Help! Phone refuses to unroot.

xeron72548 · May 5, 2014

Hey!
I have to send my phone back to AT&T because the microphone isn't working. I had an unlocked boot loader and was rooted with TWRP and Arhd. I got back to stock yesterday by restoring a stock nandroid I had made in TWRP before I flashed ARHD, flashing a stock recovery, and relocking my boot loader. However, Super su refuses to leave my app drawer. I do the perma unroot option in the menu and it works until I restart the phone. Then it shows back up. It might be that I need a stock kernel but I don't know

Please help! Thanks!

exad · May 5, 2014

You probably need to do unroot with twrp installed since it relies on a custom recovery to write to system partitions

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xeron72548 · May 5, 2014

exad said:
You probably need to do unroot with twrp installed since it relies on a custom recovery to write to system partitions

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So I need to unlock the bootloader and flash TWRP again and then it will work? Once I do that, do I just do the regular perma unroot in super su?

exad · May 5, 2014

xeron72548 said:
So I need to unlock the bootloader and flash TWRP again and then it will work? Once I do that, do I just do the regular perma unroot in super su?

Yes, then reboot then flash stock recovery and relock

xeron72548 · May 5, 2014

exad said:
Yes, then reboot then flash stock recovery and relock

Why does my kernel say that?

xeron72548 · May 5, 2014

xeron72548 said:
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Why does my kernel say that?

I can't seem to find a stock kernel any where either. I tried restoring from a stock nandroid and this kernel still stayed. Helo?

exad · May 5, 2014

I thought you already returned to stock. Is your kernel not stock?

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xeron72548 · May 5, 2014

exad said:
I thought you already returned to stock. Is your kernel not stock?

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I don't think it is now that I am looking at it. Apparently everything else is stock about my phone but that

exad · May 5, 2014

Extract it from the firmware and flash it

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xeron72548 · May 6, 2014

exad said:
Extract it from the firmware and flash it

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I'm far from that expertise. Do you know where I can find one already done?

jmjm003 · May 6, 2014

xeron72548 said:
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Why does my kernel say that?

I've never flashed another ROM or a custom kernel and this is what my kernel shows.
I am unlocked and rooted on stock.

3.4.0-gb52e55d
root@abm012#1
SMP PREEMPT

Pretty sure you are on the stock kernel Xeron.

This might be of interest to you. Someone in another thread had to use it to get rid of SU.
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2321585

xeron72548 · May 6, 2014

jmjm003 said:
I've never flashed another ROM or a custom kernel and this is what my kernel shows.
I am unlocked and rooted on stock.

3.4.0-gb52e55d
root@abm012#1
SMP PREEMPT

Pretty sure you are on the stock kernel Xeron.

This might be of interest to you. Someone in another thread had to use it to get rid of SU.
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2321585

Thanks for this! I actually ran the tool and while it did get rid of SU from popping back up, my kernel stayed the same. But at least now I know that is isn't a custom kernel. Thanks!

exad · May 6, 2014

Why would su change your kernel?

Sorry I think I missed one of your posts earlier. I was at work and distracted while trying to help you. Su is just administrative access. The application only manages what apps can and cannot have administrative access.

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xeron72548 · May 6, 2014

exad said:
Why would su change your kernel?

Sorry I think I missed one of your posts earlier. I was at work and distracted while trying to help you. Su is just administrative access. The application only manages what apps can and cannot have administrative access.

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I have no idea how or why SU would change it. However, do you know how to get back out of it and have a normal kernel name?

exad · May 6, 2014

What's wrong with your kernel name? Looks like a nice kernel name to me.

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