I’ve written this blog post about moving from rooted Samsung to a Pixel running GrapheneOS.
It’s a list of every root tool that I used, with a note on whether I’ll miss it. I wrote it as a checklist for myself initially, and decided to add links and more comments and publish it. Turns out I don’t really need root, which truly surprised me.
Do you have any apps or tools that hold you back from leaving root?
Based on GrapheneOS’s response in this thread, I understand that freezing apps might be completely unnecessary
Link in that part doesn’t work but is it really that bothersome to use Hail with Shizuku? You only need to re-enable shizuku after reboot. I don’t restart my phone too often so it is not a problem for me.
In my case I rooted my device once to try some fancy things. It was fun but then I never bothered with rooting again. Most things that I need can be done with Shizuku/ADB and/or app patches.
Thanks, I fixed the link, but the old version still seems to be cached. It should be https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/1173-taskmanager-real-killing-of-processes/9
And yes, I restart my phone pretty often, and I think it also restarts automatically at night, so re-enabling Shizuku every time is something I don’t want to deal with.
Another alternative I forgot to add to the post (and now I will) is this app: Force Stop Helper. It’s a simple list of apps with following features useful for my usecase:
Clicking on an app takes you to it’s system settings page where you can enable/disable it with one click
You can pin certain apps to the top
Disabled apps are shown greyed out and marked as disabled
Using this is not as convinient as Hail, but perfectly fine for apps that I don’t need to freeze multiple times a day. Sort of a middle ground between convenience and security.
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Link in that part doesn’t work but is it really that bothersome to use Hail with Shizuku? You only need to re-enable shizuku after reboot. I don’t restart my phone too often so it is not a problem for me.
In my case I rooted my device once to try some fancy things. It was fun but then I never bothered with rooting again. Most things that I need can be done with Shizuku/ADB and/or app patches.
Thanks, I fixed the link, but the old version still seems to be cached. It should be https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/1173-taskmanager-real-killing-of-processes/9 And yes, I restart my phone pretty often, and I think it also restarts automatically at night, so re-enabling Shizuku every time is something I don’t want to deal with. Another alternative I forgot to add to the post (and now I will) is this app: Force Stop Helper. It’s a simple list of apps with following features useful for my usecase:
Using this is not as convinient as Hail, but perfectly fine for apps that I don’t need to freeze multiple times a day. Sort of a middle ground between convenience and security.