{"id":3909,"date":"2016-11-20T23:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=3909"},"modified":"2016-11-20T23:12:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T15:12:04","slug":"playing-pokemon-go-and-root","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2016\/11\/playing-pokemon-go-and-root\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing Pokemon Go and root"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pokemon Go the new location based game is now the in thing. \u00a0 To defeat GPS spoofers, it uses Google SafetyNet check to catch phones with root. \u00a0That means if it fail the checks, \u00a0no Pikachu for you.<\/p>\n<p>The first version of the game tolerated root. \u00a0Newer versions not so much. \u00a0I tried to use the various methods with Magisk and systemless root to keep the game working. It is a cat and mouse game with Google. \u00a0A smart XDA developer would come up with a new way of hiding and Google will patch that some days\/weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I gave up, and live with the stock permissions. \u00a0Reinstalled Xposed, reflash the Sultan&#8217;s CM13 build to remove SU.<\/p>\n<p>Life without root, was interesting. \u00a0All the ads could not be removed and \u00a0apps no longer have the permission to kill other apps. \u00a0It was irritating, Llama could not stop \u00a0Google Play Services on a regular basis, or Trigger (NFC) could not stop selected apps or control GPS.<\/p>\n<p>You get used to it after a while and develop work around. \u00a0So far it has been nearly a month using Android with stock permissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pokemon Go the new location based game is now the in thing. \u00a0 To defeat GPS spoofers, it uses Google SafetyNet check to catch phones with root. \u00a0That means if it fail the checks, \u00a0no Pikachu for you. The first&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[241,413,414],"class_list":["post-3909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-android","tag-pokemon-go","tag-root"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3914,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions\/3914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}