Thanks to info on this site I was able to root my Galaxy SII 2 years ago. Came back with a question and decided to register. I prefer to be a user rather than a technician, but one must become part-time technician just to escape the shackles and spying and lack of control over your phone, pc, etc. Thanks to the very good posters making it fairly easy to get up to speed on what would be nearly impossible starting from scratch.