Android Rooting Pro & Cons

Lots of people buy an Android phone, because of different reason and one out of them is, its power and ability to customize it the way you want. By saying this didn’t mean that other platforms are not good. By rooting your Android phone you can provide it, an opportunity to do much more than your phone can do normally. Whether it’s about speeding it up with Overclocking, wireless tethering, removing bloatware, customizing the look of your phone with Android Launchers, and custom ROMs.

Below in this article I’m going to share everything you need to know about rooting your Android phone. Also, will share some pros and cons of rooting your device. So without further ado, lets come to the point on which this article is based.

What is Rooting your Android Means?

For those who don’t know, Rooting means giving yourself root permission on your Android phone. In laymen’s language, it’s a process that help Android phone or tablet owner to attain privileged control within Android’s subsystem. It’s very similar to running the program as administrators in Windows, or running a command with sudo in Linux.

Bascially we perform rooting process to overcome the limitation that wireless service providers and hardware manufacture of Android phone add to the device. So, if you’re device is rooted that means you’re the admin of your Android phone and you got the ability to customize and change device setting the way you want.

Rooting is analogous to jailbreaking devices running the Apple iOS operating system or the Sony PlayStation 3

Why it’s Called Rooting?

“Root” term comes from the Unix/Linux world and this term is used to describe a user who has “superusers” permission or rights to all the programs and files in the Android OS.

What is Unroot your Android Means?

There is nothing much to know about this term, basically Unroot your Android is reverse process or rooting in which user can unroot his/her Android and return it to stock. Unrooting gives your device warranty back, which gets void after your rooted your android mobile.

There are lots of Android phones out there, and no one can give a single or an exact guide for rooting every phone out there, but you can use different one click rooting software which works for multiple phones, Before you start rooting your there are lots of things or terms which you should know and this guide should help you out for sure.

Above you learnt about what is rooting and unroot your Android phone, but there are some terms that can be confusing, when its comes to root your phone. Here are some of the most important ones and what they mean:

• Root: Rooting means giving yourself root permission on your Android phone. You can run lots of apps that require root.
• ROM: Rom is modified version of Android OS, which make contain a bunch of different functions.
• Stock: Stock refers to two different things, if it Stock Android, we mean the Google-built version you’d find on Nexus devices with no extra UI like Samsung Touchwiz and HTC Sense. Stock can also mean the version of Android that comes with the phone.
• Kernel: A kernel is the component of your operating system that manages communications between your software and hardware
• Flash: Flashing means installing something something on your device, whether it be a kernel, ROM, a kernel, or a recovery (see below) that comes in the form of a ZIP file.
• Brick: After performing a flashing process, if your device becomes unstable or not working properly, then its called Brick.
• Bootloader: Bootloader is basically the lowest level of software on your phone which run all the code that’s necessary to start your operating system. Most of the booloader are locked, which means you can’t flash your device. If you unlock your bootloader, that doesn’t mean that you rooted your phone, its require to root your phone.
• Recovery: Recovery is the software on your phone that help you flash ROMs, make backups and perform other system-level tasks. For Example ClockworkMod or TWRP.
• Nandroid: Third-party recovery modules, that help to make backups of your phone called nandroid backups. For Example Titanium Backup
• ADB: Its means Android Debug Bridge, and it’s a command line tool for your computer that can communicate with an Android device you’ve connected to it.

Advantages of Rooting an Android Phone

When you root your Android phone you get lots of advantages over the phone which you put out of the box. Why don’t you read some of the them:

1. Custom ROM’s 

If you’ve rooted your device that means you can flash custom ROM’s on your device. Custom rom is its own version of Android which is developed by developers with awesome features which you will not get in the stock rom.

2. Custom Themes

Rooting your device gives power or ability to  customize every graphic on your device. You can choose one out of hundred custom theme available over web to fully change the look of your device.

3. Use Apps that require Root

There are lots of cool apps available over web which only work on rooted Android phone some of them are ROM Manager, Wireless Tether, Titanium Backup and lots more.

4. Speed and Performance

Kernels are behind the performance of the processor of your Android phone and if you change the kernel version, then processor will also change, which also improve the performance of your device.

5. Increase Battery LifeEveryone hates an Android phone for its low battery life, but there are lots Android apps available over web that can be used to increase or optimize the battery life. You can also perform some tweaks which you can’t perform in the stock rom.6. Install Unsupported AppsThere are lots of apps which you can’t install on your device because of restriction or its not allowed by mobile manufacturer, but after rooting you can also install these apps.7. Backup your device
Rooting your Android phone also give your device’s ability to install custom bootloader and perform an nandroid backups. It’s a backup which when restored, restores your device to the same state as it was performed during the backup.

Disadvantages of Rooting an Android Phone

I have shared with you lots of advantages that you will get when you root your Android phone, but there are also some downsides of Rooting. Why don’t you check some of them:
1. Brick Android
There are lots of reasons which stop people to root their Android phone and one out of them is bricking which means, screwing up your phone software so badly that your phone can no longer function properly and is pretty much as useless as a brick.
2. Loose Warrenty on Android phone
If you root your device, you will also loose warranty of your device which is provided by manufacturer after any attempt of rooting. But you can get your guarantee back by restoring (reinstall) a stock build recovery and to un-root.
3. Malicious Software 
When you root your device, there is a high risk of unknowingly installing malicious software when you root an Android device. That means viruses, worms, trojan, and spyware can infect the rooted Android software if it’s not protected by effective mobile antivirus for Android.