How to Unroot the Samsung Galaxy W (I8150)
If you have ever had the need to take your smartphone into a service center, it’s always a good idea to bring it back to stock to avoid any unwanted questions in the service center. A good way to do this is to flash a stock ROM before you send it in but if you are already on a rooted stock ROM, just unrooting will do the trick in a few minutes. The guide below aims to help you do this, but with the Samsung Galaxy W. Read on to know how.
I. Before You Begin
1. Use the below procedure only if you have rooted your Galaxy W using our root guide. Do not try this if you have rooted your device by any other way as it is known to cause problems with your device.
2. Make sure that you back up everything before you begin.
3. Charge your device to 75% or more of your battery before you begin.
II. Necessary Downloads
unroot.zip [download link available in the Unrooting via Recovery Mode section of this post]
III. Unrooting the Galaxy W
1. Connect your device to your PC and copy unroot.zip to your internal SD card.
2. Disconnect and power down your device.
3. Press and hold the Volume Up + Home + Power buttons and release only the Power button once you see the Galaxy W logo. Release Volume Up and Power buttons once you see the Android logo.
4. Press the Menu button (the button to the left oft he Home button) and wait for the recovery menu to appear.
5. Use the Volume Up and Down buttons to locate and highlight apply sdcard:update.zip option. Press the Home button to select the option.
6. Locate and highlight the unroot.zip file and press the Home button to select and confirm on the next step.
7. Once the process is complete, select reboot system now.
And that’s it!
IV. Flashing Custom Recovery (Optional)
If you would like to flash a custom recovery image in order to flash custom ROMs, head to the next procedure to learn how to do that.
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.
This is part of our Android How To’s. We have how to’s on rooting, loading ROMs, and tons of other tips and tricks for your specific device or for Android devices in general! For all of our Android How To’s, head here.
I recently installed cow rom v7 on my samsung galaxy wonder…can I still unroot using this procedure…????