What is Rooting?
Rooting means gaining root access to your device. When you take your phone out of the box, while there are plenty of settings you can tweak, you can only alter what the manufacturer allows you to. By gaining root access you can modify the device's software on the very deepest level. It takes a bit of hacking (some devices more than others), it voids your warranty, and there's a small chance that you could completely break your phone forever. But you know what? It's still totally worth it for all the goodies you get
access to.
Reasons to Root:
More Apps: Once you're rooted not only can you get more apps, but the apps you have access to can get way down deeper into your phone's brains. In some cases you'll be able to do things that carriers, manufacturers, and/or Google may not want you to do. Some will allow you to do things of questionable legality. For example, Network Spoofer uses your device to set up a fake wireless network. When your house guests sign in, you can make ever image they see inverted, or all of the text fuzzy. It's a harmless prank, but of course it could (but shouldn't!) also be used for stealing passwords and other nefarious things. Where do you find all these root-only gems? Amazingly enough, many of them are still in the Google Play app store. Google's much more relaxed about rooting than Apple is about jail breaking.
The Latest OS Updates:
Once you're rooted, you just have to find the OS version you want (optimized for your specific device), and it's generally extremely easy to install the latest and greatest.
Highly Customizable Skins:
Once you root, you can download and install any number of custom-built ROMs (different versions of the Android firmware). Some of them are highly customized and tweaked to add features, and others are basically just stock Android. Cleaning off an ugly skin can be like a breath of fresh air.
Speed/Battery Life Boost:
Phone starting to get laggy? Or maybe you're having trouble making it through the day on a single charge? Rooting allows you to install customized kernels (the software that enables the OS to talk to the hardware, basically) that are optimized differently. Some are made for low-power consumption, and some are built for speed.
Infinite Features:
Beyond just customizing your phone's existing features, rooting helps you pile on all kinds of wonderful new weirdness. You'll love it. Want to hook up your PlayStation controller to your phone for better gaming? You can. Want to set rules for callers to decide who can and can't call you when? Why not. Maybe your carrier has blocked certain apps, or an app isn't available for the country you live in? There are Market Enabler apps that trick your phone (and Google) into thinking it's on another carrier or in a far off land. Nervous about connecting to the public Wi-Fi? Wifi Protector will keep you safe from all kinds of ARP, DOS, and MITM attacks. Or, you could put the new Android 4.2 camera on your non-Jellybean phone. Accidentally deleted something you wish you hadn't? Undelete might just save your bacon. The possibilities are virtually limitless.
Free Wi-Fi Hotspot:
You probably know that your phone can function as a Wi-Fi hotspot, allowing you to get your laptop (or tablet, or whatever) online wherever your phone has a data connection The catch? Most wireless carriers charge you $10 a month or more for that privilege, on top of your regular data plan. With a rooted Android device, however, you can simply download Wireless Tether (yep, right from the Android Market), create your own mobile, encrypted Wi-Fi network, and your carrier will be none the wiser.
Reasons NOT to Root:
You Will Void Your Warranty: If your device is under warranty, and it starts overheating or repeatedly restarting or suffering any other type of malfunction, you can have it repaired or replaced by the manufacturer. If it’s a phone and you’re having trouble with calls, text messages, or mobile Internet, your network provider should cover you in the same way. However, if you root your device (or, at least, if you root your device and then install a custom operating system, as most who root do), you’ll void your warranty, and your manufacturer and network provider are both entitled to refuse to fix any problems. Okay, sure, you can often remove all traces of having rooted, so that no-one would be able to tell that you’d done so. My point is, according the contract that you agreed to by buying the device, if something goes wrong, you’re on your own.
You Might Brick Your Device: If you don’t follow the instructions for rooting your device to the letter, you’ll “brick” it — that is, make it completely unusable, so that it can do no more than an expensive, shiny brick. Rooting is not a complicated procedure, and can be done in a few minutes with a few clicks. As long as you’re careful, you shouldn’t need to worry. But the potential risk if you do something wrong is huge.
You’ll Lose Your OTA Updates: Every now and then, your device receives over-the-air updates to its version of Android: these might be little bug fixes, or they might be a huge upgrade, like from Eclair to Froyo. If you’ve rooted your phone, then trying to install any these updates will cause you to lose root — and you will not be able to re-root until someone figures out how to do that for the new version you just upgraded to.
All Tutorials & Methods Here i suggest are just for educational purpose ONLY. ROOTING ANDROID PHONES SOMETIMES CAN DAMAGE OR BRICK YOUR PHONES. SO AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY POSSIBLE DAMAGES TO YOUR TABLET/PHONE/ANYTHING ELSE CAUSED BY THIS TUTORIAL.
Rooting means gaining root access to your device. When you take your phone out of the box, while there are plenty of settings you can tweak, you can only alter what the manufacturer allows you to. By gaining root access you can modify the device's software on the very deepest level. It takes a bit of hacking (some devices more than others), it voids your warranty, and there's a small chance that you could completely break your phone forever. But you know what? It's still totally worth it for all the goodies you get
access to.
Reasons to Root:
More Apps: Once you're rooted not only can you get more apps, but the apps you have access to can get way down deeper into your phone's brains. In some cases you'll be able to do things that carriers, manufacturers, and/or Google may not want you to do. Some will allow you to do things of questionable legality. For example, Network Spoofer uses your device to set up a fake wireless network. When your house guests sign in, you can make ever image they see inverted, or all of the text fuzzy. It's a harmless prank, but of course it could (but shouldn't!) also be used for stealing passwords and other nefarious things. Where do you find all these root-only gems? Amazingly enough, many of them are still in the Google Play app store. Google's much more relaxed about rooting than Apple is about jail breaking.
The Latest OS Updates:
Once you're rooted, you just have to find the OS version you want (optimized for your specific device), and it's generally extremely easy to install the latest and greatest.
Highly Customizable Skins:
Once you root, you can download and install any number of custom-built ROMs (different versions of the Android firmware). Some of them are highly customized and tweaked to add features, and others are basically just stock Android. Cleaning off an ugly skin can be like a breath of fresh air.
Speed/Battery Life Boost:
Phone starting to get laggy? Or maybe you're having trouble making it through the day on a single charge? Rooting allows you to install customized kernels (the software that enables the OS to talk to the hardware, basically) that are optimized differently. Some are made for low-power consumption, and some are built for speed.
Infinite Features:
Beyond just customizing your phone's existing features, rooting helps you pile on all kinds of wonderful new weirdness. You'll love it. Want to hook up your PlayStation controller to your phone for better gaming? You can. Want to set rules for callers to decide who can and can't call you when? Why not. Maybe your carrier has blocked certain apps, or an app isn't available for the country you live in? There are Market Enabler apps that trick your phone (and Google) into thinking it's on another carrier or in a far off land. Nervous about connecting to the public Wi-Fi? Wifi Protector will keep you safe from all kinds of ARP, DOS, and MITM attacks. Or, you could put the new Android 4.2 camera on your non-Jellybean phone. Accidentally deleted something you wish you hadn't? Undelete might just save your bacon. The possibilities are virtually limitless.
Free Wi-Fi Hotspot:
You probably know that your phone can function as a Wi-Fi hotspot, allowing you to get your laptop (or tablet, or whatever) online wherever your phone has a data connection The catch? Most wireless carriers charge you $10 a month or more for that privilege, on top of your regular data plan. With a rooted Android device, however, you can simply download Wireless Tether (yep, right from the Android Market), create your own mobile, encrypted Wi-Fi network, and your carrier will be none the wiser.
Reasons NOT to Root:
You Will Void Your Warranty: If your device is under warranty, and it starts overheating or repeatedly restarting or suffering any other type of malfunction, you can have it repaired or replaced by the manufacturer. If it’s a phone and you’re having trouble with calls, text messages, or mobile Internet, your network provider should cover you in the same way. However, if you root your device (or, at least, if you root your device and then install a custom operating system, as most who root do), you’ll void your warranty, and your manufacturer and network provider are both entitled to refuse to fix any problems. Okay, sure, you can often remove all traces of having rooted, so that no-one would be able to tell that you’d done so. My point is, according the contract that you agreed to by buying the device, if something goes wrong, you’re on your own.
You Might Brick Your Device: If you don’t follow the instructions for rooting your device to the letter, you’ll “brick” it — that is, make it completely unusable, so that it can do no more than an expensive, shiny brick. Rooting is not a complicated procedure, and can be done in a few minutes with a few clicks. As long as you’re careful, you shouldn’t need to worry. But the potential risk if you do something wrong is huge.
You’ll Lose Your OTA Updates: Every now and then, your device receives over-the-air updates to its version of Android: these might be little bug fixes, or they might be a huge upgrade, like from Eclair to Froyo. If you’ve rooted your phone, then trying to install any these updates will cause you to lose root — and you will not be able to re-root until someone figures out how to do that for the new version you just upgraded to.
All Tutorials & Methods Here i suggest are just for educational purpose ONLY. ROOTING ANDROID PHONES SOMETIMES CAN DAMAGE OR BRICK YOUR PHONES. SO AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY POSSIBLE DAMAGES TO YOUR TABLET/PHONE/ANYTHING ELSE CAUSED BY THIS TUTORIAL.
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