How to Root, Unroot & Change Region in your SONY Tablet S – Tutorial

SONY Tablet S, one of the premier tablets can now be rooted, unrooted & decrypted easily along with many other host of options easily just with a simple click.  Over a period of this article we will be discussing all of the features which this tool comes along. Please note that you need to follow all the instructions carefully mentioned in this article so as to make use of every single feature safely and securely. Also, be informed that this is not an Official tool developed or launched by SONY.

Disclaimer: Neither we, nor developer should be held responsible for any damage happened to your device in the process of following the instructions mentioned in this article. It’s very unlikely that there will be any issues but just in case if at all there are any issues then we are committed to help you in solving the same.

Please note that you need to ensure that you apply this rooting process to ONLY Sony Tablet S and not to any other similar tablets or any other tablet from SONY. Backup all the data present in your phone so as to ensure that just in case if the data gets lost or corrupted, the same can be restored easily.

Pictures, Music, Videos, Files etc.– Copy to internal / External SD Card,
Internet & MMS Settings – Backup all the settings from the path “Applications > Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names”

• Minimum charge left in your SONY Tablet S should be 60% so as to ensure that the phone doesn’t get turned Off in the middle of firmware update. (If you don’t follow this step then the chances are more that your phone may get DEAD for which we should not be responsible).
• Disable all the security suites installed in your computer and uninstall all antivirus tools in your computer so as to ensure that the firmware update is not interrupted in the middle of the process.
• Enable the USB debugging in your SONY Tablet S from the path “Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging”. The USB Debugging option should be ticked. USB Debugging Mode can only be enabled once you disconnect the phone from computer. USB Debugging should be ticked.

You also need to back up all the APN Settings so that just in case if the settings are lost, the same can be restored easily with the help of below mentioned steps. So assuming that you have

Features of All in One Click Tool for SONY Tablet S:

• First up you need to download the Sony Tablet S All in one Rooting tool from here to your computer and once it’s done, you then will have to open the same and connect your SONY Tablet S device to the computer with the help of USB cable.
• Now, once you open the one click tool, you will find the below mentioned options which we have explained it in brief so that you can then take a call on whether to make use of that feature or not.

1. Root Device: Roots the SONY Tablet S so that you can then install the apps which need the root access and also you can install many custom ROM firmwares.
2. Un Root Device: It will basically revoke the root access by deleting the superuser, busy box and all other things which root the device,
3. Region Changer: Irrespective of the region you bought your SONY Tablet S from, you can now change the region just with this option so that you can then get the corresponding OTA just in case if any pushed.
4. Run ADB Shell: It runs the ADB Shell which is nothing but a terminal from PC.
5. Reboot Device: this option just reboots the device in the normal mode.

Custom ROM & Flashing Sub Menu:

1. Create decrypted update.zip – With this, one can easily decrypt the official OTA updates and one can easily build the custom ROM firmwares out of this.
2. Add root, “rescue-backdoor”, init.d to decrypted zip – With this you can make custom rom with root and build.prop mod built-in.
3. Sign decrypted custom-update.zip – This option signs the modified update.
4. Disable recovery update.zip signature-check – This option disables the security check for the update.zip custom ROM firmwares.

TWEAKS AND MODS SUB MENU:

1. Install “rescue-backdoor” – anti-bootloop protection, gives opportunity to reflash current firmware if something goes wrong with modifying system things.
2. Toggle OTA system updates and notifications – You can also disable the annoying update notifications which can be enabled back,
3. Install init.d support – Just push the bash scripts to ‘/system/etc/init.d/’ to get them auto start on device booting.
4. Install GPS Fix Mod – This one changes gps.conf with modded version to get better and faster signal.
5. Fake as other devices – fake your tab as one of four available (Acer A500, Motorola XOOM, Galaxy SII, Galaxy TAB) – to get more games/apps available in market To bring back original – run again.
6. [init.d] script] Increase SD/extSD read speeds. – adds init.d script which automatically on boot changes cache value, to get better read speeds

So there you go, you have now successfully learnt on what are the features of this tool. Do let us know in the comments section just in case if you face any issues as we will try our level best to sort out the same.