9 reasons to get root-right on your Android-smartphone

1. Complete freedom from advertising

Advertising on mobile applications greatly annoying. And on the web pages in the browser and it still consumes bandwidth. You can go on a variety of to get rid of it tricks. Or install a special kind bannerorezki DNS66 or AdGuard, which root-rights are not necessary.

Here are just some DNS66 firmware fixes advertising ugly empty white blocks and AdGuard wants money.

Smartphones with root problem is there is no advertising. AdAway, an open-source freeware application works much more effective than all the no-root-alternatives. It completely cuts out any banners from applications and browsers, leaving no trace of them.

After installing AdAway just open the app, the answer to question the system for root and click Enable Ad-Blocking. And most annoying advertising you will not be disturbed. Simple, convenient, efficient.

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2. Efficient creation of backups

Of course, you can backup and without root-rights, good applications for this there are enough. But all of them are limited: you have the ability to make copies of files, images, notes, music - but not system settings.

Therefore, in the case of a hard reset your smartphone you can not restore from a backup application with exposed settings. We'll have to re-enter credentials, and affix the necessary jackdaws. In short, engage in tedious activities.

Titanium Backup, a popular backup application can easily restore apps and system settings, if he is to provide root-law, without creating unnecessary trouble.

3. Remove unwanted applications

Smartphone makers sin installing non-removable applications - so-called Bloatware. Sometimes they are useful, sometimes enraged. Why do you need a built-in browser, if immediately after the purchase of smart phone you install Chrome or Firefox? What is needed in the Facebook version, but if you are not registered there?

From this good can be eliminated by removing the annoying icons from your home screen, or thrust them deep into the bowels of the menu. But the pre-installed programs will still take up space in the memory of your smartphone or even start itself when you reboot.

If you get a root-rights, you can remove any application from the firmware. Same Titanium Backup, for example, in addition to creating backups, allows you to completely remove or deactivate the built-in programs.

Or, you can manually delete the extra APK-files via Root Explorer. And Android will eventually be located only those applications that you have installed yourself.

4. total automation

With Google Play, there are many applications designed for the automation of routine activities, such as Tasker and Automate. Basically, they work without root. But in order to perform certain actions, for example, include 3G and GPS, or control the screen, root-rights they still need.

Having received the superuser and setting Tasker to Automate, you can, for example, automatically change the screen brightness depending on the time of day, turn on GPS, if you go on the road, turn off the screen lock when the smart phone is at home... lots of possibilities.

5. Increasing the autonomy of the smartphone

Android-smartphone known for their voracious in terms of nutrition. Often this is due to a large number of background processes and programs, devouring battery.

However, there means extend the life of your smartphone battery life, one of which - to establish Greenify. This application is able to automatically shut down unnecessary processes when goes out smartphone screen, saving memory and battery.

On some devices Greenify works without root, but most effective program will cope with their responsibilities, if provide it with superuser privileges.

6. Porting applications to the memory card

Most of the more or less modern smartphones problems with lack of memory for applications no. But on old gadgets built-in storage are often not enough to meet the ever growing appetite of Android programs.

Solution - to create a separate section on the card and set to the application. To do this, you need root-law and special programs, for example, Link2SD or AppMgr III.

7. System expansion possibilities

Magisk and Xposed - two very popular tool that can pump your smartphone and add to it many new features - the presence of root rights, of course. Installing third-party modules or expansion of these programs, you can do with your firmware lot of interesting things.

For example, you can customize the interface by changing the color of notification bar, move the system clock to the left or right side panel (or not at all in the middle, as in the iPhone), to make the YouTube app to play videos in the background or in a floating window on top of other programs, add new gesture controls or skins for keyboard... just not listed. Impressive list of available modules.

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8. Recover Lost Photos

You inadvertently delete important photos from your smartphone, and copies on other media are not preserved? DiskDigger recover lost pictures.

This application scans your smartphone, finds traces of deleted files and downloads them in the cloud service Dropbox or Google Drive or local storage. A utility to work correctly, you will need root-rights.

9. Installing third-party firmware

Often, third-party firmware is much better than what we offer smartphone makers. In options like LineageOS or AOSP, for example, and better autonomy, and advertising with the extra applications are already cut, and much more settings and telemetry is disabled. And even add to this the fact that developed firmware community longer receive updates than Android from manufacturers.

Strictly speaking, in order to establish a third-party firmware, root-access is not needed. But to unlock the bootloader will still have - as well as to obtain rights superuser.

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