rooting their device but for rookies will end up into vulnerabilities.
I had done rooting my devices years back when I need root permission to use some apps on my mobiles. Earlier android version allows apps like Kinguser to root the device without installing a custom rom but after the android pie it looks impossible to root with such apps.
So anyone who don't have enough knowledge about rooting will possibly brick their mobile so before flashing new rom make sure the baseband and kernel match with your device configuration.
Rooting means gives you full control of your device so one who knows what to do and not to do can get the best out of rooting their device but for rookies will end up into vulnerabilities.
So anyone who don't have enough knowledge about rooting will possibly brick their mobile so before flashing new rom make sure the baseband and kernel match with your device configuration.
Rooting means gives you full control of your device so one who knows what to do and not to do can get the best out of rooting their device but for rookies will end up into vulnerabilities.
Does anyone tried using rooted mobile devices like android phones?. Did you experience problems or issues?.
Please let me know if anyone tried it. I have read a post before that some tried to root their mobile devices to remove an application that use google services. It is more likely a phone that doesn't have any apps that google is involved. Anyway, I am not planning to root my mobile phone but this thread would only serve as notice if rooted devices is better than unrooted or vice versa. My opinion is that rooted Mobile phones have higher vulnerability to virus as stated below which I don't like and it may cause problems to some of your files even if it's crypto related files or not.
I have seen some bitcointalk forum users who use mobile devices like android phones. I don't know of there are people out there that use mobile devices and the device is rooted. Rooting an android device for example have advantages and disadvantages.
One of the disadvantages of rooting android devices is "Higher Vulnerability to viruses and malwares. Flashing the device's ROM may likely introducing a virus. For those who are likely to install wallet apps in there phone is not recommended for those who have rooted devices. Even the unrooted phone could still get infected by viruses and malwares. If you are not an expert in rooting mobile devices then it is better that you don't.
One of the disadvantages is that flashing roms may result in softbrick or hardbrick which is not good.
Share your knowlede here.
Take Note: I am creating this thread for safety purposes. I am sure that some people downloaded a Wallet App on their phone. This thread is right for it.
Please let me know if anyone tried it. I have read a post before that some tried to root their mobile devices to remove an application that use google services. It is more likely a phone that doesn't have any apps that google is involved. Anyway, I am not planning to root my mobile phone but this thread would only serve as notice if rooted devices is better than unrooted or vice versa. My opinion is that rooted Mobile phones have higher vulnerability to virus as stated below which I don't like and it may cause problems to some of your files even if it's crypto related files or not.
I have seen some bitcointalk forum users who use mobile devices like android phones. I don't know of there are people out there that use mobile devices and the device is rooted. Rooting an android device for example have advantages and disadvantages.
One of the disadvantages of rooting android devices is "Higher Vulnerability to viruses and malwares. Flashing the device's ROM may likely introducing a virus. For those who are likely to install wallet apps in there phone is not recommended for those who have rooted devices. Even the unrooted phone could still get infected by viruses and malwares. If you are not an expert in rooting mobile devices then it is better that you don't.
One of the disadvantages is that flashing roms may result in softbrick or hardbrick which is not good.
Share your knowlede here.
Take Note: I am creating this thread for safety purposes. I am sure that some people downloaded a Wallet App on their phone. This thread is right for it.
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