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Do you have an old Android that still works perfectly well, but isn’t capable of all the things you’d like it to do—or maybe it doesn’t have these hidden Android features that newer models boast?

Root rights can be used by any app, even non-root ones to expand their functionality. However, this expansion sometimes happens in the general direction of having your data farmed, stolen and sold to ...

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