if you cant control your Phone then you don't own it

Every day across forums including KTalk I see people say stupid things like “rooting or flashing custom roms is not good, will ruin your device, I just want a phone that works, tweaking is for youngsters…” and many more. I just laugh at their ignorance. if you cannot control your phone do you really own it?

On our desktops Os’ like Windows, Mac or the various Linux distros, we have Admin control over them, we can install any software we want or remove them, customise and play with them as much as we want. On Mobile phones such privileges do not exist, to get admin access you have to root your phone if it’s android or Jailbreak if it’s iPhone. Speaking about Android, rooting allows you to control every aspect of your phone like remove those stupid apps/bloatware that come with your phone, block adds, theme your phone if you don’t like the skin, use a firewall, mess with the kernel and many more. Also custom roms and Kernel give us different flavours, Like if you have a Oneplus phone, but you Like Motorolla’s skin, why not a rom with that theme? Just like with our desktops if you dont like Windows you can use a linux like Ubuntu and the rest, so why not have such freedom with your phones? With custom roms you can have the latest Android update even when your OEM stops providing updates for your phone

Most of these manufacturers also don’t allow for minor repairs, They want you to take the phone to their service centres for simple things you can do at home. Example 1, os updates, sometimes during these updates your phone can brick or the phone can brick due to other reasons. A soft brick is simply fixed by flashing the stock rom and the phone is fine, takes about 10 minutes. but most of these OEMs don’t have dedicated pages with the software files there for you to download and flash. So if you have such issue you have to go to their service centres and you will be charged if the phone is out of warranty for simple things you can do at home. Example 2 Phone batteries degrade with every charge, with time they need replacement. However most phones these days come with non-removable batteries. Let’s be honest, a new Processor will last 3-5 OS updates, or Snapdragon 820 cannot handle android Oreo or even P? Apple themselves admitted that once the battery starts degrading they reduce the phone’s performance. Minor fixes on phone are not that hard, www.ifixit.com has lots of free guides on that.

so why pay 100k or even 150k(iphone x at safaricom shop) for a phone you cannot control in any way while your computer of similar price you can mess with it as much as you want? Shit happens, people go broke but does that mean that the Samsung Note 4 that you bought 3 years ago should continue using Kitkat with a weak battery while simply changing it’s battery and flashing a custom rom to it will give it a new lease of life? Or should you buy an iphone 8 because your iphone 6plus got slowed down by updates while simply changing it’s battery will fix the issue?

watu wa summary: Consumers deserve the right to repair their devices and don’t buy a stupid device that you cannot control, jailbreak or root that shit. Life is too short to use boring devices.

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Simu mpya ya android>root (na uchunge nimesikia kigoroot iko na backdoor siku hizi)>toa takataka>weka xposed kama unaweza>weka modules za adblockers mpaka za utube>jinyce

kingroot ni upus, use SuperSU or if Paranoid use Magisk which is open source

niko poa wep tev. Laravel na Php zinakupeleka aje?

nauza mari mari sasa

natumia peasant phone oppo na kingoroot alikataa.hio magisk naona sio apk.how long is the process and steps. lazy here

I agree. Unaweza achieve root na kingo, weka super SU halafu ng’oa kingo. By the way nafikiri kingoroot imetumika sana kwa sababu watu hawajazoea custom recoveries so wanataka quick fix.

talking to me negro?

Ya. Generally naongea na halaiki, wewe ukiwepo. Kuna shida?

Did you write this for wanjiku or for your fellow geeks?

Kabisaaa greenify na gravity box lazima kwangu.

@gashwin hapa wanjiku ajisot. Heheheee…

@Immortan Joe: Oppo model?

We go to school so that we can provide solutions to our community. People who have the know-why of a certain technology explain it in simple language wanjiku can understand; well, unless you work for an NGO and you want to create the impression that you know more than you actually do.
Another example is a first year med student who keeps dropping the medical terms he has learnt while drinking at his local. He may bamboozle his drinking buddies but may not help the avoid them prevalent flu epidemic.

Ugumu wa kuelezea vitu zingine kwa wanjiku ni kuwa interest inachangia pia. Ukianza kuelezea mtu…cheki this is a paraphrased conversation na dem flani some years ago…
A: Simu yako iko na root?
B: Root ni nini?
A: Root ni kama user control ya system directory ya Android
B: Hiyo ni kusema? Android ni nini?
A: Kwani simu yako sio Android?
B: Zi. Ni Samsung. (heheheheeee)

OK

A: Hebu…(anacheki kaphone anapata ni Jellybean)
A :Si hii simu ni Jellybean wewe, kwa nini unasema si android?
B: Jellybean ni nini?
A: Usijali. Root inakusaidia kucontrol system directory ya simu yako vile unataka
B: System directory ni nini?
A: Ni ile folder inakuwanga na system files
B: System files ni nini
A: Ni files za Android…operating system ambazo zina-control simu
B: Ati operating system?
A: Ya. Kama files zile za Android…hio simu yako ni android na ni kaa hauna root control…
B: Ah zi. Hii simu ni Samsung sio Android wacha utiaji. Si usome lable?
A: OK. (aside) huyu dem ni maembe aje?

hehehe waah!

Natafuta hiyo Note 4 ume mention hapo, ni yako?

Buda, the idea is to figure out how to say this to someone without having to make it a king and peasant discussion.
How hard is it to say, heh, hiyo simu yako ni slow sana. Si ujaribu kuibadilisha kiasi ikuwe faster?

Akuulize aje? Umwambie simu iko na akili(os/software) na iko na mwili(hardware).

Hiyo akili ndio inafanya simu ihang. Sasa iyo akili tunaiitanga Android, na kuna aina tofauti. Then you move from there.

Your approach is a very supremacist approach and serves primarily to boost your ego rather than pass a message.

Most people who’ve passed through our education system have it and that’s why we laugh when someone gets a wrong answer in class or call them stupid.

when you are really good at a technology you should be able to explain it to someone who’s never heard about it before.

Hahahaaaaaaa…simu iko na akili na mwili, na kuna aina tofauti…hahaaaaaa… Thank you. That was a good laugh. @kijanamrefu wewe ni mwenyewe. You have made my day.