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you know what smartphones are great out of the box but if you're a tweaker or a

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tinkerer you might find the customizability of your iPhone or

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Android phone a little underwhelming after all being able to change your

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background and ringtone and whether or not Siri has a British accent only goes

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so far when it comes to tapping into your phone's Hardware potential so

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because of that many people have turned to processes that remove some

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limitations that's jailbreaking for the ey sheep and rooting for the Androids

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and although jailbreaking and rooting are technically quite different they

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accomplish similar goals namely they give you privileged access to the

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device's operating system allowing you to do things you wouldn't normally be

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able to kind of like when Neo was able to see through the Matrix except you

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won't be able to stop bullets seriously please don't try let's start with Apple

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iOS by default blocks any apps that haven't been approved by Apple and

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placed into the App Store and it also

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forces you to use Apple's default user interface on top of that the iPhone

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hides its file system from users so not only is it tough to see all your files

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conveniently that are actually on your device it also prevents you from using

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the free space as a handy dandy USB flash drive if that's what you're into

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if you have a jailbroken iPhone though these limitations are removed and you

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can intensely customize the look and feel of your user interface install and

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use any program written for iOS no apple approval needed and directly access the

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file system allowing you to use your phone as a flash drive or external hard

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drive and a large community has popped up around the practice of jailbreaking

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and you can find plenty of jailbreak exclusive tweaks and apps for your

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iPhone including everything from Windows phone look like themes to classic game

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emulators but what about Android they already have gaming emulators as I

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mentioned before the Android equivalent to jailbreaking is rooting which also

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allows for a large number of visual and usabil tweaks as well as advanced

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features like app automation the ability to turn your phone into a free Wi-Fi

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hotspot sometimes even if your carrier doesn't allow it and even

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overclocking but frankly many users do it on the Android side for far less

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exotic reasons to get rid of the Annoying hard-to remove bloatware that

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comes pre-installed on many Android devices and even change operating

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systems entirely so what if you're ready to take the plunge then and give it a

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shot well jailbreaking or rooting your phone often isn't horribly difficult a

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quick Google search will yield a number of downloadable tools that you can use

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to enable elevated access rights on your device but keep in mind that since these

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tools are technically software exploits that take advantage of security flaws in

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the operating systems code jailbreaking and rooting might not be available if

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you have a newer or a more obscure device or a very recent version of iOS

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or Android as some phone manufacturers work actively to prevent these practices

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when they release software patches well hold on wait a second lonus did you just

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say they're exploits all this sounds kind of shady aren't there risks

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involved well yes like many things you can do to tweak your gadgets

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jailbreaking and rooting do come with a few caveats modifying your phone in this

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way can often void your warranty and if you do it improperly it could even brick

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your device a lot of people also wonder whether jailbreaking or rooting is even

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legal I mean come on jailbreaking even has the word jail right in it and

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although I'm not a lawyer and the true answer depends on where you live and the

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time that you live in I can tell you that the short answer for those of you

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in Canada and the US living in the now is yes it's legal as long as you're not

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doing it to infringe on a copyright but remember guys that laws change

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frequently so you might want to do some digging around before you decide to

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trick out your phone with that super cool lonus theme that I'm sure one of

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you has spent days working on right no

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