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Maintaining Root via Custom Android Kernel Across Over-The-Air Upgrade

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Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2018)

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Abstract

People can obtain the highest privileges and control devices by Android root. However, an Android phone has been rooted, it is difficult for the user to update the Android system. Aiming at these problems, this paper proposes a maintaining root via custom Android kernel across Over-The-Air (OTA) upgrade. By customizing the kernel in boot and recovery, the boot will be replaced with rooted boot after updating automatically, so that system not only can be updated successfully but also maintain root. Experiments show that there is no abnormal between rooted mobile with a customized kernel and normal mobile during a minor system update.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by The Fundamental Research Funds for Beijing Universities of Civil Engineering and Architecture (Response by ZhangYu), and also Excellent Teachers Development Foundation of BUCEA (Response by ZhangYu), and also National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2016YFC060090).

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  1. School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China

    Huang Zucheng, Liu Lu & Li Yuanzhang

  2. School of Electrical and Information Engineering and Beijing Key Laboratory of Intelligent Processing for Building Big Data, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, No.1 Zhanlanguan Road, Xicheng District, Beijing, 100044, China

    Zhang Yu

  3. State Key Laboratory in China for GeoMechanics and Deep Underground Engineering (Beijing), China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing, 100083, China

    Zhang Yu

  4. Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan, China

    Zhang Qikun

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Zucheng, H., Lu, L., Yuanzhang, L., Yu, Z., Qikun, Z. (2018). Maintaining Root via Custom Android Kernel Across Over-The-Air Upgrade. In: Vaidya, J., Li, J. (eds) Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing. ICA3PP 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11334. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05051-1_21

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