The Always Up-To-Date Guide to Rooting Any Android Phone. We love Android, but rooting your phone can give you the opportunity to do so much more than your phone can do out of the box—whether it’s wireless tethering, speeding it up with overclocking, or customizing the look of your phone with themes.
Here’s what you need to know about the rooting process, and where to find a guide for your phone. Update: This used to be our always up-to-date rooting guide, which proved to be too large an undertaking for us to keep up. It was a nice try, but seeing as we only have a few Android phones to test, we couldn’t reliably keep it up to date. So, we’ve removed the links to individual rooting instructions and kept this as a general resource for those of you that want to get into rooting (though many of the old comments still remain).
How to Set Up a Fully Automated App and Settings Backup on Android. How to Speed Up Your Old or Sluggish Android Device.