How to Unroot the HTC Desire V
Have you had enough playing with your rooted HTC Desire V smartphone? Want to go back to the unrooted state to enjoy warranty goodies? No problem, this guide should help you do that. Unrooting is actually opposite of rooting, it removes the root-access from your device and sends your device back to the unrooted state. The guide below teaches how you can unroot your HTC Desire V smartphone and get it back to stock:
I. Before You Begin:
1. You should have rooted your device using the procedure given here.
2. This should work on Windows based PCs only.
II. Downloading Required Files:
1. Boot & Recovery (Download the appropriate file for your device)
2. Stock ROM (Download the appropriate ROM for your device)
3. Fastboot
III. Unrooting the HTC Desire V:
1. Download and place all three files on your Desktop.
2. Extract files from Boot & Recovery as well as Fastboot archives over to your Desktop.
3. Turn ON the USB debugging option on your device by heading to Menu>>Settings>>Developer options>>USB debugging.
4. Plug in your device to your PC via USB cable.
5. Open a Command Prompt Window on your Desktop. To do that, simply hold down the Shift button and right-click on any blank area on your screen and select Open command window here.
6. Type in following command into the Command Prompt Window:
adb reboot-bootloader
7. Once in bootloader mode, issue the following command:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
8. Once the boot.img has been flashed, reboot your device by typing in following command:
fastboot reboot
9. Once your boots-up, issue the following command:
adb reboot recovery
10. You should reboot into the recovery mode.
11. From the Recovery menu, select Wipe dalvik cache and wipe data/factory reset.
12. Head to Mount menu and select format internal_sdcard and format system.
13. Reboot your device.
14. Copy the ROM zip file over to the root of your device.
15. Reboot your device into the recovery mode by issuing the following command:
adb reboot recovery
16. Once in Recovery, select install zip from sdcard followed by choose zip from sdcard.
17. Choose the ROM zip to be flashed on your device and it’ll start flashing it.
18. Reboot your device once the ROM has been flashed.
19. Now issue the following command to reboot your device into bootloader:
adb reboot-bootloader
20. Type in following command to flash the stock recovery:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
21. Once the recovery’s been flashed, relock your bootloader with the following command:
fastboot oem lock
22. And you’re all done!
Excellent! Your Desire V has been successfully unrooted and is back to stock firmware.
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Wifi is not working. What should i do?
hi.. ur problem is resolved?
I also facing same issue after unroot my htc desire v.
pls tell me if u get resolved the issue.
flash boot.img again after installing rom.
after doing this procedure can we install ota updates? plz rply fast
You definitely can.
not installing updates :/ stuck on installing process in recovery with red icon…
Try wiping your device and then re-try the update. It should work fine then. Thanks!
same problem how to fixed it
Thanks you saved my life 🙂
Hi Deepak,
We’re glad we could help you 🙂
Thank you and keep coming back for more!
i got problem like this..
>fastboot oem lock
…
(bootloader) Lock successfully…
FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))
finished. total time: 0.223s
and now every time i start up my device it always go to factory reset menu
what should i do?
the capture