What is Android Root? How does it affect a phone?

What is Android Root? How does it affect a phone?

What is Android Root? It's pros and cons

We all know about Android phone and most of us have a phone in which Android OS is working. Android OS  is widely used by different smartphone brands to give a soul to there phones. There are lakhs of applications available to install in Android devices from Google Play Store.

We know that there are many applications that we can't install in our phone because they require root access. Now if your phone is not rooted, it is not possible for you to install and use such applications. 

Question is this why there is any need to use such apps which require root access? This is because they want to do some changes in your phone's software. These changes are not allowed to do by manufacturer because of some purpose to protect warranty. 

Not only for installing restricted apps, you can also uninstall or delete system applications from you phone. System apps like inbuilt calculator, sound recorder and settings app that are not allowed to delete from your phone. 

Android OS is based on Linux and Linux is more secure than other OS like WINDOWS. Since, it is based on Linux which is secure based OS, there are limitations too in the smartphones in which OS is Android. Due to this, there are many apps not allowed to install in phone because of their nature. 

If you change software of any phone, it means you can modify all things of it and if you modify all things you can destroy a phone internally. This is why root is required by many restricted apps to install and change software approach of it.

Since we are neutral in this article, so we will discuss both benefits and harmful effects of rooting an android device. Before discussing pros, we will describe it's harmful effects to prevent you from such things.

Cons of Android Root

Since each and every thing in this world has both positive and negative results and this is similar in case of rooting. Here we will list some of the cons of rooting a phone and requesting you to read them carefully.

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  Warranty Loss

  
  

All smartphone brands has this thing in their policy that if you root your phone after purchase, all warranty assurance will be withdrawn from you. 

Even if there is a warranty period and you have rooted your phone, all warranty and guarantee assurance after root will be taken back from you. 

So, disadvantage of it is that if you have some issue in your phone and assurance is taken back, you need to pay for any service. 

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  Handling Software

  
  

Rooting for a genuine reason is good but if someone do it just for fun, it will bring a big problem for your handset. If someone has no knowledge of handling and managing software, it will not an act of wisdom for him. 

A single wrong step or mistake after rooting your set will make your handset a dummy phone or even just a box looking a smartphone.

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  Android Updates

  
  

After rooting a set, there will be issues in getting updates because you can't install update of your android version to the latest one after it. 

Even after unrooting, you will have to suffer with different problems for you to install latest updates. Because once a problem is created is very difficult to stop it completely.

Need for updates or latest version? So don't root phone.

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  Unethical Attacks

  
  

Since, you have damaged warranty policies after rooting your phone. Now you can not prevent your phone from malware and malicious programs. No phone brand can help you break their policies and hence you through your own will destroy your phone.

These malicious software programs are really very dangerous as they can run their own files and execute them without your permission. Executing of these files will seriously damage your phone software and run all set-up according to their own will.

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  Error by mistake

  
  

As already discussed that after rooting, your phone will withdrawal all warranty and guarantee assurance from you. Now if you are doing some alteration in your software and due to some error you got stucked in between the process, you can't come back from it as there is no undo option. 

This simple error or mistake from your hand will give a good amount of loss or a heavy service charge from your brand's service centre. 

Pros of Android Root

There are many advantages of it too that may be a reason for you to root a device. So some of them are listed below for you:

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  To Remove Unwanted System Apps

  
  

This is one of the major reason for device users to root a phone because of storage eating system apps. There are many apps that you don't want to see in your handset but they are using a lot of your storage.

Normally, you have no option to remove such applications but by rooting you can do that thing. Rooting is the only option that allows you to uninstall or delete system apps from your android device.

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  Increase Device Performance

  
  

After rooting your phone, you can control about which apps can run in background (system) or not. If you can control this, you will be able to prevent device from unwanted app run. 

This will help you to increase speed of your set as now no unwanted app can run in background.

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  Install only root application

  
  

Now you can install any restricted app in your phone without any problem after device root.

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  Phone customization

  
  

In new handsets like of those in which there is pure Android have no such phone customization features. But you can do more and more customisation through your own if you have rooted your phone.

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  Backup

  
  

Backup of your full device can be done by those apps which are designed to perform on only rooted device. So after rooting your device, you can do full backup of you handset.

So guys this is some information that I wanted to share with you about Android Root. We have discussed about Android Root, it's pros and cons so do comments about any query because we are here to answer you.