Rooting your Android: Benefits and Disadvantages

Are you in a confusion if you should root your new and expensive Android phone or not. There are many question appear in your mind like as what does root means eactly, how to root, what is the benefits or disadvantages of root. So, I'll try my best to satisfy your curiosity about root though the post.

So, First question is what does root exactly means or why should we root...

By rooting an Android phone you will become a super user or you will get the power of making any change to your Android phone. When you buy an Android phone you use it as a guest user and you don't have the permission of making any change to the system files.

However, After you have root access over your Android mobile. You could browse your your root folder and make any changes to the system files. Also able to use some powerful apps which you couldn't able to use without root.

Now we will talk about merits and demerits. First we should talk about good side:-

Benefits of Rooting An Android Phone 

Run special Applications

After rooting your phone you can use some powerful apps which required root access. Some application provides more features where you won't able to get these features without root.

Run Custom Roms

This is the main reason why many Android user root their mobile because they wanted to install and use custom rom on it. These custom roms are user friendly and offer many features which are not include in stock rom.

Free Internal Storage

Those who have low storage on their phone or many pr-install apps which can't be uninstall. You can move these apps to your SD Card or Uninstall.

So, These are all about merits. Nothings are perfect all good thins also have some demerits. 

Demerits of rooting your Android phone

Your phone might get bricked

It is always an issue of high risk when you are going to root your mobile. No matter how good your rooting tutorial is. There always you have to be prepared to face the risk.

You End up Voiding Phone's Warranty

As soon as you root your phone, you void your phone’s warranty and if anything happens to your phone even when it’s in the warranty period, the company is going to charge you for the repairs. Even if you unroot your mobile, You don't get back your warranty.

Conclusion

So, We discuss both merits and demerits. Now you have to chose what you will do. In your life whenever you are going to do work you will also have to face some risk.

There is a proverb "No pain, No game".