So, if the user is just a common man with only bit and byte of info about Security, then he won’t even dare to remove it. It was a simple apk file, and I named it a Software Upgrade. What I did was I created a Trojan and installed it in the target phone. This is something that I have tried as an experiment in an actual practical environment. So, even if the cops could trace the cell and you even get your cell back, there is still a high risk that they could see everything that you do on your phone. They could even install Trojans inside that. Not scary enough? Let me tell you the most dangerous part. By the second quarter of 2014, people had already started developing exploits and rootkits for Android, which could root your cell phones without even unlocking the bootloaders. But I am here to prove you wrong again and that is the whole point of this blog. You may be thinking as of now, that you have a secure cell phone. So, if you check on XDA, for your phone, you will have n number of customized ROMs for your phones, some of the most famous being Cyanogen Mod ROMs, which are already pre-rooted and come with a pre-defined set of customizations. ROMs are operating systems based on Android versions specifically designed for your hardware architecture. So, similar is the case with custom ROMS. So, you don’t have to worry about someone misusing it. Because if you lose your phone, and someone tries to gain root access to bypass the lock (assuming you have locked your device with a pin or password.), then he will compulsorily have to unlock the bootloader, which will result in erasing your data on the phone. If you break this checkpoint, then you are going to lose everything that you have on your phone. Think of bootloader as the Security checkpoint of your device. It packages the instructions to boot operating system kernel and most of them are specifically designed to run their own debugging or modification environment. (If you don’t know what BIOS is, then you shouldn’t even read thinking about security in the first place.) Bootloader or Hboot(that’s what its called in android) s the first thing that runs when you boot up your Android device. For people who don’t know bootloader is bootloader is similar to BIOS in windows. It was the bootloader which bricked my phone. This means rooting will never brick your phone. Rooting is just similar to and Admin Access in a Computer (Actually it is a System Access, but I wrote Admin Access, so it is easy to understand for noobs.). As I kept on reading one and every other stuff on rooting, I came to know that rooting does not brick your phone. I always read rooting is dangerous, but I didn’t know it would brick my Cell. It was just one month of me being bought my new cell and my cell was now soft-bricked. I didn’t even know what bootloader was in android. As soon as my cell restarted after rooting, it just started boot-looping (stuck on boot screen forever). With a bit of help from XDA, I was able to successfully root my cell.īut then something struck me. Since I had a good backhand in Linux, rooting was not an issue with me. I started reading about Customizations and learned about what was called as ‘Rooting’. I knew that it was based on Linux, and I wanted to do some of my modifications on that. After playing lots of games like NOVA3 and ModernCombat4, I got bored of that cell within a month.
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