If you haven't been on in a while, you may not have noticed that " " , at $6.58, is now the most paid app on Android. What does this mean? Is rooting devices slowly becoming more common? Hmm. If this is true, I wonder if OEM's pick up on it and decide to make rooting a device that much harder. So, is this a good thing or is it a bad thing? Let us know.
Is Root Becoming More Popular?
#1
Posted 30 August 2012 - 05:02 AM
If you haven't been on in a while, you may not have noticed that " " , at $6.58, is now the most paid app on Android. What does this mean? Is rooting devices slowly becoming more common? Hmm. If this is true, I wonder if OEM's pick up on it and decide to make rooting a device that much harder. So, is this a good thing or is it a bad thing? Let us know.
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#2
Posted 30 August 2012 - 05:14 AM
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#4
Posted 30 August 2012 - 06:22 AM
#5
Posted 30 August 2012 - 06:32 AM
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#6
Posted 30 August 2012 - 07:25 AM
Last week I noticed that TB pro key has 500K+ downloads. I'm not sure if that's individual downloads or sales, but at $6.95 a pop it had me wondering just how much revenue it made.
I think the increase in popularity is a function of not being able to easily move from device to device. While I'm a crackflasher, my wife runs stock on her SGS3. When she got the phone, the only easy way to move her game progress and other stuff over was to root and restore. I wonder if they've seen a uptick in sales as more and more people move into their 2nd android device and are faced with this dilemma.
#7
Posted 30 August 2012 - 08:55 AM
#8
Posted 30 August 2012 - 09:15 AM
Thanks
#9
Posted 30 August 2012 - 09:17 AM
The benefits are endless. You can change themes, fonts, remove bloat, overclock, underclock, change the boot animation, install custom roms and more
#10
Posted 30 August 2012 - 09:25 AM
#11
Posted 30 August 2012 - 09:28 AM
#12
Posted 30 August 2012 - 09:35 AM
Thank you
#13
Posted 30 August 2012 - 09:43 AM
There isn't a single thing I can think of that would benefit a carrier or manufacturer by giving us unlocked devices. Once we screw them up, it's popular to return it for warranty which costs them hard cash, we use tethering software to burn data, which used to cost extra money that they won't be earning. There are just two reasons, I'm sure there are more I can think of when I sit on my thinker in a few minutes.
IMO it's easier to recover a device that's unlocked. So as long as someone has somewhat of an idea about what they're doing, they'll be able to restore their device w/o involving the carrier and/or manufacturer. Just think of all the phones that were returned because people "bricked" their phones trying to get to GB from ICS .84+. If it was unlocked wouldn't be an issue.
There are apps that can tether w/o root on the play store...so the extra charge is a moot point. And the fact that carriers are changing their plans so it's included anyways.
I see no benefit for locking them to be honest.
#14
Posted 30 August 2012 - 09:47 AM
I am a technical person, but I have never looked at Rooting my cell phone. Is there a guide on how to do this, and if you don't like it, how to go back??
Thank you
If you use this: it does everything for you, with just a few clicks. And you can unroot without a problem the same way.
Personally, I would recommend you read up as much as possible before diving in if you're uncomfortable. Really, until you take it further, there's no difference in appearance/performance of a rooted phone vs non rooted, so you probably won't notice anything different (other than superuser app). But once you start reading and really realizing everything you can do, you'll realize how much you actually opened your phone, and all the fun crazy stuff you can do. Good luck!
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#15
Posted 30 August 2012 - 10:46 AM
If you use this:
it does everything for you, with just a few clicks. And you can unroot without a problem the same way.
Personally, I would recommend you read up as much as possible before diving in if you're uncomfortable. Really, until you take it further, there's no difference in appearance/performance of a rooted phone vs non rooted, so you probably won't notice anything different (other than superuser app). But once you start reading and really realizing everything you can do, you'll realize how much you actually opened your phone, and all the fun crazy stuff you can do. Good luck!
Thank you, I will look at the link you posted.
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Posted 30 August 2012 - 10:48 AM
#17
Posted 30 August 2012 - 11:03 AM
Only thing you can't do in the play store is rent stuff like movies. The benefits are endless. You can change themes, fonts, remove bloat, overclock, underclock, change the boot animation, install custom roms and more
I'm rooted and rent movies from the Play Store all the time......
#18
Posted 30 August 2012 - 12:22 PM
Will going thru this process of rooting my phone do anything to the data and settings that are already on the phone??
Not at all.
#19
Posted 30 August 2012 - 12:37 PM
#20
Posted 30 August 2012 - 01:00 PM
Root explorer is no. 5 and rom toolbox pro is 11
Thats amazing. I don't know if the rest of the world just stopped buying apps or something, but to me it looks like people are starting to recognize what root access can do.
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