Rooted your Android Phone? What to do now?

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Rooted your Android phone recently and do not know what to do with your phone now? Well, here is a quick guide on what all you can do with your phone! A lot of people just root their phones because their friends or colleagues tell them it's cool to root your phone. But, do you actually know what does Rooting your Android phone give you? It gives you immense powers to do various tricks with your phone. From changing the Processor's speed to controlling the temperature of the phone or from disabling default Android services that you actually never used to updating to a totally new firmware! This is kind of all the things you can do after rooting your Android based phone.



To begin with, let's discuss what is Rooting exactly!

Rooting is a process allowing users of smartphones, tablets, and other devices running the Android operating system to attain privileged control (known as "root access") within Android's subsystem. Rooting is often performed with the goal of overcoming limitations that carriers and hardware manufacturers put on some devices, resulting in the ability to alter or replace system applications and settings, run specialized apps that require administrator-level permissions, or perform other operations that are otherwise inaccessible to a normal Android user. Rooting is analogous to jailbreaking devices running the Apple iOS operating system or the Sony PlayStation 3. On Android, rooting can also facilitate the complete removal and replacement of the device's operating system.

Let me now tell you what all you can do after rooting your Android phone in brief and we also might come up with a detailed post on each of them!

1. OverClocking- Over Clocking is defined as increasing the speed of your CPU in order to make things run better on your phone. This can be achieved by using a kernel for your phone that allows overclocking and then using an application to achieve the same.


2. Custom Firmware- Custom Firmwares are firmwares that are developed by individuals or teams, which are not associated with the mobile phone manufacturer. These firmwares have something that one would want in the phone. Certain features are disabled, which are generally not used while some really demanding ones are provided. It also improves up your Battery life.


3. Better Battery Backup- You can achieve a better battery backup by using temperature and CPU speed control apps on your phone. You can set up profiles that will assign a maximum CPU speed during different situations. Like when the phone screen is locked, you do not need higher speed. So, you can assign a lower sped during that, which will definitely save battery.


4. Disable Unwanted Services- Android phones have a lot of unwanted services running in background. Like the email app that most people might not use or the apps that came in with your phone that you do not use. You can easily disable or the technical term is "freeze" them until you need them.


5. Apply Themes- After rooting your phone, you get an option to apply themes to your Android phone. There are firmware specific themes available over the internet(free and paid) and let you even get ICS interface on Gingerbread!

There are various other things you can do with your phone after you root it. These were just a few of the most commonly done things. Want some more items to be included in this list? Post them in the comments below and share it with everyone! Also, Keep subscribed to TechHive to receive updates from us as and when they are posted!