Thinking Root or No Root???

[deslovedroid]

I got my replacement phone yesterday, and now I am thinking about rooting. I am not sure if I should or not, so somebody please tell me what the advantage would be. I have looked over a few forums up here about rooting and the language is a little foreign to me. Somebody explain it to me in english

 

[xx_bishop_xx]

I got my replacement phone yesterday, and now I am thinking about rooting. I am not sure if I should or not, so somebody please tell me what the advantage would be. I have looked over a few forums up here about rooting and the language is a little foreign to me. Somebody explain it to me in english

I would suggest looking through this sub-forum to help make your decision:


All Things Root (Eris) - Android Forums

 

[lilbballer27]

One reason i did it. Overclocking. That means you can make your phones processor work a little harder and make it run faster. My Eris is very quick now. Root is def the way to go.

 

[BlueDC2]

You have no idea how many people on this board alone would kill to be in the position you're in. You have the ability to root, a lot of those with the leak do not. Do it for
-customization (you'll get bored of stock eventually)
-Overclocking, we have an older, slower, laggier processor...screw 528mhz when you can be at 768! It makes everything faster.
-Apps2sd, self explanitory
-root apps, backing up, removing stock bloatware crap t hat you have never even clicked on...the list keeps going. There is NO downside. Make a nandroid backup, takes 5 minutes. "oh shit this rom really screwed everything up" boot to recovery, recover, back to where you were before when it worked.

At least with root you can un-root...you can't un-leak (yet, if ever)

 

[pavirotten]

Do it.