Rooting your Android phone

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) over various Android's subsystems

Rooting is often performed with the goal of overcoming limitations that carriers and hardware manufacturers put on some devices.

Root access is sometimes compared to jailbreaking devices running the Apple iOS operating system

Well, rooting an Android phone simply means to gain administrative privileges on the system

Benefits of Rooting an Android Phone

1.Run Special Applications

After you have rooted your phone, you can run special applications that require root access on your phone.
When compared to regular applications, root applications provide more features

As these special apps can directly deal with the Android system files, they can tweak your Android in more extensive
ways. For example, you can increase

1.Increase internal memory

2.Uninstall system apps

3.Record your screen

4.Increase ram ................ And much more things

5.Root Access / Super User access

2.Run Custom ROMs

One of the main reasons mostly people rooting there phone because they want to install and use
CUSTOM ROMs on it.

Read more about Advantages of rooting........

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Disadvantages of Rooting Your Android

1.Your Phone Might Get Bricked

If you do a mistake during installing custom rom and if you miss out any step or flash a corrupt zip file

Now assuming that you are not a power user, you will have to go to your phone manufacturer’s service center and get your phone fixed. Moreover, if they come to know that the brick or
semi-brick has caused because you were trying to root your phone, you might as well be charged for it.