I can’t root my phone because I don’t have an image for it (Moto G73) although I’d like to, but for some reason my banking app thinks it’s rooted and refuses to work. This happened just after I updated it, it wasn’t happening before.

Edit: I’m regretting not getting the Motorola Edge 40 Neo, which also costs £250, but is slightly better in multiple ways, and seems like it has better root support.

  • Jiří Král@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    44·
    10 months ago

    Did you unlock your bootloader? Some apps just scan for Google Play SafetyNet or in some other way to check whether you unlocked your bootloader or rooted and if they think you do they will vaguely state you are rooted.

    Other’s concern about your phone being infected are justified and I recommend you to try whether a dedicated root checking app thinks your phone is rooted. These usually don’t lie.

    Regarding your rooting situation I always rooted the lazy way. Renamed magisk.apk to magisk.zip, flashed it and it always worked for me. But I rooted only 2 phones in my life really and this is not the recommended method by magisk developer.

    • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      Does that really work? Because if that works and I can’t find an image file, that’s the only way. I can still factory reset it after it messes up my device, right?

      Uodate: no, it doesn’t

      Device platform: arm64-v8a

      • Installing: 27.0 (27000)
      • Processing zip file ! No boot image found ! Process error ! Installation failed
      • Jiří Král@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

        Did you flash a custom ROM? Maybe it will work with a custom ROM.

        EDIT: Your phone uses Mediatek processor, so it’s not going to be well supported. I recommend you to stick to locked bootloader and just live with the phone as it is.