Since I was a child, I heard about phone rooting on some obscure YouTube video. It always felt like an “unofficial” and h4ck3r-y think to do, but I understood way later how useful that can be. Rooting my phone would allow me to do absolutely whatever I want with it: removing useless bloatware, system applications, gain full access to my sensors, and especially a way to back up everything, like SMS or application data, without some proprietary and incomplete transfer application.