How to Unroot the HP Slate 7

Maybe you installed some root-only apps on your HP Slate 7 that are causing issues on your device? Maybe you want to send in your device for warranty reasons? Either way, this guide should help you unroot your HP Slate 7 and get it back to stock. Here’s how:

Unrooting is the process of removing root access, a custom recovery (if you have one), and just trying to get the device back to as close to stock as possible.

Some of the reasons for unrooting your HP Slate 7 are:

• Sending in the device for warranty (most, but not all unrooting procedures reinstate the manufacturer warranty if you had one before rooting).
• Starting over (simply undoing everything you did while rooted so you can have a clean slate to start over).
• Fix any issues (Maybe rooting messed something up? No problem, unrooting will take care of it for you).

Ready to get started? Here’s how to unroot the HP Slate 7:

I. Before You Begin

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

2. You must have CWM Recovery installed on your device to do this procedure. If you used our root guide to root your device, you have it already.

3. This should flash the stock firmware on your device.

4. This only works for the HP Slate 7 2800 model.

II. Downloading Required Files

1. Download Stock ROM and save it to your desktop.

Stock ROM (Download link’s available in the first post)

III. Unrooting the HP Slate 7

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

2. Copy Stock ROM .zip from your desktop over to the root of your SD card.

3. Once copied, unplug your device from your PC.

4. Head over to the Google Play store and download and install Quick Boot on your device.

5. Launch the Quick Boot app from your App Drawer.

6. Tap on Recovery. It’ll reboot your device into recovery mode.

7. Once in recovery, select install zip from sdcard.

8. Select choose zip from sdcard.

9. Choose Stock ROM .zip to be flashed on your device.

10. It should begin flashing the selected .zip on your device.

11. When the .zip file is flashed, select reboot system now and your device should reboot.

12. You’re all done!

Awesome! Your HP Slate 7 is now unrooted and is running the official stock firmware.

You can click here to find all of the HP Slate 7 How To’s.

You can also find all of the HP Slate 7 ROMs we have here.