to root or not to root

[bigboy96]

what is the benifits of rooting your phone what more can your phone do by rooting it

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

what is the benifits of rooting your phone what more can your phone do by rooting it

For the Hero, you can overclock with a custom Kernel and improve performance a bit, load a custom ROM which could decrease some of the bloat and increase some valuable internal storage for apps. Try out most of what Gingerbread has to offer (Flash being what won't work).