So my problem is that I don’t have money for a new phone and I also need my banking app. Rooting is not possible.
Steps I’ve taken:
-removed and deleted my Google account
-disabled all default Android apps and all Google apps except for Play Services (needed for location service and the banking app)
-denied all permissions for Play Services except location and movement sensors (can’t be denied), phone and sms (needed for the banking app)
I figure Google can still track my phone and use its location for traffic analysis, etc. but has no way of targeting me with ads (their main business) or connect my phone to my identity (no access to my contacts, call logs, keyboard, calendar, mail, etc.). I hope it turns me into a nameless device ID.
Does this help at all? Is there anything else I can do?
Baking apps work on root with zygisk
I have no idea what that means. I googled zygisk and still don’t know how that helps in my case.
Zygisk is part of magisk. Might be wrong but its just root method used by magisk.
https://www.problogbooster.com/2016/10/use-banking-apps-on-rooted-devices-running-android-magisk-shamiko-zygisk-on-phone.html
This article reads like it was written or translated by an AI from 2006, and it recommends Magisk Hide, which doesn’t exist anymore in the current version of Magisk.
Listen man just activate zygisk in magic setting and enforce blacklist settings. Go into blacklist and add your banking app. Done.
Thank you. This I understand! Now I just have to figure out how to root this thing, cause I haven’t found any guides online for this model.
Np