Installed new leaked 2.3 and... unrooted!

[jlb13085]

First I would like to say hello to everyone as I am a new poster, not a new reader. Secondly, I admit in advance that I'm an idiot. So...

I installed the new leaked 2.3 gingerbread on my X with no problems and loved it. My wife liked it and wanted me to put it on her Droid 2. So I proceeded to root her phone and install the d2 zip with bootstrap like I did on my phone with no problems.

Now she insisted that I unroot the phone when I was done, so I did, thinking I was finished. Then I found out swype was inoperable due to whatever reasons. Swype is a must for her. Now replacing the production swype with the beta swype is easy... on a rooted device. I unrooted a brand new OS and now have no way to root it back to fix this issue UNLESS...

...there is a way to get into clockwork recovery without being rooted. I did have the presence of mind to do a back up while I was in there initially. That is the only thing I can think of. If anyone has any advice I would greatly appreciate it. Otherwise this phone is in limbo and I'm in the dog house


Jamie

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[Wadman]

First I would like to say hello to everyone as I am a new poster, not a new reader. Secondly, I admit in advance that I'm an idiot. So...

I installed the new leaked 2.3 gingerbread on my X with no problems and loved it. My wife liked it and wanted me to put it on her Droid 2. So I proceeded to root her phone and install the d2 zip with bootstrap like I did on my phone with no problems.

Now she insisted that I unroot the phone when I was done, so I did, thinking I was finished. Then I found out swype was inoperable due to whatever reasons. Swype is a must for her. Now replacing the production swype with the beta swype is easy... on a rooted device. I unrooted a brand new OS and now have no way to root it back to fix this issue UNLESS...

...there is a way to get into clockwork recovery without being rooted. I did have the presence of mind to do a back up while I was in there initially. That is the only thing I can think of. If anyone has any advice I would greatly appreciate it. Otherwise this phone is in limbo and I'm in the dog house


Jamie

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So after you installed 2.3 you unrooted the phone? I was pretty sure that once you installed 2.3 you lost root anyway and had to sbf back to 2.2 to reroot the phone. But I think 2.3 has been rooted as well. I don't think there is anyway to geting Clockwork without being rooted. That said, I am fairly new at this too. I am not using GB 2.3 leak and if it is in fact rooted, couldnt you just reroot? I would search on here and see if 2.3 has root access now. I'm sure if it has, there is a step by step guide that someone has posted on here. Sorry if I was of no help..........I am still learning things.....

 

[jaycemiskel]

I'm not sure of the process to root, but 2.3 has been rooted. Most people have just been installing the prerooted version. Honestly I haven't seen any step by step guides. If you can't find one you're probably going to have to sbf back to 2.2 and redo everything.

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[jlb13085]

Yeah I installed the pre-rooted one, and managed to unroot with z4,.but it obviously wouldn't root back. I haven't seen any guides for manual rooting gb either, so the phone will remain rooted until then

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