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In response to
"Yeah, if you're trying to address battery life via rooting, for example, there's less intensive ways to do it."
by
TFox
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The main reason people seem to root is to get rid of apps that come installed and can't be deleted.
Posted by
Krusty (aka Krustylu)
Jun 5 '11, 11:14
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You're right that you can save battery life by doing a number of things that don't require root. But by rooting you can install apps that give you much more control over how your phone functions and will allow you to save even more battery life you'd like.
As far as bricking your phone, sure it can happen. But if you double check everything you do before entering anything you'll be fine. With my phone, there's only one point in the rooting process that you can screw up and not be able to go back and correct that will brick your phone.
I've messed with my phone a lot and even when something doesn't work I'm able to go back to a backup I made and start over again.
Rooting isn't difficult and wouldn't be necessary if they just gave us our phones unlocked like they're supposed to be and let us decide which apps/programs we want and don't want taking up the precious space on our phones. All phones should be unlocked if it's an Android or running an OS using Linux.
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