[Android General] leahcimewol:
[Shuame] The most powerful Flash and ROOT tool NOT!!!

I just tried this tool on windows 7 and used it together with cyndica to install drivers for my cheap chinese generic tablets with crappy mobomarket which keeps trying to install itself, nevermind the rubbish facebook popups on the homescreen! I wanted to get root priveleges because these tablets Q8H Build: Polaris are used by my children and I don't want them clicking on anything inappropriate or expensive.

Now I have taken all other precautions like setting safe search on google chrome and youtube etc. as well as the necessary precautions on google play so that they can't make purchases and new apps are blocked until I approve them but got so sick of the bloody facebook popup (they don't even have facebook installed!!!!) and the ("MoboMarket" whatever that is???) that I wanted to get root to install App Uninstaller Root Pro so as to remove the actual apk files from the system.

Now everything seemed to run smoothly and when all was finished Shaume reported a successfull root! However I must warn those of you less Tech savvy - the Kinguser App that it installs is merely another version of a Superuser or Rootuser much like Chainfire's SuperSU (Sorry Chainfire I am not comparing) it is actually quite good and runs smoothly, however upon using Jrummy's "Basic Root Checker" to check that the tablet did indeed get rooted as Shaume had claimed I discovered to my dismay that it is in fact not rooted after all! I was able to prove this also through process of elimination when I went into filemanager but could not access any higher than / so /system and /etc not accessible - a very clear indication that no rooting has occurred. I don't think these generic tablets can get rooted? I think its one of those things where the bootloader is just so stubbornly locked that nothing is gonna crack it, please someone prove me wrong?!!! I know these tablets were like only £40 but I still want my children to be able to search and browse as safely as possible like one would on a desktop/laptop (well as safe as one can within any given limitations) however these tablets are limited in the wrong sense of the word, might as well have bought a bloody windows phone or an apple if I wanted something uncustomisable?!!!! If there is someone who knows how to get these tablets rooted properly so I can actually just update to a real version of Android with real Google Play Market I would be massively appreciative, maybe I'm just being thick and there is something Ive missed?? help

---------- Post added at 05:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:48 PM ----------

There is an english version but don't bother it does not actually give you root priveleges.

Its just yet another superuser binary installed called "Kinguser" nice but not very useful when I already have backup copies of the very good SuperSu by Chainfire!

so i don't reallly know that I can help you my friend other than to say don't waste your time venturing after shaume of you want to get a rooting method, this it does not do unfortunuately!

---------- Post added at 05:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:23 PM ----------

Nope Vroot/Iroot does not work either, certainly not for a generic chinese tablet, they seem to make them hard to crack, probably a seriously well locked down bootloader!

somebody please show me a root installer that actually works for this tablet

Model number: Q8H

Processor: DualCore-A23

Android 4.4.2

Kernel Version 3.4.39

Ipp@Android #424

Thu Oct 16 16:51:58 CST 2014

Build Number

polaris_p1-eng 4.4.2 KVT49L 20141103 test-keys

This is defintely not KitKat not the KitKat I'm familiar with anyway!

It is and it isn't if you know what I mean?

I have 2 of these tablets, identical on the outside apart from colour, bought for my children but one actually differs slightly from the other one in the way the interface oprates/reacts to the user? very weird? eg. both tablets have this godawful booting noise which is at top volume clearly stuffing the speakers up but one one of the tablets if you remember to turn the sound right down before shutdown it remembers and boots without sound whereas the other one does not, you can do what you like, only solution for now: turn it on and leave the room until the awful sound is gone and its fully booted!

If you have any suggestions as to how I get REAL Android KITKAT onto these blasted things Im am all ears. by the way I am on Puppy Linux 525 if that helps otherwise I do have access to a windows machine with windows 7 premium if my flavour of linux is disagreeable. why should a generic tablet be so hard to crack, had no problems rooting my Nexus 5 with hammerhead purity???