What is Rooting And Benefits Of rooting My Android phone ?

 Advantages and Disadvantages of rooting Android phone 

What is android rooting ?

Android rooting is the process of allowing users of smartphones, tablets, and other devices running the Android mobile operating system to attain privileged control (known as "root access") within Android's sub-system.

Rooting is often performed with the goal of overcoming limitations that carriers and hardware manufacturers put on some devices, resulting in the ability to alter or replace system applications and settings, run specialized apps that require administrator-level permissions, or perform other operations that are otherwise inaccessible to a normal Android user. On Android, rooting can also facilitate the complete removal and replacement of the device's operating system, usually with a more recent release of its current operating system.

As Android derives from the Linux kernel, rooting an Android device gives similar access administrative permissions as on Linux or any other Unix-like operating system such as FreeBSD or OS X.

Root access is sometimes compared to jailbreaking devices running the Apple iOS operating system. However, these are different concepts. Jailbreaking describes the bypass of several types of Apple prohibitions for the end user: modifying the operating system (enforced by a "locked bootloader"), installing non-officially approved apps via sideloading, and granting the user elevated administration-level privileges. Only a minority of Android devices lock their bootloaders—and many vendors such as HTC, Sony, Asus and Google explicitly provide the ability to unlock devices, and even replace the operating system entirely. Similarly, the ability to sideload apps is typically permissible on Android devices without root permissions. Thus, it is primarily the third aspect of iOS jailbreaking relating to giving users superuser administrative privileges that most directly correlates to Android rooting.

        

Why should i root my android smartphone ?

you actually need it. Let me explain you why. Are you among the ones who have a good smartphone with Android 2.3 Gingerbread? And your mobile manufacturer is not providing the update to latest Android ICS 4.0 & Jelly Bean 4.2.1 . No matter how desperate you are to grab the latest update but they only tell “its yet to come for your model”. The solution to this is Rooting your phone and installing the latest Android updates by yourself

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Also, the other main reason to root your phone is to increase its battery life. Now, how does it works? As I have mentioned earlier, rooting gives you the complete access to your phone. So now, you can stop all the apps that are pre-installed on your device and always run in the background. Though you don’t need them! By rooting your phone, you can stop all these apps.

Another reason for rooting is, there are many great apps in the market, which are very useful but need root access.  One such app is Titanium Backup. This is an amazing app, which allows you to backup your phone completely, from apps, sd card, contacts and everything. And restore it after factory reset of your phone. Just like we do in Nokia.

What i can do after rooting my android phone ?

Once, you have rooted your phone, you can install the latest  Android ICS 4.0 & Jelly Bean 4.2.1 . There are many custom ROM’s available, the most popular is CyanogenMod . You can install these and can enjoy the latest Android updates on your

 phone.

What are custom Roms ?

Technically its full form is Read Only Memory. And non technically, ROM is just like an another operating system. Just like we can install Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 there are various OS for android known as ROM. CyanogenMod 9 is the update for ICS and CyanogenMod 10 is the update for Jelly Bean.

What are the disadvantages of rooting ?

There are no such drawbacks of rooting but, the one of Bricking (phone becomes dead & cannot be used ever after) your device. But it only happens if you are not following the guidelines of the Rooting process properly.

The another drawback of rooting is when you root your android smartphone your warranty is voided . But still it can be regained by un rooting your phone.

Hope our guide on what are advantages and disadvantages of rooting android smartphone helped you