How to Root the Polaroid S10 tablet

Rooting is the process of gaining administrative rights on your Android device.  Once we root our Android device, we can then make changes to it to customize it well beyond what it normally can do.

Once you have root access on your Polaroid S10, you’ll be able to:

• Remove apps that were preinstalled by your carrier/manufacturer from your device.
• Free up storage space (because of the above benefit).
• Increase battery life (apps that might have been running constantly can be removed).
• Increase performance (after removing apps that are always running, the device will be less bogged down and run smoother).
• Update to a new version of Android (by flashing a custom recovery/ROM, see the end of this procedure for more info on that).
• Tons of other customizations when you use your new found administrative rights to flash a custom ROM (again, see the end of this procedure for more info on that).

Interested? Here’s how to root your S10:

I.  Before You Begin

1.  Charge your device to 75% or more before you begin.

2.  Install Snappea to add the necessary drivers for this procedure to work.

3.  Back up everything you think is important, just in case.

II.  Necessary Downloads

Impactor_0.9.14.zip [or the latest version available]

III.  Rooting the Polaroid S10

1.  Extract Impactor_0.9.14.zip to a folder on your desktop.

2.  Enable USB Debugging on your device.  To do this, go to Settings > Development and tick the USB Debugging checkbox.

3.  Connect your device to your PC.  If your PC installs drivers at this stage, let it do so before continuing.

4.  From the extracted folder, double-click on Impactor.exe.

5.  Choose # drop SuperSU su to /system/xbin/su from the drop-down menu.

6.  Click on Start in the Cydia Compactor app.

7.  Once Cydia Compactor has finished its job, your device should be partially rooted.  To complete the rooting process, go to the Play Store and install the SuperSu app and Busybox.

Peek into your app drawer and you should find the SuperSU app listed, which means your Polaroid S10 is now rooted!

All set! Now, you can head to our How to Flash a Custom ROM procedure for the Polaroid S10 to open up a whole new world of customizations for your Android device!

By the way, don’t be scared, you can always put your device back to stock by heading to our Rooting How To’s section, finding your device, and doing the How to Unroot listed for it there.