Android existential doubts, to root or not to root ?, that's the question.

One of the existential doubts of all Android users who have just bought a new terminal, is the question that sometimes crosses our minds, To root or not to root our Android terminal?.

That is the question, which surely, we have all asked ourselves at some time. In the following article by way of personal opinion, I intend to clarify any doubts you may have, exposing the positives and negatives that this rooting process can produce in our newly released Android terminal.

Negative points of Rooting your Android

The main negative point when thinking about Root your Android just released, is that we have to think that This rooting process will void the official product warranty, which must be said and emphasized, since being a new terminal, which still has a two-year official guarantee, it is one of the main points to weigh, in which the question you have to ask yourself is: Do I really need this Root thing?.

The majority of Android users who have just bought one of these so-called flagships of the large device manufacturing companies, call terminals Samsung Galaxy S5,Galaxy Note3,LG G2, LG G3, Sony Xperia Z2 and so many other large terminals, they probably do not need more functionalities than those that the devices themselves offer us, even in the case of these powerful terminals, we will not need the use of Root applications to improve the speed of the system or anything like that.

The question is to assess if you really need the Root, for example, if you want to make or need for work to make direct recordings of what happens on the screens of your terminals, which is known as ScreenCast, in this case if that You are going to need it yes or yes. Another case that occurs to me is that, for example, you you have finished buying the ChromeCast y having an unsupported device we want activate screen mirroring.

To end this with the negative points of Rooting your Androids, which as you can see is only limited to the point of canceling the official product warranty, I have to tell you that more and more technical assistance services or SAT Officially, by indirect order of their most direct responsible in large companies, they will not reject the free repair of our devices for being Rooted if the cause has really been due to problems of bad materials or defects in the terminal components. We have in the different Android forums, cases like those of LG technical services or SAT that do not tend to throw back rooted terminals. Then we have other cases like those of Samsung technical services, which systematically pull back all the terminals that enter them claiming absurd problems, whether they are rooted or not.

Positive points of Rooting your Android

Once the negative points have been weighed, the positive points are many to choose to finally Root your Android terminal, so I am going to show you as a list so that at a quick glance we have them all present:

1. Full access to all files in our terminal, this includes hidden and system files.
2. Be able to install applications that require permissions Super user, applications such as system tools, (xposed), Root file explorers or programs to make backups of all our applications with your data included.
3. In many cases, not all, power iInstall an Alternate Modified Recovery from which to do many extra things.

In general, these are the three great points or positive aspects of having a rooted Android terminal, in which we can highlight and not in all terminals, the possibility of flash a modified recovery from which we can do things as interesting as the ones that I will list below:

• Make a complete backup of our entire operating system, this is known as nandroid backup.
• Make a Hard Reset or complete wipe of our entire operating system.
• Make backup of essential directories for our Android as the EFS folder.
• Flash Modified Roms o Roms AOSP, pure Android like those of development teams Cyanogenmod o ParanoidAndroid among others.
• Flashing modified kernels.
• Recover nandroids saved backups.
• And much more.

In general, these are the positive and negative aspects to opt for Rooting your Android or not, although the essential question is to ask yourself if you are really going to use it or need it. If you don't even know what ROOT means, in that case, probably no need you need to Root your Android.