How to Unroot the ZTE Merit

Think your ZTE Merit’s crashing due to root-only apps? Want to get your device back to the unrooted state? No worries, here’s how you can do that. Unrooting the ZTE Merit is actually much simpler than rooting it. 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 ZTE Merit 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 ZTE Merit:

I. Before You Begin

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

2. This won’t remove the custom recovery on your device, if you’ve flashed one.

3. This only removes root-access from your device. This doesn’t flash a stock firmware.

II. Downloading Required Files

1. Download Unroot Package and save it to your desktop.

Unroot Package (Download link’s available in the first post)

III. Unrooting the ZTE Merit

1. Connect your device to your PC using the USB cable.

2. Copy Unroot Package from your desktop over to the root of your SD card.

3. Once it’s copied, disconnect your device from your PC.

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

5. Launch Quick Boot from your App Drawer.

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

7. Select install zip from sdcard.

8. Select choose zip from sdcard.

9. Choose Unroot Package .zip to be flashed on your device.

10. Hit Yes when prompted and it should begin flashing the zip file on your device.

11. When the flashing’s done, reboot your device.

12. You’re all done!

Congrats! Your ZTE Merit is now unrooted. It no longer has SU on it and is completely unrooted.

You can click here to find all of the ZTE Merit How To’s.

You can also find all of the ZTE Merit ROMs we have here.