Rooting your Android device is much like jailbreaking an iPhone. Once
rooted, you can make your phone run faster, tether it to your computer,
tweak hidden settings to your liking, and more. Rooting essentially means giving yourself root permissions on your
phone. It's the equivalent of running programs as administrators in
Windows, or running a command with "sudo" in Linux. There are a number of great reasons to root your Android phone,
highest among them being speed (through custom ROMs and through
overclocking), tethering, and installing apps and widgets from other
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
What Is Android rooting
Android rooting is the process of allowing users of smartphones, tablets, and other devices running the Android mobile operating system to attain privileged control (known as "root access") within Android's subsystem. Rooting is often performed with the goal of overcoming limitations that carriers
and hardware manufacturers put on some devices, resulting in the
ability to alter or replace system applications and settings, run
specialized apps
that require administrator-level permissions, or perform other
operations that are otherwise inaccessible to a normal Android user. On
Android, rooting can also facilitate the complete removal and
replacement of the device's operating system, usually with a more recent
release of its current operating system. As Android derives from the Linux kernel, rooting an Android device is similar to accessing administrative permissions on Linux or any other Unix-like operating system such as FreeBSD or OS X. Root access is sometimes compared to jailbreaking devices running the Apple iOS operating system. However, these are different concepts. In the tightly-controlled iOS world, technical restrictions prevent
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