pandagigante

I wasn't sure if this should go here, or in "Support and Troubleshooting," but here goes. What is rooting?? I've been looking around the forums, and I see things like, "rooted, overclocked, deodexed," etc. etc. Stuff that's like a foreign language to me. Is rooting a droid like jailbreaking an iPhone? Or what? I've never had the iphone I previously owned jailbroken, so I just have a vague image of what that is even. Explain this Android talk for me? Please? XDD Sorry for my ignorance.

cougar214

All your questions can be answered here,

RoOoLeR's Guide ROOT / UNROOT / BACKUP / ROM / SBF / OVERCLOCK

pandagigante

Thank you!

Steven58

No need to be sorry. We are here for that kind of question.

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cougar214

Yeah, just don't listen to Steven. He'll have you playing with the roots of flowers...

Bugly

...or rooting for truffles

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darkcyber

In a nutshell, yes, you could say rooting is like jailbreaking an IPhone. Rooting an Android phone gives you superuser rights, basically full control of your phone (like full admin rights on a Windows pc). The best description I can come up with is that rooting your phone lets you customize specifically to your liken and optimize your phone.