Advantages and Disadvantages of rooting your Android device

If you are an Android user, I'm almost certain you heard the word “root” being thrown around. You've probably been asked if your phone has been rooted or if you plan to as well. Being uncharted ground to new users or people who have never bothered to look into it, the term “root” can be somewhat scary. What does it mean? Do you risk turning your phone into a very expensive paperweight? What are the advantages or disadvantages of rooting? Well, I am here to relieve you of your fears and answer those questions.

Typically the first thing I do to each Android device I buy as soon as I pop the battery in and power it on is root it. It's to the point now that I rely on a lot of applications that require root access. Without them I feel as if I'm not getting full functionality of my phone.

What does “root” mean:


Rooting is essentially giving you administrative access to your device. Once your device is rooted, you will have an application by the name of Superuser that can be found in your app drawer. This application is where you can control the permissions of any applications that require "administrative" rights. This is a simple way of looking at it.

I get asked by people all the time if rooting is like jailbreaking an iPhone. It's sort of the same concept, but don't get caught saying that around  any Android fans, you may get jumped.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Rooting Android phone 

Advantages Of Rooting:  
 
1.Run Special Applications 
After you have rooted your phone, you can run special applications that require root access on your phone. When compared to regular applications, root applications provide more features.

2.Free Internal Storage
People who have low internal memory can transfer any application from internal memory to SD card after rooting their phone. There are some applications that provide the option by default. But if you want to force move an app by creating a symlink, you must use an app that only works on a rooted phone.

3.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.

4.Speed/Battery Life Boosts
 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. You can also use an app like Set CPU , which enables you to overclock or underclock your phone's processor, and set rules for usage.

5.Better Backup
Once rooted you can go way, way deeper. Grab an app called Titanium Backup . Not only can it back up all of your apps, but it can back up all of the information stored in those apps.

6.Remove all the bloat ware
By rooting your android you can remove unnecessary application which eats up your phone memory. You can remove inbuilt application and make your phone much more personal.

7.Much More Safety
In the play store you have two paid android antivirus application, rooting makes your phone safer. You can use many antivirus that are provided by third party helping you to know more about your device safety.

Disadvantages Of Rooting :

1.Warranty
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.

2.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.

3.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.

4.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.