Published on: 31 Oct 2016 by louiselove

What is Android rooting?

Android is a free license, Linux based operating system. Due to its brilliant architecture, android can be run on low power and low memory devices to create excellent computing effect. Due to such feature, many smartphones and tablets uses android as their base operating system.

Many smartphone and tablet manufacturing company do not allow their users to access all the features and functionalities of the android that is running in the device for security reasons. With the help of rooting, a user can gain access to all the privileged controls and settings of an android device. It’s a process by which a user gains full control over the android OS.

Rooting is similar to the super user or root user concept in Linux. It enables the user to have administrative power to the operating system. The user can perform some hardware level tasks such as, rebooting, controlling status lights, recalibrating touch sensitive inputs and many more. The root user is also capable to upgrade the kernel or even upgrade the entire current OS version to higher versions.

For different devices, root android with root app https://kingroot.net/ process requires different approach, but the general idea is same for each devices. In order to access privileged or root access over the operating system, su binary files are copied to a location in current process’s PATH. Then, with the help of chmod command, the binary files are granted executable permissions. Once the permissions are granted, the user becomes SuperUser or SuperSU or root user.