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Andrew T. ♦
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I just built a userdebug version of AOSP 10.0 for my Pixel 4 XL; it does contain an su binary in /system/xbin/su.

It differs from what many mean by "rooting" in that it doesn't let you actually run su from on the phone itself (say, within termuxTermux). It can only be executed by root or a member of the shell group, which is what is used while running an adb shell session. However, it still is a way to run things as root; it merely requires an adb connection to do so. If your USB cable doesn't carry data or your USB port is broken/faulty, you wouldn't be able to run things as root anymore (unless you had already set up adb on the device to run over TCP).

I later put magiskMagisk on my otherwise-AOSP ROM and now have two su binaries; the magiskMagisk one is installed in /sbin/su. Magisk's /sbin/su will let me run things as root without an adb connection active.

I just built a userdebug version of AOSP 10.0 for my Pixel 4 XL; it does contain an su binary in /system/xbin/su.

It differs from what many mean by "rooting" in that it doesn't let you actually run su from on the phone itself (say, within termux). It can only be executed by root or a member of the shell group, which is what is used while running an adb shell session. However, it still is a way to run things as root; it merely requires an adb connection to do so. If your USB cable doesn't carry data or your USB port is broken/faulty, you wouldn't be able to run things as root anymore (unless you had already set up adb on the device to run over TCP).

I later put magisk on my otherwise-AOSP ROM and now have two su binaries; the magisk one is installed in /sbin/su. Magisk's /sbin/su will let me run things as root without an adb connection active.

I just built a userdebug version of AOSP 10.0 for my Pixel 4 XL; it does contain an su binary in /system/xbin/su.

It differs from what many mean by "rooting" in that it doesn't let you actually run su from on the phone itself (say, within Termux). It can only be executed by root or a member of the shell group, which is what is used while running an adb shell session. However, it still is a way to run things as root; it merely requires an adb connection to do so. If your USB cable doesn't carry data or your USB port is broken/faulty, you wouldn't be able to run things as root anymore (unless you had already set up adb on the device to run over TCP).

I later put Magisk on my otherwise-AOSP ROM and now have two su binaries; the Magisk one is installed in /sbin/su. Magisk's /sbin/su will let me run things as root without an adb connection active.

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Wyatt Ward
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I just built a userdebug version of AOSP 10.0 for my Pixel 4 XL; it does contain an su binary in /system/xbin/su.

It differs from what many mean by "rooting" in that it doesn't let you actually run su from on the phone itself (say, within termux). It can only be executed by root or a member of the shell group, which is what is used while running an adb shell session. However, it still is a way to run things as root; it merely requires an adb connection to do so. If your USB cable doesn't carry data or your USB port is broken/faulty, you wouldn't be able to run things as root anymore (unless you had already set up adb on the device to run over TCP).

I later put magisk on my otherwise-AOSP ROM and now have two su binaries; the magisk one is installed in /sbin/su. Magisk's /sbin/su will let me run things as root without an adb connection active.