Ive never rooted b4 what r the big advantages of rooting?
Everyone has different personal reasons for rooting their phone, but everyone does it for the same basic objective ... gain something that the manufacturer and/or carrier has chosen not to include in the stock firmware. Here are MY reasons in no particular order:
- To be able to theme various elements of the ROM that more suits my liking, including areas like the status bar icons (like battery % label), dialer, notification pulldown, and toggles.
- To be able to create a backup image of my entire system via Nandroid or backup, freeze and restore both user and system apps via Titanium Backup
- To underclock and undervolt my CPU for better battery performance
- To remove unwanted system applications, especially ones I never use but always run in the background (like Accuweather for example)
- For various tweaks that improve performance
- To change my bootanimation and sound to one I like better (why do I want to see a Sprint 4G boot animation when I don't even have 4G where I live?)
- So my camera App has no shutter sound or focus beeps, and so that it works while on a call and below a certain battery level
- So the phone doesn't give me that annoying beep when it's done charging at 3am, or when I plug it in
- So annoying ads are blocked from Apps that include them
There are other little benefits but these are off the top of my head. Notice I left free wifi tethering out. Sure I have it but it's not why I root. Although it's probably the reason most people do.