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Prime85

Prime85

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HOW TO UNROOT YOUR PHONE!
If you wish to unroot your phone because you want to take into a MetroStore for repair or for whatever reason. On your phone settings go to Privacy and select Factory Data Reset. After doing this your phone will reset to factory state and will no longer be rooted.

This information comes thanks to MikesToolz. :cool:


Please keep in mind that your phone will be back to when you bought it. Which means all user data will be deleted.
 
Joshuah22a said:
does this include bloatware?
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I haven't tried it myself but i do believe it will restore everything, including bloatware.

when i did a system restore after first rooting my optimus it restored it completely and i don't think this will be any different.
 
Sounds cool, although I am waiting to root until there is a backup of the original rom and ports of mods such as Cyanogen.

I rooted my Ascend and then modded it with Cyanogen 6 with ADW. I was wiping all the data to get ready to sell it and when I tried to remove my account in contacts, it said something to the effect of there needing to be a google account associated with the phone. It told me to reset to factory defaults to remove this. So i did. But the phone is now back to exactly the way it was when I rooted and modded it. I am guessing since I changed the rom, that it went back to that once I reset to factory.

But I guess this is different now since no one has any mods of the original roms....or at least so far :)
 
nuked said:
Sounds cool, although I am waiting to root until there is a backup of the original rom and ports of mods such as Cyanogen.

I rooted my Ascend and then modded it with Cyanogen 6 with ADW. I was wiping all the data to get ready to sell it and when I tried to remove my account in contacts, it said something to the effect of there needing to be a google account associated with the phone. It told me to reset to factory defaults to remove this. So i did. But the phone is now back to exactly the way it was when I rooted and modded it. I am guessing since I changed the rom, that it went back to that once I reset to factory.

But I guess this is different now since no one has any mods of the original roms....or at least so far :)
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That is exactly the reason. We have not changed the rom yet so it will go back to stock but once you flash a custom rom you will have to flash a stock rom to get it back to factory.
 
Prime85 said:
HOW TO UNROOT YOUR PHONE!
If you wish to unroot your phone because you want to take into a MetroStore for repair or for whatever reason. On your phone settings go to Privacy and select Factory Data Reset. After doing this your phone will reset to factory state and will no longer be rooted.

This information comes thanks to MikesToolz. :cool:


Please keep in mind that your phone will be back to when you bought it. Which means all user data will be deleted.
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Does not work it will factory restore your phone but it will still be rooted if you Factory Reset look in apps and you will see that superuser remains as well as busy box under root explorer
 
baysiderider said:
Does not work it will factory restore your phone but it will still be rooted if you Factory Reset look in apps and you will see that superuser remains as well as busy box under root explorer
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Interesting Mikestoolz is not usally wrong like that, have you tried to run a root checker? and if you are still rooted then can one more person try this.

I guess if then it doesnt work maybe a moderator can delete the thread
 
The update removes root qnd puts all deleted apps back on the phone. Look for manual method in the FOTA thread
 
Prime85 said:
The update removes root qnd puts all deleted apps back on the phone. Look for manual method in the FOTA thread
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You don't actually lose root by the update, it just changes the permissions of su, but you do lose root access. The su file is still there, just not with proper permissions. A factory reset does nothing inside of /system partition (where su and super user are) so you will retain root. In the other thread about unrooting I have laid out how to do it.
 
mtmichaelson said:
Unrooting is rather easy. Use root explorer and delete superuser.apk from the /system/app folder. Go to the Android market and download and install super user. Use root explorer again and delete su from /system/bin. Go to the market and uninstall super user. Now you are unrooted.
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Just putting it here since this thread looked more popular. Might want to add this to the 1st post.
 
mtmichaelson said:
You don't actually lose root by the update, it just changes the permissions of su, but you do lose root access. The su file is still there, just not with proper permissions. A factory reset does nothing inside of /system partition (where su and super user are) so you will retain root. In the other thread about unrooting I have laid out how to do it.
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really..cause I update my phone today and lost my root..and when i look at juicdefender.. it said the device is not rooted..where when i was rooted .. it said the device is rooted
 
Prime85 said:
Interesting Mikestoolz is not usally wrong like that, have you tried to run a root checker? and if you are still rooted then can one more person try this.

I guess if then it doesnt work maybe a moderator can delete the thread
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Sorry it took so long

but yes i had to factory reset my phone after a internet connection error when i updated my prl and after the reset i was still rooted and all my root requiring apps that i put back in worked flawlessly

i though i was gonna lose root too but was happy when i found out i didnt
 
so there's still no sure fire way to unroot the phone yet? incase people have to return there device because of constant restarting >:(
 
Joshuah22a said:
so there's still no sure fire way to unroot the phone yet?
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What about that one?
mtmichaelson said:
Unrooting is rather easy. Use root explorer and delete superuser.apk from the /system/app folder. Go to the Android market and download and install super user. Use root explorer again and delete su from /system/bin. Go to the market and uninstall super user. Now you are unrooted.
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I'm not sure metro will be able to tell if your phone was a rooted once you do it...
 
tiede said:
What about that one?

I'm not sure metro will be able to tell if your phone was a rooted once you do it...
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Metro only goes off by the superuser app and if you have a modded rom then we cant do nothinh coming from a metro pcs employee. as long as the app icon is gone then we will do warranty exchanges and everything..
 
if you ever need to install the apps to take it back to metro, just install the @metro.apk file and download the bloatware back, they will never know.;)
 
nuttmeg said:
if you ever need to install the apps to take it back to metro, just install the @metro.apk file and download the bloatware back, they will never know.;)
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LOL well if the employee taking the phone back reads here or is tech savvy like us he will have his suspicions but then a employee like that will just say you were rooted cool lets exchange this for you LOL
 
baysiderider said:
LOL well if the employee taking the phone back reads here or is tech savvy like us he will have his suspicions but then a employee like that will just say you were rooted cool lets exchange this for you LOL
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yup, have of them dont even know what to look for at that, lmao
 
Hello everyone:

I need someone to please help me un root my phone. It's been shutting on and off. I need to return my phone to wirefly asap. Please someone help me out.
 
Hi do you have a root explorer please to share i delete some apps in my phone now i cant used my market app. Thanks johnny
 
jsanes99 said:
Hi do you have a root explorer please to share i delete some apps in my phone now i cant used my market app. Thanks johnny
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Root Explorer is an app that must be paid for - sharing of paid apps is something that is not allowed here!
 
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