Alcatel TCL Flip 2 (T408DL)

Flippy Do you mean you'd like app installs to work, but not root access? Why not have it all?

Flippy You'd want to flash back the stock boot.img to remove magisk and the ability to install packages. magisk cannot be removed on its own. A new boot.img would need to be made. It so far hasn't seemed useful. Either want both to have development of a ROM, or neither when a ROM is made for end users.

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neutronscott I'd imagine if some could choose to install apks without flashing a modified root image, they'd go for it as rooting opens the device up to more/deeper attacks w malicious apps (esp w the nature of people just grabbing modified apks off the net for these). But if its the only way, so be it.

sappypappy The last sentence of you post is spot on! Although people like [Login to see the link] are posting firmwares with preinstalled apps that don't require any mod boot img

If you uninstalled chromium, here is a mod launcher and app drawer. To install app drawer, simply install as user. To install launcher you must first uninstall launcher3 then install this as a data app. To be safe you may want to backup stock launcher in case something goes wrong. You can also set button mapper to launch button mapper in case you have no launcher. But i don't think you will have issues.
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dovwcom is it better or just another way?

sappypappy To unlock the Package Manager we set a SystemProperty during boot initialization using resetprop provided by magisk. The other way to do this is modifying the fairly big super image. This is because Android 11 doesn't read .rc files during the boot ramdisk.

Another option is building a binary like Magisk that only does that one thing. I don't see the utility to do this myself unfortunately.

after over 600 posts it gets a little confusing for somone that wasnt following the whole conversation. would it be possible that someone can come out with so to speak a "verdict" of what can be done and how?

neutronscott Thanks. Yeah, the workarounds would prob be worse than the boot img way. If it could be enabled via ADB somehow before each apk install, but I don't think that's possible.

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neutronscott thank you!

I successfully paired and used a Bluetooth keyboard-mouse combo (it has a touchpad).
What's interesting to note, is that although it takes over the system mouse, meaning, if the mouse had already been activated, then the touchpad just controlled that cursor, it has a much broader range. Meaning, it can reach till the top of the screen.

Jumptoheaven yes, works beautiful with a bluetooth mouse.

dovwcom do i need to download a separate button mapper or will i be able to set it in macrodroid?

NEC You can set macro droid to launch mouse when you open certain apps, but i preferred the button thing.