Any easy way to unroot?

vexsilver · May 3rd, 2012, 05:54 PM

Rooted with motofail and I have 5.9.902. I don't care about roms and I never used one (only rooted for the ps3 controller) so how can I unroot my phone if needed?

Is there something easy like petes one click unroot?

vexsilver · May 4th, 2012, 10:01 PM

Woah after this while with no response...I'm guessing there is no way to unroot?? Tell me I'm wrong...

OutOfPhase · May 4th, 2012, 10:39 PM

the only way i know to unroot is to flash the fxz file, but that erases everything.

goldz28 · May 7th, 2012, 11:51 PM

Check out voodoo OTA Rootkeeper

Lars · May 14th, 2012, 11:59 PM

Uprooting is simple. Install es file explorer. Turn on root mode and enable system partition read/write. Then delete /system/app/superuser.apk and /system/bin/su or xbin/su

Root is just one tiny file in the bin directory. Nothing mysterious.

OutOfPhase · May 15th, 2012, 10:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vexsilver

Rooted with motofail and I have 5.9.902. I don't care about roms and I never used one (only rooted for the ps3 controller) so how can I unroot my phone if needed?

Is there something easy like petes one click unroot?

You can also flash the modified 5.9.902 fxz file I posted in http://androidforums.com/bionic-all-things-root/480176-how-flash-5-5-893-5-9-902-rsdlite.html . It will restore you back to stock while saving all your data.

doogald · May 16th, 2012, 11:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lars

Uprooting is simple. Install es file explorer. Turn on root mode and enable system partition read/write. Then delete /system/app/superuser.apk and /system/bin/su or xbin/su

Root is just one tiny file in the bin directory. Nothing mysterious.

I believe that rooting also installs busybox in /system/xbin/busybox.

You'd also want to restart after deleting those files.