Rooting Your Android Device: A Guide for the Accident-Prone

I am the person IT people are talking about when they say “he knows just enough to be dangerous.” I can’t deny it. I’ve broken many more computers and phones and other gadgets through attempts at tinkering than I’ve improved.
Even here at Network World, I managed to completely bork my work laptop’s Windows install and lose a bunch of data while trying to adjust my disk partitions for dual boot. (OK, the IT folks just re-imaged it and made fun of me a little, but still.)
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