noob technical question

[eletendre84]

Ok.

Rooted, running xionia recovery, drews cm7, love it, wonderful, awesome. you guys do great work and give great advice.

My question is this.

If you can root the phone using gingerbreak, use adb to push the custom recovery on, then flash from said recovery...

why doesnt it work backwards?

install stock (rooted) rom, push stock recovery with adb, reboot into stock rooted rom with stock recovery, then use gingerbreak to unroot phone?

is this a simple answer or do i need to do some googling?

Thanks!

 

[c4manceph]

http://forums.androidcentral.com/lg...45403-how-unroot-your-phone-return-stock.html

 

[eletendre84]

http://forums.androidcentral.com/lg...45403-how-unroot-your-phone-return-stock.html

Thanks for the answer, but I am not looking to return to stock. I want to know why the process does not work in reverse.

 

[sonicbluemustang]

Stock Recoveries usually dont have the abilty to flash zip files. Hence the need for Custom Recovery.

One more tip, stock roms are not rooted but most custom roms are rooted already.

 

[eletendre84]

right. however, if you flash a stock rooted rom (2.2.2 for example) using a Nandroid dump, then, boot into that rom. Use adb shell to flash the stock recovery. you would no longer need to flash anything. Then, using gingerbreak, unroot the phone. I just dont see the problem in that (though im sure there is).

 

[c4manceph]

right. however, if you flash a stock rooted rom (2.2.2 for example) using a Nandroid dump, then, boot into that rom. Use adb shell to flash the stock recovery. you would no longer need to flash anything. Then, using gingerbreak, unroot the phone. I just dont see the problem in that (though im sure there is).

That is a great question!

 

[On3wheels]

I think it makes sense up to the unroot with gingerbreak partits called gingerbreak...not gingerfix...if you read the return to stock tutorial it does not use gingerbreak. (from what i understand) Gingerbreak is designed to make changes to certain files giving root access. its is not designed to unmake those changes. Its like trying to close a bottle with a bottle "opener." i think you can do it with gingersnap tho....