What is Root on Android and The Benefits

Rooting your Android smartphone is just like we "change" the system to get the full access on our android smartphone, even to the most little system part will become visible and accessible to be modified. Rooting your android smartphone can be worked by the help of PC (Computer), via recovery mode, or as easy like "one click" with the help of Android Application.

And meanwhile Unroot is a process to removing the Root access to turn back the system to original. People unroot his android smartphone often because the negative effect of rooting like we can not receive update On The Air (OTA) from the official smartphone developer, many application force close, few bugs, and other.

In the past, rooting your android device is said to be illegal. But now everyone can rooting their android device. Although there are many benefits of rooting our Android smartphone, but we better think twice before doing that, moreover if we still not bored yet with our android smartphone and we have not very good yet in using it, because rooting your Android will void / losing your warranty at your android smartphone.

Example of benefit or advantage from rooted Android device / smartphone

* My Samsung Galaxy V (Android Kitkat 4.4.2) can not do "write" operation (make file / folder, extract, moved to, etc) in external sdcard, except by system application, as it is one of limitation in Android Kitkat. But after I rooting it, so the system will become accessible to modify. I can solve the limitation can not write at external sdcard, by modifying some little part of code at the system of my Samsung Galaxy V, and voila! Problem solved.

* With rooted device we can delete the bloatware or the default system application that we don't need, so we can save the internal storage space or even save more RAM.

* Moving applications or game from internal storage to our external memory to save more internal memory space, even if the application does not support to be moved by the default.

* If we can modify the system, so we can change the appearance of our android smartphone. We can change the background system color, text, inserting image, or change the user interface.

* Boost performance and increase the usage value of our android smartphone, because some of cool application can only be run in rooted android device.

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It's sooo... many benefit and advantage on a rooted android device, but remember "As well as great power, comes great responsibility". It is safe to root our android smartphone (i have prove that by doing root and unroot many times) as long as we stick to the instruction and procedure. But at the same time we also must be more carefull, because after rooting our android device the system is become more "opened".

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Author : Daryadi

Just a simple man with simple hobbies like playing games, listening music, and read about new things. Enjoying blogging as hobby since 2014 and later caught interest playing with his first Android smartphone since 2015, he then combined the two hobbies on this blog and it is a great time killer for him.

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