[ROOT]Sony Xperia Tablet S SGPT121US ICS 4.0.3 ROOTED!! - Sony Tablet S

I Rooted my New SONY XPERIA TABLET S SGPT121US ICS 4.0.3
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Guide to Root your Xperia Tablet S​!! ATTENTION: I am not responsible if you brick or damage your device, use at your OWN RISK!!​
Files you need:
All in one Xperia Tablet root.zip
OR
ADB Tools
SonyTabletICS-2.zip
Superuser-3.1.3-arm-signed.zip
VpnFaker.apk (Attachment)
ATTENTION: For those who are not using the US firmware, the attached VpnFaker.apk may not be suitable for your tablet.
Please follow these steps(click me) to resign the VpnFaker.apk. Thanks to WonderEkin
***Pls Execute the command line by line***
Unzip those files into a dir, Open cmd console, cd to that dir
Run the following command and press Restore on your tablet
Code:
Code:
adb restore settings.ab
Check the result
Code:
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adb shell ls -ld /data/data/com.android.settings/a
[COLOR="Green"]drwxrwxrwx system system a[/COLOR]
And continue, ignore the "rm -r a" permission denied error
Code:
Code:
adb shell
cd /data/data/com.android.settings
rm -r a
while : ; do ln -s /data a/file99; done
While the loop is running, open another cmd console and run
Code:
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adb restore settings.ab
Once the restore process is completed, you can press CTRL+C on the 1st cmd console to break the loop
Check the /data permission
Code:
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adb shell ls -ld /data
[COLOR="Green"]drwxrwxrwx system system data[/COLOR]
Then continue
Code:
Code:
adb push busybox /data/local/tmp
adb push rootkit.tar.gz /data/local/tmp
adb push Superuser.apk /data/local/tmp
adb push su /data/local/tmp
adb shell
cd /data/local/tmp
chmod 755 busybox
./busybox tar zxf rootkit.tar.gz
exit
Push the resigned VpnFaker.apk(resign by ZipSigner 2) and update the timestamp
Code:
Code:
adb push VpnFaker.apk /data/local/tmp
adb shell
touch -t 1346025600 /data/local/tmp/VpnFaker.apk
exit
Now, replace the VpnDialogs (ignore "cp: can't open 'system/xxxxxxx': Permission denied" while you execute "/data/local/tmp/busybox cp -r system system2")
Code:
Code:
adb shell
cd /data
/data/local/tmp/busybox cp -r system system2
/data/local/tmp/busybox find system2 -type f -exec chmod 666 {} \;
/data/local/tmp/busybox find system2 -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;
mv system system-
mv system2 system
mv app app-
mkdir app
mv /data/local/tmp/VpnFaker.apk /data/app
Make sure the datatime is 2012/08/27 00:00
Code:
Code:
TZ=0 ls -l /data/app
[COLOR="green"]-rw-r--r-- shell shell 198580 2012-08-27 00:00 VpnFaker.apk[/COLOR]
Generate the packages.xml
Code:
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/data/local/tmp/busybox sed -f /data/local/tmp/packages.xml.sed system-/packages.xml > system/packages.xml
And double check the result
Code:
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/data/local/tmp/busybox grep vpndialogs system/packages.xml
[COLOR="green"]<updated-package name="com.android.vpndialogs" codepath="/system/app/VpnDialogs.apk" nativelibrarypath="/data/data/com.android.vpndialogs/lib" flags="1" ft="136f14be668" it="136f14be668" ut="136f14be668" version="15" shareduserid="1000">
<package name="com.android.vpndialogs" codepath="/data/app/VpnFaker.apk" nativelibrarypath="/data/data/com.android.vpndialogs/lib" flags="1" ft="1396560b400" it="1396560b400" ut="1396560b400" version="45" shareduserid="1000">[/COLOR]
Exit adb shell and reboot, you should see something like "Android is updating" during startup.
Code:
Code:
exit
adb reboot
Start the injected Terminal Emulator
Code:
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adb shell am start -n com.android.vpndialogs/.Term
In Terminal Emulator
Code:
Code:
id
You should see the uid is 1000(system)
Still in the Terminal Emulator, ignore the script error
Code:
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/data/local/tmp/onload.sh
/data/local/tmp/onload2.sh
Now back to the cmd console
Code:
adb shell
/dev/sh
id
Check the uid is 2000(shell)
And
Code:
Code:
chown 0.0 /data/local/tmp/_su
chmod 6755 /data/local/tmp/_su
/data/local/tmp/_su
id
Check the root access uid 0(root)
Backup /system (you may just skip it)
Code:
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dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 of=/mnt/sdcard/system.ext4 bs=128K
Copy su & Superuser.apk to /system
Code:
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/data/local/tmp/busybox mount -o rw,remount /system
/data/local/tmp/busybox cp /data/local/tmp/_su /system/xbin
chown 0.0 /system/xbin/_su
chmod 6755 /system/xbin/_su
/data/local/tmp/busybox cp /data/local/tmp/su /system/xbin
chown 0.0 /system/xbin/su
chmod 6755 /system/xbin/su
/data/local/tmp/busybox cp /data/local/tmp/Superuser.apk /system/app
/data/local/tmp/busybox mount -o ro,remount /system
sync
exit
Check the /system _su is working or not
Code:
Code:
_su
id
Should be uid 0(root)
And move the original /data/app & /data/system back (the original steps will keep the VpnFaker.apk, but i skip it)
Code:
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cd /data
mv app app2
mv app- app
mv system system2
mv system- system
exit
exit
Reboot your tab
Code:
adb reboot
Now, your Sony Xperia Tablet S ICS 4.0.3 should be rooted.
Credits Yupandra2012 for link to Original Root Method.
& WonderEkin for his Translation from Japanese to English.

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I have the Sony Tablet S and this is as far as I can get:
c:\SonyTablet>adb shell
[email protected]:/ $ cd /data
cd /data
[email protected]:/data $ /data/local/tmp/busybox cp -r system system2
/data/local/tmp/busybox cp -r system system2
cp: can't open 'system/entropy.dat': Permission denied
cp: can't open 'system/batterystats.bin': Permission denied
cp: can't open 'system/users/userlist.xml': Permission denied
cp: can't open 'system/users/0.xml': Permission denied
cp: can't open 'system/accounts.db': Permission denied
cp: can't open 'system/accounts.db-journal': Permission denied
cp: can't open 'system/called_pre_boots.dat': Permission denied
cp: can't open 'system/wallpaper_info.xml': Permission denied
cp: can't open 'system/appwidgets.xml': Permission denied
1|[email protected]:/data $
Any ideas?

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This Thread is for Xperia Tablet S, but anyways you ignore this error and complete the rest of the steps, I had the same error, ignored it and it worked for me.

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Another road block:
c:\STS>adb shell
[email protected]:/ $ cd /data
cd /data
[email protected]:/data $ /data/local/tmp/busybox cp -r system system2
/data/local/tmp/busybox cp -r system system2
cp: can't open 'system/entropy.dat': Permission denied
cp: can't open 'system/batterystats.bin': Permission denied
cp: can't open 'system/users/userlist.xml': Permission denied
cp: can't open 'system/users/0.xml': Permission denied
cp: can't open 'system/accounts.db': Permission denied
cp: can't open 'system/accounts.db-journal': Permission denied
cp: can't open 'system/called_pre_boots.dat': Permission denied
cp: can't open 'system/wallpaper_info.xml': Permission denied
cp: can't open 'system/appwidgets.xml': Permission denied
1|[email protected]:/data $ /data/local/tmp/busybox find system2 -type f -exec chmod
666 {} \;
d system2 -type f -exec chmod 666 {} \; <
[email protected]:/data $ /data/local/tmp/busybox find system2 -type d -exec chmod 7
77 {} \;
system2 -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \; <
[email protected]:/data $ mv system system-
mv system system-
[email protected]:/data $ mv system2 system
mv system2 system
[email protected]:/data $ mv app app-
mv app app-
[email protected]:/data $ mkdir app
mkdir app
[email protected]:/data $ mv /data/local/tmp/VpnFaker.apk /data/app
mv /data/local/tmp/VpnFaker.apk /data/app
[email protected]:/data $ TZ=0 ls -l /data/app
TZ=0 ls -l /data/app
-rw-rw-rw- shell shell 200436 2012-08-27 00:00 VpnFaker.apk
[email protected]:/data $ /data/local/tmp/busybox sed -f /data/local/tmp/packages.xm
l.sed system-/packages.xml > system/packages.xml
tem-/packages.xml > system/packages.xml <
/system/bin/sh: cannot create system/packages.xml: Permission denied
1|[email protected]:/data $ /data/local/tmp/busybox grep vpndialogs system/packages.
xml
p vpndialogs system/packages.xml <
<package name="com.android.vpndialogs" codePath="/system/app/VpnDialogs.apk" nat
iveLibraryPath="/data/data/com.android.vpndialogs/lib" flags="1" ft="138eb7f41b0
" it="138eb7f41b0" ut="138eb7f41b0" version="15" sharedUserId="1000">
[email protected]:/data $ exit
exit
c:\STS>adb reboot
c:\STS>adb shell am start -n com.android.vpndialogs/.Term
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
Starting: Intent { cmp=com.android.vpndialogs/.Term }
Error type 3
Error: Activity class {com.android.vpndialogs/com.android.vpndialogs.Term} does
not exist.
c:\STS>
There were a few things that didn't match up along the way as well...
I am lost...

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same here:
adb shell am start -n com.android.vpndialogs/.Term
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
Starting: Intent { cmp=com.android.vpndialogs/.Term }
Error type 3
Error: Activity class {com.android.vpndialogs/com.android.vpndialogs.Term} does
not exist.

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Do you type this in?
Code:
while : ; do ln -s /data a/file99; done

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Now, can you please upload a system dump of Xperia Tablet S?
Thanks!

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Guys the error you are facing means missing terminal emulator is not installed on your device. make sure you have terminal emulator downloaded and installed from Google play. Also note you will face errors with the onload scripts using the emulator just ignore it and resume normally.

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could you upload the terminal emulator?
zorbakun said:
Guys the error you are facing means missing terminal emulator is not installed on your device. make sure you have terminal emulator downloaded and installed from Google play. Also note you will face errors with the onload scripts using the emulator just ignore it and resume normally.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I am a user in China,and my tablet S cant's download any app from googleplay.Can you upload the terminal emulator?
Thank you very much.

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txiangyang said:
I am a user in China,and my tablet S cant's download any app from googleplay.Can you upload the terminal emulator?
Thank you very much.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The Vpnfaker.apk has already injected with terminal emulator. Moreover, all installed apps will temporary missing during the process.

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as WonderEkin pointed out, people with problem (Error: Activity class {com.android.vpndialogs/com.android.vpndialogs.Term} does
not exist.) don't have the US version of the device hence They will need to re-sign the VpnFaker.apk as described here and start all over again from the beginning.
Guide has been updated to reflect the same.
Credits to WonderEkin

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This method works like a charm. Yay for rooted Tablet S!
Thank you so much!

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I was getting this:
adb shell am start -n com.android.vpndialogs/.Term
Starting: Intent { cmp=com.android.vpndialogs/.Term }
Error type 3
Error: Activity class {com.android.vpndialogs/com.android.vpndialogs.Term} does not exist.
I have a Tablet S, US Tablet, US Firmware, what am I suppose to do with the VpnFaker.apk?
"ATTENTION: For those who are not using the US firmware, the attached VpnFaker.apk may not be suitable for your tablet.
Please follow these steps(click me) to resign the VpnFaker.apk. Thanks to WonderEkin"
Not clear to me...

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Is this only for new xperia tab s or does it work for the old tab s?

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WOW so fast ..
Even though Sony Xperia Tablet S ain't Global out there yet ..
Great Job .​

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typo86 said:
I was getting this:
adb shell am start -n com.android.vpndialogs/.Term
Starting: Intent { cmp=com.android.vpndialogs/.Term }
Error type 3
Error: Activity class {com.android.vpndialogs/com.android.vpndialogs.Term} does not exist.
I have a Tablet S, US Tablet, US Firmware, what am I suppose to do with the VpnFaker.apk?
"ATTENTION: For those who are not using the US firmware, the attached VpnFaker.apk may not be suitable for your tablet.
Please follow these steps(click me) to resign the VpnFaker.apk. Thanks to WonderEkin"
Not clear to me...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If you don't have the US version of the tablet, then you may need to re-sign the VpnFaker.apk, but since you own the US version, then no need to resign it. just make sure you follow the procedure carefully one step at a time, and if possible have terminal emulator installed on your tab as well.

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Roscobigfoot said:
Is this only for new xperia tab s or does it work for the old tab s?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Check this thread for old Sony Tablet S.

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SWFlyerUK said:
Do you type this in?
Code:
while : ; do ln -s /data a/file99; done
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes you do.

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Still no luck...
Tried it both ways, followed instructions and I still end up here:
adb shell am start -n com.android.vpndialogs/.Term
Starting: Intent { cmp=com.android.vpndialogs/.Term }
Error type 3
Error: Activity class {com.android.vpndialogs/com.android.vpndialogs.Term} does not exist.
US old Tablet S, US Firmware...Is there anyone with a US tablet that has been able to root this way?

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Now you can use my new All in one Xperia Tablet Root.zip for easier process, just extract it to an easy path like C:/Xperia root/ then open CMD pointing to the same path and Follow the guide in the first page.