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Root Unrooting the G2?
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WarBird87
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there is a way to unroot the device but why would you want to? you can change the roms and go back and forth as you wish... before you flash a new rom make a nandroid back of the the stock rom and save it to the SD card and if you change roms to something you dont like and want to go back to the stock rom then just flash the stock rom nandroid back up that you have and the phone will be back to stock. rooting the phone will have no bearing on the performance of the phone but will open it up to an endless relm of possiblities from different apps to themes to roms that can keep your phone as customized as you want it...
UnknownAlly
Well-Known Member
Rooting bricked my MT3G Slide. I did everything right and it was running smooth for 3 months until I restarted it one day. Be careful with ROOTING
VIO
Android Enthusiast
Unrooting any Android phone is as easy as deleting the su binary, i.e. the su (switch user, superuser, what ever you think it means, etc) command.
Rooting doesn't actually "Do" anything to a phone except add the su command back (comes with real linux). in a sense the OS is already set up to do su commands, it just needs the command to do it. the SuperUser app is a managment app for permissions that lets apps do a su command when necessary, kinda like sudo if anyone is familiar with linux
I am assuming you mean is "put my phone back to a place where no one can tell I did anything to it" that is always possible as long as bootloader access is unrestricted, just Flash a vanilla rom, or in Moto or HTC phone case, flash a leaked version of blur or sense
Ok so that was more of a theory overview rather than a practical yes or no, sorry I don't have a g2
Rooting doesn't actually "Do" anything to a phone except add the su command back (comes with real linux). in a sense the OS is already set up to do su commands, it just needs the command to do it. the SuperUser app is a managment app for permissions that lets apps do a su command when necessary, kinda like sudo if anyone is familiar with linux
I am assuming you mean is "put my phone back to a place where no one can tell I did anything to it" that is always possible as long as bootloader access is unrestricted, just Flash a vanilla rom, or in Moto or HTC phone case, flash a leaked version of blur or sense
Ok so that was more of a theory overview rather than a practical yes or no, sorry I don't have a g2
iownaG2
Newbie
Unrooting any Android phone is as easy as deleting the su binary, i.e. the su (switch user, superuser, what ever you think it means, etc) command.
Rooting doesn't actually "Do" anything to a phone except add the su command back (comes with real linux). in a sense the OS is already set up to do su commands, it just needs the command to do it. the SuperUser app is a managment app for permissions that lets apps do a su command when necessary, kinda like sudo if anyone is familiar with linux
I am assuming you mean is "put my phone back to a place where no one can tell I did anything to it" that is always possible as long as bootloader access is unrestricted, just Flash a vanilla rom, or in Moto or HTC phone case, flash a leaked version of blur or sense
Ok so that was more of a theory overview rather than a practical yes or no, sorry I don't have a g2
Yeah, that's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the info!
No_Nickname90
Well-Known Member
Supposed it's possible on the G2. When using VisionARY, you're giving the option to Unroot the phone. When you unroot the G2, there is supposed no way of telling if the phone was rooted or not.
With the Nexus 1, there was a little unlock symbol when you rooted the phone. I'm guessing the same thing is with the Nexus S. I'm guessing with developer phones, Google only wants developers to have them and not the common public, so they make it hard for them to try and get rid of or something, IDK. Like why would a common phone user need SuperUser permissions? So they can truck up their phone? LoL!!
So if you don't see a change in the way the phone loads, then you can't tell the phone is rooted. The only way a Google warrant inspecter was able to tell the Nexus 1 was rooted was with that little unlock symbol when the phone loaded.
With the Nexus 1, there was a little unlock symbol when you rooted the phone. I'm guessing the same thing is with the Nexus S. I'm guessing with developer phones, Google only wants developers to have them and not the common public, so they make it hard for them to try and get rid of or something, IDK. Like why would a common phone user need SuperUser permissions? So they can truck up their phone? LoL!!
So if you don't see a change in the way the phone loads, then you can't tell the phone is rooted. The only way a Google warrant inspecter was able to tell the Nexus 1 was rooted was with that little unlock symbol when the phone loaded.
No_Nickname90
Well-Known Member
Supposed it's possible on the G2. When using VisionARY, you're giving the option to Unroot the phone. When you unroot the G2, there is supposed no way of telling if the phone was rooted or not.
With the Nexus 1, there was a little unlock symbol when you rooted the phone. I'm guessing the same thing is with the Nexus S. I'm guessing with developer phones, Google only wants developers to have them and not the common public, so they make it hard for them to try and get rid of or something, IDK. Like why would a common phone user need SuperUser permissions? So they can truck up their phone? LoL!!
So if you don't see a change in the way the phone loads, then you can't tell the phone is rooted. The only way a Google warrant inspecter was able to tell the Nexus 1 was rooted was with that little unlock symbol when the phone started up.
With the Nexus 1, there was a little unlock symbol when you rooted the phone. I'm guessing the same thing is with the Nexus S. I'm guessing with developer phones, Google only wants developers to have them and not the common public, so they make it hard for them to try and get rid of or something, IDK. Like why would a common phone user need SuperUser permissions? So they can truck up their phone? LoL!!
So if you don't see a change in the way the phone loads, then you can't tell the phone is rooted. The only way a Google warrant inspecter was able to tell the Nexus 1 was rooted was with that little unlock symbol when the phone started up.