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How to remove ROOT of my phone

Hello!
At first....sorry for my english ^^
I am using my HTC Desire S now since 2 months and I'm very unhappy with it because of the bad batterie coverage of it.
Since I've rooted my phone and installed another ROM on it i can only use my phone for about 1 day.
What I am going to do now is to uninstall the ROM (has been installed by the app "ROM Manager") and ClockworkRecovery-Mod and then I will remove the root.
Is it possible to recover the original stock ROM on any way?
I did no Nandroid backup.
The phone is standard S-OFF, I will not lose it during the processes.
Can anybody help me to do this?
Thanx - Börni

Have you taken a look at this page:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002506
Find your ROM among these, run the RUU, and you will be back to stock conditions(NO root and back to S-ON).
Also, if you want you S-off back, you could use the revolutionary tool from here:
http://revolutionary.io/

What happens if you load up the stock rom from a backup and format the phone?
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Well, thanks!
Will it be back at S-OFF or on S-ON when I've finished the installaiton of this ROM?
Greetings!

iamlegendfam said:
What happens if you load up the stock rom from a backup and format the phone?
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I do not understand how you can take a nandroid backup of an un-rooted stock ROM?

baigner said:
Well, thanks!
Will it be back at S-OFF or on S-ON when I've finished the installaiton of this ROM?
Greetings!
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After running the RUU? You should be back to stock conditions with S-ON.
You can use the revolutionary tool to gain S-OFF again.

ok, thanks for your quick replay!
I will try it out.

Just remove the su binary

baigner said:
Is it possible to recover the original stock ROM on any way?
I did no Nandroid backup.
Thanx - Börni
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iamlegendfam said:
What happens if you load up the stock rom from a backup and format the phone?
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@iamlegendfam
He didn't take a backup, so he can't.
ad8yaa said:
I do not understand how you can take a nandroid backup of an un-rooted stock ROM?
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@ad8yaa
You're correct, you can't but he didn't.

[Q] I want to return to the stock ROM

Hi
First of all, I have an HTC Inspire 4G and I have a friend that also have the HTC Inspire 4G. He installed a lot of ROMs in your HTC. The point is that he want to return to the stock ROM (Gingerbread 2.3.3) but he didn't backup your phone to restore them with the stock ROM. I installed some ROMs in my HTC, but before that, I realized a backup of my phone with the ROM Manager and ClockworkMod, later I restore the backup to return to the stock ROM. So my question is, can he use my backup to restore your phone with the stock ROM?
I hope that you can help me.
Thank you,
wert16
HTC Inspire 4G

wert16 said:
Hi
First of all, I have an HTC Inspire 4G and I have a friend that also have the HTC Inspire 4G. He installed a lot of ROMs in your HTC. The point is that he want to return to the stock ROM (Gingerbread 2.3.3) but he didn't backup your phone to restore them with the stock ROM. I installed some ROMs in my HTC, but before that, I realized a backup of my phone with the ROM Manager and ClockworkMod, later I restore the backup to return to the stock ROM. So my question is, can he use my backup to restore your phone with the stock ROM?
I hope that you can help me.
Thank you,
wert16
HTC Inspire 4G
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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39375693/PD98IMG.zip
USE ONLY IF ROOTED!!! Place in root of SD Card (Not in any folder) install by powering up into hboot with power button and volume down at same time. Let it do its thing volume up for yes top install when asked. Let it do its thing then reboot when asked.
You wont lose root.
THX to Gene Poole
If you want to get rid of root use Ace Hack Kit. (Instead)

thank you
Reinaldo33897 said:
USE ONLY IF ROOTED!!! Place in root of SD Card (Not in any folder) install by powering up into hboot with power button and volume down at same time. Let it do its thing volume up for yes top install when asked. Let it do its thing then reboot when asked.
You wont lose root.
THX to Gene Poole
If you want to get rid of root use Ace Hack Kit. (Instead)
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Thank you, I will try this with my friend.

You can also use the ace hack kit to return to stock with out losing root.

You will lose root, but not s-off if you choose so.
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nolirt bonds.
I flashed the RUU and am using the stock ROM image. Unfortunately flashing the latest AT&T image update to Gingerbread 3.2.5 fails. Granted, my firmware is still vulnerable and my recovery partition still has CWM on it. Advice how to install the latest official update on top of a rooted HTC Inspire 4g would be appreciated
Thanks,
tallbiker
glevitan said:
You will lose root, but not s-off if you choose so.
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tallbiker66 said:
I flashed the RUU and am using the stock ROM image. Unfortunately flashing the latest AT&T image update to Gingerbread 3.2.5 fails. Granted, my firmware is still vulnerable and my recovery partition still has CWM on it. Advice how to install the latest official update on top of a rooted HTC Inspire 4g would be appreciated
Thanks,
tallbiker
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Flash this rooted version....http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1810461

restoring from a backup

Im a little ashamed but I have never restored from a backup before in recovery. Do you have to wipe and all that prior to restoring or just hit restore?
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joho5 said:
Im a little ashamed but I have never restored from a backup before in recovery. Do you have to wipe and all that prior to restoring or just hit restore?
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I believe the restore wipes automatically...I could be wrong though. I haven't had to restore a rom in months.

It does. Restore formats the partitions then restores to them.

restoring stock rom without backup
Speaking of restoring through recovery, Is it possible to restore my phone to stock rom without the back up? If not, then RUU to stock 1.85 is the only way right? I installed a new rom yesterday, and I decided to wipe everything including SD so I basically erased my stock rom backup.

JCon0320 said:
Speaking of restoring through recovery, Is it possible to restore my phone to stock rom without the back up? If not, then RUU to stock 1.85 is the only way right? I installed a new rom yesterday, and I decided to wipe everything including SD so I basically erased my stock rom backup.
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The best thing for you to do now is restore via the RUU to stock.
Once you have that done you can go ahead and flash other ROM's
Good Luck!:good:

BIGMOH said:
The best thing for you to do now is restore via the RUU to stock.
Once you have that done you can go ahead and flash other ROM's
Good Luck!:good:
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Right on! I am just curious just in case I need to send my phone back for warranty.. thanks!

Return to Stock

I'm sure this is discussed already but I can't seem to find it so if someone can help me or point me in the right direction.
I have a VZW GS3 that I have rooted, unlocked the boot loader and flashed CWM recovery. I then made a nandroid.
The main reason I did this was because I wanted Jelly Bean, and since Verizon is the slowest, I didn't want to wait so I installed custom ROMs.
Now that Verizon has released JB, I want to go back to my nandroid and then use the OTA firmware update service to upgrade.
Am I missing anything along the way that's essential for this to work?
Will the updated software re-root and/or relock my bootloader?
Will this automatically update the Baseband from my current VRLG7 to whatever the new one is?

One other thing, Will I still have CWM recovery after this happens? or will it revert back to stock recovery? or do I need to manually do anything to the recovery?

You're doing this to ultimately stay stock? Do you intend on flashing roms again or no? If you did a nandroid just after ONLY rooting and unlocking bootloader then restore it. Here's a step by step:
1) boot into CWM, restore your rooted, stock nandroid
2) Download EZ recovery, flash stock recovery
3) Wait for OTA
The OTA will relock your bootloader and unroot your phone. The JB OTA will also update your modem, and everything else, to VRBLK3.
One other thing, Will I still have CWM recovery after this happens? or will it revert back to stock recovery? or do I need to manually do anything to the recovery?
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No, you will lose CWM if you do what I detail above. The OTA will fail if you still have CWM installed.

SlimSnoopOS said:
You're doing this to ultimately stay stock? Do you intend on flashing roms again or no?
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For the time being I intend on remaining stock, but I still want to root. Maybe once CM10.1 becomes stable, I'll go back to it, as of now I've had too many bugs with 10 nightlys and stable and 10.1 nightlys.
SlimSnoopOS said:
If you did a nandroid just after ONLY rooting and unlocking bootloader then restore it
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I don't recall, but it's possible I did it after flashing CWM recovery, would that make a difference?
Thanks for your help!

levilib said:
For the time being I intend on remaining stock, but I still want to root. Maybe once CM10.1 becomes stable, I'll go back to it, as of now I've had too many bugs with 10 nightlys and stable and 10.1 nightlys.
I don't recall, but it's possible I did it after flashing CWM recovery, would that make a difference?
Thanks for your help!
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Nah I was just verifying to see if you modified any system settings or apps while on ICS TW. You should be in the clear as long as you reset CWM to stock recovery if all you did was root, unlock, then perform a nandroid.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
Nah I was just verifying to see if you modified any system settings or apps while on ICS TW. You should be in the clear as long as you reset CWM to stock recovery if all you did was root, unlock, then perform a nandroid.
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before I restore the nandroid in CWM, do I need to do any wiping? cache, dalvik or full wipe?

levilib said:
before I restore the nandroid in CWM, do I need to do any wiping? cache, dalvik or full wipe?
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Absolutely.
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so which wipe(s) do I need to do?

levilib said:
before I restore the nandroid in CWM, do I need to do any wiping? cache, dalvik or full wipe?
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No you do not, the nan will overwrite everything anyways. If you feel better then factory reset and clear caches, but it's not necessary.
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thanks

I followed the instructions above and I'm back on my rooted TW.
When i try and update i get the following message:
Service Unavailable
To check for system updates, go to Settings > About device when service is available
What's wrong, how do i fix that?

searched around on google and a lot of people had the same warning error, multiple solutions were offered but none of them worked.
in the end, I ended up installing from odin completely stock unrooted, locked bootloader etc 4.0.4 (as f i want to return my phone to verizon) and once i did that it automatically updated to 4.1.1

New m8 wants to update

I just got my m8 and want to s-off but I'm traveling and won't be able to figure that out until I'm back on my pc next week. The update keeps prompting me to take it. Is it safe to do so? Sorry if this was already answered trying to figure out the best way to browse with tapatalk.
I don't have root or anything yet...
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I used Firewater's method for permanent root, s-off and custom recovery. If I allow my phone to update will I mess things up or lose root?

Same boat here... s-off, permanent root, TWRP
The update to 1.55 downloaded but when I tried to let it install it just rebooted my phone into TWRP and that was it. Rebooted back to system and I'm still on the 1.12.605.11 software. Checking software update status shows "Result: Update Failed,410"

N00bs. Lol. You need a stock recovery to flash an OTA. Also, I am s-off and I had a flashback to a stock recovery to flash the OTA . Everything is still fine and then I flashed back to a custom recovery no problem
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Totally a noob here, How do you flash to a stock recovery?
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You guys need the stock recovery in order to install the OTA. It won't work with a custom recovery, it'll just boot to the custom recovery and not do anything. You can install the OTA with s off and root but you still need the stock recovery. You install the stock recovery the same way as you did the custom. Adb -> flashboot flash recovery *path of recovery*.
http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/520717/stockrecovery-img.html
There are also videos on YouTube on flashing recoveries to the m8 if you need more help.
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Justintoxicated said:
I just got my m8 and want to s-off but I'm traveling and won't be able to figure that out until I'm back on my pc next week. The update keeps prompting me to take it. Is it safe to do so? Sorry if this was already answered trying to figure out the best way to browse with tapatalk.
I don't have root or anything yet...
Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Tapatalk
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You can install the update, and when you have the chance you can s-off using the weaksauce/supersu/firewater method. I picked up a new M8 a couple nights ago and took the update, and afterwards did the temproot/firewater method and it worked just fine. Hope this helps.

I flashed stock recovery and tried the OTA and it failed twice. I can't seem to get it on my phone through any of the methods for some reason.

In order to install update, you need to have STOCK recovery and STOCK Rom....NOT debloated or with mods....STOCK.
Again, you need STOCK recovery using a STOCK Rom.
If you have modified the system in anyway, it WONT work until you put it back to STOCK.
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^you can have bloatware frozen and it'll work, just can't be removed.
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dadams312 said:
I flashed stock recovery and tried the OTA and it failed twice. I can't seem to get it on my phone through any of the methods for some reason.
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z-man79 said:
Totally a noob here, How do you flash to a stock recovery?
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KnightDavid said:
Same boat here... s-off, permanent root, TWRP
The update to 1.55 downloaded but when I tried to let it install it just rebooted my phone into TWRP and that was it. Rebooted back to system and I'm still on the 1.12.605.11 software. Checking software update status shows "Result: Update Failed,410"
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z-man79 said:
I used Firewater's method for permanent root, s-off and custom recovery. If I allow my phone to update will I mess things up or lose root?
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No need to take ota. Ota us our enemy. Lol. The ota has been pulled an you can simply flash the firmware an that's half of the ota an then flash a stock Rom based off 1.55 or install the backup that was posted of a pure stock 1.55 Rom. After those 2 things you will have the full ota. New radios everything.. flashing a stock recovery taking ota flashing back is not needed.
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Thanks guys it was annoying having that update keep popping up and no real computer to lookup info or soff. As for getting updates after roming the phone usually just wait for authors to incorporate the updates. But I did not realize you can't have two recoveries like you can on Motorola phones which is good to know.
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New to android here.
I rooted the device with WeakSauce and use Firewater for S-Off. I didn't flash any custom recoveries. I did freeze some apps with Titanium Backup. If I do the OTA, 1) will it work? and 2) will it remove my root and/or s-off?

NoFanboy said:
You guys need the stock recovery in order to install the OTA. It won't work with a custom recovery, it'll just boot to the custom recovery and not do anything. You can install the OTA with s off and root but you still need the stock recovery. You install the stock recovery the same way as you did the custom. Adb -> flashboot flash recovery *path of recovery*.
megafileupload.com/en/file/520717/stockrecovery-img.html
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For clarification, after flashing the stockrecovery.img you posted and installing the update, there should be no problem flashing back to CWM recovery after the fact?
Thank you for your help and your time!

skivvies said:
For clarification, after flashing the stockrecovery.img you posted and installing the update, there should be no problem flashing back to CWM recovery after the fact?
Thank you for your help and your time!
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Nope there will be no problem.
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richii0207 said:
In order to install update, you need to have STOCK recovery and STOCK Rom....NOT debloated or with mods....STOCK.
Again, you need STOCK recovery using a STOCK Rom.
If you have modified the system in anyway, it WONT work until you put it back to STOCK.
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All your big words confuse me...will it work with custom rom's and recoveries?

I don't remember ever having to have stock recovery and stock rom for my old DNA to take an update. Normally devs would update their rom with the updates and all we had to do was fastboot flash the new radio.

NoFanboy said:
You guys need the stock recovery in order to install the OTA. It won't work with a custom recovery, it'll just boot to the custom recovery and not do anything. You can install the OTA with s off and root but you still need the stock recovery. You install the stock recovery the same way as you did the custom. Adb -> flashboot flash recovery *path of recovery*.
http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/520717/stockrecovery-img.html
There are also videos on YouTube on flashing recoveries to the m8 if you need more help.
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So I flash the file you linked to, thank you but when I try to get into recovery I get a red triangle with an exclamation point in it. Seemed pretty straight forward.

sfreemanoh said:
All your big words confuse me...will it work with custom rom's and recoveries?
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Lol, I had to. I just know someone is going to start a thread saying "update won't work, it just boots into twrp"
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z-man79 said:
So I flash the file you linked to, thank you but when I try to get into recovery I get a red triangle with an exclamation point in it. Seemed pretty straight forward.
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Hold the volume up button and pressed the power button to get to the recovery menu.