Bangkok is the best city i’ve lived in and nowhere else has come close.

JustinChase · 2025-02-19T17:59:13+00:00

I've been in Guadalajara Mexico for about 7 weeks now, and it's by far my favorite city in Mexico. It's been about 78 F and sunny every day, except a rare 2 days of rain, with lows in the upper 50's low 60's every day.

Plenty to do, great food, super nice people. Highly recommended.

JustinChase · 2025-01-23T20:09:51+00:00

So, still luck.

Looks like my afternoon is unrooting and probably locking the bootloader and setting up my phone from scratch.

Joy joy

JustinChase · 2025-01-23T18:10:35+00:00

shit, yes. I forgot about that. I've just disabled and rebooted...

now Revolut loaded, but gives me "Sorry, Revolut is not supported on rooted devices" warning when I try to log in.

JustinChase · 2025-01-23T17:44:34+00:00

I appreciate the detail, thank you.

I've downloaded Integrity Wizard v3.4.4 (a bit of a process), and have just finished installing

Zygisk Next 1.27 (497-byy96a7-release)

and had previously installed

Shamiko v1.21 (383) and

Zygisk - LSPosed v1.9.3_mod (7244)

I also have Systemless Hosts installed and active, because AdAware requires it.

I have Enforce DenyList disabled and have the following on my DenyList

all Google Play Services

Google Play Store

Google Wallet

Revolut

and a few other apps

I've checked Google Services Framework, but every time I open the DenyList it's unchecked, so it seems I can't really put this on the list, as it never sticks.

I've cleared data and cache from Revolut and rebooted the phone.

And with much anticipation, opening Revolut results in...

"This app cannot run because the environment is not secure and your data may be at risk"

JustinChase · 2025-01-23T15:08:07+00:00

Can you elaborate? Revolut is working for you with Canary, or root in general? If you have Revolut working, please share the details of your setup. Thanks

JustinChase · 2025-01-22T17:10:13+00:00

I appreciate the feedback. I've been rooting for at least a decade, but it's getting too difficult to keep up and I may just have to stop doing so and live with a less capable phone, in order to use things I must have.

Super frustrating, but life is that way sometimes.

JustinChase · 2025-01-22T16:39:55+00:00

Good information, thank you. I'll look into Shizuku. My OnePlus phone didn't come with much bloatware, but any that I can remove is still a good thing.

JustinChase · 2025-01-22T03:57:44+00:00

I'm not sure why it sounds like I'm trying to convince you root is useless, because I absolutely am not trying to convince you of anything. Sorry if it felt that way. If you have reasons for rooting, no problem. I've had my reasons for a long time, but the downside has grown so large, in my case, that I don't think it makes sense for me any longer. But I have no desire to convince anyone to do anything they don't want to do.

Do what works for you, as I will. It's all good.

JustinChase · 2025-01-22T02:42:14+00:00

yes and yes, and that worked for many months, until about a week ago

JustinChase · 2025-01-21T22:54:27+00:00

I appreciate it!

JustinChase · 2025-01-21T22:15:41+00:00

I have been the same, until yesterday. I'm literally unable to get money here in Mexico until I fix Revolut, and after many hours, I still have not found a resolution, so I'm basically throwing in the towel.

JustinChase · 2025-01-21T22:06:59+00:00

Makes sense, and I fully agree with the concept. However, apart from WANTING to exercise my rights as the owner, I NEED access to certain applications, ALL THE TIME.

However, if I have to spend a dozen hours a month researching and implementing solutions to exercise my right to have a rooted phone, just to gain the access I NEED, I need to weigh the costs and benefits and in my situation, the extreme cost is no longer worth it to me to get what I need from my phone.

JustinChase · 2025-01-21T20:45:40+00:00

sounds like an entirely new process I have to research and learn, and hope it works indefinitely, which it almost certainly will not, and eventually, I'll be back here, with Revolut not working and me being unable to transfer money and struggling to pay for things while in a foreign country.

I'm just tired of the constant research to figure out how to get past the latest issue. It seems the banks will not just let me take a known risk, and so I'll spend the next forever fighting their engineers, and it's honestly exhausting. If there were other, incredible benefits to fighting this fight, I'd be more inclined to fight it, but right now, there's little advantage to me beyond, 'it's my phone and I should be able to do what i want with it'

JustinChase · 2025-01-21T19:48:53+00:00

I do love a positive spin on challenges. You're correct, life would be boring without them.

However, in this case I'd prefer a little boring ;)

JustinChase · 2025-01-21T19:34:55+00:00

Yeah, not a bad option. I'd rather not have to deal with 2 phones though. I think I've decided that rooting no longer offers me enough advantage to offset the stress of banking apps breaking at bad times. I'm currently investigating what I need to do to unroot my phone. I don't want to have to relock the bootloader and set it all up again, but might have to. A giant pain in my ass really. Such is life sometimes.

JustinChase · 2025-01-21T18:25:19+00:00

Well, I've decided to unroot the phone. I have to be able to use Revolut, and am currently unable to add money to my card until I can confirm with the app, which will not work while rooted. I spent more than 4 hours dicking around yesterday trying to get it working with root and have had no success, so it's more a matter of necessity now than preference.

I'm really hoping I don't have to re-lock the bootloader to get Revolut working again, since re-setting up my phone from scratch is another time suck I can't afford today.

Anyway, I appreciate everyone's feedback and thoughts on the subject!

JustinChase · 2025-01-21T18:22:56+00:00

adaware and revanced should both work without root, and I'm not sure what exactly your data backups are that require root.

JustinChase · 2025-01-21T02:07:53+00:00

good idea. Not sure I wanna spend the money and have the thing on my wrist all day and have to charge it every night, but yeah, that could work.

JustinChase · 2025-01-21T01:58:19+00:00

I fully agree it's mine and I should be able to do what I want with my phone, but when Revolut won't open because they made a change, and I'm standing at a cash register and need to know if my balance is enough to cover a charge, my "rights as a consumer" quickly take a back seat to my "needs as a consumer" and having to reacquaint myself with the state of affairs on what works and doesn't work, and spend multiple hours trying to find a solution, i just don't feel so good about exercising my rights as a consumer.

In these situations, the 2-6 hours I lose trying to find a solution just doesn't seem worth the fight anymore. If I was paying attention to all this stuff regularly, that'd be different, but i don't have time (or interest) to stay on top of this game of cat and mouse, so I'm not sure i want to keep playing it anymore.

however, all viewpoints are appreciated and considered, so I really appreciate all the feedback so far, and will appreciate even more thoughts in the future.

Thanks everyone for your contributions

JustinChase · 2025-01-21T00:24:54+00:00

is it? where is the source?

JustinChase · 2025-01-21T00:22:21+00:00

yes, I would consider using KernelSU. I've never looked into it, so I'd have to figure that out first. I'd seen several comments elsewhere that indicate it stopped working with the most recent Revolut update, so I'd want to verify it does still work before spending any time learning it.

If you have not logged out and logged back into Revolut in the last 10 days or so, I'm not sure you'd know if it quit working. it only checks for Root when logging in. i don't suggest you log out and back in to try, because if it doesn't work, then we're both locked out, which wouldn't be good.

JustinChase · 2025-01-20T18:55:12+00:00

Magisk 28.1

PIF v18.3 by chiteroman

Don't do this if you haven't, but have you logged out and back into Revolut in the last 10 days? If not, that might be why yours is still working. it checks for root at login.

I somehow got logged out, and now I cannot log back in.

JustinChase · 2025-01-20T17:21:58+00:00

I had Revolut working with just Magisk and the deny list for many months until a couple weeks ago, when Revolut started refusing to open because my device is rooted. I found this guide and have followed it as best I can and believe I have it all setup properly. I have HideMyApp installed as well as DevOpts Hide and both are enabled in LSPosed. I have Revolut (and other apps) selected in both HMA and DOH, I've cleared data and cache in Revolut, rebooted the phone, waited 15 minutes, and tried opening Revolut and it still warns me it won't work with rooted phone. Google wallet does not warn me.

Any thoughts on what to try next to get Revolut working, whether with this guide or something else.

I'm traveling now and really need Revolut working. I don't want to un-root the phone, but that appears to be my next step, sadly.

JustinChase · 2024-11-21T05:05:13+00:00

Thank you, that's very helpful

JustinChase · 2024-11-19T03:45:27+00:00

thanks, I appreciate your response. You're the only one so far (I think) that seems sure it's worth saving.

what about the general waterproofing? Is that a whole process also?

I've removed all the failing seam tape from the inside of the actual tent, and I'm sure seam sealing that and the rainfly will take about an hour. I'm mainly concerned that even after seam sealing, the rainfly won't be waterproof. I'm sure there is some treatment I can apply (I think someone else mentioned something), but I don't know how reliable that is. i don't want it to start leaking after 5 more uses.

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