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Rooted Whatsapp (lemmy.world)

Hi, is there any way to have a whatsapp work on a rooted phone (Pixel 7a) with something like frost is to Facebook?

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[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I've no issues with it on my rooted phone, even during the times when safetynet fails.

[-] Stez827@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Same I used a rooted phone for years (recently got a new phone) and never had any issues

[-] aqua_cat@pawb.social 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

On my rooted LineageOS ROM it works just fine, just gives a warning when starting it for the first time that I am using a "rooted device" and how my "security might be compromised" but it lets you continue and doesn't show it ever again.

[-] suboczsubocz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Could it be an issue that I am from Poland and not us? My friend had the same issue, but on all forums the problem is non existent

[-] aqua_cat@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

I am from EU so you are probably fine.

[-] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

There are no alternative clients for WhatsApp as far as I know.

The only thing worth looking into are Matrix Bridges (or something with a similar name) but it's a paid solution.

[-] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

You can also host it yourself.

[-] micheledm@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Beeper is basically that but without the hassle of configuring the bridges by yourself

[-] suboczsubocz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I'll look to it. It may be a valid option. Thank you very much

[-] punkibas@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

There's this Ansible playbook to auto-deploy it, It's pretty simple to get it up and it works very well: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

[-] chebra@mstdn.io 2 points 1 week ago

@kami @suboczsubocz matrix is a decentralized chat network so a matrix bridge is basically a WhatsApp bot forwarding all messages to a matrix bot so then you can use any of the matrix client apps. It's open source, self-hostable, but sure, you can pay your maintainer.

[-] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Does it refuse to run if it detects root? Im not rooted but grapheneOS lets me run whatsapp no problem.

[-] suboczsubocz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I too used grapheneos for a long time, but WhatsApp just give me a message about WhatsApp being unofficial, and I downloaded it form Google Play, Aurora and official web site on different installations. I tried to start it from backup, but the problem persisted.

[-] catsup@lemmy.one 1 points 1 week ago

You can use "Hide my apps" from LSPosed, and the Magisk "DenyList" to prevent (most) apps from detecting root.

this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2025
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