Rooting Samsung Android Phone: WTF Am I Doing, And Why?

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I've changed the ROM's several times my HTC Wildfire S because of all the bloatware and low RAM and internal memory, made a barely usable phone.
The root process is different in every phone. Just follow the guides and read comments.

1) You can try to uninstall updates of system applications and disable them afterwards without rooting. It's not as effective as rooting and uninstalling those apps as that'll save up more space, but at least it's more secure and fail-safe. Don't use APK's to root your phone. Learn what ADB is and root your phone using manual methods, check XDA forums of your specific phone model about rooting instructions.

Better yet, if you don't know what you're doing, don't do it as you might brick your phone. If you don't know what you're doing, if you do something wrong you can't recover your phone either.

Rooting your phone voids your warranty, don't forget that either.

2) There is no danger apart from your lack of information :D If you have no idea what commands are or process is, you can break the ROM. You might have to reinstall the operating system using some commands from the computer. You can't "kill" your phone and there is always a way to recover it, but if you don't know how, you'll panic like hell.

You might also not be able to use certain banking applications or Pokemon Go I think. They'll warn you that your phone is rooted (there is a way to hide your root though). You also won't get any more official Android updates for your phone, though Samsung is not famous for updating low-spec phones.

But by rooting you can open up some space, use some awesome applications like Xposed, Greenify, Titanium Backup and block all kinds of ads on applications and Chrome using AdAway etc.

I did not install any MOD as I didn't feel it to be safe, but I did root my phone to remove some apps and that is pretty easy you just need to follow the guide and can be done in 5 minutes.
Also if you phone is slow as hell you might want to change the launcher with a lighter one (ex Smart Launcher 3) which can do miracles on a low-spec phone

Hi there,

Head over to XDA, go to the phone model specific forum and check the threads. If you want to root 1 click on the go, use kingroot. After you root your phone, remove bloatware, install greenify, amplify and xposed and you will get the most out of your battery life as well as smoother experience while multitasking. Lmk if you want further assistance installing those. Also i prefer using stock ROM over custom rom.

Also do know that for samsung devices, there are different method to root without tripping knox. Tripping knox means you will void warranty . If that is not your concern, go ahead with kingroot.

regards

what you're doing wrong is using an android phone

Yes rooting is the only way to uninstall system applications. XDA is your friend, my advice is read carefully and doing things which are absolutely sure that you understand. Because you can soft brick your phone.
Concerning your second question - there is no such possibility to be blocked from your operator, but if you use apps that depends on SafetyNet yes, then you could have problems with them (these are usually applications related to contactless payments, banking applications, etc.)

yes root is really the best option. if you want to try and get away without rooting you can skip the first part of this down to the link2sd part. ;)

if you don't mind customizing your own rom i personally perfer using "titanium backup pro" to overwrite the updates into the rom itself to save space.
when a system software updates, it has the original old version written in the rom of the device and has the updated version written in the normal storage area of the device using up twice as much space as necessary. overwriting the original rom's version with the updated version can save a significant amount of space.

if you are still running into space issues Link2SD is another great tool for forcing some apps to move to sd that normally wouldn't of been allowed.

You have 3 options I guess:

1. Root your phone
2. Flash a custom ROM (or stock ROM intended for other regions, where it could have less pre-installed software)
3. As grimmute suggested: you can always "disable" system apps, if updates were installed, you need to remove them first.

Be careful, option 1 and 2 will have your warranty voided.

Disclaimer: While I now work for Samsung, everything reported here was information gathered from public sources. This post is purely my own opinions, and does not represent the opinions, views, or intentions of my current employer.