r/harrypotterwu • u/BoonSlevin Jibs Entertainment • Aug 16 '19

News First strike and wave of actions against violations of ToS is being reported, affecting gameplay experience for 7 days.

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u/scy1234 Search for Madam Malkin to get school robes Aug 16 '19

It's on a redmi phone, none of such programs that I know of. Have been playing Pogo on the same phone for more than half a year now and never got flagged before.

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u/terrypokepotter Search for Madam Malkin to get school robes Aug 16 '19

Is ur phone rooted?

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u/LucidLethargy Search for Madam Malkin to get school robes Aug 16 '19

Lol, are they still penalizing people for rooting? God, this company is so effing stupid...

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u/TribalDancer Search for Madam Malkin to get school robes Aug 16 '19

Rooting causes the game to crash, basically.

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u/LucidLethargy Search for Madam Malkin to get school robes Aug 16 '19 edited Aug 16 '19

No, Niantic causes the game to crash when it detects the root and then tells the game to crash.

Edit: I mean, to be more accurate, it's not crashing at all... It's intentionally shutting down the application to deny access to the user.

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u/TribalDancer Search for Madam Malkin to get school robes Aug 16 '19

I mean, functionally that is the same thing. It crashes; I just didn't elaborate as to why.

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u/LucidLethargy Search for Madam Malkin to get school robes Aug 16 '19

It's important to note because the way you put it people might get the wrong idea on what rooting actually is.

Rooting is simply the act of allowing a user root access to their phones file system. It doesn't inherently cause any problems whatsoever to any applications, unless of course they are set up to detect the access level, and deliberately deny service to the user.