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[pscocoa]

I have stayed well clear of anything to do with the rooting of phones - or at least I thought I had.

Tried to do something on my galaxy S9+ and it comes up with not possible for rooted phones!!

Is it possible for rooting of a phone direct from EE to have happened through some background programme or at least no request at any time warning me that accepting a command will root the phone?? There are no other operational issues with the phone.

[scimmy_man]

is that like the Australian "rooted"? ie Fu***d

[tunnie]

Depends on root detection used, normally cheapo crappy Chinese handsets trigger this all the time as they modify some key Android system files.

Samsung should be fine though, they version of Android is solid despite its UI implementation.

A factory reset should put back anything that’s been modified, as normally they look at key files under the hood.

Where you trying to watch something? What app were you using?

[pscocoa]

Just reset Samsung password and restarted and all seems ok. Thanks Mark. Very strange.

[TheBoy]

Its also possible that a piece of malware rooted it in order to be able to do other stuff - Android (and Apple's) main security comes in by trying to constrain the user into a controlled area.  That's why rooting/jailbreaking is beyond braindead on a phone.

Samsung are a bit lax with push out updates, but like anything connected to a public network, you need to get updates on as soon as possible.