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Rooting Android devices allows users to gain privileged "root access" to overcome limitations set by carriers and manufacturers. This enables altering or replacing system apps and settings, running specialized apps requiring admin permissions, and fully removing and replacing the device's operating system. Root access for Android is similar to administrative permissions on Linux and gives users superuser privileges, comparable to jailbreaking Apple iOS devices. However, Android rooting and iOS jailbreaking are different concepts as Android does not lock bootloaders like iOS and typically allows sideloading apps without root access.

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Android Rooting: Android Rooting Is The Process of Allowing Users of

Rooting Android devices allows users to gain privileged "root access" to overcome limitations set by carriers and manufacturers. This enables altering or replacing system apps and settings, running specialized apps requiring admin permissions, and fully removing and replacing the device's operating system. Root access for Android is similar to administrative permissions on Linux and gives users superuser privileges, comparable to jailbreaking Apple iOS devices. However, Android rooting and iOS jailbreaking are different concepts as Android does not lock bootloaders like iOS and typically allows sideloading apps without root access.

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3/23/2014

Android rooting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Android rooting
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Android rooting is the process of allowing users of smartphones, tablets, and other devices running the Android mobile operating system to attain privileged control (known as "root access") within Android's sub-system. 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. On Android, rooting can also facilitate the complete removal and replacement of the device's operating system, usually with a more recent release of its current operating system.

Phones like the Nexus 5, part of the Google Nexus series, can be allowed root access.

As Android derives from the Linux kernel, rooting an Android device gives similar access administrative permissions as on Linux or any other Unix-like operating system such as FreeBSD or OS X. Root access is sometimes compared to jailbreaking devices running the Apple iOS operating system. However, these are different concepts. Jailbreaking describes the bypass of several types of Apple prohibitions for the end user: modifying the operating system (enforced by a "locked bootloader"), installing non-officially approved apps via sideloading, and granting the user elevated administration-level privileges. Only a minority of Android devices lock their bootloadersand many vendors such as HTC, Sony, Asus and Google explicitly provide the ability to unlock devices, and even replace the operating system entirely.[1][2][3] Similarly, the ability to sideload apps is typically permissible on Android devices without root permissions. Thus, it is primarily the third aspect of iOS jailbreaking relating to giving users superuser administrative privileges that most directly correlates to Android rooting.

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