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?
For me the biggest thing is having a full backup. I don’t want app developers to be able to decide if data on my phone gets backed up or not, that is not their decision to make, it’s my phone, goddammit. And I want to back it up to where I want to. Also in a similar vein, having access to all data on my system. In the worst case scenario to troubleshoot things.
Also, there are so many useful tweaks where I just wonder, why the fuck is this not part of Android, or why do I need root to change this? Like being able to rotate my phone 180°. Or having a battery bar instead of a battery icon. Or showing more icons in the notification area. Or not having it close apps after I haven’t used them for a certain amount of time (I left that video open for a fucking reason, maybe because I wanted to finish watching it tomorrow or the day after).
Oh, and an ad blocker that is much better integrated into the system is pretty nice.
can you expand on the backup and possibly restore that worked for you? no solution I tried on a rooted lineageos worked, tried phone to similar phone and restore to same phone after wipe. tried adb, seedvault, neobackup, a couple others (anything with backup on fdroid) none worked remotely acceptable.
Neo Backup does a fairly good job for me, at least for backing up app data. It has some bugs every now and then, but it gets the job done. What problems did you have?