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Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28
Rooting your phone basically brings the phone back to stock and removes the add ons from the phone company and the phone makers. From there, you can install your own add ons called ROMs. It's like reflashing your PCM to get rid of the factory tune and uploading a new tune to the PCM.
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Great explanation Al, except this part. All rooting does is give you more access to make changes to the phone. You can root the phone and do nothing else, and it will still look and feel just as it did when you took it out of the box, only it now has greater potential for modifications.
For the car analogy, obtaining root access on your phone is basically the same as buying HP Tuners software and the cable. Just plugging your laptop with that software in to your PCM doesn't change anything about the way your car runs, but it does give you great potential to change the way your car runs.
- Justin