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Android Device Rooting

                                          image courtesy : the verge.com

Android devices are around the globe since 2008 and they have developed a lot. Back then, the phones had Android 1.0 operating system; officially known as Android Alpha. Android runs on an open-source operating system model, which enables the developers to modify the OS as per their requirements.

It is 2018 and the Android phones now run on Android 8.0 (officially known as Android Oreo), and the phones are way more powerful and user-friendly. Back then, the phones had 512 Mb of RAM and up to 1 Gb of ROM. The phones lacked a few functionalities and users had to look for a solution for these limitations.

Finally, the solution cane in the name of "Rooting". Rooting is the term for a process that gives the user a privileged access, in order to modify the device and to overcome the software and hardware limitations. Rooting was very popular among the users back in 2010 and back then, every Android phone was operating on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and was root-able. I have personally rooted a lot of Android phones myself and it was a very good experience.

The rooting allowed users to modify certain software limitations like the bloatware (apps pre-loaded by the manufacturers, which cannot be uninstalled) could be removed and uninstalled from the phone forever. The hardware limitation, for example the lower CPU clock speed could be modified and overclocked, in order to improve the phone's performance. The advantage of rooting was that if the user wished to unroot the phone, it could be done easily and was possible. There were certain disadvantages like rooting without complete knowledge could lead to bricking (dead phone). The rooted phones carried no warranty and if the user had rooted the phone, he/she had to unroot it before claiming the warranty (within the warranty period).

These days, I personally don't feel like rooting is required for the modern day Android phones, as the phones come with a very good hardware as well as software specifications. Rooting these days has lost popularity and still there are a few people who want to explore it. Modern day rooting methods are limited to some specific phones, running older versions of Android. It is a tedious process to root new phone models and it depends on the user's interest of whether to root the phone.

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