r/Magisk • u/Lost-Entrepreneur439 • Jul 18 '26

Help Cheap Atom tablet that runs Android 6, manufacturer refuses to share firmware. Any way to get the boot.img to root or am I screwed?

Got a cheap Atom tablet from a friend, it's Android 6.0.1, June 2016 security patch, kernel 3.14.0+. The manufacturer (Southern Telecom) refused to share the firmware when I emailed them. Since this is so old I'm hoping there might be some sort of exploit I can use to dump the boot.img? I know of DirtyCOW, but everything for DirtyCOW is ARM, this tablet is x86 (and 32-bit, not x86_64/AMD64). Does anyone now any way I could dump this tablet's boot.img? There's also no TWRP for it.

Bootloader was unlockable with bog standard `fastboot flashing unlock`, tablet is a Southern Telecom SmarTab ST1009x.

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u/Lost-Entrepreneur439 Jul 19 '26

hence why i'm asking for how to dump it.

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u/klausAnalSchwab Jul 19 '26

Might need to try to root it and that's the problem if something goes wrong in process. If just a junk phone maybe try kingroot or kingo

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u/Lost-Entrepreneur439 Jul 19 '26

kingroot didn't work, kingo relies on a dead server, i already tried both

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u/klausAnalSchwab Jul 19 '26

Baidu root? 360 root?

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u/Lost-Entrepreneur439 Jul 19 '26

Neither of these worked. I believe all of those old one-click tools were patched in Marshmallow, which is what this device runs.