Unlocking and Rooting the Galaxy Nexus is pretty easy. But there may come a time when you’ve got to unroot and lock your Galaxy Nexus, maybe you’re planning to sell the phone or maybe your dad got to know that you’re violating the warranty by unlocking the bootloader – whatever the case, thanks to the Android team, we can now put the Galaxy Nexus back to it’s original state with the factory images to make it look like it’s just been pulled out of the box. Make sure you follow the steps carefully. If you find yourself stuck in a conundrum, let us know in the comment section at the bottom of the page.
Prerequisites
- Before you start, it is always advisable to take a back up of your phone’s data. Backing up your contacts is easy and you can back up all your contacts to your phone’s SD Card.
- To back up your applications, I recommend you to use ASTRO File Manager which also allows cloud storage.
- Make sure your phone’s batter has a minimum of 60% charge.
- Enable USB Debugging. To do this, go to Settings>Applications>Development and make sure USB Debugging is checked.
- Latest Samsung drivers (can be located via Google easily)
Disclaimer: BlogoTech is not responsible for any damage that might be caused to your device during this process though the possibility of any damage is negligible. Try this at your own risk.
Steps to Unroot Samsung Galaxy Nexus
- Download the Android 4.0.2 factory image from here
- Unzip the archive into your SDK/Tools folder (in whichever folder the adb.exe and fastboot.exe files are located). Make sure they are not in their own folder, but have all been extracted to Tools
- Open a command prompt window (Press SHIFT + right click and select “open command prompt here”)
- Type the following commands one by one and allow the each one of them to finish before you move on to the next
adb reboot bootloader fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-toro-primekk15.img fastboot reboot-bootloader fastboot flash radio radio-toro-i515.ek02.img fastboot reboot-bootloader fastboot flash radio-cdma radio-cdma-toro-i515.ek05.img fastboot reboot-bootloader fastboot -w update image-mysid-icl53f.zip fastboot reboot-bootloader fastboot oem lock
- Reboot your device by highlighting “Start” on the screen and pressing the lock button
- Thats it! Your phone is now back to 100% unrooted and stock condition
Having issues? Let us know in the comment section below!