you know what smartphones are great out of the box but if you're a tweaker or a
tinkerer you might find the customizability of your iPhone or
Android phone a little underwhelming after all being able to change your
background and ringtone and whether or not Siri has a British accent only goes
so far when it comes to tapping into your phone's Hardware potential so
because of that many people have turned to processes that remove some
limitations that's jailbreaking for the ey sheep and rooting for the Androids
and although jailbreaking and rooting are technically quite different they
accomplish similar goals namely they give you privileged access to the
device's operating system allowing you to do things you wouldn't normally be
able to kind of like when Neo was able to see through the Matrix except you
won't be able to stop bullets seriously please don't try let's start with Apple
iOS by default blocks any apps that haven't been approved by Apple and
placed into the App Store and it also
forces you to use Apple's default user interface on top of that the iPhone
hides its file system from users so not only is it tough to see all your files
conveniently that are actually on your device it also prevents you from using
the free space as a handy dandy USB flash drive if that's what you're into
if you have a jailbroken iPhone though these limitations are removed and you
can intensely customize the look and feel of your user interface install and
use any program written for iOS no apple approval needed and directly access the
file system allowing you to use your phone as a flash drive or external hard
drive and a large community has popped up around the practice of jailbreaking
and you can find plenty of jailbreak exclusive tweaks and apps for your
iPhone including everything from Windows phone look like themes to classic game
emulators but what about Android they already have gaming emulators as I
mentioned before the Android equivalent to jailbreaking is rooting which also
allows for a large number of visual and usabil tweaks as well as advanced
features like app automation the ability to turn your phone into a free Wi-Fi
hotspot sometimes even if your carrier doesn't allow it and even
overclocking but frankly many users do it on the Android side for far less
exotic reasons to get rid of the Annoying hard-to remove bloatware that
comes pre-installed on many Android devices and even change operating
systems entirely so what if you're ready to take the plunge then and give it a
shot well jailbreaking or rooting your phone often isn't horribly difficult a
quick Google search will yield a number of downloadable tools that you can use
to enable elevated access rights on your device but keep in mind that since these
tools are technically software exploits that take advantage of security flaws in
the operating systems code jailbreaking and rooting might not be available if
you have a newer or a more obscure device or a very recent version of iOS
or Android as some phone manufacturers work actively to prevent these practices
when they release software patches well hold on wait a second lonus did you just
say they're exploits all this sounds kind of shady aren't there risks
involved well yes like many things you can do to tweak your gadgets
jailbreaking and rooting do come with a few caveats modifying your phone in this
way can often void your warranty and if you do it improperly it could even brick
your device a lot of people also wonder whether jailbreaking or rooting is even
legal I mean come on jailbreaking even has the word jail right in it and
although I'm not a lawyer and the true answer depends on where you live and the
time that you live in I can tell you that the short answer for those of you
in Canada and the US living in the now is yes it's legal as long as you're not
doing it to infringe on a copyright but remember guys that laws change
frequently so you might want to do some digging around before you decide to
trick out your phone with that super cool lonus theme that I'm sure one of
you has spent days working on right no
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