Root access and Unlocked

Both are partly to blame. We tend to get over-hyped with Google's openness, but we forget that price for being open to whatever that can be done to it is, whatever can be done to it, will be done to it.

What I'm saying is that you are free to root, and therefore free to reap the benefits and rewards of rooting. For me, it took me two weeks to decide to root. The rewards outweigh the risk by a factor that can only be divided by zero.

And oh, you can unroot.

I also feel the need to explain why root access is not given to any user, even the owner. As Android evolved from the Linux mind-share, security features are built in. Root users (or Admin, if you are more familiar with Windows), have access to a sensitive section of the software called the /system partition. This is where the critical stuff is kept, and no user should have unfettered access to it, no matter how proficient they are with the system. The same applies to Android. Remember the amount of exploits that was in Windows 95 all the way to Windows XP? Those exploits were possible because you can install things as an Admin by default.

Sorry,

I came across your rooting guides after I've sent the message. I must say it's comprehensive, but it seems a bit difficult. Will give it a thought before taking that plunge.

Regards.