Root How do you unroot?

[budmonster]

How do you unroot the Rezound after you the HTCdev method? I have SU installed and need to remove root entirely and lock the bootloader back up so I can return my Rezound for a new one. I need to do this tonight.

I'd appreciate some help or a hand in the right direction, a guide/tutorial, whatever.

Thanks a lot guys!

 

[MrSmith317]

How do you unroot the Rezound after you the HTCdev method? I have SU installed and need to remove root entirely and lock the bootloader back up so I can return my Rezound for a new one. I need to do this tonight.

I'd appreciate some help or a hand in the right direction, a guide/tutorial, whatever.

Thanks a lot guys!

uninstall superuser
fastboot oem lock the phone in hboot just like you did to unlock it.

 

[budmonster]

uninstall superuser
fastboot oem lock the phone in hboot just like you did to unlock it.

Could you give me a step by step, I do apologize, I just want to make sure that I unroot properly and get rid of any trace. I really appreciate it.

 

[maximus20895]

It will still say unlocked I believe regardless.

 

[budmonster]

It will still say unlocked I believe regardless.

yeah but i believe you can still remove su and unroot.

 

[budmonster]

ruu was easy lol, unrooted correctly, i believe.

 

[jreed2560]

so how do you re lock the bootloader to flash the ruu?

 

[budmonster]

so how do you re lock the bootloader to flash the ruu?

same was as you unlocked it. they never look to see if your rooted anyways. i took my rezound back, i could have left my phone rooted that would have never even noticed, they are idiots, well most of them. i new to how relock it, i dont know why i had a mental block at the time.

 

[MrSmith317]

so how do you re lock the bootloader to flash the ruu?

Follow the instructions on HTCDev.com but when it tells you to do the fastboot command, instead run "fasboot oem lock". Then run the RUU.

 

[jreed2560]

so i typed the command fastboot oem lock and now I have in pink at the top of the phone **Relocked**
**Security Warning**

and it won't boot past the boot loader

also when I run the RUU to return to stock, it says main version too old

 

[scotty85]

so i typed the command fastboot oem lock and now I have in pink at the top of the phone **Relocked**
**Security Warning**

and it won't boot past the boot loader

also when I run the RUU to return to stock, it says main version too old

the relocked and security warning are typical of what happens when you lock the bootloader while on custom or modified software. the bootloader and radio are checking each other,and the software when s-on and it will NOT boot anything but the current software,thus trapping you in fastboot/hboot.

what is your hboot, and what RUU are you trying to run? if youre on OTA firmware(hboot 2.11.0000) then you will have to run that RUU(2.01.605.11),you cant run an older one. the bootloader should allow the RUU that matches itself to flash,even if it finds a higher main version number in custom software.

your 2 options when you have a security warning are:
1)run the appropriate RUU
2)re-unlock. you can use your original unlock code.

hope that helps

edit: if youre trying to run a PH98IMG,you might try running the .exe and see if it behaves any differently.

 

[jreed2560]

thanks scotty, and as usual I freaked out and asked before I fully researched, so I think i have it figured out. My hboot it 2.11 and I was trying to flash an earlier ruu, so thats why I kept getting the error. Thanks for the response. God I don't remember this being this complicated!