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Unrooting

I havent had my phone unrooted and locked for a while now I want to unlock and rooted again but I know when you unlock it wipes your phone is there anyway to unlock it with out your data being wiped?
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After searching around, it seems possible to root without unlocking the bootloader so you won't lose any data.
Here's the guide and another one.
Do note that those guides are written during gingerbread time, might not work in ics. besides, I haven't tested them myself, so do it at your own risk.
But I would still recommend you to make titanium backup after you gain root, unlock bootloader, and restore. This is in case you want to flash custom rom.

Thanks i didn't know I can root without unlocking the boot loader.
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You can root without unlocking up until 4.0.3. Out of luck beyond this.

I think I'm screwed cause I have 4.0.4 and I cant a guide for rooting. fml
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shabgard said:
I think I'm screwed cause I have 4.0.4 and I cant a guide for rooting. fml
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Just unlock the bootloader. They are just saved games. The apps are all there in Play, so just reinstall what you want.

Haha its my saved games I'm worry about well just temple run don't care about the rest. God damn you temple run. Hahaha
jayjay3333 said:
Just unlock the bootloader. They are just saved games. The apps are all there in Play, so just reinstall what you want.
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shabgard said:
Haha its my saved games I'm worry about well just temple run don't care about the rest. God damn you temple run. Hahaha
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You will probably do better second time around Then you have titanium backup so you never have to worry about it again.
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What the hell but is there is a guide to root 4.0.4 with unlocked boot loader?
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shabgard said:
What the hell but is there is a guide to root 4.0.4 with unlocked boot loader?
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As of the time of posting there is no public way to root 4.0.4 without unlocking on the Nexus S.

shabgard said:
What the hell but is there is a guide to root 4.0.4 with unlocked boot loader?
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Use this guide to root - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1007782
This for latest recovery - http://clockworkmod.com/rommanager
Superuser zip http://goo.im/superuser
Cyanogenmod thread if that is what you want? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1399035
http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices/nexus-s
Profit

I need help please....

So I try to root my phone. But I made a mistake.. the phone is unlocked but I'm in between root and unroot, I think..I have super user but I didn't install the recovery image. Can anyone help on to go back to unroot and stock so I can re-root. Thank you
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enyce5434 said:
So I try to root my phone. But I made a mistake.. the phone is unlocked but I'm in between root and unroot, I think..I have super user but I didn't install the recovery image. Can anyone help on to go back to unroot and stock so I can re-root. Thank you
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Would this work for you?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1167819

Thanks, I tried that but it didn't work. it got too the boot loader but from there no go.
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Search for one click root, that will take all the steps for you, including custom recovery.
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No. Learn how to do it the proper way.
**** one click crap

Why make your life difficult?

Thanks kwibis.. I'll keep trying with that..
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1544940
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Safestrap

I was just wondering if this would work for my moto q.
It's for the razr m
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1979383
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Why would anyone have any use for it over here? It doesn't do anything we can't already do.
Plus, Safestrap is extremely device-specific.

Really I'm not sure if I. Want to unlock bootloader as of yet. And coming from the og photon with locked boot loader I have no experience with any other recovery method.
Could i unlock after rooting by the exploit method.
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dwaynet89 said:
Really I'm not sure if I. Want to unlock bootloader as of yet. And coming from the og photon with locked boot loader I have no experience with any other recovery method.
Could i unlock after rooting by the exploit method.
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Unlocking helps you to root, so you cant unlock AFTER rooting. You also need to be rooted to flash custom recoveries
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CNexus said:
Unlocking helps you to root, so you cant unlock AFTER rooting. You also need to be rooted to flash custom recoveries
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I used motofail2go to root without unlocking. So when I do get ready to unlock ido I need go unroot first?
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dwaynet89 said:
I used motofail2go to root without unlocking. So when I do get ready to unlock ido I need go unroot first?
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Ohh well in that case, no, just unlock the bootloader directly
My mistake, its just that the only root methods for the Photon that I've seen so far unlock your bootloader at the same time
So just ignore what I said and unlock directly
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Save data and root

Is there a way to root but don't lose any on the phone? I got to much apps and stuff.
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Unlocking your bootloader is what deletes everything. And no, if you're not unlocked, there's no way around it. Just back up everything to a PC beforehand.
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xXghostXx313 said:
Is there a way to root but don't lose any on the phone? I got to much apps and stuff.
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Rooting won't erase anything, however unlocking the bootloader, if you have't already will wipe all of your data.

BirchBarlow said:
Rooting won't erase anything, however unlocking the bootloader, if you have't already will wipe all of your data.
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So I can root and use titanium backup ? then from there I can unlock the bootloader and recovery right?
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xXghostXx313 said:
So I can root and use titanium backup ? then from there I can unlock the bootloader and recovery right?
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You can't root without first unlocking the bootloader. If you don't know that maybe you shouldn't be messing around with your phone, at least not until you've done all your homework.

BirchBarlow said:
You can't root without first unlocking the bootloader. If you don't know that maybe you shouldn't be messing around with your phone, at least not until you've done all your homework.
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Okay I get what you mean now. Its been awhile since a rooted a phone lol. I forgot the progress
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[Q] Is S-OFF required for custom recoveries/ROMs?

I just got my device today and rooted with WeakSauce. As expected, firewater failed. I am wonder if I need to have S-OFF in order to flash TWRP and/or some custom ROMs. If I don't need it, I'd rather save the $25 that I'd have to spend on SunShine.

himom said:
I just got my device today and rooted with WeakSauce. As expected, firewater failed. I am wonder if I need to have S-OFF in order to flash TWRP and/or some custom ROMs. If I don't need it, I'd rather save the $25 that I'd have to spend on SunShine.
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Yes you need that on this device to flash or write anything to system..
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I thought you could still flash a rom with a boot image. No?

etracyirl said:
I thought you could still flash a rom with a boot image. No?
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How do you install a recovery with weakauce root only? That would be new to me
Edit. You either need s-off or s-on with unlocked bootloader. An you need s-off on HTC VZW m8 to unlock bootloader ..
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Tigerstown said:
How do you install a recovery with weakauce root only? That would be new to me
Edit. You either need s-off or s-on with unlocked bootloader. An you need s-off on HTC VZW m8 to unlock bootloader ..
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Thanks for clearing that up. Been a while for me. Just got my M8 and last time I had to root was on my DNA when VZ still let us unlock the bootloader.
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etracyirl said:
Thanks for clearing that up. Been a while for me. Just got my M8 and last time I had to root was on my DNA when VZ still let us unlock the bootloader.
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No problem...if you can't get firewater to work yourself. I would gladly pay sunshine.
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