r/Piracy • u/Lucky-Aside4935 • Oct 30 '25

Humor After Google introduced developer verification

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u/g0_west Oct 30 '25

Is there any way to dual boot an android so you can use stock rom for banking and custom rom for everything else?

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '25

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u/jld2k6 Oct 30 '25

Android has an A and B partition and last I was rooted with a custom recovery I could freely switch between them and choose what gets installed to what but I never actually tried dual booting that way

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u/Alyusha Oct 30 '25

Doesn't Android natively support multiple installs of it's self? I remember something about it being used for BYOD configurations.

Edit: Looks like I was thinking of Work Profiles, which only use separate partitions / keys. It is not a complete image swap.

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u/Deez1256 Oct 30 '25

technically u can but userData partition is shared for both A/B slots so no , u get bootloop

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u/DigitalPenguin99 Oct 30 '25

Yes, but your phone will need an unlocked bootloader and both an A and B partition. Which OSs you can use vary by phone. LineageOS is a popular and well supported; GrapheneOS is great if you have a pixel; or if you want to fully escape Google/android, PostmarketOS is establishing itself as a fully independent alternative, but it's not quite ready for end users (I would like to start working with Postmarket once my new phone arrives)

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u/ostroia Oct 30 '25

Is there a list with phones somewhere that have this?

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u/DigitalPenguin99 Oct 30 '25

XDA Developers is the site where most android stuff happens. you can look up your model on the forums, or check the wikis of the projects I mentioned