What is rooting?

ANDROID ROOTING

The Android phone that you have learned to love and enjoy is running an operating system that was designed for commercial and private use. Like most any operating system, several features have been disabled, either for future use or to prevent the casual user from causing permanent damage to the operating system. “Rooting” is the process in which the limitations are removed and full-access is allowed. Once rooted, the Android phone owner will have more control over many settings, features and performance of their phone. Basically, “rooting” means to get to the root of the operating system and to have the ability to make global changes.

Advantages:-

“Rooting” your Android phone does afford you numerous benefits, including Running special applications-Superuser is an app that can only be run on a rooted Android phone. This allows you
to control which apps have access to the “root” system. Another popular application that “rooting” affords is the ability to tether a computer to your Android phone so that the computer can access
the Internet using the phone’s data connection. Another program can allow your Android to be used as a WiFi Hotspot without having to pay your provider for the feature.

Full control:

By rooting Android smartphones you have full control over your Android phone. Rooting your Android gives you access to modify system files , boot images, delete native applications.
Freeing up memory- When you install an app on your phone, it is stored on the phone’s memory. “Rooting” allows you to move installed applications to your SD card, thus freeing up
system memory for additional files or apps.

Custom ROM’s

This is the most powerful feature of “rooted” phones. There are hundreds of custom ROM’s that can do anything from speeding up the processing speed of your phone to changing the entire look and feel of your phone.

Delete stock applications

With root access you will be able to delete stock applications that you don’t use.

Underlocking

It minimizes CPU usage while the phone is idle to maximize the battery backup.