Fairphone’s approach to root on the Fairphone 2

[Mikaciu]

For what I’ve seen, there are various opinions about rooting the phone with Kingroot, and the user experience on this is not very comforting.

As you said it yourself on the related topic :

@Moritz

So I rather suggest you guys dont try KingRoot, as my FP2 is not booting anymore. I can reach the maintenance menu by holding down the volume up button while booting and there I can erase userdata and swipe the cache partition, but it wont boot after that. So I guess I’ll have to run a full recovery somehow.

@Moritz

I have a bit of a bad feeling about KingRoot. It’s very closed source and it loads some code from the web during the rooting procedure, so it might just download anything onto the phone really.

This convinces me that as of now, neither SuperSU, nor KingRoot are goot rooting solutions for the FP2.

I’ll use the FP2 without root for now, waiting for a way to root my phone (running the pre-installed OS, for now), should it be official, or unofficial (and even if I have to root it again after updates, I’ll go with that).