Rooting Your smartphone?Know the real truth

Rooting has become a popular trend these days. Here are a few reasons as to why you should or shouldn't root your Android smartphone.

Rooting is a process which allows the user to gain full access to the operating system. That in turn gives them access to restricted features, more settings and elevating the performance levels. However, Google has put these restrictions in the operating system due to the fact that normal users may unwittingly cause permanent damage to their smartphones like burning out their processor due to overclocking. So one needs to tread cautiously.

Advantages:

Get rid of the bloatware – The first and the biggest benefit of rooting a smartphone is that the users can remove any of the applications that the manufacturer has pre-installed on the phone and aren’t removable. In short, rooting gives users the ability to remove all the bloatware from the smartphone. Rooting allows users to remove those apps and to make their smartphones faster.

Installing non-compatible applications – There are a lot of applications that aren’t compatible with your smartphone due to specification restriction, country restrictions and more. Rooting allows you to bypass these restrictions and install all the apps developed for Android. 

Get updates faster – Smartphone manufacturers, before releasing software updates to the public, need to test them first. So the update ROMs are put up on their official websites. These update ROMs can then be downloaded by people who have rooted their smartphones and in turn, give suggestions to the companies to make them better. Therefore the benefit here is that the rooted users tend to get updates first. 

Custom ROMs – Many people root their smartphones just to install custom ROMs on it like Cyanogen Mod ROM and many more. Installing a custom ROM allows users to change how their smartphone UI looks and feels along with getting a more up-to-date software version. Various Custom ROMs are available in the market with different looks and functionalities. 

Disadvantages:

Warranty Void – One of the major disadvantages of rooting your smartphone is that most of the manufacturers won’t honour the warranty when a smartphone is rooted. Even if the problem caused isn’t due to rooting, it won’t be fixed by the company. Though some companies allow users to root their smartphones and still keep the warranty, the majority of the manufacturers don’t, so beware.

Chances of bricking the smartphone increase – As the users are playing around with the smartphones backend, one wrong step and all they may have is a really expensive paperweight. Rooting is only advisable if the users are ready to bear the loss or are aware of how to do it correctly.

Reduced Performance – Users only by seeing the promise of increased performance try and root their smartphones. However, as most users don’t know much about rooting their smartphones, might take a few wrong steps and end up with an even slower device. This can happen if they put an even bigger ROM on to the smartphone than the original or if they remove the customizations that the manufacturer made for the system to be faster. So a good knowledge of the system is very important before you root the device.

Increased Vulnerability – Before you root your smartphone and have the ability to install incompatible or 3rd party non-supported apps, just know that rooting increases the level of invulnerability of your smartphones. To keep your smartphone safe while rooted, we recommend that you install proper antivirus software and install only trusted apps and custom ROMs on your smartphone.

Problems installing official updates – The best thing about using an un rooted device is that the manufacturer will keep your smartphone in check with regular updates, though they may arrive a bit late. However, it becomes much more difficult to get those on the rooted smartphones. As rooted smartphones tend to run a slightly modified code, the official updates don’t properly work or download due to incompatibility. This can be turned around by un rooting your smartphone.

DebiPrasad