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Originally Posted by stonetools
If you are around techies, especially android fan techies, you'll see rooted android stuff a lot. If you spend most of your time around non techies, you'll hardly ever see that.
In the Android community, rooting devices is what they do. Josh topolsky asked an interesting question once:
" if the first thing you do with your phone is to root it and make wholesale changes to the interface, then maybe you bought the wrong phone?"
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One thing I've seen, is people dropping the manufacturer changes. For instance, I like HTC because they seem to have some of the best build qualities and specs. However, I hate Sense and prefer the stock Android interface. My phone stock didn't come with Sense, and I've kept things pretty looking stock in comparison. I am running ADW, which just gives me more options on the stock appearance, for doing things such as tweaking performance (I keep things as slim as possible, resource wise). Of the people I know with rooted phones, usually they're just getting back control over things that the carrier or manufacturer removed. My girlfriend's phone used to act as a wifi hotspot, until her carrier removed that option because they decided they wanted to charge for it. She could root it and gain back what she had lost, or just deal with the loss. Given that Android is linux based, and the dev community is largely FOSS people drawn over from the linux community, they're choosing to break things open, see how it works, and make things that give them full control. This is especially so, when changes are done after the fact. Android originally was "Hey, we're open source, we let you use your phone how you want", then as time goes on, it has been locked down by the carriers.