Rooting
Rooting of android device is basically
obtaining all the rights and permissions of the Android’s operating
system. Once rooted, user of the Android device will have full control
over many features and settings like user get the ability to load custom
software, increase performance, increase battery life and can also
increase internal space using SD card. Rooting is like hacking of device
to perform those functions whose access is not provided to user.
Now the question arises “weather rooting
Android phone is right?” If someone asks this question to me then I
surely reply with negative. Here I am going to tell you about the main
advantages and disadvantages of rooting Android device. Read them all
and then think yourself whether you want to root your Android Smartphone
or not. The decision must not be taken in hurry as once you root you
device it can’t be unrooted again.
Disadvantages
The main disadvantages of Rooting are:
Warrant
Rooting immediately voids phone’s
warranty status. Once user root his/her phone the warrant provided by
the phone company is completely voided. So, please don’t try to root you
android phone when in warrant because when we root our phone these is
probability of bricking of phone which is described below.
Bricking
One of the main reasons of not rooting
your Android device is the risk of “bricking”. Bricking of device means
screwing up of phone software so badly that phone can no longer able to
perform its function and phone becomes as unusable as brick. As warranty
is also voided with rooting then you have to purchase new device.
Viruses
There is an additional risk of
unknowingly installing malicious software when you try to root your
Android device. As the software provided to us are main by different
developers then can install different unwanted programs to you phone
keeping you unknown of that. Although malicious software on the rooted
phone has not really been a problem yet but it can be in future.
Performance
Though the intention of “rooting” of
mobile phone is to enhance the performance of Android device. Many times
user had found that there device had lost both performance speed as
well as features. Remember that when you “root” your Android phone, you
are making changes to the stock OS.
Advantages
The main advantages of rooting:
Custom Software (Rom’s)
A “ROM (Read Only Memory)” is the
software that runs your devices. In market there are many great custom
ROM’s available that can make your Android device look as well as
perform very different. You can easily upgrade you Android to newer
versions manually. With the help of this custom ROM, user can load
newest available Android Versions. There are many custom ROM’s available
from which you can easly choose the beat one which suits your needs the
best. The best place where you can get customized ROM is XDA Developer
forms and you can also search on Google.
Custom themes
Themes are the graphics that appears in
your android device. After rooting your Android device you can fully
customize the theme of your android device. You can load custom themes
available free on internet to give your Device a free look.
Android version
As mentioned earlier in the ROM section.
After rooting your device, you can easily upgrade your android version
to latest Android version before they are officially released on that
device. The feature is good for those people who want to stay up-to-date
in technology. It also help outdated devices which no longer being
updated by the manufacturer of the device.
Other features
Memory-
It is very helpful for devices with low internal space like Samsung’s
galaxy y as after rooting Android device we can easily use our memory
card to increase internal space of our mobile phone. More the internal
space more we can play or download apps on our device.
Additional features-Many
features are locked or not available in unrooted phone. After rooting
android phone user gets the ability to unlock many features. One of the
best example is of Wi-Fi threading. It also lets you run a special app
that runs only on rooted phone named “Superuser” that lets you control
which app have access to the root system.
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