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Hello all,
Samsung Galaxy S4 here. I'd like to root it and unroot it after installing an application.
Any recommendation? is rooting a really dangerous process? if anyone here has done it... which method would you recommend? and would you recommend it or not?
Thank you all! 
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Hi Joan,
I'm not an Android expert, but I've rooted a Samsung (not Galaxy S4 though) and an HTC. Both went just fine.
As with most tech stuff, it's fairly straightforward, although there's always a small chance you might brick the phone. If there's two things you really have to watch out for, make sure your phone is fully charged and you are using a good USB cable! Oh, and make sure you have everything backed up 
I've never unrooted a phone, but I think (and I could easily be wrong) if you wish to continue using an app that requires root, you will have to keep it rooted. IOW, having root is generally not for just installing an app that needs root, but actually using it.
Just curious, what app do you want to install? There might be a non root alternative.
(Let me know if you want to use Whatsapp to talk about this, you can DM me your number using the Email link.)
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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Smartphones became so common (and probably cheap) that even a street-sweeper can afford a 5 inch Samsung S5...
(The phone itself cost about $500 and you can get a plan from $5 a month)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Makes me further observe that:
- The brand you've named is for the mass; whereas its competitor** brand is for the class
** known for keeping a doctor away.
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Avijnata wrote: The brand you've named is for the mass; whereas its competitor** brand is for the class fashion following idiots
FTFY! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I concur and support that FTFY!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I wonder what class you are in if you are ready to pay 5 times for a less feature rich brand...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Remedial?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The game of the name (brand), but with no logic or mind...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I am one of the masses
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moron?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Avijnata wrote: ** known for keeping a doctor away.
Despite his diagnosis, Jobs resisted his doctors' recommendations for medical intervention for nine months, instead relying on a pseudo-medicine diet to try natural healing to thwart the disease.
It's true!
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In many countries of the world (ones that actually have street sweepers), including the one I live in, the street sweepers are lucky to be able to afford to eat a bowl of noodles. On the other hand, it would be true, here, that everyone who can afford to eat more than one bowl of noodles per day (or equivalent) probably has a cell-phone, often a knock-off made in China looking like a "name brand."
One reason snatch-and-run phone-theft is so popular here ?
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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More people have cell phones than access to toilets. (United Nations[^])
Marc
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In common with every other emerging technology since ... well, whenever emerging technology started emerging. Radio, TV, microwaves, washing machines, dishwashers, vacuum cleaners. So what's your point?
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I have no point - I only made an observation public
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The bigger half of the community believes that they are underpaid...
So, we are subject to paranoid schizophrenia or just disconnected from reality on daily basis?
And on the other half - why you are in if money isn't that good (than others believe it is)?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Not getting paid near the "enough-paid" 
Cheers
KR
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I think there is a relationship between how soon you have left school/university etc. and how much you think you are underpaid.
I have certainly noticed the expectation of some individuals to be on high salaries from the start, without any actual experience...and rather than just prove they are a high performer, waste all their energy complaining all the time.
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After travel expenses, my first job paid less than the dole.
But after a year, I had the experience to be able to demand politely ask for a pay rise/promotion.
Glad I was able to live with my family during that time otherwise I wouldn't have been able to afford to do it.
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I feel that I am underpaid IF I compare my salary to that of equivalent roles around the area that I work.
BUT to me, while I have a reasonable lifestyle with the money that I get and the place I work, I want to keep rocking up to on a Monday morning I'm happy where I am
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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No, it's because we're comparing with the rest of the numbnuts in the company.
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Vagueness and dubious-generalization-from-ambiguous-semi-facts points awarded.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: So, we are subject to paranoid schizophrenia or just disconnected from reality
on daily basis?
You are implying that they are paid enough; how do you know?
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: why you are in if money isn't that good (than others believe it is)?
It may come as a surprise, but most people do not have the luxury to simply walk away and look for something else
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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