7 Reasons to Root Your Android

We recently reported that the Galaxy Nexus has been rooted — and it hasn’t even been released yet! One astute Pocketnow reader commented “… it is a going to be a plain vanilla ICS, I won’t have a need to root!” This brings up a question many of you may be asking: why would you want to root your phone? First, “rooting” your phone is nothing more than enabling the use of “superuser” permissions on your phone. Once you have “superuser” (or “su”) access, you can do all sorts of things to your phone. You can edit files that would otherwise be “read read more