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The Basics
This is where your journey of understanding the basics begin. We try to answer
questions such as whats a system app? or whats a shell?. You will need to
understand these nomenclatures and information as it will be used throughout the rest
of the knowledgebase. Here is a summary of the chapters contained in this page:
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apps or services. For example your SMS/MMS are system data that belong to the
Dialer Storage system service. There are some special elements (such as the Wi-Fi
access points list) that dont belong to a specific system element, but they must be
considered as exceptions.
4. What is root/rooting ?
root is the UNIX system administrator.
Rooting an Android phone means modifying your ROM (or installing a 3rd-party
custom ROM) so that you can grant root privileges to certain programs.
In our case, Titanium Backup uses these privileges to backup other applications
data, regardless of security restrictions. Without root privileges this would be
impossible to do (see the Android security model point below).
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