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SuperSU, a Popular Root App For Android, Disappears From Google Play Store (androidpolice.com)
Corbin Davenport, writing for AndroidPolice: For years, SuperSU was one of the most popular root applications for Android. Chainfire, the creator of SuperSU, handed over development to CCMT in 2015. He ended his involvement with the app last year, so CCMT has been in full control of it since then. For reasons currently unknown, SuperSU has now vanished from the Play Store. The app's Twitter and Google+ accounts for SuperSU haven't made a post since last year, the Facebook page has been inactive since March, and the official forum is currently offline. As such, it seems like the app was largely abandoned. The latest version available from APKMirror was published in January. Further reading: End of an era: Chainfire is halting development on all root-related apps.
Magisk with Magisk Manger has been a nice alternative for me.
https://f-droid.org/en/package...
just call me GAYpk
Stay in your walled prison, coward.
I'd rooted my old Android phones because there is no other way to remove the factory installed bloated apps and spyware. I also rooted my iPhone because iTunes is so shitty and terrible. I just want to access the phone like a flash drive. But you can't even do that because iOS mangles all the filenames.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
I'd try to explain it to you, but you've admitted to owning an iOS device. This means you're incapable of understanding the answer, sadly.
Because some of us wanted to buy an open handheld computing platform that happens to make phone calls that we can have complete control of instead of an overpriced shiny status symbol.
Don't worry, all iOS users tend to be confused when it comes to actually doing anything interesting with computing equipment. Shouldn't you get back to bending over for Tim Cook while he tells you what you want, need and deserve as well as how much you're going to pay for it?
We also want to be able to load an alternate OS, like LineageOS, when it becomes available for our devices. Meaning we need to be able to re-write the firmware, which root can do.
Bruce Perens.
It's gone? Did creimer eat it and its developers?
Someone should get to the root of the problem.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
I have an older Galaxy Tab that was useless out-of-the-box. I should have returned it because it was so slow that it literally couldn't keep up with my typing, even after a factory reset. It scrolled at 5 fps. After it fell into disuse for years, I rooted it with SuperSU, and used a task manager find and delete two processes that were eating 80% of the CPU. No idea what they did, but the tablet has been fine since then.
Why do a small but vocal minority of Android users insist on being able to fsck with their phone's OS
1. We want to pretend we still "own" our hardware.
2. Manufacturers and carriers fsck with Android, we would like to have the option of installing alternative AOSP - based operating systems.
3. There are many benefits to being rooted - even on "stock" android. System-wide adblocking comes to mind.
Don't knock it until you've tried it. But hurry, the manufacturers and carriers are making things harder and harder to actually be in control of your own device.
Magisk had replaced SuperSU a long time ago.
Chainfire is an absolute master and his SU applications impeccable
But with the latest revisions of Android, Magisk had begun to replace what SuperSU and other SU applications provided.
My acer tablet is SU rooted.
So nice being able to remove all the COMPLETELY USELESS SHIT RUNNING.
You can't even disable the acer crap without root. Let alone remove completely and gain back almost 11 gig of onboard space.
Massive boost to battery life as well. From 2 days to 7 days between charges.
But you can't even do that because iOS mangles all the filenames.
Nope, that's just iTunes. That happened on the iPod before iOS even happened. They just wanted to appease the music companies that you wouldn't be able to yank the files out for easy piracy, no matter how silly that may sound now.
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LUL. An Apple user bitch slapping someone? Yea right.
Instead, LineageOS https://lineageos.org/ provides a su option zip that can be flashed along with the main image and opengapps. After it is installed, you can toggle root access via the developer options and control which apps can get it.
The list of devices officially supported is not huge, but there are some unofficial builds available now for select others. LineageOS is rather nice if you can run it.
Clickety Click
I wouldn't own an android device without rooting it
Hey troll, please link proof about rooted android users complaining about being hacked. I don't think you understand what rooting actually does.
Tired of my customary (Score:1)
Let me draw you an ASCIIart Venn Diagram: ( people who root ) [a gap] ( people who get hacked ) Does perhaps that explain it?
Magisk has made SuperSU irrelevant because SuperSU needs to modify the system partition and Android since version 7 doesn't quite like it to the point that many functions stop working completely.
Who let the submissive out of his cage?
- A confused iOS user
You repeat yourself.
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
(people who have android phones) [a gap] ( people who get laid)
They don't. We're still waiting for the first one to complain. What's going on is that you were exactly, perfectly wrong about "vocal." From there, your error rate went silly due to the goofball premise, sort of like a compiler that bitches about a hundred lines of bad code when really there was just a typo on line 4.
I'm impressed how even you missed OP's "A confused iOS user", clearly intended as a sarcasm tag. I suppose it just shows that nobody hears you being sarcastic on the internet. But thanks for the explanation anyway.
I remember the days when rooting Apple products was a thing, but by today Apple has trained all their diehard loyalists not to want that, and even think it's better without. Basically, "I'm so glad I'm an Apple".
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Watch out, it could be one of them hippo sized, rainbow haired CoC SJWs...
I do this stuff pretty quickly. So yes, I can miss sarcasm tags.
Bruce Perens.
Hard to understand why any Android user would use a device without root
You just get a gimped version of wannabe ios
It doesn't explain which version of reality you pulled that Venn diagram from.
Seconded. I won' uy a new phone now unless it is supported by lineageOS with its included su solution. Top notch!
Some MVNO phones aren't easily root-able for obvious reasons.
I decided to try to do work on a trip recently with just an iPad. Suffice to say, I will never do it again.
Try to transfer files from an SD card on an IPad? Ahahah Good luck, frustrated me to no end. FileExplorer ftp server saved me here.
File handling in IOS is absolutely absurd.
My productivity went down dramatically on an iPad as many applications that claim to be similar to their desktop counterparts are not even close. Most of them are completely useless. Doing simple things like organizing things in windows to see my notes is very time consuming.
Eventually I got so tired of it that I connected to my vpn to remotely connect to my desktop. Lack of a mouse made things annoying, but I became more productive again. I'm in Japan with fast internet so it works fine.
Oh to my point. If I have to root my device to be able to do simple tasks as above and then the manufacturers do everything to prevent me from doing so, it's a damn useless device to me.
I stopped rooting, when 4.3 came along...it was "good enough" and, I try to buy phones outright, NOT from the carrier branded, feature stripped, locked down, bloated garbage from the carrier stores. My last 4 phones, 3 Huawei Mates & the Essential PH-1 have been "good enough" they didn't need rooting, and what few apps I didn't want, were easy to install. I leave my phone alone, and don't jack with it. Install Nova Launcher Prime, the 8-10 apps that I use other than the defaults and pretty much leave it alone.
I'm impressed how even you missed OP's "A confused iOS user", clearly intended as a sarcasm tag.
That isn't nearly as clear as you or the original poster may believe it is.
I have heard that exact claim, on occasion those exact words, completely seriously spoken by far far too many people to even have any inkling of suspicion of sarcasm anymore.
There are millions of people who are not content with simply desiring to do different things and proceeding to do those different things, but must go far out of their way to point out how you don't do or think or want exactly what they do.
How many awesome fun hacks have been posted on this very site were the top level comments are full of "But why? I'd just do this instead" ?
If the original post was serious, it deserves being criticized and belittled.
If the original post was a joke, it was about as funny as trying to drown your best friend and responding "It's just a prank bro" and so also deserves being criticized and belittled.
Online sarcasm was deprecated in 1987
Wait, you're hoping your cell phone is going to get you laid?!
I met a guy who believed that, but it was 1996 and still true then.
Call me when anyone can actually use LineageOS.
Especially now that everyone has a phone by a small Chinese manufacturer.
They mostly use one of a few common chipsets (mostly MediaTek I think).
Given one can simply use the kernel inside the installed Android, and put the LineageOS userspace on top, I don't know what the big problem is anyway. :/), this should not be a problem.
Apart from the rooting of course. But since MediaTek chipsets allow you to flash the internal storage even when it is completely bricked, making it extremely well-protected from accidental bricking, (and extremely prone to somebody installing spyware
Chainfire once said that 2.76 was the last version he personally built.