[Moto G Stylus 5G] r.dunne:
I am very well aware of this but thank you very much for the reminder, cuz... you just never know.

Thank you also for this info. I have rooted and modded phones in the past but not for some time. The last time I played around with any of this stuff was when the Samsung Galaxy S-4 was the newest and greatest lol. I had one of the early ones while I was still in Maine on US Cellular and had it rooted running Cyanogenmod ROMs. When I moved to Colorado, US Cellular is not a carrier here so I switched to Cricket. They wouldn't swap my phone onto their service because they knew it had been modified so they gave me a new one. Same phone, Galaxy S-4, only difference was the color of the plastic but the new Cricket one had Knox on it and at the time I was researching it, I read that the only way around it to obtain root was to either solder a jumper or break a jumper by removing solder on the mainboard of the phone, I don't remember which. I can solder and de-solder things like electronic stereo components, desktop pc boards, even some laptop main boards but I wasn't about to put a soldering tip to a cell phone that was brand new and my only phone at the time.

I've had Samsung phones since then, an S-6, S-8, S-9 Plus, Note 9, and Note 20 Ultra and every time I checked on rooting them, it either wasn't possible, or was much more complicated than it seemed worth it to me. The Note 20 Ultra went haywire on me and caused me many problems with data, personal contacts including friends and family, and even came really close to costing me my job. It was the strangest and most precarious thing I've ever experienced or even heard of. It's as if either the device created a mind of it's own that hated me somehow or it was being remotely controlled by someone who had a vendetta against me. I don't even like talking about it because it still haunts me and even looking at it from an outside perspective, it sounds totally insane. However it actually happened. I can't even begin to say all the totally crazy stuff that happened with that phone. It was a nightmare from the day I got it right up until the day I turned it into dust. Then I bought another Note 9 because the one I had prior to the Note 20 was a great phone. No sooner did I activate the second Note 9 it started acting up just like the Note 20 was so I destroyed it too and got this Motorola. It's been about a year now with no horror stories (knock on wood). There's more to the Samsung Saga but it pertains to customer service and their Samsung Members community but I'll just say that I am no longer a Samsung guy. I do still have a fairly new Samsung TV but so far no madness with it.

And thank you for this as well. I may give it a shot this weekend if I get my 2023 version by then, the delivery date said between the 14th and the 20th.

On a different subject, has anyone replaced the screen on one of these? I did and used a cheap $30 one from Amazon and it's cracked again and has some discoloration in a few spots around on the screen. It's not a big deal and doesn't seem to affect the functionality nor is it a nuisance while viewing the screen, but I'd like to give it another try. Just curious as to whether the $100+ dollar one that's "official" is worth the extra money.