Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app with no rooting

Re:Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environm... by vorpalhex on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @05:14PM (#24984625)

Rooting isn't as terrifying as it used to be, and it means you can do actual real backups and genuinely own your data.

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Re:Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environm... by jhbadger on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @06:41PM (#24985283)

One issue is that these days many people work at places that have BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy. This means you install work related apps on your own phone rather than being supplied with a work phone like in the old days. Many of these apps refuse to work on a rooted phone "for security" (justified or not, that's the argument)

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Re:Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environm... by lhoff on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @08:39PM (#24985933)

If dont know mich about these work related apps but all my banking apps work with a magisk based root. So maybe thats a workaround.

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Re:Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environm... by voltagex_ on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @01:05AM (#24986706)

I'm pretty sure flashing a non-OEM ROM on my Note 9 would blow an eFuse that permanently marks the thing as having been modified.

Certainly, when I unlocked a Sony Xperia XA2 it did something similar where it won't ever get OEM updates ever again.

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