How to Unroot the ZTE Radiant

Maybe you don’t find the custom ROMs to be your cup of tea? Maybe you want to get rid of them and just want to have a pure stock Android experience? Either way, this guide should help you unroot your ZTE Radiant and get it back to stock.

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 Radiant 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 Radiant:

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. If you used our root procedure to root your device, you already have it.

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

II. Downloading Required Files

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

Stock ROM .zip (Download link’s given in the fifth post)

III. Unrooting the ZTE Radiant

1. Connect 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. It’s the topmost folder on your SD card.

3. When 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 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 followed by choose zip from sdcard.

8. Choose the Stock ROM .zip file you copied earlier to be flashed on your device.

9. Hit Yes when prompted.

10. It’ll start flashing the ROM on your device.

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

12. You’re all set!

Excellent! Your ZTE Radiant is now unrooted and is running the stock firmware. The CWM Recovery is now replaced with the stock recovery.

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

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