So, I bought a brand new Samsung Android phone, and it was a huge disappointment due to all the distracting, annoying, and completely useless crapware from Google, Samsung, Vodafone, and even Yahoo, which came pre-loaded with the phone and which I am not allowed to uninstall. I mean, never mind that a certain application is useless; suppose it is in fact very useful; and yet, suppose that despite it being so awesomely useful, I for some reason still want to uninstall it. It is my phone, I should be able to do it, right? But no, the powers that be have decided that I am not allowed to uninstall apps from my own phone. Even when they are not only useless, but actually harmful, since some of them are always running, thus consuming memory, CPU cycles, battery, and communications bandwidth. Some apps can be uninstalled, but many others cannot be uninstalled. They have to stay on the phone. Whether I like them or not.
After this horrible experience I am very seriously considering the possibility that next time I buy a phone it will be an iPhone. But for now, I am stuck with Android, so I am now learning how to root my phone so that I can be somewhat in control of the situation. I am experimenting with my old phone first, a Samsung Galaxy S2. Here are my notes.
