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What's your fear in relation to using older recovery?
Try Lygisk, it's a fork of Magisk that's meant to survive OTAs for devices that only have one system partition. I've used it on a previous phone and it worked great.
Is there something you absolutely need root for? Or can you get away with not having root? It is always better to not have root capability, as that is a huge attack vector.
Root gives me more control over my device and many powerful apps like shizuku and sdmaid works better than non root. Usually i don't use magisk modules. And one another use is it installs app updates without a waring like play store. That's it.
You could use aurorastore. Sdmaid is useless IMHO. I don't see the point in it. I used to be rooted but now using GrapheneOS I am not anymore and although I miss customising the navbar pill and notification bar height it is safer this way.
this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2025
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