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Old November 10th, 2009, 08:05 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by madcat033 View Post
So I've read about rooting in those various threads, but could someone sum it up for me? I hadn't really heard about "rooting" your phone until everyone got all excited about it.

What exactly is rooting and how do you do it?

What are the benefits / disadvantages?

Will it affect our ability to update to Android 2.0?

Would you recommend rooting?
The simple answer is rooting is to android what jailbreaking is to the iPhone. It basicly gives you full control over your phone.

Benefits are a slew of apps that require root access to use. Just search "root" in market and take a look at what you get. It will also allow you to flash your ROM if you decide to do that.

No.

Yes.
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