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What phone to get for rooting. More in description.

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dwang040

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So, in my last two to three years, I had a very "basic" average smartphone. Some low end device by lg, and I rooted it, loved xposed and all the root features. I'm thinking of getting a new phone, which brings me to, what's a good phone to root without to much issues. Let me explain, I would like to own an Xperia z3,but rooting it would cause drm key loss, I feel like I would screw up the process of downgrading, backing up, root, and upgrading. I'm not a big fan of Samsung, so is a lg g4 a good phone to root? Are there any security things lost like the Sony z3? What about the HTC m9. I've heard about their protected kernels and stuff, is it complicated to root HTC? So what's a phone that I can root easily and not worry about security issues, lost keys, locked up bootloader, etc.

This is my second question, I read that you can use root apps without root by installing xposed installer and downloading root cloak. Is that true? It doesn't seem right to me. To be honest, I would really like the Xperia, but if it's really a big Hassel to root and keep the drm keys, we'll, it may not be worth it. Thank you for reading, and if you have a phone that works fine after root (no lost keys, no locked up firmware) what version is it. If you have an Xperia phone, how bad is it to lose the drm keys, are they replaceable? Like an app to help correct camera noise, and how hard if you took the xda keep drm keys root method. Thank you guys.
 
For my choice of phones that are easy to root, and can't really go wrong; Nexus 5 or 6, Samsung S4, Oneplus One or Oppo Find 7.

However for things that have DRM copyright protection, is that sometimes it breaks and you lose access to it with a rooted device, all depending on the particular DRM. But I've never had to deal with DRM'd content on Android myself.
 
Yeah, sony's drm protects a lot of stuff. By unlocking the bootloader, you lose Bravia engine, the algorithms used in their camera, you lose the low light camera engine (can't remember the name of it), no more surround sound from the speakers, no more high Def audio formating, no more activ noise cancellation. That's, is a lot to loose, and I'm stuck, I can risk it by rooting and restoring the drm, or just not root and miss out on the cool features of xposed (which I do use a lot of modules). I may have a look into the nexus,
 
Unfortunately Sony are the worst company in the world for their DRM copyright protection schemes on almost everything they do.

How quickly can you say "CD copy protection rootkit scandal"?

OT:

"The industry will take whatever steps it needs to protect itself and protect its revenue streams... It will not lose that revenue stream, no matter what... Sony is going to take aggressive steps to stop this. We will develop technology that transcends the individual user. We will firewall Napster at source - we will block it at your cable company. We will block it at your phone company. We will block it at your ISP. We will firewall it at your PC... These strategies are being aggressively pursued because there is simply too much at stake."

Steven Heckler. Senior VP, Sony Pictures, August 2000.
 
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With a number of the Sonys you can now root and not lose the DRM keys.

The problem is unique to Sony.

HTCs are also very easy to root unless you're on a restricted carrier like Verizon. Otherwise, the HTC M9 isn't difficult to root at all. Unlock bootloader, install TWRP, make a nandroid backup before any other mods, and flash SuperSU - done.
 
EarlyMon, the Sony root that you are talking about, is it the same one on xda forums? I'm just worried that I might brick my phone. The complicated thing I did on my phone, was flash the stock firmware back onto my phone. No backups, no restoration, whatnot.
 
dwang040 said:
EarlyMon, the Sony root that you are talking about, is it the same one on xda forums? I'm just worried that I might brick my phone. The complicated thing I did on my phone, was flash the stock firmware back onto my phone. No backups, no restoration, whatnot.
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You'll have to link me to a specific thread for a specific phone.

XDA is a big place, Sony has a lot of models, and methods often change with updates. Hence my statement - a number of the Sonys. ;) :)

In context, you may have meant the Z3 - let's be sure though ok. :)
 
Ah yeah, Z3 Compact - according to the OP that's a method that preserves the DRM keys and won't lose functionality over that.

Danged complicated root though. :p
 
That's what I thought, but if it keeps the drm keys, it may be worth the trouble... But if there are other phones with 2 day battery...
 
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