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Why Root My Android

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Rooting is not for everyone.Rooting is not for everyone.  The difficulty in rooting your device can vary depending on which manufacturer, model, and update you have.  It can be mildly difficulty to extremely complicated to root your device.  My Motorola Droid Pro is somewhat complicated, because I had to roll back the software version to an earlier one, something that is risky enough, before I could root it. Experienced Android users may find the process of rooting Android as simple as installing an app from Google Play. Beginners, however, may find themselves in a pickle, having to deal with some not very straightforward procedures.  The step by step process often doesn't go as described.  Due to variances and glitches, you may have to make a quick decision to keep the process going.  One wrong step, and your device is rendered useless.  It is said to be a "brick" when the device is rendered useless in a way that it cannot be recovered.  You can potentially brick your Android in the process of trying to root it. A set of instructions for how to root your device may be dead wrong.  When rooting users basically have to have blind faith in the developer responsible for the tool or the app that is/will be used, hoping that there's no sneaky backdoor built into it or that it will not harm the device.  If you are using a rather obscure way to root your device, you are taking a bigger risk. It is a good idea to find instructions from multiple sources and compare to see if they correlate.
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