I don’t need it to be with zero effort, but most of the instructions I find these days on XDA forums are extremely ambiguous and assume the reader is someone who does this every day and therefore knows most of the steps and what the terminology means.

Years ago when I used to do stuff like this more, directions were written meticulously and without abridgment of any elements. Seems today it’s not common for someone to go to the effort.

I’m extremely proficient, that’s not the issue. It’s just most instructions say stuff like “Step 1: root the phone. Step 2…” I’m like “whoa excuse me… how do I root this phone?”

Anyway, so all I’m asking is are there just comprehensive directions for any of these.

  • @[email protected]English
    47•2 months ago

    List of root availability status and guide if available

    • Samsung Galaxy A12: ✅XDA Forums
    • Samsung Galaxy j7 Refine: Your model requires root, might not be possible. Providing the specific model number(j737-something) can help.
    • Motorola E4: ✅Has official TWRP, you can find a generic rooting guide(or ask here) and root it with magisk.
    • UMX U693CL: ?XDA Forums this isn’t a guide but it has custom recovery included, you should be able to flash magisk(if your device is even supported)
    • RCA Reno: Can’t find any info easily
    • Jabrbox H460: Can’t find any info easily
    • Sony/Ericsson Xperia LT22i: Might be possible? XDA Forums
    • LG L-83C: Might be possible with generic root method
    • LG AS730: XDA Forums
    • HTC Desire 530: CAUTION: Requires SuperSU(Proprietary). I would advise you use Magisk instead, it’s the same as SuperSU but Libre and more modern. You can ask for help here if you need it, but pretty much replace the supersu zip file with the magisk apk, renamed to a zip XDA Forums

    Some of these may not be as comprehensive as you like, but most of them seemed relatively simple. Also don’t get discouraged by me not being able to find any info about them. If you put more effort in you might have better results.

    BE CAUTIOUS! There are plenty of fake TWRP and Magisk websites, but the only place to get Official TWRP is twrp.me, or if it’s not supported on your device, you can get a community build. The only place to get Magisk is on the Github page. It comes as an APK, but can be converted to a zip and flashed.

    • @AndrewZabarOPEnglish
      19•2 months ago

      Wow! Thank you that’s a ton of info to work from. I really really appreciate it!

      Folks are so negative here. I think some of em should be on reddit where all you’re expected to do is piss on each other lol.

      Seriously if we had rewards in Lemmy - though it’s good we don’t - I’d give you gold. You went above and beyond that is very much appreciated. 💙

      • @[email protected]English
        7•2 months ago

        Thank you! Unfortunately I was one of the negative commenters. Didn’t mean to be rude, I just wanted to ask that you do a bit of searching before asking questions, I’m sorry if I came off as an asshole.

        • @AndrewZabarOPEnglish
          3•2 months ago

          No worries it’s just I had done research literally for weeks. I just could not find anything that was written as comprehensively as I’d hoped. I will spend some time looking at the links you provided which again, I really appreciate. I think online it’s easy for any of us to just provide what help we can rather than look at what could have been done without us. Bottom line is someone’s asking for help even if no more than just to tell them seek and ye shall find and all that. But I had gotten frustrated with how many of the XDA folks post their instructions.

          Anyway, not the most important things in life, by any means :-)

          • @[email protected]English
            1•2 months ago

            Of course, it’s understandable. You’ve got a pretty solid selection of devices to start your Android modification journey. Eventually, you won’t need any guides, It’s just a matter of experience. I think I tried rooting or flashing new OSes to three devices before I really got the hang of it. Also, I’ve just reviewed a few of my links and some of them aren’t the highest quality or the most comprehensible, so I’ll edit my comment soon.

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      -4•2 months ago

      You are way nicer than I am. It is better to have people google stuff before posting.