What is Rooting? [All The Basics Explained]

Key Takeaways

if you're new to Android you'll be hearing people talking about rooting their phones what is rooting and what does it do well that's what this video is here for it's a short rundown to tell you what rooting is and not the exact methods cuz it's different for every phone and different for every ROM rooting an Android phone can be likened onto jailbreaking iPhone except for its primary uses not to install third party applications that weren't approved by the marketplace basically rooting gives you full 100% unhindered access to your device whether it's a tablet or a smartphone it's the same Principle as I was saying earlier the actual methology of roting varies greatly from device to device and I've had some times where it's just been a simple application that you download to your PC or a Mac computer and just do a simple one click rout or it's been a fiery Hoops they have to jump through to get to your phone to be rooted but anyway once the phone is rooted there is no physical difference you'll not notice anything different other than it has root access so nothing drastically changes that's a common misconception there's absolutely no difference whatsoever so for most people will be the actual applications of the the main reason that you want to rout these applications have something called root access so basically they can delve deeper into the operating system to get their task done so an example of this would be um overclocking your device your tablet or smartphone so there's an application called set CPU that can do this for you uh obviously set CPU needs um extensive privileges to get right down to the hardware side of your phone and actually play around with the um the clock speeds of your processor so uh these applications obviously need extra permissions to you know deal with the hardware side of your phone um there's other other applications such as screencast which is like an onscreen recorder which basically mirrors everything that you're doing on the screen and saves it to a video file so you can um access it when you need and also a very big one is um Titanium Backup so basically what this does is it gets all your uh applications all your application settings all that kind of thing and um saves it to a file so if your phone were to crash or you wanted to restore to a particular point in your phone's um history then you can just back it up straight away and also rooting is definitely needed for installing custom roms and things like that so that's another important reason so basically rooting just gives you more control over your device whether it be Hardware related or software related so basically that's a very quick summary in about 2 minutes uh thank you for watching and please don't forget to write comment and subscribe cheers