Ever wonder how to root your android device or root is for your device? Well root gives you special permissions for your device just like you would have for your computer as an admin.With root on your android smart phone you can customize your phone to its fullest capabilities.With root you can download different Rom's "firmwares" for your device if you do not like the stock firmware it comes with your phone you can change it to whichever ROM"firmware" to your liking.With custom Rom's you can customize your phone by changing the colors of your notification buttons invert certain apps back up your apps with your data restore your missing apps with data back up your ROM or firmware in your custom recovery where you do most of your installing of your Rom's and back ups .Plus there's much much more.I mean why not have a phone that has so much capability not to use the phone to the most of its capability.This all comes down to having one thing.Root!Full control over your phone.I will say that you will void your warranty but if you search deep enough there is ways to avoid losing your warranty if something was to happen to your phone.
I own a Samsung Galaxy S 3 and the first thing i did is root my phone.Once i rooted my device i was addicted .I couldn't get off my phone.Thanks to +xda-developers they had everything you needed for your phone.There were so many custom Rom's for your device if there was a problem with your phone there would be a solution to fix what was wrong with it. The website also had information about your phone i mean they had everything hats off for there hard work and there free time to help others.Helping out the android community just awesome people .To find your phone model and carrier all you do is type in your model number in the box and search away and its there.
There are many methods to rooting your phone but i found this one that is very simple to do.Rooting methods may vary so depending on your type of phone make sure to check on your type of phone for the correct method but most that use the method i use and that i support and paid for some of hiss apps go by the name +Chainfire known for his "SUPERSU" app needed to root your phone for root access..So what you need to do to root your phone is head over to http://www.xda-developers.com/ and head over to your model of your carrier.In my case i would type in at&t samsung galaxy s 3 thread.What you wanna look for is CF-Auto root by +Chain fire .Download the file and extract it to your desktop where it is easy to locate.Once you have extracted the file you need to use the download tool Odin used for many samsung devices you might need to check on how to use other download tools for different devices this i know works for samsung.Once you download Odin you open it up and hit the PDA button to then find the file you extracted for CF-auto route which is a md5 tar file.once located click on the md5 file open it and it will end up on the PDA slot in Odin .once you see its in the PDA section make sure your phone is turned off then put your phone into download mode by holding volume down the power button and the home button all at the same time and when you see your in the download mode screen hit volume up it tells you right on it .Once its in download mode plug your phone into your computer making sure you have a colored box in the com box after that hit start and let it do its magic and when its finished and reboots or restarts your phone you are rooted.I will explain in full depth on using Odin and the procedure i used in detail to not get confused in my next post.For samsung s 3 people i will have a video for you thanks to +xda-developers on a few easy methods on how to root your samsung galaxy s 3 variants including the cf-auto root i used by +Chain fire .Good luck and check out my more in depth post on rooting your phone with Odin.
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