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I have several smart phones and I have been able to root and flash roms now so far it seems like working on the tab is not as easy.... Is this true? im afraid of bricking it.... But is it worth rooting it?
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from what I can gather on these boards thus far is that we went with the wrong carrier (sprint) for the tab, since tmobile seems to have more development going for it, AND at this point I am not seeing much advantage to rooting anyways. Let me know if you digested the boards differently as this is the only thing that is stopping me from rooting as well
well its because sprint is cdma and tmobile is gms which is found everywhere in the world... i am still within 30 days so i could return it, and I am thinking about switching to tmo anyway maybe going with the streak 7 as it has the tegra 2 processor
Thanks for replying buddy.
Hey guys, this might help you. Did a quick video on it and tested it myself on a Sprint tab, worked fine
How To Root -
http://theunlockr.com/2010/11/29/how-to-root-the-samsung-galaxy-tab/
Flash a Custom Recovery Image -
http://theunlockr.com/2010/11/29/how-to-flash-a-custom-recovery-image-on-the-samsung-galaxy-tab/
Good luck guys!
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dcogen said:
Hey guys, this might help you. Did a quick video on it and tested it myself on a Sprint tab, worked fine
How To Root -
http://theunlockr.com/2010/11/29/how-to-root-the-samsung-galaxy-tab/
Flash a Custom Recovery Image -
http://theunlockr.com/2010/11/29/how-to-flash-a-custom-recovery-image-on-the-samsung-galaxy-tab/
Good luck guys!
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Those How To's are AWESOME! Thanks! NO ONE has broken it down for we (the sad and lonely) CDMA SGT owners...
The question remains, however: Is it worth it?
So far, my answer is hell to thuh naw... With so many reports of brickage, and so little dev work being done, keeping the CDMA SGT stock seems to be the only way to go. I received my Tab for Christmas from a gorgeous santa (who also recently gave me another gift, my daughter (haven't rooted that device yet, either)) against my suggestions to wait (to get me a Tab, not to have my daughter). A few short months later, here we are:
XOOM dominates, SGT 2 and 10.1 (along with TONS of other Tabs) are announced and with Samsung's reputation for damn near NEVER updating their device's OS' (KIES SUCKS!), I'm thinking the SGT will never see the light of Honeycomb, which really is the only worthwhile upgrade for the device. As other tabs gain popularity, the dev work for the SGT decreases, with more and more messages like "This is the last update to this ROM, as I just got a XOOM".
So here I sit, with an oversized phone that can't make calls, watching Tron Legacy over and over while flashin' anything and everything on my EVO, longing for a XOOM...
That being said, anyone HATE the XOOM, and wanna' trade for an SGT? The SGT RULES!
For god's sake STOP POSTING QUESTIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT FORUM. And search beofre posting. Thread reported.
dcogen said:
Hey guys, this might help you. Did a quick video on it and tested it myself on a Sprint tab, worked fine
How To Root -
http://theunlockr.com/2010/11/29/how-to-root-the-samsung-galaxy-tab/
Flash a Custom Recovery Image -
http://theunlockr.com/2010/11/29/how-to-flash-a-custom-recovery-image-on-the-samsung-galaxy-tab/
Good luck guys!
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thanks for the links, this makes a lot of sense to me, its just like flash an android phone. Thanks a bunch
so general question, when doing the custom recovery on the sprint tab, if samsung/sprint releases the upgrade to 2.4 / 3.0 (god willing), will that upgrade have any impact on the custom recovery, or are the mutually exclusive?
So far, this has been a bust for me since I've been completely incapable of syncing with Kies. I've searched and tried every possible solution I could find to no avail.
dcogen said:
Hey guys, this might help you. Did a quick video on it and tested it myself on a Sprint tab, worked fine
How To Root -
http://theunlockr.com/2010/11/29/how-to-root-the-samsung-galaxy-tab/
Flash a Custom Recovery Image -
http://theunlockr.com/2010/11/29/how-to-flash-a-custom-recovery-image-on-the-samsung-galaxy-tab/
Good luck guys!
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Dear dcogen,
I was able to verify that I have an adb connection, now when I downloaded the sprint kernel the file says flash_image_VZW_zImage.zip is this the correct one?
Also your guide says to install CWM for your tab version but I didnt find one for sprint, there are version for Verizon, ATT and TMO thats it.
I just dont want to end up with a brick
Thanks for your help
jcaf77 said:
well its because sprint is cdma and tmobile is gms which is found everywhere in the world... i am still within 30 days so i could return it, and I am thinking about switching to tmo anyway maybe going with the streak 7 as it has the tegra 2 processor
Thanks for replying buddy.
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lolwut
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Anybody follow this and have success? Are there any worthy ROMs out for our tab?
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AlpineM3 said:
Anybody follow this and have success? Are there any worthy ROMs out for our tab?
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can we use roms from other models if we find a way to not flash the wrong modem as part of the process?
+ 1 for working roms for sprint?
Help wanted!
Ice cream/beer money on me!!
+2 i want a sprint tab rom to use it on cricket and enable the phone portion.
It's the phone portion I need to figure out.
I rooted but not sure why no real reason to on a sprint tab to root cant find any wireless tether apps that will work
i rooted to get rid of some sprint crap bloatware
On the Sprint SGT you need to use New PC Studio instead of Kies. Follow the instruction exactly, but replace with NPC. Worked like a charm!
Pardon me for coming late to the party. Have been trying to root my Sprint (CDMA) tab for months. All fail for one reason or another (Z4Root doesn't work, Kies doesn't work on my Win 7 PC, SuperOneClick comes up as a virus and requires the use of Kies, PCStudio can be downloaded from a site that Firefox says is untrustworthy). I've spent endless hours reading msg boards and how-tos. i'm a resonably savy computer user. Is there a set of intnructions to root a Sprint-branded Tab anywhere???
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For god's sake STOP POSTING QUESTIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT FORUM. And search beofre posting. Thread reported.
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This isnt the DEV Forum... It is Q&A. Retard.
Howdy all.
Just got a new AT&T Galaxy Tab and for the love Christ these telco's are making it really difficult to do anything with our phones (or, tablets in this case).
For the first time ever, my near-universal, grandfathered AT&T unlimited data SIM was rejected by a device. I've been clinging to this SIM for over 3 years, because it worked in everything.
(I'm familiar with changing the APN, just providing an example of how aggressive the telco's are in preventing us from modding our own property, as there's no contract for the GTab, and even though we're paying full price for it, we still can't use it universally.)
I've spent the greater part of this weekend poring through the forum and it's becoming increasingly difficult to find anything useful in these forums. Many threads are outdated, or just plain wrong, and considering the prices of these devices, I'm reluctant to just plug in and start running hacks on the GTab w/o first understanding the dev history behind what I'm about to do. I've always been somewhat self-proficient with applying hacks and installing ROMs, as I've been doing it for years, but simply finding the requisite information is becoming quite a challenge lately.
With that in mind, I'm looking for the AT&T STOCK ROM to have saved and ready just in case something goes sideways. However, even the stickied thread here includes dead links. The target page is in Korean, but I've seen the HTTP 404 error enough times to recognize it in any language.
Is anyone familiar with any 3rd party repositories with that host the stock ROMs? Perhaps someone has compiled a dump?
TIA...
Stock AT&T firmware: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=847609
You might want to check this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=933400 will save you time searching around forums.
Finally Stock firmwares site: Samfirmware.com
Thanks for the reply, very helpful info.
I've been reading quite a bit on the forums, and I've noticed folks are having serious issues with ROMs from samfirmware.com, due to the different ROM versions Samsung is distributing with the GTab.
I'm trying to determine the cause of those issues? Are they related to flashing the wrong hardware rev with the wrong ROM, or are they primarily due to locked bootloaders?
I haven't tried anything with my GTab yet, as finding conclusive information is difficult, and to put it bluntly, I'm scared sh*tless that I'll brick it like so many others have?
I'm figuring AT&T is probably going to be the hardest to flash, considering how militant AT&T has been "protecting" our GTab's.
Toe_Cutter said:
Thanks for the reply, very helpful info.
I've been reading quite a bit on the forums, and I've noticed folks are having serious issues with ROMs from samfirmware.com, due to the different ROM versions Samsung is distributing with the GTab.
I'm trying to determine the cause of those issues? Are they related to flashing the wrong hardware rev with the wrong ROM, or are they primarily due to locked bootloaders?
I haven't tried anything with my GTab yet, as finding conclusive information is difficult, and to put it bluntly, I'm scared sh*tless that I'll brick it like so many others have?
I'm figuring AT&T is probably going to be the hardest to flash, considering how militant AT&T has been "protecting" our GTab's.
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Well Flashing wrong firmware on tab is one of the reasons for problems. Also samfirmware's ROMs have protected bootloader which prevent downgrading or installing custom ROMs.
As for AT&T its always recommended to do backup before flashing any other firmware on an AT&T (or any TAB for that matter). Many ways to do backup. through CWM (clockworkmod) or ROTO backup.
Hello, I'v done something stupid...
I was looking around at all the roms for my Verizon Samsung Galaxy Tablet and found one I wanted to use thinking it was a CDMA one... but infact it was a GSM.... After the install nothing was working so I looked into it and found my error... I redid it with a CDMA rom and also a using some recovery files that were listed here and the tablet comes on fine but I have no radio now.
Doing some more looking I see one single person say theres no coming back from that because I installed the wrong modem.bin, is this true?
Currently using this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=967175 so im stock at the moment.
Iv been searching and searching but i'm not coming up with much... but then again I really dont know what terms to enter... Any help would be great! Thanks!
MrUsogi said:
Hello, I'v done something stupid...
I was looking around at all the roms for my Verizon Samsung Galaxy Tablet and found one I wanted to use thinking it was a CDMA one... but infact it was a GSM....
Iv been searching and searching but i'm not coming up with much... but then again I really dont know what terms to enter... Any help would be great! Thanks!
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as long as you can go into "Download mode", you can re-flash the official firmware from here. just have a look which one is suitable for your Tab, and in the bottom of the page, you'll find all documentation you need it and also one very good video tutorial...hope it helps!
I have the same problem but with a VZW galaxy tab. Ive flashed several times and I never seem to get the modem up. The link you posted above doen't seem to have anything for he i800 is there one i can use?
totally buggered my Galaxy Tab WiFi only...I found a thread on here with instructions to improve the GPS (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922692)
I followed them to a tee, rebooted the Tab, and it went into a boot loop.
I couldn't think of anything else to do, so I flashed all the European ROMs, every one of them gives me an android process crash and a boot loop.
I'm pretty sure this thing is screwed until a US rom is out, but if anybody has any ideas, I'd greatly appreciate it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1058895
Check that, should be the stock firmware/rom to get you back up and running.
pvtjoker42 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1058895
Check that, should be the stock firmware/rom to get you back up and running.
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Thank you, I appreciate your time and effort. Unfortunately this was one of the ROM's that I had tried, and to no avail.
A little update on some experimenting since I first posted this:
I realize I should have had more patience, but I expected a different outcome than I got. I figured since the tab was doing me no good anyway, I'd try and answer a question that I've seen a few times on here. There was some speculation as to whether the Verizon/Sprint ROMs would work (I know, p1000 vs p1010 hardware differences.) Nobody seemed to agree, so I figured I'd go ahead and try it.
Do not do this.
It took all of three seconds and the tab was bricked. As soon as I started Odin, it flashed "Failed" in red, and that was it. The tab would power on to a backlit black screen, and nothing else.
Now, at this point, I figured I'd just take it back where I got it and exchange it for another one. They were very agreeable at Best Buy to do so, but they were completely out of stock in all the stores and warehouses. My choices were to either pick a different tablet, or get my money back.
I ended up getting my money back.
So, I guess, not the greatest outcome, but hopefully my little screwups and screw arounds here help some people, and maybe answered questions for others.
Yeah, the 3g Tabs have a totally different hardware spec than the wifi only. Glad Best Buy took it back.
Hi gang.
First off an apology if some of this/ all of this has been heard before. I spent all morning trawling forums and the internet in an attempt to fix the problems, but none seem to be anything I can deal with without getting some guidance from people in the know beforehand.
I have had my Galaxy tab GT-P1010 for a couple of years now and been very happy. It was origionally running Froyo, which is what the models ship with. Foolishly I presumed any updates from Samsung would be a benefit to the tab. The device is now rather clunky. Scrolling is slow and sluggish, programs crash without warning and the latest trick is that dialogue boxes are non-responsive (i.e. 'your phone will shut down: ok, cancel' does nothing when I press either option. Repeatedly. In rage.) The only option I have now for shutting down is to let the battery bleed out or hold the power key to switch off. I've tried things like factory reset, but even after reset, I'm still left with stupid old gingerbread.
Looking around there seem to be some options, but after reading through several times, I still have no clue. I understand that part of the problem is samsungs 'bloatware', of which there is plenty.
I'm not really sure how to go about it- I understand there are programs out there- Odin, Nandroid etc, but I'm a little lost on the lingo, and a little reluctant to go poking around without any decent knowledge.
Can anyone help? Or is this really a 'send it back to smasung job? It looks like I'm faced with these options:
1) somehow backdate from Gingerbread to Froyo
2) Strip out the samsung OS and install another launcher (which sounds like a can of worms to me)
3) send it back to Samsung and never EVER touch another one of their stinking updates.
4) another straightforward option that I haven't considered
Please help! (bear in mind I'm a total code-tard)
Return to froyo if that is the state where you are most comfortable with.
Another option would be, buy a new tab with better specs.
Sent from my boyfriend's home
Actually, the best solution is to UPgrade, not downgrade. There are many decent guides out there for modding your Galaxy Tab and flashing a custom ROM. Personally I've found that the stock Android ROMs (the device's OS, so to speak), particularly the older ones, are very slow in and of themselves. If you want, I can guide you through the process, PM me if you feel like it. Or you can PM a veteran like priyana, he has the biggest Thanks Meter I've seen so far on this end of the forums.
Modding your system, from personal experience gives you a major performance boost. You should first try this alternative before thinking about buying another device.
I scan the forum often, and thanks for the good words, geno,
But I don't know much beyond P1000 model.
But there are a few threads for P1010 that seems solid and has good followers.
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priyana said:
I scan the forum often, and thanks for the good words, geno,
But I don't know much beyond P1000 model.
But there are a few threads for P1010 that seems solid and has good followers.
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You deserve them man. Anyway, how different is the P1010 from the P1000? My own model, the NTT DoCoMo SC-01C, is actually nothing more than a rebranded P1000. Surely the operations can't be all that different for another model of the Galaxy Tab line. Does the Overcome kernel and ROM, for example, flash on other models or is it exclusively for the P1000?
EDIT: To the op, I actually did some looking around and found that the P1010 is something of a black sheep in the Galaxy Tab line. There are few, if any, custom ROMs for it, but there were a few threads that describe tweaks for performance and other things. They are the following:
Galaxy Tab GT-P1010 (WiFi Only) NooB Guide (you've probably already seen this)(you should also check the Thread Consolidation post somewhere there)
This thread shows some promise for CyanogenMod on your device, but it seems to have dropped off.
This thread might help you with your lag problem, as it (supposedly) brings you to the latest Gingerbread build.
In summary, though, it looks like I spoke too soon. There may, in fact, not be a better alternative than simply getting a new device. The Nexus 7 is currently hailed as one of the best Android tablets out there, and I find that it's pretty reasonably priced at $199 or so.
The open nature of Android is one of the reasons I love it so much, but if you can't do much with your particular device then you're not getting the most out of what Android has to offer. If I were in your shoes I'd probably switch if I had the money for it.
Anyway, that's the best I can do. Good luck with your device, man. If you ever decide to try tweaking it and/or need to ask some questions about the applications involved and other terms and such, priyana should be able to help you.
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Apparently the hardware is quite different. Your SC-01 is still quite close.
The heart of the ROM is the kernel and if the hardware is different, the kernel is bound to be different.
Not many top devs looking at P1010, so I think not much poking into the kernel been done.
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