FACTS TO CONSIDER BEFORE ROOTING YOUR ANDROID PHONE :- THE ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGES OF ROOTING

What is "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.

Disadvantages

There are two main disadvantages to rooting an Android phone;
Other potential disadvantages, though less severe, are still worthy of
consideration;

1. Rooting immediately voids your phone's warranty-Once rooted, don't try to
bring your phone back for service or warranty work. You are on your own!

2. Rooting involves the risk of "bricking" your phone- In essence, a "bricked"
phone is no better than carrying around a brick in your pocket. The phone is
dead when it has been "bricked."

3. Poor performanc e-Though the intention of "rooting" a phone is to give the
phone more performance, several users have found that, in their attempts to
speed up the phone or add additional features, that their phones lost both
performance speed and features. Remember that when you "root" your
Android phone, you are making changes to the stock operating system.

4. Viruses-Yes, even phones can get viruses. A common practice that people do
with "rooted" phones is to flash their ROM's with custom programs.
Whenever you make changes to the code of a software, you run the risk of
introducing a virus.

Advantages

1. Running special application like s-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.

2. 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.

3. 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 android phone.

Why this post is not aimed at preventing you form rooting your phone it is purely aimed at making you see (the dark and light side)...lol of rooting your android phone might make you want to reconsider

Good luck........

This image shows the standard about phone of an unrooted android