How To Check If Your Android Phone Is Rooted or Not

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How to check if your Android phone is rooted or not? This might be necessary, if you bought a second hand (used) Android phone and want to know if you bought a rooted phone.

Maybe you want to root your Android phone, but you don’t know the root status of your phone.

In case you missed: How to Root Android phone/device with a one-click Android root tool.

Here’s how to check if an Android phone, or tablet, is rooted or not

There are two easy ways to check if an Android phone is rooted or not. Both involve downloading and installing apps.

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The best and the easiest method that works, to check if your Android is rooted or not

Step 1: Download and install “Terminal Emulator for Android“. on your phone.

Step 2: Launch the app, you will get a command prompt type interface with the keyboard active.

Step 3: Check the character displayed right before your entry prompt.

Android Is Rooted or Not

Step 4: If there is a dollar sign ($) than your phone is not rooted.

Step 5: Type SU at the entry prompt and press enter. During this process, you might get a popup asking you to grant superuser permission. tap on allow to grant.

Step 6: After you tap on entering if you see the pound sign ( #) that means your phone is rooted.
As simple as that to check if your Android phone is rooted or not.

If you want a second opinion, or you were unable to confirm the first app on your device!

There is another app called Root Check. It’s a free Android app that can, as the name implies, check if the Android device is rooted or not. Download the app from the Google Play store and run it.

The first tab, i.e., the Root tab will tell you if the device is rooted or not.

There are many other ways to check if an Android device is rooted or not. The above methods using the app are most reliable and there’s no ‘hiding’ the root status of a phone.

There are many apps available in the Google Play Store that can check the root status of your Android device. You can take your pick.

Check out: How to Root and Android phone or device

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