Root Unrooting question

[darkcyber]

I have someone (complete noob) that rooted their X with z4root (1 click deal) and has done nothing else to their X, using stock everything. After all these rumors are going around about the tracking and all they want to know how to get back to unrooted phone.

So, now to my question, can you un-root with z4root and then that phone be back stock or will they have to do the sbf?

Thanks!

 

[dmiller2007]

i would probably sbf to get rid of root. but i have never tried with z4root. have them try unroot with z4 and then try to run a root only app.

be sure to tell them that IF verizon is monitoring rooted users, then more than likely it will take a lot more than unrooting or sbf'ing to get them out of the system as a root user.

 

[darkcyber]

i would probably sbf to get rid of root. but i have never tried with z4root. have them try unroot with z4 and then try to run a root only app.

be sure to tell them that IF verizon is monitoring rooted users, then more than likely it will take a lot more than unrooting or sbf'ing to get them out of the system as a root user.

Yeah, they are like me, could care less if my phone or their phone is detected or flagged by VZW as being rooted. They just wanted to go back to stock for if and when the official Gingerbread release comes out.

 

[dmiller2007]

If they want to get the ota, then it shouldn't matter if they are rooted. As long as they have the stock software.

 

[bbuck002]

yeah, just being rooted won't stop the ota update.
it's when files are missing that were stock, that cause the updates to fail

 

[darkcyber]

So, if they have their phone stock, just like it was right after rooting then when they get prompted to update, then they can do it and update to GB and then will have the new GB release, but not be rooted any longer...correct?

 

[Thats]

So, if they have their phone stock, just like it was right after rooting then when they get prompted to update, then they can do it and update to GB and then will have the new GB release, but not be rooted any longer...correct?

Correct.