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Why should you root your Android phone?

A non technical answer would be because:

  • You gain complete control over your phone and can bypass all restrictions.
  • It unlocks the complete potential of your hardware.
  • It increases customization to an enormous extent.
  • It gets you tons of new features.
  • Its fun. Being a geek, I enjoy flashing new custom ROMs and their updates to my phone and cherish new features.

Specifically you can:

RISKS INVOLVED:

You might have read or heard that you may brick your phone (phone being rendered to an unusable state equivalent to a brick) while attempting to root it. Well yes, since you are playing with your system files you do run a risk of bricking your phone.

What you might not have heard is that the phone can be recovered 99% of the times by just flashing another firmware or flashing back the stock firmware.

Recovering the phone becomes difficult if you mess up the bootloader(which manages your phone’s boot) and are not able to enter Recovery mode(Recovery mode is where most of the flashing is done). But in this case too, you can use a USB Jig to enter Recovery.

It is very rare that all will fail. Tens of thousands of Android Users root their phones successfully. There is very little risk involved if you follow the instructions carefully. It would be fair to say that the benefits outweigh the risks.

Dont feel good with root? It is possible to completely un-root your device back to its clean and boring state. This could be a work-around for the loss of warranty for rooted phones.

To learn how to root, do some reading about your device at the bible of Android: XDA-Developers


NOTE: The features I have mentioned above are phone and custom firmware dependent. They might or might not be available for your phone or with the custom firmware you choose.

Note 2: This post was taken from this Quora Answer here.

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