12 Commentsto I’m doing the grand debate on wether to root my Nexus 6p.

1. Lukas Morawietz says:

   July 22, 2016 at 8:42 pm

   Not really. You can execute root commands via script. It is easier to grant permissions to Lightning. That’s about it.

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2. Bearcat Şándor says:

   July 22, 2016 at 9:46 pm

   Thank you.

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3. Lukas Morawietz says:

   July 22, 2016 at 10:38 pm

   Joe Mitchell

   that is correct but has nothing to do with LL.

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4. Bearcat Şándor says:

   July 22, 2016 at 10:50 pm

   Joe Mitchell​ if that were true, then you’d only be able to use LL on a rooted phone.

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5. Lukas Morawietz says:

   July 22, 2016 at 10:56 pm

   Bearcat Şándor

   no, Lightning doesn’t depend on the apps it launches. (this would be against the principle of a launcher. ) However, if you make this kind of connection, Lightning would be related to every single app existing. So this is a  useless connection, which is why I didn’t mention it.

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6. Bearcat Şándor says:

   July 22, 2016 at 11:02 pm

   Ah, I misread his statement.

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7. Lukas Morawietz says:

   July 22, 2016 at 11:06 pm

   Joe Mitchell

   yeah I guessed that 😀

   Bearcat Şándor generally a launcher won’t be a reason to root.

   Reasons are:

   – Backup (I use Titanium, but there are others)

   – SDMaid (The best device cleanup tool)

   – Xposed (If you can code, this means you can do whatever you want. If you can’t code, this means you can do everything someone else has already done)

   – Adaway (The best adblocker I have ever found, even better than most desktop adblockers)

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8. Adam S says:

   July 23, 2016 at 7:42 am

   rooting is for babies. just keep it stock, it’s a nice device and a nice OS

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9. Jay M says:

   July 23, 2016 at 9:42 am

   Adam clearly doesnt know what hes talking about probably never even tried it before i agree that its a nice device and a nice stock OS but rooting it will make it even nicer.

   Few more to add to the list Lukas wrote.

   Change DPI

   uninstall bloat

   themes/mods/custom ROMS

   Full control over the device

   I also agree with what he said about a launcher not being a reason to root.

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10. Lukas Morawietz says:

    July 23, 2016 at 2:17 pm

    Jay M I’m so used to not having bloatware that I totally forgot about that.

    Custom ROMs are not directly linked to root. Most devices can be flashed from recovery/fastboot regardless of rooting status.

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11. Bearcat Şándor says:

    July 23, 2016 at 2:27 pm

    Thanks all. I knew about the other reasons to root, I was just wondering if the scripting in LL had gotten to a point where people were doing cool things with it that you couldn’t do with out rooting your device.

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12. Lukas Morawietz says:

    July 23, 2016 at 2:48 pm

    One thing that probably could be done is switching live wallpapers directly in LL.

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