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Re:The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from usin... by h4x0rr on Friday January 09, 2026 @12:18PM (#46556230)
How would you root without resetting it?
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Re:The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from usin... by taosx on Friday January 09, 2026 @12:19PM (#46556240)
backup, root, recover?
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Re:The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from usin... by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday January 09, 2026 @12:24PM (#46556325)
The only ways I know to take a full backup of an Android device require it to already be at least bootloader unlocked. There are unprivileged ways to take backups, but they don't work for all apps.
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