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I want to have a phone that I can root. Today, I'm trying to purchase one. I want to know if my phone can be rooted in advance. The selections of phones from my provider, Softbank, is limited and the phones are all outdated. But I have a discount, so I want to get one of them. The Arrows 201F is the phone with the best battery life, so I want to get that one. But first, I want to know if it can be rooted? Can it? And if not, how do I check the other phones at Softbank to see if they can be rooted?

Wolfpack'08
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    You could check our rooting index to see if it's listed, and has a rooting solution mentioned. Searching the web, especially XDA is another good approach. No guarantees, however, for any results :) – Izzy Jan 13 '14 at 07:49
  • @Izzy Good comment, man. I threw up a post for the 201 and 301 on XDA. They're looking into it. I've found I need to learn some basic stuff about rooting phones. For example, can roms for one phone be used on another? Can sudo-access programs be run on similarly-modeled phones. Of course, I had already checked the index prior to asking. Naturally, the phone I've mentioned isn't listed. – Wolfpack'08 Jan 14 '14 at 00:08
  • @Izzy Read this post: it's an offshoot of the link you gave me: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239958. The guy says: 'Just try it! If it doesn't work, shoot me an image of the issue! Hand me a PM!' – Wolfpack'08 Jan 14 '14 at 00:11
  • We have plenty questions on those topics as well. Recommendation: Check the corresponding tag-wikis and frequent questions, e.g. on rom (short answer: ROMs are device-specific due to hardware and driver issues). Superuser and SuperSU on the other hand are not device specific. // And yes, there are several rather generic rooting methods, also listed in our rooting index :) – Izzy Jan 14 '14 at 00:11
  • @Izzy You know, man: I don't even know if I want to root it. I just want to be able to run stuff as a sudo user. Like, I want to be able to read and write in memory, for example. And I want to be able to programmatically turn on GPS.... – Wolfpack'08 Jan 14 '14 at 00:12
  • Just another hint: chat is over here, not in the comments :) You have the required rep, so feel welcome. – Izzy Jan 14 '14 at 00:13
  • @Izzy This comes up as the top google result for "can my phone be rooted" or "how can I check if my phone can be rooted". Obvious keywords, you know? I think the phrasing is important: gives people a GENERAL resource for understanding whether or not any given phone can be rooted, and how to figure out if it can or cannot be rooted, alone. I tried to root my prior phone, found out two years later that it could have been rooted the whole time--, but I was told it couldn't be. – Wolfpack'08 Jan 14 '14 at 00:14

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