Back in the day - rooting Android phones and installing custom ROMs were such a big part of Android. I remember so well using titanium backup and Greenify and Cyanogenmod and the list goes on.

Is it still necessary to root in 2023 though?

I have been on vanilla Android without root access for the past couple of years and at this point most root features have made it into the vanilla Android OS. What are your thoughts?

  • algorithmaeEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I’d check out Greenify, it has root and nonroot modes. I’ve found it to greatly increase my deep sleep when used religiously even without root

    • amenotef@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      But isn’t Greenify outdated or they still update it?

      Another thing I’m thinking: I’m interested in running some adb shell command every few minutes or hours to change the WhatsApp standby bucket from active to working_set that seems to reduce a lot of wakelocks.

      Currently my standby (after tweaking for days) is not that bad. Like 0.4% per hour at night using wifi when I go to sleep.

      WhatsApp despite of the restrictions I added is still the app with most partial wakelocks.

      • algorithmaeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Looks like it hasn’t had updates since 2019, but if it ain’t broke why fix it?

        • amenotef@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yeah I agree with that.

          But generally apps that do something more advanced get outdated every year with new android versions with different permissions and API. This is why I was asking.

          But I guess this app has nothing that got impacted.