Unrooting

[eric002]

Ok so what's the easiest way to unroot the Nexus 6?preferably without wiping the data on my phone, however I doubt that's possible. Thanks. I know that marshmallow is coming out soon.

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[danielson2047]

Wugs toolkit is probably the easiest. Me personally, I'd just flash the system image in fastboot.

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[eric002]

Wugs toolkit is probably the easiest. Me personally, I'd just flash the system image in fastboot.

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Haha yeah I was thinking of the same thing quite honestly, I just don't want to. I'd rather unroot, then go from there. I mean I've already deleted the lite flow app, and all the other rooted apps, etc. Marshmallow looks extremely promising of course.

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[danielson2047]

Doze mode has me very excited

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[eric002]

Doze mode has me very excited

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Haha yeah yes indeed between doze mode for double he amount of battery power, and customizing the quick toggles finally the. Multi window mode for true multitasking especially on. Our lovely Nexus 6, there seem to be quite a few cool essential features that we'll be getting Soon...thankfully!

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[wtherrell]

I'm just going to wait until the Excellent devs here come out with their own optimized versions of M roms.

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[Lee_Bo]

Unfortunately unrooting the device is going to wipe it.

NRT is the easiest way to do it.

 

[danielson2047]

This is why i just flash the .img, no wipe necessary

 

[Ed Briggs]

I'm just going to wait until the Excellent devs here come out with their own optimized versions of M roms.

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I could be wrong, but I didn't think any devs hung out here. But I'm going to wait until the Pure Nexus rom moves to M.

 

[eric002]

Yeah, I know that that means wiping it. Just figured I'd ask. If you not have to be white sooner or later for the marshmallow Android 6.0.

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[jj14x]

Haha yeah I was thinking of the same thing quite honestly, I just don't want to. I'd rather unroot, then go from there. I mean I've already deleted the lite flow app, and all the other rooted apps, etc. Marshmallow looks extremely promising of course.

Are you trying to "unroot" to be able to apply the OTA whenever it is available? If so, your only option is the get back to stock by flashing the system.img. "Unrooting" won't get your system image back to completely stock. Since Lollipop, the OTA will fail if you had ever made any changes to the system partition.

Unfortunately unrooting the device is going to wipe it.

Unrooting the device won't wipe the data. Op could flash the system.img as danielson2047 suggested

 

[eric002]

Are you trying to "unroot" to be able to apply the OTA whenever it is available? If so, your only option is the get back to stock by flashing the system.img. "Unrooting" won't get your system image back to completely stock. Since Lollipop, the OTA will fail if you had ever made any changes to the system partition.


Unrooting the device won't wipe the data. Op could flash the system.img as danielson2047 suggested

I haven't messed with the system partition. I figured by wiping it and not having to flash another imagine file I'd just got back to stock and do the automatic updates once and for all.

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[jj14x]

I haven't messed with the system partition.

If you rooted, your system partition is considered "messed with" by Android (5.x).
If takes a few seconds to flash the system.img (assuming you have fastboot installed) - no data wipe needed/performed

 

[eric002]

If you rooted, your system partition is considered "messed with" by Android (5.x).
If takes a few seconds to flash the system.img (assuming you have fastboot installed) - no data wipe needed/performed

How would I know If I have fast boot installed though?i just want the quickest method for unroofing. I mean, I originally rooted for the hidden LED notification light which im not even using anymore.

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[eric002]

If you rooted, your system partition is considered "messed with" by Android (5.x).
If takes a few seconds to flash the system.img (assuming you have fastboot installed) - no data wipe needed/performed

In order to unroot, should I use the wugs toolkit? Would that be the easiest method?

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[wtherrell]

In order to unroot, should I use the wugs toolkit? Would that be the easiest method?

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Probably the easiest. Just pay close attention so you understand what you are doing.

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[eric002]

Probably the easiest. Just pay close attention so you understand what you are doing.

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Haha yes yes that's very true.

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[jj14x]

In order to unroot, should I use the wugs toolkit? Would that be the easiest method?

I know I could be unrooted in about the same (or less) time than Wug's, using fastboot. From what I've heard, Wug's works well most of the times. Personally, I don't encourage the use of a toolkit, only because the user doesn't really understand what's happening in the background, and if something goes wrong, the user has no idea what happened, and how to fix it and proceed.

I do realize that toolkits are useful for long procedures, but this is a Nexus that you are talking about It is not a super long procedure - to unroot,

• connect the phone to computer using USB cable,
• reboot to bootloader,
• open command prompt on window,
• verify connection using "fastboot devices"
• run fastboot command to flash system image
• restart phone

If you are uncomfortable using fastboot (and I get it - I have enough friends who refuse to use fastboot because they are worried they may screw things up - I don't know why, but it is what it is), just use the toolkit, but still, try to understand what is happening in the background.

How would I know If I have fast boot installed though?i just want the quickest method for unroofing. I mean, I originally rooted for the hidden LED notification light which im not even using anymore.

On your computer, open a command prompt and type in fastboot. If you get back fastboot options, you have fastboot installed. This assumes of course that you set your path variable. If not, you'll need to find the directory where you may have placed the fastboot files, navigate to that and then type fastboot to see if it works.

I can point you to more instructions if you choose to use fastboot

 

[eric002]

I know I could be unrooted in about the same (or less) time than Wug's, using fastboot. From what I've heard, Wug's works well most of the times. Personally, I don't encourage the use of a toolkit, only because the user doesn't really understand what's happening in the background, and if something goes wrong, the user has no idea what happened, and how to fix it and proceed.

I do realize that toolkits are useful for long procedures, but this is a Nexus that you are talking about It is not a super long procedure - to unroot,

• connect the phone to computer using USB cable,
• reboot to bootloader,
• open command prompt on window,
• verify connection using "fastboot devices"
• run fastboot command to flash system image
• restart phone

If you are uncomfortable using fastboot (and I get it - I have enough friends who refuse to use fastboot because they are worried they may screw things up - I don't know why, but it is what it is), just use the toolkit, but still, try to understand what is happening in the background.



On your computer, open a command prompt and type in fastboot. If you get back fastboot options, you have fastboot installed. This assumes of course that you set your path variable. If not, you'll need to find the directory where you may have placed the fastboot files, navigate to that and then type fastboot to see if it works.

I can point you to more instructions if you choose to use fastboot

All I can you very much for your help. I'm not necessarily afraid to use fast boot then you're right sometimes I forget I have a Nexus phone with the kind of software it has. Not that I've owned that many galaxy phones but I've had moto X's before and then not so easy to work with other. Is my first Nexus device that I've ever owned and I've always wanted to have one. Are those the step-by-step procedures on how to unroot ? What you start off? If they are in, would you be so kind as to how their private message me or listen to me the actual steps involved with command line and I will try and myself. I'm not afraid to. Thanks.

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[jj14x]

Are those the step-by-step procedures on how to unroot ? What you start off? If they are in, would you be so kind as to how their private message me or listen to me the actual steps involved with command line and I will try and myself.

Here's the thread I point everyone to - it is pretty detailed, (and has more than what you need). It is basically instructions on how to get back to complete stock. Wipes your phone clean - again, you don't want that, so read the notes below the link
[TUTORIAL][GUIDE][HOW TO] Flash Factory Imag… | Nexus 6 | XDA Forums

Here's what I'd suggest. Read the first & second post at the link above. Read it one more time

Now, a few things to know.

• In Step 5, method 1 doesn't work with Lollipop releases. It is expected to be fixed in Android 6. So if you are trying to do this now, use Method 2 (If you use Method 1, your phone will be wiped clean, so don't use Method 1)
• Remember to download the correct factory image from the Google Site. (depending on your carrier)
• Since you only rooted and didn't mess with any other partition (is that true?), you don't need to run most of the commands in Step 5/Method 2 - all you need is the "fastboot flash system ....." command. (I usually flash the cache partition too - it is not needed, but I've heard of instances where you end up having to flash the cache partition as well - doesn't hurt, takes a couple of seconds)
• Do NOT run the "fastboot flash userdata...." command - that will wipe your data out completely.
• One of the final steps in that first post is to "Wipe Data/Factory data reset" - don't do that unless you want to wipe your phone
• After connecting your phone to your computer (before running any command), I always run a "fastboot devices" command in the command prompt. It should immediately return a long alphanumeric string (that identifies your phone). If you don't get a response, either your cable is bad, or fastboot isn't working right, or your phone is not in bootloader mode - don't proceed - nothing will work. see [noob-read] adb and fastboot. What is it? Ho… | Nexus 6 | XDA Forums
  

I know it may look daunting, but once you have fastboot and the USB drivers installed, it will take just a few seconds to run the commands. Getting fastboot/USB drivers installed is the 'hard' part. Since you have already rooted, I assume you have fastboot already installed.