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<blockquote data-quote="steptoe" data-source="post: 84491" data-attributes="member: 8928">And rooting your phone can be very very simple with software doing it all for you or pretty much impossible where one error can 'brick' your expensive phone making it a paper weight unless you can afford a new motherboardBut, again, depending on your phone. There are some very good guides on 'rooting'Rooting basically opens up your phone so you can pretty much do anything with it, and a lot of the more 'interesting' software needs a rooted phone as it allows full access to the system, and not the restrictive set-up (but safer) that it comes with as defaultI've rooted both my android phones, and the last one was quite scary as they did a motherboard change under warranty on my HTC Sensation as it 'just died' (apparently common-ish fault with the motherboards) so all other methods didn't work apart from a scary one with a bit of wire and tricking the phone into engineer mode so I could reinstall my custom firmware and get the phone back to how it should be with no branding and no restrictionBut rooting is not for everyone, as there IS a risk</blockquote>

[QUOTE="steptoe, post: 84491, member: 8928"] And rooting your phone can be very very simple with software doing it all for you or pretty much impossible where one error can 'brick' your expensive phone making it a paper weight unless you can afford a new motherboard But, again, depending on your phone. There are some very good guides on 'rooting' Rooting basically opens up your phone so you can pretty much do anything with it, and a lot of the more 'interesting' software needs a rooted phone as it allows full access to the system, and not the restrictive set-up (but safer) that it comes with as default I've rooted both my android phones, and the last one was quite scary as they did a motherboard change under warranty on my HTC Sensation as it 'just died' (apparently common-ish fault with the motherboards) so all other methods didn't work apart from a scary one with a bit of wire and tricking the phone into engineer mode so I could reinstall my custom firmware and get the phone back to how it should be with no branding and no restriction But rooting is not for everyone, as there IS a risk [/QUOTE]

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