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Root Droid 3 Unroot Error -- HELP

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ZephanRC

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I have a Droid 3 (5.6.890.XT862.Verizon.en.US) and I had rooted the phone to "Freeze" some of the "bloatware". I am giving the phone to someone else and wanted to "unroot" the phone.

I performed the steps in the "Ultimate Droid 3 Root/ROM" sticky thread to unroot my phone. I "defrosted" all of the apps that I had frozen with "Titanium Backup". I had not installed any custom ROMS or removed any apps. When I ran "Pete's Motorola Root Tools" and selected "Unroot My Phone", I got the following error:

SEARCHING FOR THE PHONE (connect it now if you haven't yet)... found!
Running unroot step 1 of 4 (setting up symlink)... done!
Rebooting your phone... done!
Running unroot step 2 of 4 (modifying local.prop)... done!
Rebooting your phone... done!
Running unroot step 3 of 4 (unfreezing apps)... FAIL!

ERROR: adb could not be granted root access
Try again from the start, but if the problem continues, check your version
of Gingerbread -- hopefully you don't have a version where this exploit
was fixed.

Now if I try and run SuperUser, it shows "Droid 3 Bootstrapper" and "Titanium Backup" having superuser access, but I can't view the log or anything and the app gets a "...not responding" and I have to force close. Titanim backup pro" runs fine and is granted root access.

What am I doing wrong and how do I complete the "unroot" and get rid of Superuser, Busybox, etc.


 
ZephanRC said:
I have a Droid 3 (5.6.890.XT862.Verizon.en.US) and I had rooted the phone to "Freeze" some of the "bloatware". I am giving the phone to someone else and wanted to "unroot" the phone.

I performed the steps in the "Ultimate Droid 3 Root/ROM" sticky thread to unroot my phone. I "defrosted" all of the apps that I had frozen with "Titanium Backup". I had not installed any custom ROMS or removed any apps. When I ran "Pete's Motorola Root Tools" and selected "Unroot My Phone", I got the following error:

SEARCHING FOR THE PHONE (connect it now if you haven't yet)... found!
Running unroot step 1 of 4 (setting up symlink)... done!
Rebooting your phone... done!
Running unroot step 2 of 4 (modifying local.prop)... done!
Rebooting your phone... done!
Running unroot step 3 of 4 (unfreezing apps)... FAIL!

ERROR: adb could not be granted root access
Try again from the start, but if the problem continues, check your version
of Gingerbread -- hopefully you don't have a version where this exploit
was fixed.

Now if I try and run SuperUser, it shows "Droid 3 Bootstrapper" and "Titanium Backup" having superuser access, but I can't view the log or anything and the app gets a "...not responding" and I have to force close. Titanim backup pro" runs fine and is granted root access.

What am I doing wrong and how do I complete the "unroot" and get rid of Superuser, Busybox, etc.
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Are you sure you unfroze everything? Try batch unfreeze with TiBu. Also, having a rooted phone is not dangerous, it's only what you do with it, so being rooted isn't bad. If you need to send it back to VZW, SBF the phone with RSD Lite. This will return it to box stock and unroot the phone by flashing the stock software. If it's just your daily phone, I wouldn't be too worried about it.
 
redsox985 said:
Are you sure you unfroze everything? Try batch unfreeze with TiBu. Also, having a rooted phone is not dangerous, it's only what you do with it, so being rooted isn't bad. If you need to send it back to VZW, SBF the phone with RSD Lite. This will return it to box stock and unroot the phone by flashing the stock software. If it's just your daily phone, I wouldn't be too worried about it.
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I did do a batch unfreeze with TiBu Pro. It appears that the "Pete's Root Tools" is trying to unfreeze everything as well and gets some sort of "root access" error.

Noob here... What is "SBF" and "RSD Lite"? I would still like to unroot the phone and not loose all my installed apps. Also SuperUser does not run right any more and I'd like to be able to uninstall SuperUser, Bootstrapper and TiBu.

Any ideas anyone?
 
ZephanRC said:
I did do a batch unfreeze with TiBu Pro. It appears that the "Pete's Root Tools" is trying to unfreeze everything as well and gets some sort of "root access" error.

Noob here... What is "SBF" and "RSD Lite"? I would still like to unroot the phone and not loose all my installed apps. Also SuperUser does not run right any more and I'd like to be able to uninstall SuperUser, Bootstrapper and TiBu.

Any ideas anyone?
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Are you opposed to spending a few bucks? You could get MyBackup Pro (*stream of consciousness here* just get the trial) and then back up your personal data, download RSD Lite (a software flashing program) and SBF (flash stock software) the phone to return it to stock. From here, boot up and set up normally, re-download the MyBackup trial, and restore your data.

But before you do this, I would try updating your drivers and re-downloading Pete's Root Tools just to make sure that everything is working as it should. I've used the unroot tool before, hit an error or two, but re-running it has always successfully unrooted my phone.

Are you using the stock USB cable?
 
I am using the stock USB cable and I have tried reloading drivers and re-running Pete's tools to unroot and get the same error.

It appears that there is something corupt with either su or superuser.apk. Is it ok to try rooting the phone all over again and then try unrooting it using Pete's tools?

I did a nandroid backup before I first rooted the phone... Can this help?
 
I would try rooting it again because that'll push superuser again, then try to unroot it. Maybe it's stuck in some intermediate limbo state between rooted and not due to superuser being potentially messed up?
 
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