Understanding Rooting and Custom ROMs
This is the basic tutorial and explains each term related to android funplay. I suggest that if you are a new user, you should go through these terms for better understanding.
What's Rooting?
Getting root or rooting your phone is the process of modifying the operating system that shipped with your device to grant you complete control over it.
This means you can overcome limitations that the carriers and manufacturers put on your phone, extend system functionality, and even upgrade it to a custom flavor of Android.
The name root comes from the Linux operating system world, where the most privileged user on the system (otherwise known as Administrator on Windows) is called root.
Rooting does NOT mean installing a custom ROM (a ROM is a modified, "aftermarket" android OS).
Installing a ROM may require rooting first, but just rooting can be usually done in only a few minutes, keeping your stock OS (original one) otherwise completely intact.
Now an obligatory warning: rooting your phone does run the risk of potentially bricking it (i.e. your phone could become nonfunctional) – so do your homework before attempting anything.
Rooting essentially means giving yourself root permissions on your phone. It's the equivalent of running programs as administrators in Windows, or running a command with "sudo" in Linux. There are a number of great reasons to root your Android phone, highest among them being speed (through custom ROMs and through overclocking), tethering, and installing apps and widgets from other builds. Once rooted, you can make your phone run faster, tether it to your computer, tweak hidden settings to your liking, and more.
What's a ROM?
One of the best things about the openness of the Android platform is that if you're unhappy with the stock OS, you can install one of many modified versions of Android (called ROMs) on your device. There are various developers who have made custom OS from android source code. These operating system are free from manufacturers restrictions and increase the functionality and boost your phone's capabilities.
You can install a custom ROM after rooting your phone. Custom ROMs for your phone can be found on sites like www.xda-developers.com
What's bootloader?
Bootloader is the basic programme that loads the manufacturer provided operating software in your phone. Unlocking the bootloader will give you the ability to root your phone and install ROMs other than the stock OS.
What's Bricking?
Bricking your phone is failure to flash any ROM into it. The phone will not start by any means and will become as useful as a brick. Rooting and applying custom ROM runs the risk of bricking the phone. But this is a rare event, so you dont' need to panic.
What's flashing?
Flashing a ROM means installing it from the sd card.
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