Apparently, most owners of mobile equipment based on Android operating systems have heard that they can use the so-called root-rights. At the same time, there is a fairly wide list of operations in the system itself, which may not be available without their provision. It also happens that some users completely rashly set these privileges, make changes, and the system then refuses to work. But few of them know how to remove root rights on Android. It will be further considered what it is in general and how to use such rights so as not to damage anything in the system.
What are Android root permissions ?
To begin with, what are these privileges? Many root terms are, to put it mildly, scared. But in fact, his translation means "root". In other words, a user with such rights has access to the root directory of the operating system itself, which allows a lot of manipulations in terms of OS settings or even in the sense of removing embedded applications, which cannot be done with conventional methods.
For ease of understanding, such privileges can be compared with Windows systems. Suppose a user of an Android device has root privileges. How to remove some applet? This is akin to how in Windows some processes can only be run as administrator (even deleting files). We have a complete analogy. Only in Android-systems, no warnings or notifications pops up, since the user, in the presence of such rights, is already a “super administrator" by itself.
How to remove an application without root rights?
As for uninstalling applications, usually without the availability of such administrator privileges, you can only remove user applets that were installed independently. Built-in kits cannot be deleted (with rare exceptions).
Basically, without root privileges, you can delete applications on a mobile device exclusively through the use of a computer. In this case, it is initially assumed that the corresponding device driver is installed, and the USB debugging resolution item is activated on the device itself .
First, you need to install the App Inspector applet on a mobile device, change the charging for file transfer in the connection type, create an Android folder in the computer’s system section and put the ADB FastBoot application files there, previously extracted from the archive downloaded on the Internet.
Now you need to call the command line and write the command cd c: \ Android \ in it, and then confirm the definition of the device on your smartphone or tablet. After that, you need to run the installed applet on the phone and select the App List (Ordered by name) item.
Then, the adb shell string is entered in the command console on the computer, and after it pm uninstall -k --user 0 name.of.package is written (name.of.package corresponds to the full name of the removed applet from the list received in the App Inspector).
Obtaining root rights
Before talking about how to remove root-rights on Android, you should learn how to get them. It is clear that getting rid of such privileges is much easier than activating them.
There are a lot of options for getting them. However, one of the simplest and most universal means is the Kingo Root program, which is installed on a stationary PC and on a mobile device as a daughter client. When connecting the device to the computer and starting the program, a special driver is installed, which gives the user root privileges. How to remove them after installing such software packages? You just need to uninstall the client program on your smartphone and restart it completely.
How to remove applications (root privileges granted)?
Now a few words about other situations. Suppose a user has root privileges. How to remove system type applets with such privileges? Easy peasy.
Even in the system itself, in the application section, you can perform the standard uninstall procedure.
If some programs are used to optimize or clean the system, sometimes permission may be requested to grant the corresponding rights to the programs themselves. But you need to get rid of system applications wisely. The fact is that removing some of them can lead to unpredictable consequences.
For example, the removal of Google services leads to the fact that the system crashes. The same goes for the Play Market applet. In Sony Xperia smartphones, uninstalling the Xperia Home applet, which is responsible for the graphical interface, causes the smartphone to start at the boot stage (the main interface is unavailable).
Deactivating root on a mobile device
Finally, let's see how to remove root rights on a mobile device if they were activated for some reason.
The simplest technique is considered to be a complete reset to the factory state through the settings of the device itself. If after uninstalling some system applications this does not work, a full reset through Hard Reset is most effective.
But, in order not to deal with such things, you can use special software utilities for the PC, created for specific devices. Most of them have tools that allow you to restore factory firmware without using a hard reset. For example, for the same Sony smartphones, the Xperia Companion program is perfect. Of course, it will take quite a lot of time, but in the end you will get a “clean” phone, as if it had just left the assembly line of the plant.
You can do even easier by downloading special root removal utilities from the same Play Market like SuperSU, Universal Unroot, and Root Checker for verification.
Last Tips
It remains to add that it is not worth joking with such privileges, otherwise you can play through to the point that the whole system will fly off. It will have to be restored long enough. In this case, you can lose important data that was not stored on a removable card, but in the internal memory. Therefore, even if you establish yourself the rights of a superuser, think a hundred times about removing one or another component of the system, from your point of view, absolutely unnecessary.