How to Unroot the LG Ally

Unrooting the LG Ally smartphone is a bit tricky, as the process involves some steps that the novice users might not be aware of. But you don’t have to worry as we have simplified everything for you in the following guide. If you’ve rooted your LG Ally and now want to return to stock, this guide is going to be useful for you. Let’s see how you can unroot your LG Ally smartphone.

I. Before You Begin:

1. You should have rooted your device using the guide given here.

2. This will not flash the stock recovery on your device.

3. The following procedure works on Windows based PCs only.

II. Downloading Required Files:

1. LG Drivers (Download link’s given at the top, in the first post)

2. Root Package (Download link’s given in the first post, in Step-1)

III. Unrooting the LG Ally:

1. Download and place both the files on your Desktop.

2. Install the LG USB Drivers, they’re necessary in order for your device to be recognized by your PC.

3. Extract the Root Package archive to your Desktop. You should get a folder called LGNPST.

4. Inside the folder, you’ll have some files that can be installed on your PC. Install them in the following order:

LGNPST_General_v1.2_Lab_Version.msi

LGNPST_Components_Ver_4_0_22_0.msi

LGNPST_GenericModels_Ver_4_0_9_0.msi

5. After installing all the files mentioned above, go to the next step.

6. Copy the LGNPST.exe file you’ve inside the LGNPST folder over to C:\LG Electronics\LGNPST.

7. On your Desktop, there’ll be a shortcut named LGNPST, delete it.

8. Head to C:\LG Electronics\LGNPST folder and right-click on the file named LGNPST.exe and choose Send to>>Desktop (create shortcut).

9. Copy the VS740.dll file from the folder you extracted on your Desktop over to C:\LG Electronics\LGNPST.

10. Open a Command Prompt Window in the C:\LG Electronics\LGNPST folder. To do so, just go inside that folder, press and hold the Shift button on your keyboard and right-click on any empty area on the screen, then choose Open command window here.

11. Type in the following command into the Command Prompt Window:

regsvr32 VS740.dll

12. You should see a confirmation message on your screen that the file is successfully registered.

13. Open the LGNPST shortcut you created on your Desktop by double-clicking on it.

14. Enable USB debugging on your smartphone from Menu>>Settings>>Applications>>Development>>USB debugging.

15. Connect your smartphone to your PC using the USB cable.

16. Your smartphone will be shown on the LGNPST tool interface. Click on it.

17. Choose File>>Select DLL and then select the VS740.dll file.

18. From the provision tab, choose the upgrade option.

19. Click on BIN File option and select the BIN folder, it’s inside the LGNPST folder on your Desktop.

20. Type *.* in the Open BIN File window.

21. Click on the file named VS740ZV6_01.TOT and then hit Open.

22. Check the box given next to the SCR File field and then in the browse folder section, choose the SCR folder you’ve inside the LGNPST folder on your Desktop.

23. Now, select the file named VS740ZV6_01.SCR and click Open.

24. Make sure that the option named NAM2 is unchecked.

25. Checkmark the box given next to PRL.

26. Click on the folder icon given next to the NAM1 option, choose the PRL folder which is located inside the LGNPST folder on your Desktop.

27. Select the 58005 – OEM EVDO DEFAULT.PRL file and click Open.

28. Hit the Start button in the tool and the script should run to unroot your device.

29. The process could take as much as 30 minutes. So, please be patient.

30. Your device should reboot after the process has finished.

31. Turn OFF your device.

32. Remove the batter from your device.

33. Replace the battery in your device, do NOT turn ON your device.

34. Now, press and hold the Volume UP+Home+End keys together on your device. It should factory reset your device.

35. Reboot your device in the normal mode.

36. Dial *228# from your device and select the Option #2.

37. Next, dial *#*#CHECKIN#*#* to install the OTA updates.

38. Your device’s now unrooted !

Wonderful! You’ve successfully unrooted your LG Ally smartphone. Although the procedure wasn’t that short nor for beginners, you did it successfully!

SOURCE:androidforums

How to Unroot the Motorola Defy

If you have rooted your Motorola Defy smartphone using our guide, this sequence post should teach you how you can unroot your Motorola Defy using the easiest method available. The procedure to unroot the device won’t take more than a few seconds and at the end of the procedure, you’ll have an unrooted device. Here’s how you can unroot your Motorola Defy.

I. Before You Begin:

1. You must have rooted your device using the procedure given here. If you rooted it using any other method, the following procedure may or may not work for you.

2. Charge your device to have at least 50% of battery life left.

II. Downloading Required Files:

1. z4Root (It’s attached in the first post)

III. Unrooting the Motorola Defy:

1. Download the z4Root APK file to your Desktop.

2. Connect your device to your PC via USB cable.

3. Copy the z4Root APK file over to the root folder of your SD card. It is the topmost folder.

4. Disconnect the device from your PC after the file is copied.

5. On your device, enable the USB debugging option. To do so, head to Menu>>Settings>>Applications>>Development>>USB debugging and tick-mark the box.

6. Now, open the File Manager on your device and locate the APK you copied earlier. Tap on it to install it on your device.

7. After the app is installed on your device, launch it from Menu.

8. Tap on Un-root button in the app.

Tap on Un-root

9. It should then begin unrooting your device and when it’s done, your device should reboot.

10. You should be unrooted now!

Great! Your device has been successfully unrooted using the z4Root app. The warranty you lost after rooting the phone is now back and the phone is now as original as it was when you purchased it!

If this procedure helped you please thank/donate to the original developers here.

How to Unroot the LG Esteem

      
If you’ve rooted your LG Esteem smartphone but aren’t satisfied with the features it offers you and want to go back to that simple state, unrooted one, then here’s a guide for you. The process to unroot the LG Esteem is very easy, even your kid won’t have any problem doing it, let’s get started.

I. Before You Begin:

1. You should have rooted your device using the procedure given here.

II. Unrooting the LG Esteem:

1. On your device, go to Menu>>Settings>>Privacy and tap Factory Data Reset option.

2. If you get any prompts, just hit the Yes option.

3. And you’re done now!

Great! You’ve successfully unrooted your device, its warranty is back now!

SOURCE:xda

How to Unroot the LG Optimus T

Going to return your phone to T-Mobile for any warranty kind of purpose? Make sure to unroot the device first and only then visit the T-Mobile employees. Unrooting should help you reclaim the warranty of your device and here’s how you can unroot, in other words, remove SU binaries from your LG Optimus T smartphone. Here you go:

I. Before You Begin:

1. You must have rooted your device using the method provided in this guide. If you used any other method to root the device, the following procedure won’t work for you.

2. Charge your device to have at least 60% of battery life left.

II. Downloading Required Files:

1. z4Root (It is attached in the first post of the thread)

III. Unrooting the LG Optimus T:

1. Download the z4Root App to the Desktop of your PC.

2. Connect your device to your PC using the USB cable.

3. Copy the z4Root file over to the root folder of your SD card. It is the topmost folder you see when you open My files.

4. Disconnect the device after the file is copied.

5. Open My files on your device and install the z4Root App you just copied.

6. Launch the app on your device from the Menu.

7. Choose Unroot option in the app and your device should be unrooted in a moment.

8. Your device should be now unrooted!

You’re now safe to take your phone to the T-Mobile store, they won’t be able to know that you’d rooted your phone once!

How To Unroot the T-Mobile G2X and Return it to Stock

                                        

Have a T-Mobile G2X and need to send it in for warranty? Or perhaps you just want to start over from scratch with the whole rooting thing? Either way, you need to get back to stock. Well, here’s how to revert your T-Mobile G2X back to the way it was out of the box when you got it.

I. Before You Begin

1. You MUST have done our How To Root and Load a Custom Recovery procedure for this to work properly.

2. This will return your G2X back to stock and erase all data on the phone.

II. Revert System and Data to Stock

1. Download the stock Nandroid Backup and save it to your computer.

Stock G2X Nandroid Backup (Original post with downloads)

2. Turn off your phone, then turn it back on by holding down volume down and power until you get to recovery mode.

3. Once in recovery mode, head to backup and restore then click on backup to perform a backup.

4. Once it says backup complete select back to get to the main menu, then select reboot system now.

5. Once the phone reboots, plug it in via USB cable and mount the sd card so we can transfer files to it.

6. Open the sd card on your computer and make sure there is a folder inside called “clockworkmod” and inside that folder is one called “backup”.

7. Extract the Stock Backup .zip file somewhere on your computer (so that it creates a new folder with the same name as the .zip file “LG-P999-V10f”)

8. Copy and paste the folder called “LG-P999-V10f” to inside the backup folder on the sd card that we found in step 6.

9. Unplug the device from the computer.

10. Turn off the device then turn it back on by holding down volume down and power until you get into recovery mode.

11. Once you get into recovery mode, scroll to Backup and Restore and select Restore.

12. Then choose the backup you just saved to it and wait for it to restore.

13. Once it is done, hit Wipe Data > Factory Reset.

14. Once the wipe is complete, hit reboot system now. Your phone should reboot to the setup screen you had when you first turned on the device.

III. Restore the Stock Recovery Image

1. Remove the battery from your device (if you put it back in).

2. Right click OneClickRecoveryFlasher.exe inside the NvFlasher folder inside the file you extracted from our How To Flash a Recovery Image procedure and select Run As Administrator (if such an option doesn’t exist, just select Open).

3. Now, hold Volume Up and Volume Down (and keep holding them through the next couple of steps).

4. Plug the phone in via USB Cable (with the volume up and volume down still being held).

5. While still holding the volume up and volume down buttons, click on Flash Stock Recovery on your computer.

6. Once it says “S/W Upgrade – Please wait while upgrading…”, you can let go of the volume up and volume down and just wait for it to finish flashing in the command prompt. (If you get ANY errors in the command prompt window, unplug the device, reopen the flasher and try again until it goes through with no errors).

7. Once it is done, it’ll say press any key to continue in the command prompt window on the computer. That means it is done, press enter then unplug your device from the computer.

8. Put your battery back in.

IV. Unroot the Phone

1. Open the SuperOneClick program you used to root the phone in our How To Root procedure.

2. Plug the device in and click the Unroot button in SuperOneClick and wait for it to finish.

3. So long as you have no errors, check in your device’s app drawer and make sure Superuser Permissions is no longer there. So long as it is gone, you are all set.

4. You are now back to completely stock and can send your phone in for warranty or head back to our How To’s to reroot and start over.

How to Root LG Esteem

                                              

Want to enjoy Root-only apps on your LG Esteem smartphone? No problem, here’s a guide for you to root your phone and enjoy the apps that are available only for the rooted phones.

I. Before You Begin:

1. The warranty of your phone will be voided once you root it. You can get back the warranty by either applying stock firmware or unrooting your phone, however.

2. Make sure your phone is charged at least 60%.

II. Downloading Required Files:

1. Download the LG Drivers from here.

2. Download the Rooting Package from here.

III. Rooting LG Esteem Smartphone:

1. Place all the downloaded files onto your Desktop,

2. Extract files from both the archives to your Desktop.

3. Install the LG Drivers which you got from the archive.

4. Enable USB debugging on your phone by heading to Menu>>Settings>>Applications>>Development>>USB debugging.

5. Connect your phone to your PC using the USB cable that came with it.

6. Launch the rooting tool by double-clicking on run.bat file.

It will begin rooting your phone and once done, you will get a message on your screen.

You have successfully achieved root access on your LG Esteem smartphone. Now, you can install your favorite apps on your phone which require root access.

SOURCE:vulnfactory