What is Root? Advantage and Disadvantage

                                                    What is a Rooting? 

Like most any operating system, several features have been disabled, either for future use or to prevent the casual user from causing permanent damage to the operating system. "Rooting" is the process in which the limitations are removed and full-access is allowed. Once rooted, the Android phone owner will have more control over many settings, features and performance of their phone.

Basically, "rooting" means to get to the root of the operating system and to have the ability to make global changes.

Root give facility to remove bloatware of manufactures of Android phone, to increase internal storage capacity, make more RAM free, install custom ROM, settings and Apps.

                                                                Disadvantage

Voids your phone’s warranty

Before rooting you know one thing very well that after rooting , your Android phone service or warranty period will be finished and if you are flash your stock ROM in your phone or unroot your phone then you get your phone warranty back.

Poor performance

After Rooting, you can install or remove any apps from your Android phone device. It is not compulsory after installing or removing apps your phone it will work faster. It is not sure that your mobile performance may be increased or decreased.

Viruses

In the rooted phone, if your phone will be infected with the virus and virus will get root access of your phone then it will be very harmful for your Android mobile phone.

                                                Advantages

1. Running special applications-Superuser is an app that can only be run on a rooted Android phone. This allows you to control which apps have access to the "root" system. Another popular application that "rooting" affords is the ability to tether a computer to your Android phone so that the computer can access the Internet using the phone's data connection. Another program can allow your Android to be used as a WiFi Hotspot without having to pay your provider for the feature.
2. Freeing up memory-When you install an app on your phone, it is stored on the phone's memory. "Rooting" allows you to move installed applications to your SD card, thus freeing up system memory for additional files or apps.
3. Custom ROM's-This is the most powerful feature of "rooted" phones. There are hundreds of custom ROM's that can do anything from speeding up the processing speed of your phone to changing the entire look and feel of your phone.