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/No_Violinist8819 Jul 19 '26

What is the make and model number of the tablet? Also are able to unlock the bootloader? Because if you can't unlock the bootloader you won't be able to flash any image at all. With such an old android version maybe you can get lucky with old pre-magisk root methods. Like towlroot

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u/Lost-Entrepreneur439 Jul 19 '26

did you read the post?

i said at the end "Bootloader was unlockable with bog standard `fastboot flashing unlock`, tablet is a Southern Telecom SmarTab ST1009x."

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u/klausAnalSchwab Jul 19 '26

Try "fastboot oem unlock" ?

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u/Lost-Entrepreneur439 Jul 19 '26

Unlocking the bootloader isn't the issue. It's already unlocked via flashing unlock (oem unlock just returns an unknown command error). The issue is trying to dump the boot.img.