Root Root & Un-Root without installing SU?

[CamoCustom]

Is there a root or an Unroot process that removes the SU in case you need to unroot your phone to send back for warranty?

If that question doesnt make sense, please just ask me to clarify better, I will try:

I had a droid X2, I rooted, all was great! I didnt plan on doing any crazy ROM flashes or anything, just using for the apps that need root access. ANYWAYS, my X2's headphone earpiece speaker took a dump and completely died on me, So i had to unroot and restore back to stock so I can get a replacement. I used petes one click tools to both root and unroot. Un-root went smoothly, except for when it was done, SU was still there( I understand it installs in system/apps and therefore stays on phone. Well, thats my question, is there a way to root the phone that doesnt add that file to the system apps? So I could just DL Superuser and use it that way so I can uninstall if needed?

 

[Thom]

I was rooted on my (unactivated) Droid X and not root-ed on my (activated) Bionic. I have Superuser Elite and Titanium Backup Pro installed on both. These apps obviously don't do much on the Bionic other than report that it is not rooted. (The why in your mind is simple ... every app I have installed is installed on both machines. It really makes the record keeping simpler.)

Returning a phone with installed apps that require root is not a proof that the phone was ever root-ed. My Bionic has never been root-ed.

(It might be interesting to note that Verizon does not seem to be checking at all to see if a returned device is root-ed. This of course could change and any instant.)

... Thom

 

[CamoCustom]

I was rooted on my (unactivated) Droid X and not root-ed on my (activated) Bionic. I have Superuser Elite and Titanium Backup Pro installed on both. These apps obviously don't do much on the Bionic other than report that it is not rooted. (The why in your mind is simple ... every app I have installed is installed on both machines. It really makes the record keeping simpler.)

Returning a phone with installed apps that require root is not a proof that the phone was ever root-ed. My Bionic has never been root-ed.

(It might be interesting to note that Verizon does not seem to be checking at all to see if a returned device is root-ed. This of course could change and any instant.)

... Thom

Ok, but since the SU app is installed into the system/apps, and there isnt a way that I could have done it without the obvious rooting, wouldn't they realize something had been tampered with? The point I guess is to avoid having to do the data wipe once its un-rooted.

This is me being overly cautious, because I am dying to root the Bionic after having and experiencing the X2 rooted

 

[CamoCustom]

I may sound like an idiot, or confusing, its just something I wanted to know if it was possible, if not fine......