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Even if your device lets you root it (many don't), you will trip the "Knox fuse." It's a small fuse inside the CPU that permanently burns out if you root, and permanently blocks Samsung Pay, Secure Folder, a few other Samsung security apps... and on the Galaxy Z Fold 3, your camera (though on the Z Fold 3, apparently, if you re-lock your bootloader the restriction goes away). Also said fuse cannot be reset so if you reinstall completely stock firmware, it's blown forever.


> ...permanently blocks Samsung Pay, Secure Folder, a few other Samsung security apps...

Yet another good reason to root your phone. You wouldn't catch me using any of this Samsung shovelware.


From what I could tell apparently a lot of banking apps will also stop working. I never bothered to confirm it




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