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Root What is Rooting?

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pandagigante

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