Saturday, 31 January 2015

All about Rooting an Android Phone - Rooting 101

Rooting 101 - All About Rooting an Android Phone, A Guide by My Android Phone

rooting android phone

Rooting your phone let you grant access on over all of the hidden system file. It open the opportunity to personalize or customize your android machine in the way you like or in the way you want. With a rooted android phone you can do 10x more fun and personaliztion than an unrooted phone you can:

  • Change the boot logo - animation
  • Install custom ROM
  • Tweak your android phone for performance
  • Fix default permission and issues
  • Uninstall bloatwares
  • Mod system elements like status bar, notifications, toasts
  • Additional teaks like changing goggle country verification - density verification 
  • Changing name of the phone
  • Many more things..

Is rooting is a safe process to do for my android phone?

First thing rooting does not harm your android phone in any way if done properly. Rooting just give and access to the restricted system file to the third party apps. The apps helps you to tweak those files. Its not guaranteed that these apps doesn't harm your phone, that may cause bricking too but having a proper backup help you in recovering your android phone. Some malicious apps can enter your phone, can take the administration rights and read or alter your sensitive or system data. It is advisable to grant root access to trusted apps only. Don't change the default "access" setting of SuperSU. Also properly usage of apps are advisable after rooting the phone. Whatever you didi with your phone, create a complete Nandroid backup first.

What is Nandroid Backup?

Nandroid backup is a compressed archive of all the system files and s\user data which help you recover your phone. Nandroid backup can easily be created using Recovery options like TWRP or Clockword Mode or by creating a system dump. It works as a save game for your phone. Just like they said save your game before doing anything stupid. Make a proper and updated nandroid backup before doing anything risky with your phone.

What is Recovery.img?

Recovery.img get created from system dump, the image file which get installed in your android phone and give you access to recovery option. You can find recovery.img file of almost all android phone on google.

System Dump >> Recovery.img >> Recovery >> Nandroid Backup

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Any question?

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