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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those usually are made to persist after factory reset. The phone is rooted and factory reset is modified to not remove the bad software.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And rooting the phone requires an unlocked bootloader, which would present a warning when the phone is booted up.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you know what you are doing, it won't.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes it will. There's no way to bypass it, if there is, that would be a serious security flaw - the kind that would get patched very quickly. There have been some phones which had a vulnerable bootloader that allowed this in the past (eg: OnePlus devices), but there's no such exploit available for current generation devices

I'd like to see some sources backing up your claim, which is applicable to current generation phones.