Icarus1337
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What exactly does rooting do?
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Root Rooting?
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chrissurra
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It gives you access to the underlying software and allows you to load a new rom or remove the bloatware that comes with the phone.
Icarus1337
Newbie
In simpler terms?
loumalnati
Member
The link mentions "...rooting can be done in only a few minutes, keeping your stock OS otherwise completely intact." Im a littled puzzled on this because rooting seems to indicate that I will be making changes to the phones OS, so how is it that the stock OS stays intact ? Is there a link that further explains ? thx
Icarus1337
Newbie
Does it void all warranties?
ashton4life
Newbie
Yes it does if you send the phone back to the place of purchase or LG for warranty repair but if you make a back up of your original OS and save it on your computer or chip you can always revert back to the original. Then after that you can unroot. I just dont know about the recovery menu. Does anyone know if it can be reverted back to the original VM recovery? All you need is the stock recovery image file and I'm sure its floating some where on the net. In other words you can restore the phone back to factory specs if need be, but if your phone dies and you cant get the opportunity to reflash everything then you are jacked. Lucky this phone is so cheap. I believe its worth flashing 100 percent yet again I love tinkering with it, it's up to you.