Saturday, March 9, 2013

Advantage and Disadvantage of Rooted Android

Maybe you're wondering what rooted Android device is. What changes will effect once you root your android device? Or having a second thoughts of rooting for a possibility that it will crash your device. In this article, we will talk about the goods and bads, the benefits and drawback and advantages and disadvantages of rooted android device

What is rooting?

Rooting is a method of acquiring administrative access over you device. If you buy an android phone, you're just a guest user of it so rooting is the way to unlock full features of your Android.
Warning: Rooting will void your device's warranty.

Advantages:
» You can use apps that the functions are for rooted device only like Link2SD app.
» You can extend the memory of your phone through Link2SD by partitioning your sdcard storage.
» With Link2SD you can move all your apps to sdcard as well as those apps that unmovable like Facebook and Twitter.
» If you don't want to move it to sdcard because you will not be able to use it's widget, another option is to link your app to your sdcard which move only a portion of app memory to your sdcard.

Disadvantages
» The warranty of your device will be void.
» Rooted phone will unroot once you update your firmware. In some instances, if you want to update your firmware, a high possibility that the update will fail.

This is just the common advantage and disadvantage of it. There be more of it from some other users.

Be cautious in rooting your Android device. Many blogs, websites, or forums offering steps on how to root Android devices. Be sure that you trusted the source and follow the rooting procedure carefully cause this may crash your device completely and you'll not be able to bring it to the service center since you void the warranty by trying to root your device.

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