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Root New on Rooting
- Thread starter Ashrin73
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funkylogik
share the love peeps ;)
Does whatsapp need root access? What for? (Sorry its been years since ive used it)
Usually when an app wants root access for the first time, youll get a popup from SU or SuperSu asking you to grant it :thumbup:
Usually when an app wants root access for the first time, youll get a popup from SU or SuperSu asking you to grant it :thumbup:
DragonSlayer95
Resident Air Bender
Whatsapp doesn't require root access. You can only grant an app root access that requires it. Like titanium backup, set cpu etc. Those apps are examples of apps that need root access.
Since your rooted what do you need odin for? Unless you plan to flash a stock tar from odin you may want to wait on the apps.
Since your rooted what do you need odin for? Unless you plan to flash a stock tar from odin you may want to wait on the apps.
funkylogik
share the love peeps ;)
Odin is a PC program that (among other things) lets you root the (samsung) phone and install a custom recovery :thumbup:
DestinatioN184
Newbie
Only apps that require the system files require root access. Whatsapp doesn't need system files for any reason. Apps like DragonSlayer had mentioned are ones that will request SuperSU access thus giving the apps the information and privileges needed to operate to it's full capacity.
Only give SuperSU root access to apps that you know are verified. Don't go downloading something that isn't on the play store and If it is, check reviews. You give an app access to root, It can literally do anything.
If you are more familiar with computers, you probably recognise different user account types on windows. For example, you have standard user and administrator. Stock phones come shipped with standard user installed. Rooting the phone simply gives the OS (Operating System) administrator privileges.
Hope This Helped!
Only give SuperSU root access to apps that you know are verified. Don't go downloading something that isn't on the play store and If it is, check reviews. You give an app access to root, It can literally do anything.
If you are more familiar with computers, you probably recognise different user account types on windows. For example, you have standard user and administrator. Stock phones come shipped with standard user installed. Rooting the phone simply gives the OS (Operating System) administrator privileges.
Hope This Helped!
Rukbat
Extreme Android User
@Ashrin:
You can't root an app, you can only modify Android so that apps that request root access can obtain it. ("Rooting" is just copying the file su to the phone - you can't copy a file to an app - not in that meaning of "copy to". Since you have no console from which to run the apps, you need an app like SuperUser or SuperSU to do what you'd normally be doing in, say, Linux - asking for root access from su.) An app that doesn't request root access can't tell whether the phone's been rooted or not - and it makes no difference to that app.
If you root the phone (you're not, really - see later), those apps that need root can obtain it. If you install the apps first, then root, the apps that need root can obtain it. Which one is done first is irrelevant - unless you haven't rooted the phone, install an app that requires root access and try to run it. Since you haven't yet rooted the phone, the app can't obtain root access, so it can't run.
You don't root an app, you don't root a file, you don't even root the phone, you root (in the Android sense) the operating system (the ROM). You modify the operating system so that it can grant root access to anyone ("one" includes apps) requesting it. Most modifications of *nix (Unix, Linux, BSD, etc.) include a method of obtaining root access, Android (for VERY good reasons) doesn't - which is why people "root their phones" (which usually falls into the "one of the worst ideas" column - there's almost no reason for 99,9% of people using smart phones to root them. (Almost - there are 2 or 3 sort of good reasons someone who knows almost nothing about cellphone internals might have for rooting. "My phone is rooted" isn't one of them.)
You can't root an app, you can only modify Android so that apps that request root access can obtain it. ("Rooting" is just copying the file su to the phone - you can't copy a file to an app - not in that meaning of "copy to". Since you have no console from which to run the apps, you need an app like SuperUser or SuperSU to do what you'd normally be doing in, say, Linux - asking for root access from su.) An app that doesn't request root access can't tell whether the phone's been rooted or not - and it makes no difference to that app.
If you root the phone (you're not, really - see later), those apps that need root can obtain it. If you install the apps first, then root, the apps that need root can obtain it. Which one is done first is irrelevant - unless you haven't rooted the phone, install an app that requires root access and try to run it. Since you haven't yet rooted the phone, the app can't obtain root access, so it can't run.
You don't root an app, you don't root a file, you don't even root the phone, you root (in the Android sense) the operating system (the ROM). You modify the operating system so that it can grant root access to anyone ("one" includes apps) requesting it. Most modifications of *nix (Unix, Linux, BSD, etc.) include a method of obtaining root access, Android (for VERY good reasons) doesn't - which is why people "root their phones" (which usually falls into the "one of the worst ideas" column - there's almost no reason for 99,9% of people using smart phones to root them. (Almost - there are 2 or 3 sort of good reasons someone who knows almost nothing about cellphone internals might have for rooting. "My phone is rooted" isn't one of them.)