Rooting your handset that runs Android 5.0 might not be such a great idea

A change in the way that the Android OS handles OTA updates, might have you thinking hard before rooting your Lollipop powered Android handset. Up until Android 5.0, OTA updates would patch each file on your system partition individually. When running the recovery program, it would apply the patch to files that had the correct signature. The problem with this, is that it is a time consuming process. On the other hand, it had the advantage of leaving alone files that were changed from customizing your phone.



With Android 5.0, OTA updates patch the entire system at once. This is done to allow ...



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