If you are an Android user, then you must have heard about Custom ROM. Your phone comes with quite next-level capabilities and can do a lot of things, but its manufacturers lock some capabilities so that you get bored with your phone for some time and eventually buy a new phone. However, custom ROM and rooting are such blessings that can give your 5-year-old phone a new feel.
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Benefits of Custom ROM and Rooting
Battery Management
People and professionals say that charging the phone overnight is not good because the phone’s battery gets damaged. Flagship phones have a feature called protect battery. Why not in-budget phones? Yes, it’s possible. You can control the charging percentage and even set the temperature so that if it exceeds a certain value, it will automatically stop the charging.
If the phone gets too hot and the temperature cools down, then the charging will start again automatically. Not only this, you can also control the maximum charging voltage and amps. How cool is that?
Enhanced Audio Experience
We have amazing phones nowadays, and we take photos very naturally. Unlike a phone with a camera, when it comes to uploading high-quality images, where can we upload them? Stereo speakers have come, with sound coming out from both sides of the phone. Viper is an app that lets you take your phone’s speakers to the next level. If your phone is rooted, even a 4-year-old phone can be converted into a stereo speaker phone. Sound is coming from both sides, and there are literally tons of customizations that can be changed.
Privacy and Permission Control
You must have noticed that there are many applications in your phone that ask for your permission for the phone book, camera, SIM number, phone information, photos, etc. If you don’t give it, they won’t work. But what if I tell you that you can spoof all these things like hardware details (phone number, mobile number, photos, MAC ID, IMEI number)?
Brands talk about privacy, and Apple’s applications make you select specific photos for permission. You can do the same thing if your phone is rooted. With storage isolation, you can provide separate files and folders for a certain application. It will be limited only to that extent, and no one can tamper with the internal storage of your phone.
Camera Enhancements
After enabling the camera API, you can take DSLR-like photos from a 4-year-old phone. Raw quality photos are being clicked from it. Honestly, there may be a lot of scratches and fog on the camera lens, but still, frames add up to very good photos. It can work with ease, with multiple apps running live in the background, and it works smoothly without any lag.
Automation and Performance Boost
My phone works automatically. As soon as I reach home, calls from particular contacts automatically become silent. If I step out of the college gate, my phone automatically goes into general mode. This is happening due to the automation of MacroDroid, and it works best in rooted phones.
Are you tired of getting ads while browsing and even inside apps? There’s an application called Ad Away that works very well on rooted phones and removes all the ads.
Call Recording and Screen Capture
Nowadays, as soon as you start call recording, you hear, “The call is now being recorded.” Sorry, brother, please forgive me. New ways have been found to mute it, like changing the assistant, but still, in new versions, this bug has been fixed, and the announcement comes. However, Xpose has a module through which you can integrate call recording without any announcements. Calls will be automatically recorded.
Application Management
Granny Fa is a great application; you must have heard about it. It hibernates applications in the phone and wakes up notifications, keeping some particular things active. In rooted phones, Greenify works best and even hybridizes system apps, but notifications remain active, leading to next-level battery backup. If you want to freeze an application and port its data to another mobile or use it later, you can back up the data of any app.
Customization and Sensor Control
If you have used WhatsApp, you can also change the boot animations in a rooted phone. Your Android phone has next-level capabilities. This phone may be four-five years old but still running the latest version without any issues, and all features are working great. You can deactivate the sensors of the phone, like the Proximity Gyro, and tweak all the values for enhanced multitasking performance.
Kernel Optimization and GPS Spoofing
Manufacturers lock the capabilities of the phone, so if your phone has a powerful processor, it will not work at its maximum capacity. But with custom kernels, you can overclock it, and it will work at its maximum capacity. If you want to spoof GPS location, you get many applications that use mock location and change it. But they get detected in some applications, and you get banned. In rooted phones, this is not a problem. You can use the application GPS Setter, and it will spoof the location without detection.
Final Thoughts
If you have noticed, sometimes phones with the same battery capacity provide different battery backups due to optimized kernels. Custom kernels can solve this issue. A confidential application allows you to perform penetration testing and man-in-the-middle attacks on any WiFi, capturing packets to see what is happening.
You must have heard about firewalls, but in rooted phones, you can block internet access for specific applications and allot them a particular speed. A wall is a great application that works well on rooted phones. You can also increase touch sensitivity using certain modules.
With custom ROMs, you get a completely clean UI with no bloatware, offering a smooth and efficient experience. Imagine having Samsung’s own operating system running on your phone and the data they send going to their servers in encrypted form, leaving you unaware of what you are sending. This is a matter of security and privacy. In the case of custom ROMs, if any data is sent to any server, it will be known because custom ROMs are open source, and anyone can inspect their code.
Conclusion
I have shared numerous benefits of custom ROM and rooting, showcasing how you can unlock the full potential of your Android phone. Whether it’s better battery management, enhanced audio, superior privacy controls, improved camera capabilities, automation, performance boosts, call recording, advanced application management, sensor control, kernel optimization, or GPS spoofing, the possibilities are vast.