Anyone know the mechanics of the Honeycomb exploit used on the Transformer?

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Does anyone know the mechanics of the exploits used on the Transformer? They tend to come as .exe files without source code. If we can figure out what they used to break HC on another device, it'd be our first step for the same on the TPT.

I ask this because the prior exploits not working on HC seems to indicate that many of the normal vectors were patched out of HC.

I'm pretty sure I've read somewhere that it uses Asus' backup app.

But it seems like that Lenovo's Mobility Manager has root-privileges to set up the device remotely. I think there could be an exploit for our tablets.
Or somebody finds an exploit inside the Honeycomb source code and provides an universal root mechanism.

Sadly I'm no dev, so chances are high that the text above is just bullsh*t

Hmmm, that's an interesting idea...I haven't paid much attention to the mobility manager. Also, there are a lot of Lenovo tools that would need root(their configuration manager when you activate it)....I wonder if it has any exposed undocumented interfaces...

won't have time for the next few days(holiday hectic period), but I'll do some decompiling on the lenovo apps to see what I can find expose in those goodies. Hopefully, I'll get the accursed Windows OS to recognize debug mode properly(or give up an VM linux).

Yes they use the backup tool.

All the preinstalled apk's reside in /mnt/pia, which itself is on an own partition: /dev/block/mmcblk0p6

Originally Posted by realyst2k

Hmmm, that's an interesting idea...I haven't paid much attention to the mobility manager. Also, there are a lot of Lenovo tools that would need root(their configuration manager when you activate it)....I wonder if it has any exposed undocumented interfaces...

I don't think the mobility manager has any privileges beyond standard android permissions like android.permission.CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE or android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE.

There is also the McAfee Enterprise Mobility Management; I don't know exactly what it does but it seems like not much. You can shell over what is presumably a lot of $$$ so McAffee's app gives you a button to show the apps that you have to install yourself

Of course Lenovo saved itself the trouble of providing a backup solution, so there is no backup. In the strange Lenovo parallel universe, this is apparently acceptable for a business device.

Moved to general

I did not move this straight away because i thought it might become a development thread. Its not gone that way.

So because it is a question, i will move it to general.

Take it easy

O_G