Various tools for system maintenance

Root Keeper

2020-02-07

These tools should take care your rooted device stays rooted – even if you install a system update (e.g. via OTA).

mySU (Superuser for Android) (3.9@1,005) 5 LastUpdate: 2017-03-18 SuperUser & RootKeeper
OTA RootKeeper (3.6@11) 0 LastUpdate: 2013-01-21

Root Checker

2020-02-07

Apps to check whether the rooting process was successful.

Root Checker (5@4) 0 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-08-24
Root Checker: with Terminal Emulator and SafetyNet (4.5@957) Ǥ 4
Check Root (4.4@840) 3 LastUpdate: 2016-10-08
Root Checker Pro (4.4@389) Ǥ 4 LastUpdate: 2016-12-26
Root Checker (4.4@163) Ǥ 4
Simple Root Checker (4.4@27) Ǥ 7 LastUpdate: 2016-03-28
Root Checker (4.3@349,029) Ǥ 7 / Root Checker Pro (4.6@2,464; ~EUR 4.75) Ǥ 3
Root Checker (4.2@30,455) Ǥ 6
Root Verifier (4.2@2,092) 1 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-03-26 Github
Root Checker N Info (4.2@34) 3 LastUpdate: 2015-04-08
SU Root Checker (4.1@10,575) 3 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-09-13
Root Checker (4.1@1,130) Ǥ 5 LastUpdate: 2018-01-30
Root Checker (4.1@632) 3
Root Checker (4@1,075) 1 LastUpdate: 2016-08-05
Root Checker (3.9@7,130) Ǥ 4
Am I Rooted? (Root Checker) (3.9@202) 7 LastUpdate: 2017-09-20
Root Checker (3.9@113) Ǥ 4 LastUpdate: 2017-08-03
Root Validator (3.8@3,973) Ǥ 6 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-04-15 Github
Root/Super Su Checker Advanced FREE [Root] (0@17) Ǥ 14

With a rooted device, some apps refuse to work (mostly those using "protected" or "sensitive" material. If you still want to use those apps and keep your device rooted, you may wish to hide that fact. These apps help you with that. Also see Magisk, which provides both root and root hiding.

Hide Rooting Lite (2.2@1,978) 4 LastUpdate: 2016-09-09 / Hide Rooting Premium (3.5@78; ~EUR 2.00) Ǥ 3 LastUpdate: 2016-09-06
Entrust IdentityGuard Unblocker (0@0) 0 LastUpdate: 2017-05-11
ANRC (0@0) 2 LastUpdate: 2017-06-06 Github
Zuper (0@0) hide mock location, forbidden ads, root and more
RootCloak (OLD, SEE DESCRIPTION) (0@0) / RootCloak (with 5.x and 6.x support) (0@0; ~EUR 1.25) 1 LastUpdate: 2017-04-09 XDA inkl. Anleitung; Howto 3/2014; Video Howto 6/2014
unWatch (0@0) LastUpdate: 2015-09-01 Github
Good for Enterprise Disable Root Check (0@0) LastUpdate: 2014-11-07 Github; Hide root from the Good for enterprise client
SberbankUnroot (0@0) LastUpdate: 2016-03-03
No Device Check (0@0) LastUpdate: 2015-09-25 make Google think you run unmodified Android
Sudohide (0@0) LastUpdate: 2017-10-22
Surrogate (0@0) LastUpdate: 2017-04-15 Github; provides rules to directly hook into other apps, replacing their methods (e.g. root checking)
CYBER APPX (0@0)
SDW Hide Root (0@0) LastUpdate: 2018-02-16
MaxdomeXposed (0@0) LastUpdate: 2014-03-26 Maxdome trotz root nutzen

SuperUser

2020-02-07

Superuser (4.5@1,265) 1 LastUpdate: 2016-01-29 Github
DroSU (Superuser for Android) (4.3@482) 6 LastUpdate: 2017-03-26 SuperUser & RootKeeper
Superuser(manage Root device) (4.1@1,308) 6 LastUpdate: 2017-03-12 SuperUser & RootKeeper
Superuser X Free [Root] (3.9@7,803) Ǥ 9 / Superuser X Pro [Root] - 50% OFF (4.2@192; ~EUR 22.00) 6
mySU (Superuser for Android) (3.9@1,005) 5 LastUpdate: 2017-03-18 SuperUser & RootKeeper
SuperSU (0@364) 5 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-05-29 / SuperSU Pro (4.1@23,625; ~EUR 3.75) 0 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-05-29
Superuser (0@69) 4 / Superuser Elite (3.3@6,230; ~EUR 3.25) Ǥ 3 LastUpdate: 2012-06-30
Superuser (0@22) 2 LastUpdate: 2014-04-14

Magisk

2020-02-14

If you don't know what this is, please see Root for all: Magisk in the articles section.

Magisk Manager (4.6@3,095) 11 Github; Guide 9/2016 | 3/2017; Video Tutorial 3/2017 (~7min) | 6/2017 (~6min) | 9/2017 (~6min); Howto 8/2017; IzzyOnDroid 5/2018; XDA Home; Magisk Wiki; Installation & Troubleshooting Guide; Universal Systemless Interface
Unified Hosts Manager (4.3@135) 0 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-01-24
Collection of Magisk Modules
10 Must-Have Magisk Modules (1/2020)

Busybox

2020-02-07

BusyBox is software that provides several stripped-down Unix tools in a single executable file. (Wikipedia) Usually requires root.

BusyBox X [Root] (4.5@8,866) Ǥ 10 / BusyBox X Pro [Root] - 50% OFF (4.7@191; ~EUR 22.00) 8
BusyBox (4.5@4,983) 3 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ Github
BusyBox Installer Classic (4.5@54) Ǥ 9
BusyBox for Android (4.4@26,148) Ǥ 9 LastUpdate: 2018-05-10 / BusyBox Pro (4.2@828; ~EUR 3.25) Ǥ 9 LastUpdate: 2017-11-06 Github
Droidbug BusyBox Advance FREE (4.4@70) Ǥ 6 / Droidbug BusyBox Advance PRO (4.3@10; ~EUR 4.00) Ǥ 5
BusyBox (4.3@158,123) 2 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ / BusyBox Pro (4.5@8,288; ~EUR 2.75) 3
BusyBox On Rails (4.2@3,566) Ǥ 5 LastUpdate: 2016-12-22
Busybox Checker (4.2@2,613) Ǥ 4 LastUpdate: 2016-09-29
Neo Busybox (4.2@207) 9 LastUpdate: 2015-02-25
Tinybox! A busybox replacement (4.1@210) 0 LastUpdate: 2015-11-10
Busybox Installer (no root) (3.7@128) 5

Terminal Apps

2020-02-07

Command line to interact with the system, see Terminal Emulator.

RHazOS (5@1) 5 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-08-03 Github
Termux (4.5@45,383) 8 / Termux:API (4.3@4,259) 16 / Termux:Styling (4.6@346; ~EUR 2.00) 0 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ Github; Repository for additional packages; Kurzvorstellung 1/2016; Anleitung 12/2019; includes apt to install a lot of packages like aapt, busybox, git, mc, python, rsync and more
Material Terminal (4.5@5,927) Ǥ 6 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-04-03 Video Demo 3/2015; Walk-Through 3/2015
Qute: Command Console & Terminal Emulator (4.4@3,971) Ǥ 12
TTerm (4.4@35) 5 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-01-22
Terminal Emulator for Android (4.3@116,843) 5 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-07-18 Github; Vorstellung 3/2014
Terminal Emulator Free (4.3@910) Ǥ 10
Remote ADB Shell (4.3@275) 2 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-01-14 Intro 7/2013; connect to one Android device from another Android device
ZShaolin GNU / Linux terminal (4.3@94; ~EUR 3.75) 5 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2014-12-21 Intro 12/2013; Github; comes with a bunch of tools like vim, ffmpeg, lua, git …
☆ AirTerm (floating terminal) (4@537) Ǥ 7 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2013-08-07
TermOne Plus - terminal emulator (4@81) 6 GitLab
Terminal (3.4@67) 4 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
Shell Terminal Emulator (3.3@2,664) 4
Ping Net (3.3@7; ~EUR 2.00) 5 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-06-27
NeoTerm (0@0) 7 Github

Custom Recovery & Flashing

2020-02-09

Lineage Downloader (4.4@18,225) Ǥ 11 / Lineage Downloader Premium (4.2@1,363; ~EUR 1.75) Ǥ 10
CyanDelta Updater (4.4@9,751) Ǥ 6 LastUpdate: 2017-02-13 LineageOS, Paranoid, OmniROM
MultiROM Manager (4.4@8,598) 5 LastUpdate: 2017-06-10 Github
Auto Flasher ROM flash utility (4.4@1,733) Ǥ 6 LastUpdate: 2017-03-24 Video Demo 3/2013; Vorstellung 7/2013
Flasher (4.4@75) 5
ROM Installer (4.3@42,219) Ǥ 11 Review 10/2013
ROM Manager (4.2@240,183) Ǥ 13 Anleitung 4/2014; Video Howto 9/2014
[ROOT] Rashr - Flash Tool (4.2@29,931) Ǥ 6 LastUpdate: 2017-10-25 Video Demo 12/2014; Intro 12/2014 | 4/2015; Github
ZipInstaller (4.2@63; ~EUR 1.25) Ǥ 10 LastUpdate: 2014-02-25
Flashify (for root users) (4.1@41,375) Ǥ 7 LastUpdate: 2015-12-12 Vorstellung 7/2013; Video Howto 6/2014; maintains your recovery partition
Official TWRP App (4.1@26,359) Ǥ 15 Intro 12/2016
ZIPme (4.1@4,888) Ǥ 5 LastUpdate: 2017-04-11 create update ZIP packages to install in recovery
[ROOT] CRAB - Custom Recovery Auto Backup (4.1@21) 1 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-07-20
TWRP Manager (Requires ROOT) (3.9@34,388) Ǥ 11 LastUpdate: 2017-07-02 Intro 6/2013 | 6/2013; Video Review 6/2013 | 12/2013; Live Nandroid Backup for TWRP
Stock Rom Downloader (3.7@1,381) Ǥ 12 LastUpdate: 2016-07-18 find custom ROMs and ZIPs
[root] FlashFire (2.9@7,259) Ǥ 9 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-09-21
ROM Toolbox Lite (0@36) Ǥ 26 / ROM Toolbox Pro (3.6@25,635; ~EUR 6.00) Ǥ 25 Video Review 10/2013

init.d

2020-02-12

init.d scripts support (4.1@359) Ǥ 9 select a folder to place scripts which shall run at boot time
Boot Shell [ROOT] (3.5@242) 3 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-08-11 / Boot Shell Pro (4.2@16; ~EUR 1.00) 0 LastUpdate: 2014-03-20 run shell commands at boot
Run Userinit (0@0) 2 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
Init.d Light (0@0) 4 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-12-24 Github

Sandbox (isolate) apps

2020-02-16

Shelter (4.2@355) 7 Vorstellung 9/2018 | 1/2019; Vorstellung & Howto 7/2019; Intro 9/2019; FOSS alternative to Island
Island (0@0) Ǥ 20 Vorstellung 3/2018; XDA; like Greenify, but more: freeze, isolate (sandbox) apps, clone (for parallel usage), hide …

Other tools

2020-02-08

Bash Shell X [Root] (4.5@1,860) Ǥ 10 installs GNU bash 4.2;
SafetyNet Helper Sample (4.5@725) 1 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ Github; find out whether your device passes the SafetyNet test
Prevent Running (4.5@673) 7 prevent force-stopped apps from auto-restarting
Safety Net Test App (4.5@50) Ǥ 7 LastUpdate: 2017-02-14 find out whether your device passes the SafetyNet test
FDE.AI (4.4@628; ~EUR 3.00) Ǥ 3 OS/Kernel optimizer
[root] LiveBoot (4.3@6,204) Ǥ 3 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
SafetyNet Playground (4.2@48) 1 LastUpdate: 2016-11-22 find out whether your device passes the SafetyNet test
Root Essentials (4.1@8,120) Ǥ 15 LastUpdate: 2017-10-28
Brevent (4.1@7,614) Ǥ 12 Github; prevent apps from auto-(re)starting; no root required
Root ToolCase (4.1@963) Ǥ 13
Linux Deploy (4@14,109) 7 Github; Install and run GNU/Linux on Android
SafetyNet Test (4@724) Ǥ 5 find out whether your device passes the SafetyNet test
Timezone Updater (4@108) 4 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ Github
Bash (3@6) 5 LastUpdate: 2017-03-20
SELinuxModeChanger (0@0) 1 LastUpdate: 2018-04-10 Github; Set SELinux mode on boot
BackgroundRestrictor (0@0) 0 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-11-03 Github; restrict apps from running in background
Content Provider Helper (0@0) 14 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-05-14 Github; find available content provider URIs; add & delete your own
Network Monitored Blocker (KitKat) (0@0) LastUpdate: 2015-02-14 Github; get rid of the "network may be monitored" message triggered by adding a CA cert to the key store in KitKat
MinMinHide (0@0) LastUpdate: 2015-03-03 Github; hide apps from other apps (not only from app-drawers)

Further Readings:

rooting tag-wiki at Android.SE including a rooting index with hints for specific devices
Magisk for "systemless modding" (incl. root); also see this guide at AndroidPolice
Ist Rooten ein Sicherheitsrisiko bzw. gefährlich? (10/2018)
Was ist Rooten und Jailbreak? (5/2016 - 10/2019)
5 reasons you should learn how to root your phone today (and how to do it) (2/2015)
CF-Auto-Root – So rootet man Samsung, Motorola & Nexus Geräte (2/2015)
How to root Android easily without PC (6/2014)
Towelroot rootet praktisch alle Android-Phones / Towelroot knackt Android in Sekunden (6/2014)

2020-02-24

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