How to Unroot the Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet
The unrooting process usually removes the SU, Superuser and Busybox tools from your device, then your device becomes unrooted. As soon as these tools are gone from your device, you are no longer able to provide system files access. Unrooting the Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet process is quite easy, and with the following guide, you won’t have any issue unrooting your device. Here’s how you can unroot your Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet.
I. Before You Begin:
1. You should have rooted your device using the guide given here.
2. You must have ADB installed on your PC. If you don’t have it already, get it from here.
II. Unrooting the Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet:
1. Enable USB debugging on your device by going to Menu>>Settings>>Applications>>Development>>USB debugging.
2. Connect the device to your PC using the USB cable.
3. Open a Command Prompt Window in the folder where you have installed ADB. It is the folder where adb.exe file is located. To open the CMD window, just press and hold the Shift key on your keyboard and right-click on any empty area on the screen, then choose the Open command window here option.
4. Issue the following command using the Command Prompt Window:
adb shell
5. You should enter the shell mode. Now, issue the following command:
su
6. A prompt will appear on your device asking to provide Superuser permission. Allow it.
7. Next, enter the following commands into the Command Prompt Window. Make sure to press ENTER after each line.
mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/system /system
rm /system/app/Superuser.apk
rm /system/xbin/su
rm /system/bin/su
8. Reboot your device and you’re all done!
Your device has successfully been unrooted!
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If you need help with this procedure, please ask in the comments below or in the forum.
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I see adb.exe in my C:UsersDownloadsDebugfsRoot_Generic_v2.3 folder, is this where i have to start?,
Im not able to go past the 3rd step, when i type rm /system/app/Superuser.apk, it says directory not found. please help