theres a few ways, the PB00IMG.zip is easiest, or you can download this rom
http://surrette.org/roms/Retro1-v1.zip
and check for system updates. the updates will unroot your phone
ive used both recently, just got TWO refurbs today-first didnt work, was screwing up within 3 blocks of the store-and i used the rom to unroot just before returning the first one.
I'm sorry andrizoid but I just want to make sure I understood correctly, so what ur saying is that if a flash this file like a would flash any other ROM, this WILL unrrot my phone (well my wife's phone)?
Batbriel,
Not Andrizoid (but then again, who is?
)...
This is just an FYI reply.
I must say, I was a bit intrigued and confused when I saw this. So I downloaded the .zip and looked at it, thinking that it might be one of the 2.1 leak ROMS. Turns out, its not. Its a 1.5 custom ROM cooked-up by gnarlyc over at XDA.
Here's the dev's ROM thread:
[ROM] Retro1 v2 - "Is it a Dream? No, it's a Freken Cupcake!" - xda-developers
I believe (and I have no reason to doubt Andrizoid) that since its 1.5 and its version v1 of this particular ROM, that after you flash and boot it, it will cause an OTA update to be dropped to your phone from VZW (2.1? don't know for sure what version of the OTA it would be, but I do believe Andrizoid is right that the OTA would un-root you since I believe it will overwrite the recovery partition).
This appears to be a third unrooting option with the other two being running the RUU and flashing the v3 2.1 leak PB00IMG.zip file. I won't pretend to know all of the rules regarding when what will work when (wow, 6 w's in a row
) regarding un-rooting -- that's reserved for our esteemed erisuser1
. I've read his unrooting posts to various folks and I still get confused, lol!
Just wanted to provide a little info and context. Cheers!
edit: I see that my post is unnecessary since Andrizoid has responded. Cheers!