Verizon Root

[Kelly Kearns]

After reading up on it at XDA, I think sketchy is an understatement. Kingroot looks to be from some unknown Chinese dev. It uses its own superuser that can't be removed and the root process appears to modify numerous system files for no known reason. There are some reports too that after using Kingroot the phone starts sending info to Chinese servers which according to some reports may be it uploading your phone's IMEI info (not good!). So needless to say I'm going to pass and wait for devs at XDA that are trying to come up with a more trustworthy root process.

I also think Kingroot is only temporary root, just good until the next reboot, IIRC.

 

[rong21]

This is the only phone I have owned I haven't rooted. To be honest doubt I will. I could care less about bloatware. Never made much of a difference that I could tell in the past when I did remove or freeze. I found custom ROMS to always have some sort of glitch I had to live with.

I do find it great though that we can have these discussions and have these choices.

 

[Kelly Kearns]

This is the only phone I have owned I haven't rooted. To be honest doubt I will. I could care less about bloatware. Never made much of a difference that I could tell in the past when I did remove or freeze. I found custom ROMS to always have some sort of glitch I had to live with.

I do find it great though that we can have these discussions and have these choices.

I never use a custom ROM, just root it so I can uninstall what I want, stop app from auto starting that I don't want to to start and move more apps to my card.