Rooting for those of you that don’t know means giving yourself root
permissions on your phone. It’s similar running programs as
administrators in Windows or running a command with sudo in Linux.
With a rooted phone you can run apps that require access to certain
system settings as well as flash custom ROMs to your phone which
add all sorts of extra features. If you’re on the fence about
rooting check out our top 10 reasons to root your Android phone for
some motivation.