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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/android
 

I can't root my phone because I don't have an image for it (Moto G73) although I'd like to, but for some reason my banking app thinks it's rooted and refuses to work. This happened just after I updated it, it wasn't happening before.

Edit: I'm regretting not getting the Motorola Edge 40 Neo, which also costs £250, but is slightly better in multiple ways, and seems like it has better root support.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yes, but not rooted. I could relock it and see if that solves the issue, but the app was opening fine when it was still OEM unlocked for several months until the app was updated yesterday. I didn't want it locked in case I did ever find a custom ROM for my phone and I didn't want to delete all my data.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Pretty sure this is the reason then, OEM unlocks can trigger this on some devices.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If you've done an OEM unlock, you effectively already have root access to the device. You could boot a custom recovery right now and modify any system file.

"Rooting" just means using this privilege you already have in order to install a tool into the OS such that you can make use of this privilege while the regular OS is booted.

Go install Magisk and do the safetynet dance. It's a whole thing but should give you a "clean" device from the perspective of unprivileged apps. It's stupid that you have to do this but here we are.