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10-16-2010 09:08 PMIf "Rooting" is so good..
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10-16-2010 09:11 PMcuz rooting lets you do things like tethering for free and verizon wants to make money off things like that...cant blame them, i would to
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10-16-2010 09:11 PMA rooted phone can be used to tether for free.
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10-16-2010 09:12 PMand u can do a lot of harm to ur phone with administrative privileges.
deleting system files for example...
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10-16-2010 09:14 PMIn addition to what the others have replied, VZW is notorious for locking down their phones.
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10-16-2010 09:14 PMYes, the common user will FUBAR their phone in no time
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10-16-2010 09:14 PMYou can also remove the apps that Verizon took money to include in every phone.
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10-16-2010 09:15 PMA rooted phone is much more vulnerable to attack, not that anyone will really attack Android phones because 99.5% of them aren't rooted and Linux is almost impossible to do anything to/with without root access.
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10-16-2010 09:21 PMSo why root your phone????
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10-16-2010 09:25 PMBecause you can do whatever you want with it. Change roms, kernel, theme, tether for free, underclock to save battery, overclock if you want performance, the list goes on and on... Originally Posted by Crispy
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