asodane:
Praise the Lord someone has grown up

ekanDamie:
fonts, rooting, customs Roms, setting ringtone, changing themes n wallpaper every now and then is common with teenagers or those who just begin to use Android fones.
wen u grow up, u stop DOS shiii cos ur either waiting for alert or important call most of d time

Mikeshiangala:
my friend Just because you are not a lover of technology doesn't mean everyone is like you...some people live off this tech you call for teenagers.

The guy who introduced me to rooting is 47 right now and therefore age is not a matter here.

Stop genaralizing people...

Bahddo:
This is all shades of ignorant, and only applicable to users who are neither techy nor adventurous, those who like to pretend that maturity is the reason they don't know how to unleash the power of their phones.

Custom ROMS and fonts, and xposed installer are not the sole reasons every one who roots their phone does it. Don't expect everyone to be content with generic OEM bloatware and basic functionality.

There are apps like lucky patcher and titanium backup, I can't use a phone without them and they need root. If I'm using a phone, it has to feel like it belongs to me.

NB: Unrooted phones are susceptible to malware too. That's because you don't need root access to steal contact info and other private info. The secret of malware is in the suspicious permissions that the app needs, not the rooted state of your phone.

ekanDamie:

can you just show us images of special, off the hook features your done now has with ur rooted state. I can bet u, uld have nothing wow to tell

ekanDamie:

lol. he introduced you cos he does tech ish for a living.
someone who doesn't use such to make money but just doing it cos he wants to change the UI of his fine is a teenager simple.

cos as a man. goin all out tweaking ur fone to look a certain way is d least of ur probs

sajmark:
Rooting is a thing of the past! I rooted ma phone nd discovered it wasn't really necessary had to unroot it.
rooting was gr8 when we used older versions of android.

thatkindthing:
You only root phone when u buy nonsense na, why would someone root a device like the DroiPad 10 pro II?

sajmark:
Rooting is a thing of the past! I rooted ma phone nd discovered it wasn't really necessary had to unroot it.
rooting was gr8 when we used older versions of android.

Bahddo:
No I don't have anything wow to tell, and I'm not posting images either. What I do with my phone is based on what I need, not what can impress a stranger whose opinion doesn't matter. Rooting makes it easier to tailor-make your Android phone to suit your needs. Just three examples of what rooting does for me...

I can easily make any app a multi-profile app with one button touch on titanium backup. That way I can use an app like Whatsapp with as many accounts as I like without having to install any other app. This is important to me because there are times when I don't really want to talk to just anyone without having to ignore them, I can easily switch to a profile containing an account (on the same official app) with a number only a few important persons have.

I can easily backup and restore any app together with its data without having to connect to any cloud service on the internet. I experiment with stuff a lot and it's important that I'm able to easily restore apps if I mess them up. This also means I can transfer my backup to a new phone, restore backup and continue exactly from where I stopped on the old one.

With lucky patcher, I can re-engineer an app to remove some annoying features, like incessant ads that waste my data or fill up the whole screen. The only way to stop ads without rooting is to use the Android firewall to block the app. Now that would mean that the whole app wouldn't get access to the Internet. What if you want the connection but not the ads?

Mikeshiangala:
and as i said...lovers of tech will do it regardless of their age...
its only in africa where "most" of the old people think that things should be done out of technology...like 'real' work is not in tech.

Come on...its 2017 and the world is full of techies who love it to the fullest...
Xiaomi company started as a result of tweakers of the tech....and just because someone is tweaking their phone doesn't mean they aint receiving serious calls......its a free world......no one has to live according to someone else's tunes...we create ours.