Phones on the market these days are incredibly fancy. They do things for us that we thought would be impossible for computers, let alone a mere phone. The can connect to the internet and multitask. We can take photos at the press of a button that come out looking better than they would f your done them on a camera. We can watch movies, read our email, listen to music and play games. You name it, there is a phone out there that will allow you to do it. There are so many impossibilities coming true and you think we would be satisfied.
However, as human beings, it is in our nature to be selfish and greedy. No matter what we already have, we always want more and more, no matter what the cost sometimes. Even with phones doing all these spectacular things, people find things wrong with them. They are either too fragile or they don’t work right. Maybe they don’t go as fast as you would like or the layout isn’t perfect. Maybe it doesn’t always give you your text messages. We say all these things about our phones while we don’t appreciate what they already do to make our lives all that much more easy for us. No matter what we get, we always want more and that is exactly what we are doing when we decide to root out android phones. Wanting more.
Rooting an android phone is a simple enough process that is meant to allow your phone to achieve its full potential. You see, the manufacturer has the ‘administrator’ privileges on your phone. Rooting an android is what you do to obtain and hack into these administrator privileges yourself and become your phone’s ‘super user’. This then allows you t edit the phone’s workings and download apps you would not be able to download otherwise. This can mean easier file sharing, faster WiFi and more connectivity. You can even use it to restore apps and control your ROM on your phone, something you would have to pay a professional to do otherwise. But is it worth it and is it safe?
Rooting can be very easy to do right but it can also be very easy to do wrong. If you do not completely know what you are doing when your root your android phone, you run the risk of ‘bricking’ it. This means that you can mess with your phone so badly that you end up reversing the use of its technology, making it even more useless than your average brick phone you would have used in the early days of mobile phone usage. You can also download a lot of malicious software on to your android when it is rooted as it increases the risk of being open to security breaches. This can severely harm your mobile phone. So, if you want to root your android phone, go for it! But remember, sometimes it may be better to stick with what you’ve got.
