Fortunately, the Cyanogenmod and Xda developer community has some on-going developments, but you need to have root access. If you’re any of the smartphone owner released between 20, you probably will get frustrated when there is no developer support working on rooting, mods, kernels, ROM, and recovery. Older devices such as the Galaxy S does not have active developments. However, you can still use it to root your old Android phone. Now it does not support the latest Android flagship devices due to the security improvement and patches in the most recent version of Android OS. It was released in 2010 by that time, it was a handy app as it was able to root almost any Android device based on the version of Android OS. But if you’ve got older Android devices, then you’re lucky as these devices haven’t got any official updates in the past, and you can easily root them using the Z4Root app.ĭeveloped and supported by the senior Xda developer RyanZA. These tools used to work on Android versions Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice cream sandwich, and Jelly bean, but as Android security gets better day by day, these tools may not work on different devices having the latest Android OS such as KitKat, Lollipop, and Marshmallow.