I can’t root my phone because I don’t have an image for it (Moto G73) although I’d like to, but for some reason my banking app thinks it’s rooted and refuses to work. This happened just after I updated it, it wasn’t happening before.

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    8 months ago

    If you’ve done an OEM unlock, you effectively already have root access to the device. You could boot a custom recovery right now and modify any system file.

    “Rooting” just means using this privilege you already have in order to install a tool into the OS such that you can make use of this privilege while the regular OS is booted.

    Go install Magisk and do the safetynet dance. It’s a whole thing but should give you a “clean” device from the perspective of unprivileged apps. It’s stupid that you have to do this but here we are.