Should I root my Android Smartphones? What are the Benefits of Rooting Android and disadvantages of rooting Android mobile?
These are the frequently asked questions when it comes to Android rooting. The sad truth is only a few people root their Android smartphones after understanding its pros and cons completely. Where tech-savvy Android users root their smartphones or tablets because they believe it is a commonly followed procedure.
I believe, if you’re a power user, you can try rooting to enjoy the benefits of rooting an Android mobile and of-course you can simply ignore the disadvantages of rooting Android devices. Developers and mobile geeks blindly root their mobiles on the first minute of their purchase but casual users won’t dare to do it.
Rooting an Android mobile enables many useful features which are suitable for power users. These new options may not help regular users in day to day usage.
Well, if you are in a dilemma,ย whether or not to root your Android device, then this article is surely gonna help you out. Today in this article, we will be discussing the advantages and disadvantages of rooting.
What is Android Rooting?
Well, before we actually discuss the advantages and disadvantages of rooting, you need to find what does rooting actually means?
Technically, rooting means tweaking into the administrative power of your device. After rooting, you can control the device in any manner you want.
You can remove the pre-installed ROM and install a custom-built ROM. Or you can under-clock or over-clock your smartphone to downgrade or upgrade the performance limits.
Benefits of rooting Android is simple to explain, you can use your smartphone in a different way which is not possible without rooting. One of the important benefits of rooting android is you can go inside the operating system to perform some geeky thing.
The Benefits Of Rooting Android smartphones
There are lots of technical and user-related benefits of rooting Android smartphone, and I have listed some of them below:
- Administrative Powers: As I said earlier, rooting your Android smartphone gives you administrative powers. You can remove, alter or add any system files or scripts. So basically, you can develop and tweak your Android smartphone, the way you want.
- Remove Bloatware: Most of the Android smartphones out there comes pre-loaded with lots of carriers and manufacturer-specific bloatware. Bloatware means applications or themes that you cannot delete from your smartphone. But after rooting your Android Smartphone, you can easily remove this bloatware off your smartphone and remove the pre-installed themes and launcher too. Moreover, doing so will provide you with more free internal storage space, to store your apps.
- Run Apps that Require Root Access: There are several Android applications that require root access to run. This means you won’t be able to run such applications without rooting your Android smartphone. And when you root your Android smartphone, you can run these applications without any issues.
- Install Custom ROMS: After rooting, you can install custom ROMs like Cyanogenmodon your Android smartphone. These custom ROMs usually are skins for your smartphone, developed by third-party developers.
- Moving Applications to SD card:ย Some Android mobiles should be rooted in order to move applications from device memory to SD card. Moving apps to memory card will save lots of internal memory and makes your smartphone lightning fast.
Disadvantages of Rooting Android smartphones
Feeling glad after reading the advantages of rooting? But wait, there are few disadvantages of rooting. Don’t get excited, rooting has its own disadvantages too. And we have mentioned major disadvantages of rooting below:
- You will Void The Warranty of your Smartphone: As I said before, the basic concept of rooting is to get root/administrative access to your Android Smartphone. This means you’re technically breaking barriers and limits, created by Android OS and your smartphone manufacturer. Therefore, after rooting, you’ll void the warranty of your smartphone.
- Your Smartphone may be damaged: While rooting, adding scripts or installing custom ROMs, there are huge possibilities for your smartphones to get bricked. In scary terms, your smartphone will be no longer functional if something goes wrong.
- You won’t receive Android or Firmware Updates: After rooting or installing a custom-built ROM in your Android smartphone, you won’t be eligible to receive any Android software or firmware updates from your smartphone manufacturer, as you are no longer running their certified stock ROM.
Cool enough right? Still can’t decide? Here is a tip.
If the warranty of mobile is expired, you no need to consider the first disadvantage of rooting Android mobile, If you’re sure; you will be careful while rooting and never mind about official updates, you can ignore all 2 remaining disadvantages.
That’s all about the advantages of disadvantages of rooting an Android device. Let us know what you have decided finally.
David Alan says
I read the pros and cons and it looks like rooting is the only possible solution for my phone but let me ask you here, before I begin:
I just bought a Samsung Galaxy J2 Prime running Android 6.0.1 It does everything I want except it only has 8GB Ram and its bloated. No prob. I bought a 32 GB SD card to run as the Primary Internal Ram. “The Internet” says Marshmallow will allow that.
Wrong. Samsung has this feature blocked and the 8 GB ram filled up within 3 days of use and the SD card is virtually useless as it sits. So the phone is virtually useless to me in this configuration.
So am I correct that rooting the phone will allow me to run the SD card as primary internal ram? Is there another way that is easier that I have not yet found? Do you have a link to a site that will instruct an amateur on how to root the phone this one specific purpose?
ashu says
Thanks for Sharing with us,keep posting and please do post on Benefits of a rooted phone.
Amar Ilindra says
we already did it here https://www.geekdashboard.com/benefits-of-rooting-android/
Chiranjeev says
Rooting an Android smartphone has now become a Fashion. Everyone do the first thing about there, Android phone is, its rooting.
You have shared a really nice article on advantage and disadvantage of rooting an android phone.
thanks,
Sarat says
Amar,
One thing that’s holding me off from rooting my android tablet is that there’s no firmware available directly for my tablet’s manufacturer. Also, I found that the firmware package for all the tablets are not identical.. we should re-compile the source code ( for e.g Cynogenmod ) for my specific tablet, which is cumbersome task for geek like me as well, not mainly because I can’t do it, its mostly because I don’t have enough time to spend on it.
Do you have any solutions for my case ? I use karbonn smartab1 model.
Akhil Pulotil says
Nowadays people are rooting their Android Phones without understanding the disadvanatages of rooting.
Yeah, rooting has its benefits, but has its own disadvantages too.
Nice article, keep posting ! ๐
Gautam says
Gr8 bro and nice to know about the Advantages and disadvantages of Rooting.. Will share it for sure… ๐