How to Unroot the Asus Padfone

Need to send in your device for warranty purpose? Looking for a way to reinstate your warranty? No problem, here’s how you can do that. Unrooting your device will reinstate its warranty and you should have no issues taking your device to the service center. Here’s how you can unroot your Asus Padfone device:

I. Before You Begin:

1. You should have rooted your device using the procedure given here.

2. Your device should have at least 70% of battery life left to ensure a smoother process.

II. Downloading Required Files:

1. Stock Firmware (Download the appropriate firmware for your device)

III. Unrooting the Asus Padfone:

1. Download and place the Stock Firmware archive onto your Desktop.

2. Plug in your device to your PC using the USB cable.

3. Copy the Stock Firmware archive over to the root of your SD card.

4. Once it’s been copied, unplug your device from your PC.

5. Turn OFF your device.

6. While your device’s turned OFF, press and hold the Volume DOWN+Power buttons together.

7. Select the option #21 that says Enter SD download mode.

8. On the next screen, choose apply update from external storage.

9. Navigate to your SD card and choose the Stock Firmware file you copied earlier to your device for flashing.

10. It will flash the file on your device.

12. Once it has done flashing the file, reboot your device.

13. And you’re all set!

Awesome! Your device has been unrooted and is all the way back to stock firmware. You would be glad to know that your warranty has been restored!

If this procedure helped you please thank/donate to the original developers here.

If you need help with this procedure, please ask in the comments below or in the forum.

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