{"id":185206,"date":"2016-10-31T08:49:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T06:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=185206"},"modified":"2016-10-31T08:50:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T06:50:25","slug":"root-user-access-on-google-pixel-achieved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/185206-root-user-access-on-google-pixel-achieved.html","title":{"rendered":"Root user access on Google Pixel achieved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developers have achieved superuser access on the Google Pixel and unlocked the\u00a0bootloader of the Verizon model of the device, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/google-pixel-rooted-verizon-version-bootloader-unlocked-30462129\/\" target=\"_blank\">SlashGear reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+Chainfire\/posts\/fvEPo42GKXS\" target=\"_blank\">Chainfire released<\/a><\/strong> a new version of the SuperSU application that will let you get root access on the Google Pixel.<\/p>\n<p>To\u00a0use Chainfire&#8217;s SuperSU release, the bootloader of your Google Pixel must be unlocked &#8211; which SlashGear said presented a\u00a0problem for owners of the Verizon model.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where\u00a0Sunshine&#8217;s release of an application called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/theroot.ninja\/depixel8.html\" target=\"_blank\">dePixel8<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0comes in, which lets you\u00a0unlock the bootloader of the Verizon model.<\/p>\n<p>Chainfire warned that as this is their first release for getting root access on the Pixel, there will be bugs.<\/p>\n<p>They could also not guarantee that over-the-air updates would continue to work.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/181720-google-pixel-vs-iphone-7-the-ultimate-smartphone-showdown.html\">Google Pixel vs iPhone 7 &#8211; the ultimate smartphone showdown<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Google Pixel has been rooted and the bootloader of the Verizon model has been unlocked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":181440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[36,39554,39552,39160,39550,39556,2456],"class_list":["post-185206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-active","tag-chainfire","tag-depixel8","tag-google-pixel","tag-sunshine","tag-supersu","tag-verizon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185216,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185206\/revisions\/185216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}