Why bother rooting

[longtime44]

Here's my question.
With how advanced android has become over the years and how open it is. Why even bother rooting. You can do almost anything you can do by rooting on the stock OS. So why bother anymore. Why run the risk of bricking your phone and not having warranty? Can someone make sense of this?

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[clemson77on]

Well I'll start off. You can remove bloatware, make nandroids and titanium backups, get many more options with Tasker, install custom ROMs to stay up to date with the latest Android version and get options the stock version doesn't have, and install custom kernels that can help with battery consumption along with other useful tools. Just my 2 cents.

 

[JRDroid]

Here's my question.
With how advanced android has become over the years and how open it is. Why even bother rooting. You can do almost anything you can do by rooting on the stock OS. So why bother anymore. Why run the risk of bricking your phone and not having warranty? Can someone make sense of this?

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I rooted my HTC One for one reason, not to be subject to AT&T for updates. I use stock ROMs, but use either the Developer Edition or Google Play Edition, so I get security fixes, camera improvements, etc. as soon as they are available instead of when AT&T feels like letting me have them. I also like being able to switch between Developer Edition ROMs with Sense and the Stock Google Play Edition ROMs.

 

[TeknoBug]

I rooted my HTC One for one reason, not to be subject to AT&T for updates. I use stock ROMs, but use either the Developer Edition or Google Play Edition, so I get security fixes, camera improvements, etc. as soon as they are available instead of when AT&T feels like letting me have them. I also like being able to switch between Developer Edition ROMs with Sense and the Stock Google Play Edition ROMs.

That's the exact problem I have with Telus, updates that comes out don't reach Telus until 5-6 months later, having to root and flash an updated WWE version of the OS or custom rom is much better.

 

[Golfdriver97]

Here's my question.
With how advanced android has become over the years and how open it is. Why even bother rooting. You can do almost anything you can do by rooting on the stock OS. So why bother anymore. Why run the risk of bricking your phone and not having warranty? Can someone make sense of this?

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My counter question would be why stay stock and for the most part be at the mercy of carrier restrictions and bloat? Their OTA updates for the OS have two typical attributes: They are slow, and they are bogged down. Rooting my device and getting a custom ROM was probably the best thing I ever did. I have 4.3 on an S3 and the stock counterparts are still on 4.1.

 

[crackcookie]

Well there you have it, seems like this guy didn't do his homework and see what the fuss was all about. And that is just on the legal side. My bro has his S2 specialized so he plays Final fantasy or something like that and I think Mario games, which is cool.

I have an HTC ONE and I have tried to ROM/flash it or whatever so I can play cool games on my phone, remove ATT bloatware, and get better battery life but I think maybe because I have Windows 8 and I am not that well versed in computers I mess up, even when I follow the directions, I'm sad...........

 

[JRDroid]

Well there you have it, seems like this guy didn't do his homework and see what the fuss was all about. And that is just on the legal side. My bro has his S2 specialized so he plays Final fantasy or something like that and I think Mario games, which is cool.

I have an HTC ONE and I have tried to ROM/flash it or whatever so I can play cool games on my phone, remove ATT bloatware, and get better battery life but I think maybe because I have Windows 8 and I am not that well versed in computers I mess up, even when I follow the directions, I'm sad...........

I do all of that with Windows 8. The only potential issue is using USB 3.0 ports to connect your phone in Windows 8. If you use a USB 2.0 port or switch to Intel USB drivers for your USB 3.0, Windows 8 has no issues.

 

[crackcookie]

Could you somehow I dunno..do it

 

[longtime44]

My S2 is through straight talk so I can't get any updates anyway, im still running gingerbread. I could root my phone and get the updates but I'm a little scared to root it and brick the phone. I'd be more inclined to try it if I had someone show me step by step. And on top of that what if I do root and decide I don't like it. Is there a way to unroot? I paid good money for my phone. I just don't want to ruin it and be put 299 bucks.

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[Golfdriver97]

My S2 is through straight talk so I can't get any updates anyway, im still running gingerbread. I could root my phone and get the updates but I'm a little scared to root it and brick the phone. I'd be more inclined to try it if I had someone show me step by step. And on top of that what if I do root and decide I don't like it. Is there a way to unroot? I paid good money for my phone. I just don't want to ruin it and be put 299 bucks.

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Depending on the build of the OS, you may not be able to root it. Rooting is a little like flashing a custom ROM. You need to apply files for your device, and the exact model number. Now, it is possible to brick the device by rooting, but only if you try using say and HTC root file for your phone.
Where have you looked for instructions to root?

 

[Central n ohios best]

My S2 is through straight talk so I can't get any updates anyway, im still running gingerbread. I could root my phone and get the updates but I'm a little scared to root it and brick the phone. I'd be more inclined to try it if I had someone show me step by step. And on top of that what if I do root and decide I don't like it. Is there a way to unroot? I paid good money for my phone. I just don't want to ruin it and be put 299 bucks.

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The s2 was one of the easiest phones to root besides nexus devices. U can use odin to root and flash different roms. Its plenty of how to dos on the s2 forum. The whole process takes less than 15 min if u are using a fast internet connection.

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[_X_]

Why even bother rooting. You can do almost anything you can do by rooting on the stock OS. So why bother anymore.

Thay has always been the case really.

Why run the risk of bricking your phone and not having warranty?

You're talking about two different things. It is nearly impossible to brick you phone rooting the device. It's installing ROMs and updating kernels that can cause you to brick your phone.

That said however most instructions are so well written it's very easy to ROM your phone without bricking it.

Now to answer your questions. I rooted my first phone for the sole purpose of upgrading my os and to get my GPS to work.... How ironic.

With my current phone, I went months without the need or want to root/rom. But in the end in did root my phone again to install a rom that did not have the hot spot blocked. And also to get around some limitations built into the os.

What I'm getting at is I agree with you to some extent. The os no real need to root unless there is a feature you need. But it is no where near as risky as you believe it to be.

 

[prozacfield]

I'm a long time Linux user, so i just can't stand Linux-based OS without superuser access. Nandroid, Titanium Backup, ability to get rid of bloatware, hosts file that block ads everywhere, various ROMs and kernels if i want to, i can even flash things from device itself using Mobile Odin. Wonderful Xposed framework is another big thing. Life is much easier when you root.

 

[JRDroid]

I'm a long time Linux user, so i just can't stand Linux-based OS without superuser access. Nandroid, Titanium Backup, ability to get rid of bloatware, hosts file that block ads everywhere, various ROMs and kernels if i want to, i can even flash things from device itself using Mobile Odin. Wonderful Xposed framework is another big thing. Life is much easier when you root.

Xposed is good. I'm trying to go pure Google Play Edition right now on my HTC One because I want to experience Google's vision of what Android should be for a while, but it is taking a lot of restraint not to flash Xposed...

 

[prozacfield]

Xposed is good. I'm trying to go pure Google Play Edition right now on my HTC One because I want to experience Google's vision of what Android should be for a while, but it is taking a lot of restraint not to flash Xposed...

I found Xposed about a month ago. Now i don't even think about flashing ROMs and such, i just stay with currently installed, highly customized MH8. Sometimes i'm kinda think about trying Wanam Lite, but then it's like ?why even bother?, LOL.