Owners of Sony’s Tablet S
who have been patiently waiting for a developer with the skills to root
their new Sony tablet and open a door of new possibilities. Will be
pleased to know that security researcher Dan Rosenberg has found a way
to root the Sony Tablet S using the USB debugging
Rosenberg
has unveiled a method of rooting the Sony Tablet S tablet by enabling
USB debugging plug it into a Windows computer, and running a Windows
utility created by Rosenberg.
Once
rooted the tablet will then enable you to have access to files and
settings that would have not otherwise been available to you. But as
always rooting your Tablet might cause problems and void your warranty,
and Geeky Gadgets is not responsible for your device. Rosenberg
explains:
“After getting a taste of rooting tablets with the
Lenovo Thinkpad tablet, I decided to turn my attention to the Sony
Tablet S. It turned out to be a tough device to root.
The
Sony Tablet S has a logging service running as root named
nfx_log_service. This service maintains on-disk backups of the Android
logcat buffers in the /log directory. This directory is group-writable
and group “log”, which is granted to the ADB shell, so we can modify
files in this directory.”
For more information on the Sony Tablet S rooting method jump over to Rosenberg’s website, for details.
