Unroot Motorola Droid?

[Corinacakes]

i have extremely very clear directions, that a monkey could follow. if you cant follow them, and your phone bricks, then go to verizon, tell them your a ****in moron, and cough up the money to get a new phone. dont hurt our cause, because your an idiot. there is even a ****in youtube video.

better yet, eliminate all the threads with info, and deny the people that dont deserve it, the chance to **** this up............................end rant

wow ding ding fries are done!

[randomboy50]

No problem Matt. Its really not hard to learn this stuff. I could be wrong, but I'm assuming much of android, if not all, is linux(ish) based. Im quite ignorant when it comes to this platform so i could be very wrong.

[dudeitsmattx]

i just dont see the whole need to have the phone rooted. besides being able to change file names so they dont run in the background of ur phone to save battery life. i mean what else can you do? i dont know how to hack into the system like these guys to change/fix things so idk lol..

[randomboy50]

i just dont see the whole need to have the phone rooted.

I'd be careful who/where u say that at on these forums. haha

[dudeitsmattx]

haha i say that for me. not for everyone. i do not need to have a rooted phone. other people may want or need it.

[boostdscoob]

you are right to unroot then, you dont deserve it, and it is bad in the hands of the uneducated. you can however install the recovery image, and for the most part, recover from anything wrong you do. just saying. and root is way way way way more than just being able to change filenames. you can change anything. and i mean anything. you are at the core, or root of the OS, and can change anything you like, if you figure out what to change.. the biggest plus is all the apps that use root access. they do the work for you.

[alf]

Did you by chance remove any programs like amazon.mp3 or CorpCal?
if you did you need to put them back. The update would not take on my phone either until I put these files/programs back....Just a thought to try and help.

[ts7]

you are right to unroot then, you dont deserve it, and it is bad in the hands of the uneducated. you can however install the recovery image, and for the most part, recover from anything wrong you do. just saying. and root is way way way way more than just being able to change filenames. you can change anything. and i mean anything. you are at the core, or root of the OS, and can change anything you like, if you figure out what to change.. the biggest plus is all the apps that use root access. they do the work for you.

boostdscoob, you come off as an incredibly arrogant know-it-all - no more offense intended than what you have thrown on other posters in this thread!

If you read my original post, the point was I had NO INTENTION of rooting my phone - I was trying to manually install the update after it failed OTA. Two of the links I tried also failed when trying to manually install it on my phone. I found a third in a thread dealing with the update, that included a link called update.zip and NO explanation that it would root (if I could find the link again, I would post it as a warning and ask that it be edited to better identify that it was a root update, not a system update). This file DID not install the 2.0.1 update but rather a rooted version of 2.0.

Also, I DO know how to get my phone back to orignal firmware and attempted it multiple times. I continued to have the superuser icon in my applications leading me to believe that the phone was still rooted. As I mentioned in the original post, there was obviously something defective with my phone that was interfering with firmware updates.

I have no issues with those who wish to root their phones and I have no issues with complaining about those who intentionally root their phones without understanding the ramifications. In my case I understood the ramifications or rooting and had no intentions of rooting the phone. It was only out of frustration with Verizon's inability to help that I even pursued the manual update process. The only thing I plead guilty of is trusting a file downloaded from a forum and getting burned.

As I posted earlier, the Verizon store was finally able to get the phone flashed, but I lost pretty much everything that was on it. Why the downloaded apps disappeared is still a mystery, but I found several posts on another forum of others that had the same experience after exchanging or flashing a phone and the problem seems to be in the Android Market. I only had one paid app at the time and the vendor was gracious enough to provide a new key for the app.

[boostdscoob]

im not being arrogant. when i say you dont deserve it, its the same as a 6 year old getting a loaded gun for his birthday. just asking for trouble.. sorry if thats how it came off, but to clarify, i know nothing compared to some of the devs on here. i simply wanted to make it a point that this is not a necessity to root your phone, just because everyone else is doing so. your very very lucky verizon isnt being assholes about this. had they found out you rooted, you wouldve been out the cost of the new droid. that is all

[dudeitsmattx]

Alright, I have successfully unrooted my droid, and removed the Superuser App. Now starting off, I was still rooted when I did this. I began be fixing all of the changes I had done from the beginning such as changing the names of all of the apps I did not want to start (CorpCal, Email, etc). So after everything went from *.bak to *.apk, I simply just removed Superuser.apk While I'm not sure if there are any other files associated with this, I'm not sure, but that got rid of it for me. Now if you have already unrooted your droid, you will have to root it again to get rid of it.

Once you get it rooted, to remove Superuser.apk i entered the following into the terminal emulator

su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system/app
rm Superuser.apk
mount -o ro,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
sync
reboot

Now this worked for me, but i cannot assure it will do the same for you. Ill assume that I used the right commands because everything worked for me. After i removed Superuser.apk i then proceeded to unroot it by apply the 2.0.1 patch. After that I received Permission denied. A good sign for ones who want to unroot.

Let me know if there are any corrections/problems with my method

good write up.. i did everything you said to do on my phone and the Superuser app is gone. and after the 2.0.1 update i typed su in the terminal and it says Permission denied also.. nice