How to Root Android Phone With SuperOneClick

Here I will explain you the simplest method of how to root your android phone. First understand what it means and what can you do with your phone after rooting it and what are the risks involved in it. And if you know what is rooting then jump to steps to rooting your phone.

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Best Root Apps for Android Phones and Tablets [Page 1]

After you get a Android phone or a tablet, a user who knows how to get the most out of your Android device will always try to first unlock its bootloader and then try to do is root it. We, at Team Android, have compiled a list of the best cherry-picked and our favourite Android root apps that we think are a essential part of your Android device after rooting it.

What is root? Root is basically giving/getting administrator rights on your phone or tablet so that you can do tweaks, install custom ROMs, modify system apps and such. Every root app has a different purpose so try what you like. Do let us know below in the comments if you use any of the following apps — and in case you there we missed out an essential app, feel free to add that in the comments below!

Best Root Apps for Android Phones & Tablets

Here is a list of the best root apps available for rooted Android phones / tablets at the Google Play Store. Let us know if you find these apps useful — and if you know any better apps, do let us know in the comments below. We’ll add them to the list here.

Mobile Odin Pro

Ever heard of ODIN? If yes, then it is the exact same thing but you wont have to use a PC for this. If no, ODIN is basically a free tool used to flash/update device specific firmwares provided by the manufacturer, mostly for Samsung phones and tablets. Just a quick note, most of the official firmware updates for Samsung devices we have on Team Android, make use of ODIN. That is the PC version, but you can get the same functionality on mobile as well with Mobile ODIN. It’s $4.99, but we can assure you it is worth every single penny.

Download Mobile Odin Pro

Tegrak Overclock

Now this app is for those people who want to push their phones to the limit and try to get the best out of their CPU. Tegrak provides a intuitive UI for Overclocking and also Underclocking (may be, to save battery? Read: All The Battery Tips for Android Phones) In our opinion Tegrak stood out the most as it is free (we all love free stuff, don’t we?) and provides all the required features.

Download Tegrak

Root Explorer

Ever wanted to modify system files? Or just simply wanted to remove unnecessary apps that come pre-installed on your system? This app simply does that. It can go deep into the Android OS and allow you to view the files and even modify/remove them. A must have for every Android Developer in my opinion. Our recommendation, don’t mess around with system files if you don’t know what you are doing. For those who want to know how to install Android apps as system apps, read this: How to Install Apps as System Apps in Android.

Download Root Explorer

SD Maid

Most of us are completely annoyed by the fact that are SD-cards continuously fill up for no specific reason and it doesn’t free up space by removing applications. The main reason behind this is that there are apps which require extra data to be downloaded other than them so they place that data on SD-Card storage for use now in order to completely delete an app. We need SD Maid which simply removes extra, unnecessary  files on your SD and giving you more storage to enjoy.

Download SD Maid

Undelete

Mistakenly you deleted an important file. Now you have nothing to do but to cry over it. We have a solution for that. Undelete simply recovers (almost all) previously deleted files on your SD card / phone. For more details and download, read: How to Recover Deleted Files from SD Card, Internal Storage on Android Devices.

Download Undelete

Move2SD

Their are so many people out their continuously worrying about internal storage and dont want to delete an app in order to install a new one. Move2SD simply does what it’s name refers to. It copies the Apps to your SD card in order to help you install new apps without deleting previous ones.

Download Move2SD

Battery Calibration

Custom ROMs, the most addictive thing for an Android user. People change ROMs time to time and are always looking for new innovation but the point they forget is that you should Calibrate your battery every time you flash a new ROM so that you can maximize battery timing and get accurate statistics.

We don’t end here. There are more apps in our list. Go over to the next page and see the rest of them!

Download Battery Calibration

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Titanium Backup

This one again is for the people who can’t keep their hands away from flashing new ROMs on their device. Titanium Backup is simply the most advanced and secure backup system for android. Titanium Backup simply backs up all your data from contacts to pictures.

Download Titanium Backup

Market Enabler

This marvelous app removes any sort of regional restriction on the Play Store for your device. If you are living somewhere out of  US and you want to access apps that are US specific then search no more. This is the app for you. We have two tutorials for two different apps that do the same thing. You can try any of the following that works for you:

Download Market Enabler

• How to Install Paid and US-only Apps from Android Market.
• Fake New Android Market and Install Paid and US-only Apps.

DroidWall

DroidWall keeps a check a on apps that you have installed connecting to the internet. It saves your bandwidth and also helps you to monitor suspicious/unwanted activities of an app that can breach your privacy.

Download DroidWall

Call Master

This app basically blocks/restricts/monitors your telephony calls and messages to stop any security breach or overall annoyance by unwanted callers. You have the options to block certain contacts/numbers. A huge advantage is that it isn’t regional specific?

Download Call Master

Wifi Key Recovery

A simple app designed to recover the password for a previously KNOWN network to which you have logged on before and forgot the WiFi key. Requires root, obviously, but very useful to find old save WiFi passwords.

Download Wifi Key Recovery

Do you know any better and important root app? Let us know in the comments below and we will add that app to the list.

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How to Recover Deleted Files from SD Card, Internal Storage on Android Devices

Just like you have free recovery apps available  for computers to recover files that you might have deleted or accidentally lost, Android has one too. This is one of the main advantages of having a rooted Android phone that it lets you do tasks and functions that normally an Android device will not to it for you.

Undelete for Android is a free Android app for rooted phones that can can recover deleted files from an SD card or from internal storage just like you recover files off a hard drive or USB drive on a computer.

It has support for over 1000 file types. Undelete can come in handy if you accidentally delete photos or want some old tunes to listen to on the go. One of its features also includes that it can also securely wipe and shred files so that they will be impossible for others to recover.

A complete list of Undelete features are as follows:

• Restore any file that has not been written over
• Securely wipe/shred files
• Works with documents, images, video, music, archives and binaries
• Thumbnail preview generation
• Batch operations
• Custom restore folder
• Preview media files

This is the free version with limitation. Undelete is also available as a full paid version. The limitation of the free version is this application will only restore image files. You will have to buy the paid version key in order to unlock all the features.

Download Undelete

You can download this free by looking for “Undelete for Root Users” in the Google Play Store or from here: Download Undelete.

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How to Recover Deleted Files from SD Card, Internal Storage on Android Devices

Just like you have free recovery apps available  for computers to recover files that you might have deleted or accidentally lost, Android has one too. This is one of the main advantages of having a rooted Android phone that it lets you do tasks and functions that normally an Android device will not to it for you.

Undelete for Android is a free Android app for rooted phones that can can recover deleted files from an SD card or from internal storage just like you recover files off a hard drive or USB drive on a computer.

It has support for over 1000 file types. Undelete can come in handy if you accidentally delete photos or want some old tunes to listen to on the go. One of its features also includes that it can also securely wipe and shred files so that they will be impossible for others to recover.

A complete list of Undelete features are as follows:

• Restore any file that has not been written over
• Securely wipe/shred files
• Works with documents, images, video, music, archives and binaries
• Thumbnail preview generation
• Batch operations
• Custom restore folder
• Preview media files

This is the free version with limitation. Undelete is also available as a full paid version. The limitation of the free version is this application will only restore image files. You will have to buy the paid version key in order to unlock all the features.

Download Undelete

You can download this free by looking for “Undelete for Root Users” in the Google Play Store or from here: Download Undelete.

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How to Install Apps as System Apps in Android

Most users won’t need this tutorial, but for those who play around with tools/hacks and other suck apps that require you to push an app to the system apps directory, I’m sure this will be very helpful.

The systemapps directory in your phone is write-protected and you can’t install anything in there or modify the files. But ofcourse, if you have a rooted Android phone (system access), then you can easily modify system files.

How to Install Apps in systemapp Folder Manually

In this tutorial, I will be using Root Explorer. It is a paid app, and the best one available for such tweaking with system files. You can buy Root Explorer from the Android Market for $4. Follow the steps below:

1. Download and install Root Explorer. [Android Market]

2. Transfer the file that is to be pushed to systemapp directory to your SD card. We’ll call the file as sample.apk.

3. Now open Root Explorer and go to sdcard adn copy sample.apk file.

4. Navigate to systemapp now and press the “Mount R/W’ button to make the directory writable.

5. Paste the sample.apk file here. Now long press the file and select Permissions.

6. Set the file permissions as:

Owner: Read, Write
Group: Read
Others: Read

7. Tap OK to save the file permissions. Under the file sample.apk, you should now see “rw-r–r–”.

8. Press the “Mount R/O” button now and restart your phone.

After your phone restarts, you should now see the app sample.apk already installed in your phone. This is how you can install any app in systemapp folder if you have a rooted phone.

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