What is Android Rooting? Pros and Cons Explained

 

If you are using an Android phone, then you must probably heard of the word rooting. So what is rooting? What are its advantages? You should root your phone or not? Lets discuss it. I am sure at the end of this post, you will have your doubts cleared.




Rooting is the process of allowing users of smartphones, tablets and other devices running the Android mobile operating system to attain privileged control over various Android subsystems.

Why you should not root your Android Phone?

1. You will immediately lose your phone’s warranty just after rooting your phone. Most of the companies don’t do that but companies like Samsung, htc, LG, Sony etc remove the warranty because they think from now they are not responsible for any wrong-happenings in your phone.

2. Even if you commit a mistake in the process of rooting like you forgot a step then your phone will be useless as a paperweight. You can only see it but not operate it. Although there are some methods by which you can resolve it but a normal user will not be able to apply these methods.

3. When you are rooting, you are compromising your phone’es android security shield. Because when you are rooting you are breaking all the barriers of your phone. The whole responsibility of android OS mal-functionality will fall upon your head. Plus, if you have mistakenly installed a malicious software then it will provide it a great access to them to your whole information.

4. This one may not be that special, but any of the android version that is installed on your phone will not be able to gain access to the new released version of the android OS. By other means you can update your phone but official updates will not be available to you.

What are the advantages in rooting your phone?

1. Once you have rooted your phone, then you have access to all the features of your phone that earlier you might aware of not. There are some applications available on the play store app which only works on rooted phone which can perform such tasks that you wont believe like automation of your phone, or increasing your battery life, overclocking or under clocking your processor, or increasing your sleep timing etc.

2. After rooting, you can remove some of the pre-installed apps on your phone for eg. if you have a root a Samsung phone then you can remove apps such as Samsung mall, Samsung app store and free up your storage up to a good level.

3. There are many phones which have low internal memory and for that you use an SD card. So for installing apps you might have to transfer some of the apps to SD card but some apps are transferred due to system reasons. When you root your phone, you can easily use some of the apps to transfer these to SD card which will release space. So technically you are increasing the internal memory of your phone.

4.Android ROM. (Android Read Only Memory) A file containing the executable instructions (a system image) of an Android OS and affiliated apps. The “stock ROM” comes installed on the phone or tablet, while a “custom ROM” comes from a third party or brands like Samsung, Sony, HTC, etc.They cover the android with their designed skins and we are left with no choice to use them. But when you root your phone you get access to remove these apply skins based on your mood.

Apart from the above points, it is not necessary that you must root your phone. You must first think about your requirements as you will be affected by above pros and cons or not then you should probably move to rooting. Because as the technology is changing day by day there are versions coming up with the features which can be accessed earlier only by rooting. I hope that you have understood all the points mentioned above.