What does Rooting An Android Device even do?
Rooting An Android Device, in a nutshell, gives you developer access to full specifications of your hardware and full permissions for software allowing you to make the absolute most out of your new phone! For me Rooting An Android Device improves my phone in three ways: Personalization, Performance, Saves Money. As a musician, networker, blogger and businessman my phone saves my life countless times a day. I need my phone to be quick, polished and full featured. Though Android phones have incredible specs, I don’t believe the stock platform can keep up.
Rooting An Android Device: It’s Getting Personal!
Personalization is first on my list, I’ve always been a modder because i like switching things up and standing out. Its hard for me to fully appreciate something even if its brand new, even if its really cool, if someone has the same exact one. After Rooting An Android Device you can install apps from the android market that change your animations, boot screens, screen locks, etc. Or for more experienced rooters flash a custom rom onto your device! The right custom rom will give you the fastest, smoothest, and most polished looking interface for your Android device.
Rooting An Android Device=Speed
Performance may have been second on my list, but is known to score first for many Droid users. Not only can rooting an android device help you boost your CPU speed, it can save you valuable android battery life. Overclock at your own risk. Even though CPU over-clocking apps have been around as long as rooting has, and development has greatly improved, they should be used with caution as to not fry your phone. Juice defender is an app that with root access has almost doubled my battery life. I use a Samsung Fascinate, older Samsung Android phones have a lag-bug in the kernel, but with root permission, that bug now can repaired in one click using a free app from the market called OCLF nearly doubling benchmark results. My phone is more than a year old, but with OCLF, root access, and a custom rom, my performance is so stable I’ve felt no pressure to upgrade.
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“Money in the bank!” Rooting An Android Device has been known to save people a few bucks. Some free root apps perform or out-perform the same functioning paid apps. Some app “black-markets” provide access to most paid apps free or charge the only requirement being root access. By far the biggest triumph for Rooting An Android Device has been the ability to bypass my carrier’s WI-FI hotspot plan and create a 3G WIFI hotspot with my device free of charge. A plan that usually costs an extra $30 a month on top of your plan is no longer necessary. How has root boosted your productivity?
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