Unroot without ADB

[chazall1]

I followed the commands to unroot, when I was using ADB and it worked. What is the proper way to unroot not using ADB. I have used both ADB to root and unroot. I have root without using ADB, How do I unroot on the DX without ADB

Thanks

 

[hookbill]

I'm going to leave this thread open because I'd like to see an answer but you know you just asked this question in another thread. Please do not cross post.

 

[chazall1]

Sorry and thank you. I will not double post.

 

[qoncept]

All you're doing to unroot is deleting the files you put in place when you rooted it. I haven't tried, but you should be able to just run the commands below in your terminal.

su
rm /system/app/Superuser.apk
rm /system/bin/su
rm /system/bin/busybox
rm /system/bin/rootshell
reboot

 

[chazall1]

That is what I was looking to do, but wanted some confirmation. Thanks

 

[The White Weapon]

Can we please get confirmation of this??? Reeeeaalllyy not an adb fan.

Thanks

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[chazall1]

This worked on my DX. Now I see the information on
Rooting made easy By
johnomaz

You can root and unroot with 1 click. Nice to know.

Its nice to know you have a backup way to root and unroot through the command line.

 

[givmedew]

I can confirm this works HOWEVER for some reason "rm /system/bin/rootshell" failed to be removed maybe because I never installed it not sure why it said it failed.

My phone is now unrooted though so awesome. Big fan of not requiring the ADB shell!

 

[jakemerrell]

Could you use the Astro file manager to remove these files?

 

[yoyo814]

whenever I go to remove the superuser.apk I get a message saying it failed because system is read only, when I try to chmod system it says it fails again because it's read only. I su at the begining as well, any ideas?

 

[bigd73]

whenever I go to remove the superuser.apk I get a message saying it failed because system is read only, when I try to chmod system it says it fails again because it's read only. I su at the begining as well, any ideas?

You need to mount the system folder so it isn't read only. This will work for you.

su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
rm /system/app/Superuser.apk
rm /system/bin/su
rm /system/bin/busybox
rm /system/bin/rootshell
reboot

 

[charliehal]

I was having the same problem, but I used root explorer to make it writable because the command didn't work for me. Then I minimized root explorer, went to terminal and finished the process as you posted. Thanks for the post.

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