How to Unroot the Nextbit Robin & Get Back to Stock (Video)

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If you’ve had enough fun with your rooted Nextbit Robin and want to either sell it, send it in for warranty, or just get it back to stock for a clean slate, here’s how to unroot the Nextbit Robin to do just that.

This tutorial will walk you through flashing the stock firmware directly from Nextbit’s site, including the stock recovery, and then simply relocking the bootloader so it shows no sign of every being rooted in the first place. Here’s how to get started.

I. Before You Begin

  1. This will erase your phone so save anything to your computer that you might need.

II. Flash the Stock Firmware and Stock Recovery

Nextbit made it easy for us to get back to stock thankfully, here’s what to do.

  1. Download the latest firmware for the device and save it to your desktop and unzip it.
    Download Nextbit Firmware
  2. Turn your phone off then turn it back on by holding down Volume Down and Power until you get to fastboot mode.
    Fastboot Mode
  3. When you get to fastboot mode, plug the phone in via USB to the computer.
    Plug in via USB
  4. Double-click the flash-all.bat file (or the flash-all.sh file for Mac) and wait for it to flash.
    Double-click Flash-All

III. Relock the Bootloader

Now that we’re back to stock (thanks Nextbit for making that easy!), we need to just relock the bootloader.

  1. Turn the phone back off and back on by holding down Volume Down and Power until you get to fastboot mode.
    Boot Back into Fastboot
  2. With the phone still plugged in via USB, head to the folder that contained the stock files we downloaded earlier, hold shift on the keyboard and right-click any blank area inside that folder and select Open Command Window Here.
    Open Command Window Here
  3. In the command prompt type the following with hitting enter at the end of each line:
    fastboot -i 0x2c3f oem lock
    Fastboot OEM Lock

That’s it. You should be all set, get OTA updates from Nextbit, send it in for warranty, or whatever else you need to do with it. Let me know how this went in the comments below!

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  • Cori Trottman

    Perfect. it works %100. I got scared at first but just be patient.

  • john sawyer

    i need help, ive been trying this but when i press y and enter when wiping the device, it just stays on: “waiting for device” and doesnt progress

  • Md Ziauddin

    hi david need help, im trying to root my nextbit robin i have done every single step but in that video u did not told how to take our stock rom backup…i did not took my stock rom backup now my phone is not connecting to pc with fastboot also..now plz help me what should i do..how to install my stock rom i have downloaded nextbit stock rom from ur site

  • Alex Sun

    Hi David, I’m having trouble opening the .sh file on Mac. Any tips?

  • Munavar Jalal

    hi tried to flash the device to stock os for nextbit robin. but when i click the flash-all for windows open and i press y. The command below is “waiting for the device” for more than half an hour but nothing appeared. pls let me know does it take such a long time or my laptop is having an issue???