Rooting/Jailbreaking Your Phone

[escobert]

I've always wanted to try rooting my phone but, right now I'm using some crappy $30 LG android so yeah not gonna bother with this one

[Vyk]

My super cheap Samsung Intercept benefitted greatly from being rooted and installing a custom rom. It's just the more recent/powerful devices where it doesn't matter much if they're rooted. But having bloatware, minimal space, and a crappy processor make for a good case for rooting. Custom roms are easier on cheaper processors, and they don't have the bloatware to take up space and ruin battery life. But then again, I don't know how good this LG phone is. I got a cheap HTC that was garbage either way because they used a proprietary version of Android. Then I got a Kyocera that had mostly the same specs and was awesome because it used base Android. I rooted it anyway though

[Mirage]

I do what I can to keep app use to a minimum during the day, but what's the point of having a nice expensive phone if you're too afraid of using it due to battery drainage? I'm not playing videos all day or streaming music, and I definitely don't have WiFi connected, which I know can rain battery. I also know that there's no real way to "kill" apps and that task managers for Android are essentially useless, if not more battery draining. I reject the idea that a brand new smart phone cannot last atleast twenty-four hours of moderate, normal use. I'm just afraid to tinker with operating business, I guess.

I've definitely been using Kies for a few years! How did the rooting affect the devices you performed it on?

Using mobile data drains more battery than wifi on my S4. I wouldn't be surprised if the same is true for your S5. It depends on the usage, but for example having an IRC client running in the background which keeps a constant network connection action would drain the battery twice as fast with mobile data as it would on wifi. I guess you simply need less energy to send a signal to a wifi hotspot 5-10 meters away than you need to send the same amount of data perhaps 1000 meters.

I did not notice such a huge difference in batterly life when using wifi on my previous HTC, however. I guess it depends on the electronics used in each model.