Quote Originally Posted by mikespe View Post
Oh there is SOOOOOO much more to rooting than just performance tweaks! Which include MORE than overclocking & roms! These developers can do AMAZING things with Android that iOS fanboys can only DREAM OF! BUT they do need an open platform to do it on. even if you feel overclocking is not needed there are battery tweaks, screen tweaks, and various "hidden" performance tweaks that I don't feel like writing at the moment. BUT there are also COSMETIC tweaks that you CAN'T to on a stock rom...changing the navigation bar buttons to what you want, status bar tweaks including (but not limited to) weather in your status bar, full access to major settings such as wifi, bluetooth, tether, GPS, LTE, etc....Lockscreen tweaks such as adding/changing the apps on the lockscreen, battery % on lockscreen, torch, different wallpaper than your homescreen, etc...modifying the build.prop file for performance & cosmetic tweaks...

The performance tweaks alone are worth rooting...but with the cosmetic tweaks you can REALLY make your phone your own! Rooting is a choice...either you want it or you don't...but research is your friend. The nexus has it's doors open...it's NOT perfect. As of this day ALL phones/technology have some faults. However rooting helps to fix some of them

And not to burst anyone's bubble but Moto WILL hold ICS even longer! Trust me...us former & current Bionic users feel completely cheated by them!
if you're referring to me when you said research is your friend that I just wanna say I've done my research I've been rooting and running since the first android phone came out.... and although the things you said our true and can be cool you kinda exaggerated a little bit about how you need to root to do all that stuff. you can do almost all of that was just an aftermarket launcher, a torch app, a battery monitoring app, downloading some different live wallpaper, some weather widgets,etc. and as for these hidden performance tweaks you speak of... not exactly sure what kind of secret weeks you're talking about but like I said there's not many things you could change to make it much better than it already is stock most people will never even use the stock performance to its full potential.... I know what is superuser access is capable of like I said I mak my original droid out with all of that stuff because it needed it the fact is these new phones are so sweet they've really don't need any tweaking to run perfect. I'm not saying routing is stupid or anything I'm just saying it's not really necessary anymore it's something people just do for fun and it's honestly more likely to give you more problems such as a broken video camera then actually increase performance by much

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