Hi folks,
I'm hoping to find some help on here. I am unable to Unroot my Droid X using RootMyX2. I need to send this P.O.S. back to VZW but when I try to Unroot, it fails. Other forums have told me that I need to sbf but I'm not familiar with the process. Can someone help me or point me in the right direction? I'm fairly savvy, enough to have rooted and overclocked but it's been almost a year and I've been a little out of the loop. I just need to get this phone back to stock so those bastards won't charge me 300 bucks. Thank you in advance!
groovejedi said:
Hi folks,
I'm hoping to find some help on here. I am unable to Unroot my Droid X using RootMyX2. I need to send this P.O.S. back to VZW but when I try to Unroot, it fails. Other forums have told me that I need to sbf but I'm not familiar with the process. Can someone help me or point me in the right direction? I'm fairly savvy, enough to have rooted and overclocked but it's been almost a year and I've been a little out of the loop. I just need to get this phone back to stock so those bastards won't charge me 300 bucks. Thank you in advance!
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There are two stickied threads at the top of this forum with instructions on sbf-ing in Windows or Ubuntu. Please read the applicable thread then post any further questions.
I completely agree with mrkite38. But to make it a little easier, check out this site
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Hey guys I was wondering if there was a way to unroot the droid 2 yet? I think I may wanna turn my phone in seeing how moto is going to try to block people who put custom roms on the phone from getting updates and I only have a few days left in my 30 trial.
Thanks everyone
Silex73 said:
Hey guys I was wondering if there was a way to unroot the droid 2 yet? I think I may wanna turn my phone in seeing how moto is going to try to block people who put custom roms on the phone from getting updates and I only have a few days left in my 30 trial.
Thanks everyone
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I just flashed my phone back to stock using the .sbf file put up by rootzwiki. I think I'll be writing a tutorial in a bit. May be this morning!
Silex73 said:
Hey guys I was wondering if there was a way to unroot the droid 2 yet? I think I may wanna turn my phone in seeing how moto is going to try to block people who put custom roms on the phone from getting updates and I only have a few days left in my 30 trial.
Thanks everyone
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Here you go!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7930621#post7930621
Somone obviously doesn't know how to read stickies...
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n0yd said:
Somone obviously doesn't know how to read stickies...
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What do you mean? The recovery thread is helpful for finding some files, but beyond that, there aren't any sets of instructions or procedures that actually outline what to do to unroot a phone.
Thanks for the Tutorial darkonion... I tried to do it but for some reason it kept failing on me (tried 3 times) so i decided to just try to return it to my local verizon and the rep didn't even take the phone outta the box haha. Oh and that tutorial you posted on page 17 of the how to root droid 2 thread was perfect I really don't know much about command prompt or adb but I followed your advice without a hiccup. Thanks for all the help. Its greatly appreciated.
Silex73 said:
Thanks for the Tutorial darkonion... I tried to do it but for some reason it kept failing on me (tried 3 times) so i decided to just try to return it to my local verizon and the rep didn't even take the phone outta the box haha. Oh and that tutorial you posted on page 17 of the how to root droid 2 thread was perfect I really don't know much about command prompt or adb but I followed your advice without a hiccup. Thanks for all the help. Its greatly appreciated.
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Thanks. Could you PM me where it went wrong? That way, I can start updating the thread to be more accurate.
How can I do this on a Mac? The download is an exe file.... And macs cannot use exe files. (correct me if I am wrong)
I unrooted via the package that I downloaded here in the forums and everything seems to have worked. However it still goes to the green screen @ reboot? Need to return in order to help pay for my new d3 @
Be careful returning rooted devices back to big red. Its a voided warranty issue, and not a wise idea.
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I've rooted my Desire HD using Goldcard & Visionary+, but now I'm selling it & need to get it back to stock.
What do I do?
I'm not technically inclined at all rather than I just followed instructions to get it rooted, so minimal technical talk please!
Sorry man i cant help you but i just want to ask why are you selling it? Are you getting somthing different? Or did you just have problems with it?
I'm getting an Inspire.
daandman said:
I've rooted my Desire HD using Goldcard & Visionary+, but now I'm selling it & need to get it back to stock.
What do I do?
I'm not technically inclined at all rather than I just followed instructions to get it rooted, so minimal technical talk please!
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maybe it helps if you open more threads... </sarkasm>
do a search in the dev forum thread titles for "stock", there is at least two. or get yourself a matching RUU and use that. or ask the future owner if he'd like to have it rooted, might save him some hassle.
<sarkasm> or you open some more threads and hope that that magically unroots your phone.
Closed. Duplicate of http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=986737
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I flashed the non-rooted leak of Gingerbread and would like to flash this thing back to stock. Completely start over. Is it possible? I searched and found a few links but they said something about if you flashed past such and such update not to use this guide. Would like my X factory default. I know there are a few guides but I figure its better to ask now before I brick a phone....
Thanks all!!
Sbf. You're on gingerbread so look for either system version 2.3.320 or 2.3.340 either will work. Google how to sbf Droid x or simply look here for any thread about phone bricked or going back to stock. You will find a guide. I'm willing to bet at least 10% of the threads here will have a guide.
If you run into any trouble at all just reply to this and I will be glad to help you
I'd post a guide myself but I feel like dying right now so I'd probably tell you how to do something else and just completely screw you over XD
Starting off, I'm probably posting in the wrong section. Excuse my forum etiquette, but I need help with this because I'm insanely frustrated and in pain (Decided to learn how to exploit the android OS while recovering from my surgery).
So, if you've read past that first part and are still willing to help, thank you.
Moderators: If you absolutely need to move this post, please move it to a section where it will actually get attention and I can get an answer. Thanks.
Anyway, the breakdown of my problem is this;
I wanted to root my new day old Sprint CMDA Nexus S, I've never rooted anything android, and if anything the most I've done with a droid OS is installed it on my old iphone 2g.
So I did some googling and first thing to come up was this guide:
nexusshacks(dotcom)/nexus-s-hacks/how-to-root-nexus-s/
Now, usually I would do a bit more research, but because of the lack of blood in my body I'm doing dumb things, making bad decisions, whatever.
So obviously this guide doesn't work, even a quick skim of the comments shows that, I try to follow this guide-
I followed step "fastboot flash boot rootboot.img" then tried to reboot. It freezes at the google boot logo. This is where I start getting a bit nervous because I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing.
So I think "Well, if I jump over to someone elses tutorial and do that it should overwrite any "root"ing data I've tried to put into the device.
So I jump over to this:
androidadvices(dotcom)/root-sprint-nexus-gingerbread-235-update/3/
It has me install PDANet and it's frozen since on the installing PDAnet to your phone.
I just want to get my Nexus S back to original factory default so I can start fresh from there without a terrible guide.
Can someone please help me get there?
Thanks.
tl;dr:
Bad guide soft bricked my phone and I want to restore it to factory defaults
agnl said:
Starting off, I'm probably posting in the wrong section. Excuse my forum etiquette, but I need help with this because I'm insanely frustrated and in pain (Decided to learn how to exploit the android OS while recovering from my surgery).
So, if you've read past that first part and are still willing to help, thank you.
Moderators: If you absolutely need to move this post, please move it to a section where it will actually get attention and I can get an answer. Thanks.
Anyway, the breakdown of my problem is this;
I wanted to root my new day old Sprint CMDA Nexus S, I've never rooted anything android, and if anything the most I've done with a droid OS is installed it on my old iphone 2g.
So I did some googling and first thing to come up was this guide:
nexusshacks(dotcom)/nexus-s-hacks/how-to-root-nexus-s/
Now, usually I would do a bit more research, but because of the lack of blood in my body I'm doing dumb things, making bad decisions, whatever.
So obviously this guide doesn't work, even a quick skim of the comments shows that, I try to follow this guide-
I followed step "fastboot flash boot rootboot.img" then tried to reboot. It freezes at the google boot logo. This is where I start getting a bit nervous because I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing.
So I think "Well, if I jump over to someone elses tutorial and do that it should overwrite any "root"ing data I've tried to put into the device.
So I jump over to this:
androidadvices(dotcom)/root-sprint-nexus-gingerbread-235-update/3/
It has me install PDANet and it's frozen since on the installing PDAnet to your phone.
I just want to get my Nexus S back to original factory default so I can start fresh from there without a terrible guide.
Can someone please help me get there?
Thanks.
tl;dr:
Bad guide soft bricked my phone and I want to restore it to factory defaults
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Ok I can see you need help but I am inclined to warn you instead. Stop. If you cannot figure out how to root the easiest phone to root then you shouldn't be messing around with your phone. You will end up screwing something up, won't know how to fix it, and come crying here for help. Do yourself some research before you go and ruin your phone.
Yes you posted in the wrong place.
There is a thread in this forum on how to root the nexus s 4g. Rooting is model specific. The T-Mobile Nexus s is different from the sprint, att, Rodgers, o2 etc.
Please please do some more research!
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Thanks for a reply, and I understand I dug a hole.
Now I need to get out of said hole, so if you had any directions of how to dig myself out, that'd be great.
if you can get into fastboot then you are still cool, if not you're gonna have to odin it. I dont actually know where the tar files are, Micheal posted it up but i think they deleted the thread. You should have came to xda first,we have one clicks.
actually rooting is the same across the board. same steps same everything... in fact the one click root version 1 would work on any and all of them, version 2 branches out a bit further due to that it installs cwm.
anyways boot into fastboot, download stock fastboot images from petes thread found here http://wonderly.com/bb/CRESPO4G/OEM/GRJ22IMAGES.zip and flash them all in fastboot.
youll be back on stock grj22 but youll at least be booting.. from there follow a guide for rooting this phone that has you flash cwm (not a prerooted kernel). or be lazy and use my one click root
You sir are a class act. We need a ton more guys like you here at XDA
shabbypenguin said:
actually rooting is the same across the board. same steps same everything... in fact the one click root version 1 would work on any and all of them, version 2 branches out a bit further due to that it installs cwm.
anyways boot into fastboot, download stock fastboot images from petes thread found here http://wonderly.com/bb/CRESPO4G/OEM/GRJ22IMAGES.zip and flash them all in fastboot.
youll be back on stock grj22 but youll at least be booting.. from there follow a guide for rooting this phone that has you flash cwm (not a prerooted kernel). or be lazy and use my one click root
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mikeyinid said:
You sir are a class act. We need a ton more guys like you here at XDA
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+1
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mikeyinid said:
You sir are a class act. We need a ton more guys like you here at XDA
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lol you give me way too much credit mikey but thanks for teh vote of confidence
I recently got my DZ replaces and they send me a phone with 2.3.3. Can someone point me in the direction of a safe guide to use in order to root my phone? Problem is Im finding too many guides and Im not sure which one is relevant. can someone help me? Please and thank you
ChocBoyWonder said:
I recently got my DZ replaces and they send me a phone with 2.3.3. Can someone point me in the direction of a safe guide to use in order to root my phone? Problem is Im finding too many guides and Im not sure which one is relevant. can someone help me? Please and thank you
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you will need to downgrade to 2.2 first. there is a guide in the development forum which will help you do that and then you can root using visionary or anything like that.
Got it done finally! Thanks
Once rooted can you upgrade to 2.3 and all will be fine or do you have to stay with 2.2?
newtybar said:
Once rooted can you upgrade to 2.3 and all will be fine or do you have to stay with 2.2?
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If you flash any official update, you will lose root.
There are pre-rooted versions of the Gingerbread update in the Development section. That is what you want to flash.