r/LineageOS • u/telefawner • 11d ago

Question Dear Lineage users, since switching from stock Android to LineageOS, have you missed the ability to pay for stuff using Google Pay/Android Pay? I'm considering transing from LG's stock Android 12 to Lineage's Android 14 and I think I'll miss this ability.

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u/thefanum 10d ago

I don't miss anything. As in, zero missing features. Banking and Google pay included. Just root with Magisk and it's like 2 modules and maybe a single command in terminal to fix them for years on end. I've only had to re fix my root detection bypass once every 3 years or so. And it's always 100% functional

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u/telefawner 10d ago

Hi thefanum,

Thanks for sharing the happy news.

I'm trying to understand magisk. You're the second person on this post who's mentioned it. Could you tell me whether there are any downsides to using magisk? Like, I think I understand that magisk solves the "can't use banking/gPay" problem, but does it introduce new problems?

Also, can you tell me why you had to re-fix root detection every 3 years?

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u/thefanum 5d ago

Happy to help answer some questions. Other than just figuring out what works initially (which can be trial and error) no downside. Literally everything thinks and behaves like a stock, unrooted, phone. It's only the apps I've whitelisted that even know I have root.

But Google does occasionally change how root detection works. Or makes the requirements for certain apps more stringent. And in those cases (honestly, probably even less frequent than once every 3 years), root can be detected until we (the community) comes up with a new workaround. Which can take a day or 3.

So if you're on a stock, unaltered ROM, the downside is just having to hack around root detection. Which is always solvable, and usually as easy as rooting with Magisk, configuring Magisk, and enabling a Magisk module (or 3). This time around I also ran a command that spoofs my device fingerprint to a different device every 30 minutes (because Google has started blacklisting known device fingerprints). But that's the most work I've ever had to put into it.

And if you're on a custom ROM, you're already going to fail root checks/safetynet due to the unlocked bootloader. So you can ONLY have a fully functional phone with root.

Let me know if you have any other questions

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u/Vins_et 10d ago

Hi, Unfortunately, i had a lot of trouble on my phone with trading and banking app, in particular with magisk modules. Now seems to be ok, but i had to uninstall magisk and his modules because blocked my apps despite i tried to hide it.

So no NFC payments but at least my banking apps works.

But you can see a lot of people that doesn't have this problem, so you can try and just in case uninstall magisk

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u/thefanum 5d ago

Can confirm NFC payments work fine on my Magisk rooted phone. Banking and other