After 5 years of owning iphones ive decided to switch to an S6 and im finding the transition a little dificult
Ive downloaded the sky go app but it wont play anything, i just get a message saying its not supported on rooted android devices. So my question is, wtf is a rooted device and can it be changed?
Thanks
Steve

 

The phone you bought has been hacked to use a different operating system, it's pretty common on Samsung devices as their own version of Android isn't liked.

Instructions here http://gs6.wonderhowto.com/how-to/un...stock-0162155/

 

Sky hd won't work because it's been updated, it's now called movie hd.

Which works perfectly fine on my rooted note 4.

 

Sky HD and Movie HD are different to Sky Go I take it http://help.sky.com/articles/error-m...the-sky-go-app

 

Course now realized he meant sky go.

You'll need to find a way into tricking the software that your device isn't rooted, might be better off asking on xda forums.

 

Banking apps definitely won't work, unless you add a hack to a hack and all that hacking makes me itch.

 

My banking app works fine, as does everything else, i think. I dont understand how it can be a hacked phone when it was brand new and sealed? Never heard of xda but i will check it out
Thanks
Steve

 

Could just be sloppy coding on the Sky app, brand new and sealed it's very likely not rooted.

 

You could have been sent a developer phone, they might have run out of stock of standard devices so sent you that instead.
There are ways of checking, involved holding power button and up on the volume when booting, or volume down i can't remember.

Anyway like i said xda should help sort it, it's beyond my knowledge.

 

Thanks for your help mate, ill ask on xda

 

Good info here http://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Archived...s/td-p/1505409

 

Yeah ive seen that mate but thanks for the reply. Im just trying to understand what rooted is and if there are any benefits to leaving it rooted, even if its at the expense of not being able to use sky go

 

Rooted on android is similar to jailbroken on ios. Both are hacks to the OS to give extra permissions to the user allowing you to do customisations that were not possible under the standard permissions of the OS.

 

The downside being reduced security, hence apps that don't work. Upside, you have a new hobby.

 

Oh right, i understand now, thanks guys. I still dont understand how my phone came like that though, never mind

 

It would be interesting to know if you have the same problem with the Channel4 On-Demand app-player, as they have a similar rooted-device detection thing.

 

I'll check it out later and let you know

 

No, it doesn't work

 

You should take it back, something is very wrong, who knows what's installed on it it's definitely not standard Samsung.

 

Like i said you either got a dev phone, or someone had it before, rooted it and changed their mind.
Check in your settings to see if knox has been tripped, rooting will do this.

http://gadgetguideonline.com/galaxys...s-and-s6-edge/

 

Rooting your Samsung device generally wont trip KNOX, but installing a custom recovery like CWM or TWRP will.

That's what happened to my NOTE 3, no Knox trip until custom recovery installed.

 

I understand some of those words, glad it's not my old Mum that has to deal with this. Such a great advert for a switch from iPhone.