basic question about possibly bricking your phone

[chevanlol360]

Ok so I'm about to root my samsung transform ultra running android. 2.3.4 ok so my question is can you brick your phone even without installin a custom rom? Cause I'm new to the android OS and I'm a IOS device user and I know all my jailbreaking stuff but I don't know anything when it comes to android and rooting anyway I'm only rooting my phone to install couple apps from the android market like wifi hotspot screen shot it etc if I'm only installing apps from the android market is there still a possiblilty that I could brick my phone? Cause I'm not going to do all these crazy stuff that ppl do I'm only installing simple apps dat requires root nothing else.

 

[sleedeane]

Ok so I'm about to root my samsung transform ultra running android. 2.3.4 ok so my question is can you brick your phone even without installin a custom rom? Cause I'm new to the android OS and I'm a IOS device user and I know all my jailbreaking stuff but I don't know anything when it comes to android and rooting anyway I'm only rooting my phone to install couple apps from the android market like wifi hotspot screen shot it etc if I'm only installing apps from the android market is there still a possiblilty that I could brick my phone? Cause I'm not going to do all these crazy stuff that ppl do I'm only installing simple apps dat requires root nothing else.

IMO, it's very easy to brick your phone during the rooting process. Even the so-called
"one-click" method is not fool-proof.

 

[sdrawkcab25]

It's no harder than bricking an iOS device. There's always the possibility, but Android phones are usually easily recoverable, just read up in you're specific device's forum.