How to Unroot the HTC Desire V

Have you had enough playing with your rooted HTC Desire V smartphone? Want to go back to the unrooted state to enjoy warranty goodies? No problem, this guide should help you do that. Unrooting is actually opposite of rooting, it removes the root-access from your device and sends your device back to the unrooted state. The guide below teaches how you can unroot your HTC Desire V smartphone and get it back to stock:

I. Before You Begin:

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

2. This should work on Windows based PCs only.

II. Downloading Required Files:

1. Boot & Recovery (Download the appropriate file for your device)

2. Stock ROM (Download the appropriate ROM for your device)

3. Fastboot

III. Unrooting the HTC Desire V:

1. Download and place all three files on your Desktop.

2. Extract files from Boot & Recovery as well as Fastboot archives over to your Desktop.

3. Turn ON the USB debugging option on your device by heading to Menu>>Settings>>Developer options>>USB debugging.

4. Plug in your device to your PC via USB cable.

5. Open a Command Prompt Window on your Desktop. To do that, simply hold down the Shiftbutton and right-click on any blank area on your screen and select Open command window here.

6. Type in following command into the Command Prompt Window:

adb reboot-bootloader

7. Once in bootloader mode, issue the following command:

fastboot flash boot boot.img

8. Once the boot.img has been flashed, reboot your device by typing in following command:

fastboot reboot

9. Once your boots-up, issue the following command:

adb reboot recovery

10. You should reboot into the recovery mode.

11. From the Recovery menu, select Wipe dalvik cache and wipe data/factory reset.

12. Head to Mount menu and select format internal_sdcard and format system.

13. Reboot your device.

14. Copy the ROM zip file over to the root of your device.

15. Reboot your device into the recovery mode by issuing the following command:

adb reboot recovery

16. Once in Recovery, select install zip from sdcard followed by choose zip from sdcard.

17. Choose the ROM zip to be flashed on your device and it’ll start flashing it.

18. Reboot your device once the ROM has been flashed.

19. Now issue the following command to reboot your device into bootloader:

adb reboot-bootloader

20. Type in following command to flash the stock recovery:

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

21. Once the recovery’s been flashed, relock your bootloader with the following command:

fastboot oem lock

22. And you’re all done!

Excellent! Your Desire V has been successfully unrooted and is back to stock firmware.

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

If this procedure helped you, please consider donating to the original developer or at least sending them a thank you.