Just got my Samsung Intercept about a month ago, was curious as to what there is that I can do to it, if rooting is risky, what does 'rooting' entail, and what options does it give you? I don't want to permanently screw my phone up, but I'd like to be able to do absolutely everything I can with it, and get the most out of my first phone.
I don't know anything about what rooting does, just that most people talk about rooting the phone to get access to services the provider disables. I mainly wanted to root mine to get rid of the junk applications that run in the background that would want to load while I am trying to use it and slow me down a great deal.
Premanent screw ups seem rare from what I have found in my searching over the weekend.
I attempted rooting my phone Friday with tons of errors which I think I ran into every issue I could possibly have, but I was already pissed and wanted to toss my phone at the wall because it was so slow I could not make a call Friday Morning when my car key broke.
I ran into the issue of people saying I bricked my phone, but I got it working again through my own process of trial and error (as long as recovery mode works your phone is not bricked). Somehow I got a VM Stock Froyo with a lot of the 3rd party apps removed already. Its made my phone much better and faster.
