International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET)
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Volume: 04 Issue: 04 | Apr -2017
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ANDROID ROOTING AND INSTALLING CUSTOM ROM’S Mr. Vighnesh Gadekar1, Mr. Mandar Gharat2, Mr. Sagar Thakare3 1 2
Student of NCRD’s Sterling Institute of Management Studies, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra ,India. Student of NCRD’s Sterling Institute of Management Studies, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra ,India. 3 Prof. at NCRD’s Sterling Institute of Management Studies, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra ,India.
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Abstract- In this paper various things about Android Rooting, obtaining Superuser permission, switching from stock ROM to custom ROM have been discussed. It focuses on things like what is a Rooting, stock ROM, custom ROM, how can it be installed, what are the pros and cons of installing the custom ROM by removing its original stock ROM, advantages of use of custom ROM have also been discussed. Methods of rooting device and installing a custom ROM by removing its default stock ROM, we will explain in this paper that will help friends & other users to easily root their android device and install a custom ROM if they wish. Whatever we are going to explain in this paper if you wish to implement it, please do at your own risk. Because there are 50-50 chances that android may go into state called boot loop or it may also get brick & may get dead permanently. Key words: ROM, Superuser, root, android, recovery.
1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 What is Android ? After good response from the users using Nokia Symbian, Apple iOS and Microsoft Windows, there came into market a new Operating System called as Android. Android is the mobile operating system developed by Google. Android is a Linux-based software system, and similar to Linux, is free and open source software. One of the most widely used mobile OS these days is ANDROID. [1]
1.2 ROM and its types
A ROM is the operating system software that runs the Android. It is stored in the Read Only Memory portion of the hardware on the Android Smartphone. All mobiles comes with preloaded ROM in it by manufacturer. That ROM is called as Stock ROM, where as other custom ROM can be flashed by user, but for that purpose user need to root the android device and to obtain Superuser access. [1] Stock ROM: The official ROM provided by default from manufacturer. Custom ROM : It is developed mostly by the third party developers. It can either be a modified version of the stock ROM or it can be completely different from the stock ROM. In normal Android device, user can access only specific system functionality that is granted by device manufacturer. But a user can gain fully access to the android device by rooting its device. Rooting will provide complete Superuser access grant to the device user, but at the same time your device will then void its warranty.
Fig-1: Rooting Device Architecture
1.3 WHAT IS ROOTING
The process of rooting modifies the existing operating system so that one can have complete control over it. After getting root you can extend system functionality, It gives permission to alter system application, settings, run specialized applications which require administrator-level permissions. Hence it increases little amount of security. Rooting is an illegal process as stated in this paper above. [2]
Fig-2 No Root access
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