For People High On Android
In this video, I show you how rooting Android is not the same as installing a custom ROM on your Android smartphone, they are literally TWO different things and I feel like some of you don’t realize that they are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS! But watching video will let you realize that you can run the best custom ROMs on your Android smartphone and not have to worry about rooting at all!
In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to root the Xiaomi Mi 9. We will be following the Xiaomi Bootloader Unlock Guide and original Xiaomi Universal Root Guide I wrote last year since the process is exactly the same. And this root method is also same on all Xiaomi smartphones so you can follow along even if you have another Xiaomi device, only thing different is the TWRP recovery you will be using for your specific model of Xiaomi Android smartphone.
In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to root your OnePlus 6 or OnePlus 6T on latest Android 9.0 Pie! Before beginning this root tutorial, please make sure to unlock the bootloader first, you can follow my tutorial on How to Unlock Bootloader on OnePlus 6/6T first.
Here’s a step-by-step tutorial on how to root ANY Xiaomi Android smartphone or tablet, this is a universal method that works for all Xiaomi devices.
In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to unlock the bootloader on ANY Xiaomi Android smartphone or tablet. Now, Xiaomi provides bootloader unlocking tool(a Windows program) that will allow you to easily unlock bootloader on ANY Xiaomi Android device. While this process is simple to do, you will still need to do a few steps and this tutorial will help anyone to get it done quickly and easily.
For those of you who want to install Project Treble GSI(Generic System Image) ROM on your Android device with unlocked bootloader, you can use TWRP recovery to install them. The process is actually not entirely different from flashing a regular custom ROM in TWRP, the only difference is that you will be using “Install from image” option instead of the default “Install from zip” option. (If you don’t know what Project Treble is, please see “What is Project Treble for Android”.
What are GSI ROMs?
Google has launched a new way of updating Android OS(Operating System) starting in 2018 called, “Project Treble”. Although Google uses pure “100%” Android OS on their Nexus/Pixel devices such as the Pixel and Pixel 2 smartphones, many manufacturers like Samsung, LG, Huawei, Xiaomi, and others have added their own UI/skin on top. In extreme cases like Samsung, they have added S-Pen features to their Samsung Galaxy Note series and lots of new hardware features not found in the original Android OS. Due to this reason, whenever Google updates their OS from one iteration to another(such as Android 7.0 Nougat to 8.0 Oreo), manufacturers have to re-build the whole OS from ground up, causing months of delay in updates. For example, Android Oreo update for Galaxy S7 probably took around 8 months. This has been a troubling problem as Android OS updates once a year and by the time manufacturers update their software to the latest, they are already at least 6 months behind.
Project Treble mean Faster OTA Updates!
Today I am going to talk about why rooted Android smartphones are actually more secure, there is a misconception going around where people think a rooted phone is less secure. Well, as a person who has rooted almost every phone he has owned, and I have personally bought about a hundred Android smartphones since 2011, I have NEVER been hacked with a rooted smartphone.
In this Android Root 101 tutorial, we are going to learn how to install TWRP recovery & root your Android using Fastboot. This tutorial is a “universal method”, meaning you are going to be able to use on any Android device except the following:
Samsung Android devices use ODIN so you will want to follow How to Install TWRP & Root w/ Magisk using ODIN on Samsung Android instead.
This tutorial will teach you how to install a custom ROM using TWRP for Any Android that has TWRP installed already. By using this tutorial, you will learn how to install custom ROM on ANY Android smartphone or tablet using TWRP recovery.
