☭SaltyIcetea☭apps for rooted phone
Adaway of course, and wireguard via the proper kernel module.
Wireguard has been part of the Android kernel for a long time now, so you don’t need or benefit from having root access for it.
According to wireguard itself the kernel-module based backend is more efficient/faster than the userspace implementation, and to use that it still requires root.
varakiYes, the kernel-module solution is significantly faster.
No, you don’t need root to access the kernel-based implementation, as seen in the official Wireguard app.
- File Explorer: Solid Explorer
- Terminal: Termux (install from F-Droid, the Play Store version is abandoned)
- LSPosed and Magisk (too many useful modules to list)
I’m using these:
TheInsane42Minminguard as ad blocker (used with Magisk and lsposed)
Titanium Backup for real backups.
Titanium backup is abandoned. Use NeoBackup instead - github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Backup
Hmmm, then I’m happy that I bought the licence in '12 and it was useful… until Android 13. Now I know why restores on Android 13 fail.
Time to move on. I’ll checkout neobackup.
GodlessCommieBoth of those apps were abandoned years ago. There are much better options available now
Until now I haven’t found a better alternative then minminguard. (Although I had to switch to the 1.20 version another developer based on the older versions to get it to work on Android 13) It works in all apps, not just browsers. (and the non-browser apps are the ones I want to block ads in)
What would be a good alternative then to minminguard.
It stopped working for me years ago. Even the forked version did nothing
I got it via this XDA post. (version 2.2.0, I was off a tad)
That’s the version I had tried before, but previously it wouldn’t recognize lsposed. Now it does, so I’ll try it again. Thanks!
Learn to put punctuation marks.
That said, I don’t think there’s need anymore to be rooted. You can do almost anything on non-rooted devices.
If only wifi tethering worked without root…
NateI use:
- Material Files - Root file explorer FOSS and no ads
- Termux - Terminal emulator
- GAppsMod - enable call recording in United States
- ReVanced Manager - Spiritual successor of YouTube vanced, works for more than just YouTube
- Substratum - theme engine, needs to be combined with a theme pack and most are not free
- Swift Backup - backs up app data, calls, messages, etc to cloud. Can set it to use WebDAV, SMB, SFTP, S3, etc. Can also back up locally
XPosed / LSPosed
- Dark eyes tricks - general system mods, mostly use it for "Power key to toggle torch"
- Snap Enhance - if you need Snapchat to communicate with half of you friends you can nuke most ads, get download options, screenshot without sending a message, view chats without marking them as read, enable dark mode, and others I don’t use
- XPosed Edge Pro - let’s you bind actions to triggers. I use it to get a Samsung like app drawer from the side of my screen, but you can bind keys, gestures, schedules, app states, just overall useful
I use all of those things except GAppsMod, Substratum, and Swift Backup
What is the benefit of it over Neo Backup?
If I remember right, neo backup was in its infancy when I was looking. Will have to revisit. Swift Backup was already established
seaQueueAdguard Android to block ads system wide in (almost) everything
ACC magisk module and ACCA to cap battery charging at 80%
Swift Backup
Repainter
Revanced
Mixplorer and Solid Explorer - solid for day to day use, mix for handling encrypted folders that are backed up to cloud storage
pewgar_seemsimandroidproton vpn mabye
File manager: Material Files, on a rooted phone it can access files outside of /storage/emulated/0
Terminal: Termux