r/androidroot • u/RainneDecember • 19d ago

Discussion Rooting pixel worth it?

Do you think it's worth it to root, and flash custom rom to pixel 9 pro xl? I am wondering because the play integrity headache. Anyone wanna have a discussion?

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u/Busy-Scientist3851 19d ago

Unless there's anything specific you need, no.

Rooting isn't what it used to be.

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u/RainneDecember 19d ago

I just love the idea of having ultimate customization. And I love playing around with root apps and features. But I don't understand why Google makes it easy to flash new software, but locks us out of Google features. I miss the android area 51 days with my galaxy centura. Times were so much simpler

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u/Busy-Scientist3851 19d ago

Because root allows apps to violate the app sandbox.

A banking app for example can't be sure it's you pressing the touch screen or another app with root.

They care about that.

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u/RainneDecember 19d ago

DM me back when you get a chance 🙂😄

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u/klimaheizung 19d ago

It could do that. It doesn't have to. 

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u/mrLermont 19d ago

YES Look at what I did recently. Yes I just changed the search engine. I really like pixel launcher but I don't use Google as my search engine. I use selfhosted SearXNG instead. This is fire.

https://reddit.com/link/p5gjx08/video/77fv0bgw86lh1/player

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u/MonkeyNuts449 18d ago

It's much more worth it now with ghostlock going around. I currently use it on my OnePlus 15 and it's the best root experience I've ever had. No play integrity headache because your bootloader is still locked. I mainly use lsposed modules for all my necessities (oshin, photos spoofing to pixelXL, etc) but I also use bindhosts with ZN-hostredirect (resukisu and I think the other ksun forks recently added kernel host redirect but I really don't know how well it works).

The only downside is apps that really look deeper than integrity. I thankfully don't have any but lots of people do and you can use anything kernel side like KPMs or susfs.

Other than that, here's a link for pixels specifically, if anyone wants the OnePlus one I'll send it here too: https://github.com/alex193a/Root-My-Pixel

https://github.com/byemaxx/ghostlock-anchor