Friday, November 05, 2010

How To Unroot The Droid2

On a related note, here's how to unroot the Droid2, assuming no custom ROMs, and no deleting of stock bloatware apps:

  • open your trusty terminal app (that's the terminal emulator you downloaded)
  • you should see a $ symbol, now do the following (type each line exactly as writen after the "-" but do not type what is in the parenthesis)
  • su (give a minute to ask for Superuser Permission. If it doesn't ask, go into Superuser Permissions and grant access to your Terminal Emulator and go back and retry this step)
  • now you should see a # symbol (after each of the following steps is processed, you will see a #)
  • mount -o rw,remount -text3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system
  • rm /system/app/Superuser.apk
  • rm /system/bin/su
  • rm /system/bin/busybox
  • mount -o ro,remount -text3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system
  • reboot your phone. Tada, no more root! To prove this, try opening wireless tether or another program needing root access and you will be rejected.