Custom ROMs, rooting, mod and brick are some of the words which I heard few years back, regarding PSP (Play Station Portable). Now with the reign of android smartphones, people started cracking their phone to rev up the capabilities of the device to its maximum levels. Some few clicks on Google and you can land on some tech websites which explain how to root your android phone, thus making the rooting process simple and easy. By rooting your phone, you can super-customize the device, yes its super-customize because the level of changes we make to the phone are so deep (I love the Cyanogenmod boot animation). While you can enjoy the maximum wavelengths on your phone, on the other hand we have some disadvantages on rooting the android phone.
1. No warranty!!
The immediate and obvious disadvantage of rooting your android phone is that you lose warranty on your phone. You will not be serviced for any of the problems that your phone brings to you after rooting. You need to pay for the repairs, if any had to be done.
2. Risk of brick.
Custom ROMs don’t work on all devices as they still have many bugs. By rooting your phone there is a possibility that the device may get bricked. Bricking here means that your phone becomes dead in all senses and just is equal to brick or a hard stone. So next time if you ever wish to root your phone, it can also become your next “paper-weight”
3. Drains battery
While you install custom ROMs to add special features to your device, it eventually drains the juice out of your phone’s battery soon. With above the levels of work on the phone, it needs to take more power from the source thus making you run behind the ports to charge your device.
4. Low performance
When a phone is manufactured, it will be undergone under severe R&D to calculate the balance levels of performance of hardware and software. When you root the phone you break the lines and make the device unstable, thus making it work more. You root your phone to boost the performance but stats say that instead of increasing the performance they degrade the overall features and performance by overloading and imbalance in the “anatomy”
5. Virus and Malware store
Rooted phones always work with some custom ROMs which are highly vulnerable to malware, viruses and spyware. Though rooted phones sometimes have capabilities to install the paid apps for freely using these custom ROMs could be a high risk. A phone and mainly an android phone contains a remarkable amount of sensitive data such as passwords, mails which when attacked by a virus or spyware could be a disaster.
6. Data insecurity
When you root your android device your albums, contacts, apps and other data are at stake. You need to take regular backups of the data as they can be whipped off at any point of time. Online syncing of images, contacts may be a solution to some extent but remember the data is primarily insecure which is what the core element of our device.
