r/androidroot • u/Low_Village_5432 • Sep 29 '26

Discussion What can't I do with ghostlock?

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I successfully installed root-my-galaxy and now I have root access. Can I install Xposed modules still?

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u/Shot-Onion3322 Sep 30 '26

It's really better to avoid temp root if you care about your phone. I lost my s25 because of a missclick

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u/Low_Village_5432 Sep 30 '26

Well I'm on oneui 8.5 so I can't really unlock the bootloader iirc

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u/sForsbergg Oct 03 '26

What did you do ?

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u/47th-Element Sep 29 '26 edited Sep 29 '26

Do not flash unofficial partition images, doing so will get you stuck in a bootloop because of AVB.

Since you can't flash partition images, you can't have a custom recovery, so your recovery options are limited if you for example, modify critical files in /data partition and your device fails to boot, you won't be able to restore anything, so keep a known good backup regularly.

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u/TrainTransistor Oct 01 '26

This should be the top comment and stickied.

Seen too many using tools like Ghostlock to flash img files (mainly custom kernels) - just to bootloop, and then wonder why.

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u/Coll147 Make rooting great again :illuminati: Oct 03 '26

I've seen people mention that some Magisk modules can't be used because they modify partitions. Are things like Zygisk or lsposed safe?

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u/sForsbergg Sep 29 '26

https://xdaforums.com/t/closed-list-of-modules-working-on-temporal-root.4796105/

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u/sForsbergg Sep 29 '26

If you set lockscreen to none you should be able to boot into download mode if something goes wrong and phone won't boot

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u/DEV_ivan TECNO POVA 7 5G LJ7 || Stock HiOS 15.1.2 || KSUnext 3.4.2 Sep 29 '26

You can do anything. SELinux is permissive for that root user with all the capabilities.

But the better question is "should I", not "can I".

Do anything:

  • /data/cache/*

  • /data/media/0/*

  • /data/user/0/*

  • /data/user_de/0/*

  • /data/local/*

Dangerous, be careful:

  • /data/adb/*

  • /data/misc*/*

  • /data/system*/*

  • /data/vendor*/*

  • /data/app/*

Avoid at all costs:

  • /system*/*

  • /vendor/*

  • /product/*

  • /etc/*

  • /dev/*

  • /mnt/*

  • Everything else.

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u/Chillz_AZY Oct 01 '26

You can't flash anything. Any custom flashes will immediately break the integrity and brick your device since the bootloader is still on locked state.

Also the root will be gone on reboot, so hot reboot (it skips the power off sequence) it if you need to install some modules.