Guide to root

What is Rooting?

Before thinking about rooting you should know what you are doing.Rooting is the process of allowing users running on the android mobile O.S. (operating system)   to attain full access over various Android subsystems. As Android uses the Linux Kernel, rooting an Android device gives similar access to administrative permissions as on Linux or any other Unix-like operating system such as FreeBSD or OS X.

Android Phone rooting is the first task for any android pro users.Root access is sometimes compared to jailbreaking devices, running the Apple iOS operating system. However, these are different concepts: Jailbreaking is the bypass of several types of Apple prohibitions for the end user, including modifying the operating system (enforced by a “locked bootloader”), installing non-officially approved applications via sideloading, and granting the user elevated administration-level privileges (rooting). Only a minority of Android devices lock their bootloaders, and many vendors such as HTC, Sony, Asus and Google explicitly provide the ability to unlock devices, and even replace the operating system entirely!

Advantages of rooting

Now you know, What is rooting? I hope now you all understand well what we mean by rooting. So now it`s very important to know benefits of rooting your android. So here are they:-

1. Remove Pre-installed Android Apps

When we buy a new android phone, our android phone come with many pre-loaded android apps that consumes more than half of the inbuilt storage. You can’t remove pre-installed android apps. But if you will root your phone, you have an access to remove these type of pre-installed from android phone. After rooting your android phone you can download No Bloat Android App from Google Play store for removing them.

2. Run Linux OS in Android Phone

Rooting is amazing, you can run whole Linux O.S. as a virtual machine in android phone. I mean to say you can run Ubuntu Linux OS in android phone. You can use this for pen testing  and another purpose.

3. Overclock your Android Mobile Processor

You can also increase your android mobile processing speed. Like if you android phone has 1.2GHz processor, you can increase up to 1.5Ghz processor. But Keep in mind this is risky, so always search on the net or go to XDA forums for overclocking your android phone.

4. Backup Your Android Phone from Bit to Byte

Make the backup of your android phone including system settings. When you root your android phone, you have an ability to make the backup of your android phone including android apps, android data, system settings, contacts, emails and everything, This is like a cloning your whole android rom. If somethings go wrong when you flash new ROM, you can install your backup data. Download Titanium Backup for making the backup of your android phone.

5. Install Custom ROM

Default android rom is not  like by everyone, that’s why many developers create a custom version of android rom. In the custom version of android rom you find many features with more options. If you are the rooted user, you can install the custom version of android rom in your phone. You can find custom rom for your android phone on XDA Forums.

6. Block Ads from Android Apps

Android Apps ad is very annoying for every android user. You can block ads in android phone apps, this thing also saves your data. Download AdBlock  for removing and blocking ads in android apps.

7. Boot Any Computer PC from Android

Drivedroid is an android app that can turn your rooted android device into a bootable live Linux from iso image files. You can boot your pc from this amazing android apps. Download live Linux distributions and boot your pc from this amazing utility.

8. Customize and Tweak Everything in Android Phone.

When you root your phone, you have an access to do anything with your android phone and its rom. Like you customize your android phone look and feel according to your needs. Xposed Framework is an amazing tool for customizing and tweaking your android phone. Modules are created inside of the framework by many developers that do various things like theming, UI and performance tweaks, visual modification, button remapping, and much, much more.

9. Change your BootScreen Logo

You feel very annoying with your default android boot screen. Rooting give you access to change your android boot screen into a beautiful boot screen of your choice. Download Boot Animation Changer from Google PlayStore.

10. Connect Pendrive with Android Phone

Now you connect your USB Pendrive with your android phone with OTG USB cable. Download Stickmount android app from google play store and browse your pen drive data in the android phone.

There are a many more advantages of android rooting. But there are some disadvantages also. To see them check my next post…

Disadvantages of rooting.

I have told you some of the advantages of rooting. Now I will tell you what are the various disadvantages of rooting:-

1.) Phone Bricked.

Bricking is a state reached when something goes wrong and results in making your android is nothing more than a piece of brick. Being technical when your phone is not capable of performing boot action and just doesn’t responds to anything it is bricked.

Bricking an android phone can be due to many reasons , may it be skipping one step out of rooting tutorials Or may it be a corrupt rooting tool. Bricking leads to make you buy a new phone.

Well rather talking in general over 2% of the androids get Bricked and 99% of these 2% are first timers. So i consider a good ratio to make my conscious mind allow rooting.

2.) Rooting Voids Warranty.

This is one of the biggest disadvantage of rooting. Rooting means "No Warranty ". When we root our phone, we go against terms and conditions of warranty, which results in the violation of warranty. However we can get back our warranty by unrooting our phone. But in case your phone is bricked, they will not repair free of cost and will charge a lot.

3.) Exposure to virus Threats

This is not a big negative aspect but is still is one of the threat involved in rooting. When installing different ROM’s we are never known what is inside that. May the developer has added some malicious files that may harm your android or may change the interface to worse.

After reading all these things, I know you can resist you to root your android but trust me if you don’t overuse any feature then you can have all the beneficial effects of rooting and trust me Rooting is worth risking your android to bricking. Its awesome Life after rooting. Don`t forget the advantages of rooting

How to root

I have told you what is root, root advantages and it`s disadvantages. But now the question arises is How to root?. Rooting is not so difficult. I have rooted many times and got 100% success.
We can root either with the help of computers or without computers. These both methods have it`s own benefits and disadvantage.

Rooting android phones with computers is done from many years. But rooting with computers is little bit more complicated and you need a usb cable as well as a computer.Rooting without computer is very easy and comparatively more safe than using pc to do so. What we need is any app like Kingroot and just internet connection and we get our phone rooted. Rooting without pc is a modern method of rooting.

I have tried both the ways of rooting and found that second method, i.e. rooting without pc is safer, faster and easier, So I prefer rooting without pc more. There are many apps to do so like. Apps which I like the best are:-

 1) Kingroot

2) Framaroot

3) Kingoroot