Is rooting your phone worth it in 2020?

[Sidtyagi5]

I am wondering if it would be worth it to root my Samsung galaxy a7 2018. My phone is genuinely slow. Is there any way i can increase its performance by rooting it?

[kelvinhall05]

By rooting it? No. Still worth doing though, especially with how easy it is.

 

 

By installing a custom ROM? Yes.

[SupaKomputa]

Rooting a phone is not going to make it faster.

[Sidtyagi5]

2 minutes ago, youngboy said:

I mean it is worth downloading a custom ROM on the device. Like Lineage OS or Pixel Experience, if you have the time, and if the phone's hardware like battery and cpu are in good condition, then yeah, you could custom rom. Just watch many youtube videos to know what to do for your exact model of phone. Here is what you do: Download the rom on your computer, connect it to a8 via usb, use odin on computer to flash twrp on phone, then use twrp to clear all the data and run the custom rom. Thats it, if you have the time and patience it's worth it.

Are their any caveats like device security compromises or something?

[Sidtyagi5]

14 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

By rooting it? No. Still worth doing though, especially with how easy it is.

 

 

By installing a custom ROM? Yes.

Are their still any benefits of just rooting a phone that are like really special?

[kelvinhall05]

2 minutes ago, Sidtyagi5 said:

Are their still any benefits of just rooting a phone that are like really special?

Yes, you can run tons of apps that require root. At the very least a root file browser is very handy to have, but I am not sure what your use case would be so I can't suggest any apps in specific.

[rickymohk]

13 hours ago, Sidtyagi5 said:

Are their any caveats like device security compromises or something?

After rooting or installing custom ROM, you will lose access to Apps that check for SafetyNet, e.g. bank Apps, some games like Pokemon Go, etc. Some devices may have work around, but it could eventually break one day and Google keeps making it harder to work around. Plus there are even some Apps that implement their own checking method to avoid root and custom ROM so that there isn't a general way to work around. If you need thoses apps, stock ROM is the best bet.