Database Info

[Q] Question about root-injected ROMs

Little backstory: A friend of mine had just recently bought a Razr Maxx HD on craigslist. The individual who sold him the phone had the phone rooted. My friend didn't want the phone rooted, and specifically asked the individual to unroot it. We used the application root checker to check if the phone was still rooted and it said the phone wasn't. My friend restored the phone to factory settings and it still had the superuser application installed. Now, I personally have rooted phones before and if I have all my information correct the process to root a phone requires you to over-write the factory/stock ROM and replacing it with a root-injected ROM. My friend wishes to have his phone completely stock. The kernel seems to be the right factory/stock one, but he and I are still concerned that it is still rooted. Although there's really no harm to rooting, he wishes to get the complete stock ROM on his device. Now, the question lol. Is there any danger to keeping the root-injected ROM on his device? Could we use ODIN to put the official stock ROM back on the device? Should he not even worry that his current ROM is root-injected?

Manevolence said:
Little backstory: A friend of mine had just recently bought a Razr Maxx HD on craigslist. The individual who sold him the phone had the phone rooted. My friend didn't want the phone rooted, and specifically asked the individual to unroot it. We used the application root checker to check if the phone was still rooted and it said the phone wasn't. My friend restored the phone to factory settings and it still had the superuser application installed. Now, I personally have rooted phones before and if I have all my information correct the process to root a phone requires you to over-write the factory/stock ROM and replacing it with a root-injected ROM. My friend wishes to have his phone completely stock. The kernel seems to be the right factory/stock one, but he and I are still concerned that it is still rooted. Although there's really no harm to rooting, he wishes to get the complete stock ROM on his device. Now, the question lol. Is there any danger to keeping the root-injected ROM on his device? Could we use ODIN to put the official stock ROM back on the device? Should he not even worry that his current ROM is root-injected?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Huh. Root is just access to system level commands, and usually some exploit within the stock rom is used to install and run SU/superuser. If it has wireless provider branding (boot screen says Verizon, for example) it's a stock rom... and you're fine, just delete the SU app if it bothers you.

EdwardN said:
Huh. Root is just access to system level commands, and usually some exploit within the stock rom is used to install and run SU/superuser. If it has wireless provider branding (boot screen says Verizon, for example) it's a stock rom... and you're fine, just delete the SU app if it bothers you.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hey, Guys - Thanks for the help..
I reboot the phone and it says droid but nothing about verizon. I am not sure if the Razr Maxx HD normally says verizon but my girlfriend has the phone and i will try it on hers to see if the rom is stock.
The problem is i am worried there are other things in this rom that are not the norm. It will not let you uninstall superuser at all. If you google superuser and you read about the app it does say in the App info that if the Rom you install has superuser in System/Apps then it cant be removed which is whats scaring me.
I really want the phone back to 100% factory stock as i bought this second hand and I cant take chances with anything weird in the OS.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Craig

theatermax said:
Hey, Guys - Thanks for the help..
I reboot the phone and it says droid but nothing about verizon. I am not sure if the Razr Maxx HD normally says verizon but my girlfriend has the phone and i will try it on hers to see if the rom is stock.
The problem is i am worried there are other things in this rom that are not the norm. It will not let you uninstall superuser at all. If you google superuser and you read about the app it does say in the App info that if the Rom you install has superuser in System/Apps then it cant be removed which is whats scaring me.
I really want the phone back to 100% factory stock as i bought this second hand and I cant take chances with anything weird in the OS.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Craig
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The surest, easiest way to make sure it is stock is to reflash the phone using the Droid Razr HD Utility Tool, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1970267. It will put the factory firmware back on the phone. Afterwards, there will be 2 OTA updates to install. The first one is an incremental bug fix update. The second is the JB update.
EDIT: The normal boot screen is the Motorola logo followed by the Droid animation.

How to Return everything to STOCK! Please help!

Hey all- So I followed all the directions to reload the Stock Image (0P6BIMG) after flashing this over... my phone still have SuperUser Root App installed and it shows the Phone to be Rooted. How do I get rid of the SU Rooted phone and literally return the phone to its OEM right out of the box?
Thank you for any help! I just want to return this bad boy to Full Stock!
Scoob-

[Q] please help me root my sensation

Help guys. I've been at this all, and I'm starting to pull my hair out. There are so many steps and guides, and it's just so confusing and frustrating. Doing X requires you to do Y first, but when you try to do Y, it tell you to do X first.
What I'm trying to achieve is to unlock my phone, debrand it, find a nice ROM (perhaps try Jellybean or Kitkat) and update the firmware to 3.3
So far, I've been able to HTC Dev unlock it, and apply S-Off. Now I'm trying to install Clockworkmod Recovery, but it says "You must root your phone. Superuser was not found".What the heck is rooting? What is Superuser? Is it the same thing? I tried to install SuperSU app, but it says your device must be rooted so I guess not! How the heck do I root my phone?
Please, can someone walk me through this? Talk to me like I'm a dummy.
Thanks.

I think I've got it figure out now.

Return Vodafone HTC One Mini to Stock?

Hey Guys
Rooted and installed a custom recovery on my One Mini M4, Vodafone, but wanting to go back to stock due to some apps detecting root and not working, and also because SuperSU binary will not update. I'm not s-off or anything like that.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Unsure as to what to do -_-
Have a good un,
Adam

AdamDowning said:
Hey Guys
Rooted and installed a custom recovery on my One Mini M4, Vodafone, but wanting to go back to stock due to some apps detecting root and not working, and also because SuperSU binary will not update. I'm not s-off or anything like that.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Unsure as to what to do -_-
Have a good un,
Adam
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi
I need the bootloader output I have some stock recoverys in my
dropbox.
Have you tried to use the unroot option in SuperSU.?

There's a nandroid backup here that'll get you back to stock (but it's an earlier version). You may need to change your CID to achieve full stock, I couldn't update from the nandroid until I'd done that.

[Q]

Sorry to post this again somebody did reply but for some reason i cannot find their response! Im at my wits end so i'll post again and hopefully somebody will be able to help. I rooted my lg g3 and installed chupa chups 5.0 rom. I then tried to change the bootloader animation and consequently all root apps stopped working. Then went into super su and it wouldnt let me update the binary and says there is no root access. I now have no twrp recovery either. Phone software settings still saying im running chupa chups 5.0 and phone is working fine albeit without rooted apps. I really dont know what my options are so im hoping somebody on xda will be able to point me in the right direction as i dont want to end up bricking my new phone!