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[Q] Thanks! (and HELP!)

Just joined to say thanks to Roebeet and everyone who is active in this forum. Because of the obvious potential of the gtablet being explored here, and discussed on phandroid.com I decided to take the plunge and purchased one tonight. I might have passed this tab by, and waited months for something else...
--and here's where I cry for help!
I carefully followed a series of step-by-step instructions I found thru google, to install the latest tnt lite found here on XDA. Everything seemed to work without a hitch, and was prouder than a pappa to have completed my first root and mod ,ever!
BUT right after I DL'ed and installed the flash 10.1 apk things went south. The browser constantly crashed to the home screen, and the market and email apps were crashing also. I rebooted and now I am greeted by the tnt setup screen that is covered in an endless wave of crash warning dialogs! I can't tap them away fast enough to see the desktop.
I've tried to do a recover, but I can't get thru the setup (that keeps crashing to the first screen also) to use the USB to mount the internal mem to my Mac.
I am insanely happy about the potential of this hardware, but I've painted myself into a corner. ANY help would be greatly appreciated.
And yes, I do look very handsome in my profile pic.

From bad to WORSE!
I discovered the dcom222 thread that describes my problem and details a solution. I followed it to the letter, changing the command and using my microSD as a secondary boot to reinstall the vanilla tnt ROM.
But then it just stuck on the tnt logo, faded in and out 3-4 times, and went dark! The device won't turn on or off (had a full charge when I pulled it from the wall socket a few moments ago)
Please tell me I haven't bricked this thing!

still no luck...
I was able to power the unit back up, but I've tried to recover and flash all three setup files I have (vanilla tnt, ota update tnt and tnt lite 2) but nothing works!
All of them create a loop of some sort, whether it's the viewsonic screen, gtablet screen loop, or the tnt logo screen blinking on and off, NOTHING boots to the desktop.
Going to bed before I drive my self insane. Hopefully someone in the know will reply by the time I check this at work.
thanks in advance

You have not bricked it, don't worry. This device is very hard to truly brick. If all else fails there is nvflash or the apx mode fallback. But I don't think you need that if you are still able to boot to clockwork recovery.
In clockwork go to advanced - mounts and try mounting and unmounting your partitions. I suspect your user partition may be screwed. This seems to happen fairly frequently especially the first time you flash a ROM. It happenend on my first flash and not again since. Clockwork lets you repartition though. Search the forum for partition fix, its not too big a deal.
If that fails try roebeet's thread on nvflash recovery for TNT lite. If that fails, search for APX mode.
As far as I know there are zero bricks from ROM flashing so far.
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Life in LA said:
Just joined to say thanks to Roebeet and everyone who is active in this forum. Because of the obvious potential of the gtablet being explored here, and discussed on phandroid.com I decided to take the plunge and purchased one tonight. I might have passed this tab by, and waited months for something else...
--and here's where I cry for help!
I carefully followed a series of step-by-step instructions I found thru google, to install the latest tnt lite found here on XDA. Everything seemed to work without a hitch, and was prouder than a pappa to have completed my first root and mod ,ever!
BUT right after I DL'ed and installed the flash 10.1 apk things went south. The browser constantly crashed to the home screen, and the market and email apps were crashing also. I rebooted and now I am greeted by the tnt setup screen that is covered in an endless wave of crash warning dialogs! I can't tap them away fast enough to see the desktop.
I've tried to do a recover, but I can't get thru the setup (that keeps crashing to the first screen also) to use the USB to mount the internal mem to my Mac.
I am insanely happy about the potential of this hardware, but I've painted myself into a corner. ANY help would be greatly appreciated.
And yes, I do look very handsome in my profile pic.
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Scroll down to post number #869 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842004&page=87

feeling better
Thanks for the assurances that I didn't wreck the device, and pointing me to some solutions. I have a few questions:
what is clockwork mod? If I am able to recovery boot from my micro SD card, do I already have it? (I downloaded a bunch of recovery images to start, per instructions)
If it's something I still need to download, is it a PC application? How am I supposed to change settings in it (manage partitions, etc) if I can't get the tablet to boot?
-- stuck at work and dying to get home to fix this thing...

Ok, more detailed instructions:
If you press and hold down Volume + when you are pressing the Power button to boot up, and keep holding the Volume + key until you see a message that says "Detect a Recovery Key Pressed", that should get you to a text menu from which you can navigate using the volume +/- keys and the Home soft button to flash ZIP files and do other things. That menu is ClockworkMod Recovery. Since you remember installing a recovery.img, it sounds like you probably (hopefully) have ClockworkMod Recovery on there.
If you get to ClockwordMod Recovery, you can go down to the Mounts and Storage option, then you will find the "Mount USB storage" option at the end of that list. That lets you plug in and mount your internal memory area as a standard USB drive to your Windows or Mac computer to copy over new ZIP files and the like to your G Tablet.
You can also check that partitions are all mounting and unmounting successfully in that menu. If you go instead into the Advanced menu, you will see Partition SD Card, which I believe is what you might need to do at this point.
If booting with the Volume + button held down doesn't get you anywhere and you see nothing about Recovery Key Detected and don't see any text menu, then you don't seem to have a working recovery. At that point you'll have to do what phfaty suggested, read the post he referenced, and follow the link therein to the tegratab forum post to get the NVidia Tegra SDK installed on your Windows desktop and use the NVFlash tool and APK mode (where you hold the Volume - key down while booting instead of the Volume + key) to reflash your tablet.

still not working...
The good news:
I do have clockwork mod installed. Must have been in 1 of those zips or rars I ran in the very beginning.
The bad news:
it's still caught in a boot loop. I've mounted it as an external drive 3 times now from clockwork, and tried all 3 versions of the operating system (vanilla, vanilla with the ota and tntlite 2) and NOTHING makes a difference.

Life in LA said:
The good news:
I do have clockwork mod installed. Must have been in 1 of those zips or rars I ran in the very beginning.
The bad news:
it's still caught in a boot loop. I've mounted it as an external drive 3 times now from clockwork, and tried all 3 versions of the operating system (vanilla, vanilla with the ota and tntlite 2) and NOTHING makes a difference.
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1)Boot into clockwork.
2)Navigate to Advanced menu
3)Choose partition sdcard
4)Choose data partition desired size(1024=1GB)
5)Choose 0GB for the next selection(swap not used)
6)Do a factory reset from main menu
7)Reboot
8)If that doesn't work, then reinstall ROM, then reboot

UPDATE
partitioning the drive and wiping the user data did the trick. I'm up and running again. thanks to all who chimed in to help.

[Q] Possibly unfixable Nexus S?

First off, I know I'm a new member, and I did watch the video, I've been searching the forum for days now trying to find someone with the exact some problem as me but I've come to the conclusion I must be special as I haven't seen this problem else where. Lucky me...
Let me start off with some information about the phone.
Carrier: Vodafone AU (says XSE on the recovery screen)
Baseband Version: I9020XXKI1
Bootloader Version: I9020XXKL1
HW Version: Rev 52
Model: Nexus S i9023
Lock State: Unlocked
Primary computer: iMac
Fairly certain I have USB debugging turned off :\
I rooted and unlocked the phone and was running the latest CyberGR mod ROM and the latest AirKernel kernel. The phone was running brilliantly, not a problem in the world, very smooth, very fast, excellent battery life, I loved it. Only thing I didn't like was how the keyboard became unresponsive at times. For that reason, I think I'll be switching to the Bugless Beast ROM and thalmus kernel when (if) I get this phone fixed.
So a few days ago, the power button on my Nexus S stuffed up and wouldn't work anymore. Completely unresponsive. I couldn't lock/unlock my phone using the power button. I had to either connect/disconnect it from the USB or turn it on/off by taking the battery out to be able to use it. Needless to say, this got very tedious very quickly and I decided to unroot it and send it back to Samsung.
I looked into how to unroot and came across the Odin app and decided that I'd use that to unroot. (noob error on my behalf, I realise now) Regardless of what I'd read, Odin doesn't work on a Nexus S apparently and although I didn't flash to stock, my phone became significantly less useable, half the time it wouldn't respond to anything I did on it. I tried to boot into CWM and although I was able to do so, it was useless as my power button wasn't working.
At this stage, I took out the battery, put it back in and the phone booted up again. I didn't press the power button, it just booted up straight away. I took it out again and held the volume up button on the side and this time, I didn't get put into the CWM menu, but the normal Android recovery menu. I went to press the volume up and down buttons but nothing worked. Power button is still unresponsive.
When I don't boot into recovery, it goes past the Google screen with the unlocked lock on the bottom of it, and goes to a screen where it says "Android" in a metallic style (I disable the boot animation logo in CyberGR mod so I was used to this screen) and it just hung on there, it never booted up past that screen.
Every time I tried to use fastboot -w to wipe the phone, or oem lock or anything, I would just get < waiting for device >
I plugged it into my Windows 7 laptop, tried the one_click_stock app and got the message that my phone has no boot.img. I then googled problems regarding the boot.img and no one really had any solutions that helped me out.
The SDK won't recognise my phone is there, but the sound pops up on Windows saying a device has been connected and disconnected but it never shows up.
Is it bricked or unfixable? Clearly warranty is void, not sure if I should just take it into Vodafone and ask for a new phone (as its still within warranty period, hence why I wanted to lock it and flash a stock ROM).
Very sorry for the lengthy post, I know I was meant to be brief but I thought the more information I could give, the better chance there would be for anyone to help me out. Thanks.

Make the root of your phone with any application in the market and install the recovery ClockworkMod touch with Rom manager premium or Rom toolbox Pro. Restart recovery using Rom manager or Rom toolbox and do a full cleaning on the phone. Wipe only data and cache.
Now, select from mount and storage mount USB storage and copy over to your i9020 storage any rom ( try using the cm9 ). If the installation is successful restart, if not try some other roms. More than that I do not know how to help.
P.s.: In theory it should go smoothly, otherwise I do not assume any liability for further damage to the phone ... Good luck!

Did you know you can operate cwm using the capacitive search button instead of the power button?

Alfaneo said:
Make the root of your phone with any application in the market and install the recovery ClockworkMod touch with Rom manager premium or Rom toolbox Pro. Restart recovery using Rom manager or Rom toolbox and do a full cleaning on the phone. Wipe only data and cache.
Now, select from mount and storage mount USB storage and copy over to your i9020 storage any rom ( try using the cm9 ). If the installation is successful restart, if not try some other roms. More than that I do not know how to help.
P.s.: In theory it should go smoothly, otherwise I do not assume any liability for further damage to the phone ... Good luck!
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Thanks for the reply, I can't actually boot into the phone or get to any market place or any screen that could make the phone useable at all, it just sits on the CyberGR android screen for when you disable the boot animation.
bedalus said:
Did you know you can operate cwm using the capacitive search button instead of the power button?
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I was pressing the search button (the volume buttons were working when I could boot into CWM) and the text just disappeared off the screen and just showed the logo. I can no longer boot into CWM.
I've installed Ubuntu and I'm going to try running the unrbickable java app that a user on here created, hopefully that may work.

Help! Can't figure out how to re-enable root

Okay, so! Greetings all.
Back about a month ago, I successfully rooted my phone with KingoRoot, flashed TWRP 2.8.0, and installed Crdroid 7.1 Nougat for my D850.
Now, everything was fine and well, besides being one of the very unlucky users to have their phone stop being a beautiful piece of technology and, instead, become very burdensome and aggravating. It would require a battery pull, sometimes two times back to back (if it would soft reset on first pull and get stuck in boot loop), about once or twice every 3 hours, to as often as a few times an hour.
So, I tried something new. I went back to LineageOS' website and looked through the other D850 releases(all of what, 3?) and settled on the AOSP 7.1 ROM.It seemed like it'd be a great idea, having everything functioning and not having to deal with battery pulls every day. Now my phone is practically nonfunctional, as it doesn't receive cell service and can't read SIM cards.
Needed Information:
-Phone is an LG D850, running a (nonfunctional) custom AOSP 7.1 ROM
-Phone seems to lack root access, and can't be One-Click rooted as is (Haven't been successful with any one click program yet)
-Phone is also lacking in recovery (Tried to access via adb, manual hard buttons, and neither worked)
Now for the actual question: What can I do to make my phone function again, whether I have to reinstall my backup of my previous fail (thus requiring TWRP and root) or just get it back to a truly stock ROM?
Thank you all for your time and consideration. I'll check back in the morning.

Warning: I am no expert, in fact I'm barely a noob, but one thing I do well, and that is I always do a backup. That being said it appears there are two paths to salvation. Get your recovery working or go back to stock. If you installed a recovery but can't get back to it try shutting off phone then pressing power and volume down simultaneously. When logo appears release buttons and then immediately press both again. It will offer a decision screen where you use vol up/down to select. Choose yes on both, (it will not reset the phone as indicated). This should get you into recovery, from there you may be able to flash the needed rom, gapps, root, etc. My suggestion is to load the needed files onto your sd card beforehand. If this fails there is the downgrade via LGUP. This is pretty nifty. I had to rely on the expertise of a Mr. Heyelton and his post, https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2785089. To my knowledge the POS known as the AT&T d850 can only be rooted at KK. Mr. Heyelton's guide can get you there. from there you can stay with stock, upgrade to a higher stock (?) or proceed to root, TWRP and rom the phone. Don't forget to upgrade your modem, https://forum.xda-developers.com/att-lg-g3/general/modems-collection-d850-21r-20f-10d-t3213856.

alliance1975 said:
Warning: I am no expert, in fact I'm barely a noob, but one thing I do well, and that is I always do a backup. That being said it appears there are two paths to salvation. Get your recovery working or go back to stock. If you installed a recovery but can't get back to it try shutting off phone then pressing power and volume down simultaneously. When logo appears release buttons and then immediately press both again. It will offer a decision screen where you use vol up/down to select. Choose yes on both, (it will not reset the phone as indicated). This should get you into recovery, from there you may be able to flash the needed rom, gapps, root, etc. My suggestion is to load the needed files onto your sd card beforehand. If this fails there is the downgrade via LGUP. This is pretty nifty. I had to rely on the expertise of a Mr. Heyelton and his post, https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2785089. To my knowledge the POS known as the AT&T d850 can only be rooted at KK. Mr. Heyelton's guide can get you there. from there you can stay with stock, upgrade to a higher stock (?) or proceed to root, TWRP and rom the phone. Don't forget to upgrade your modem, https://forum.xda-developers.com/att-lg-g3/general/modems-collection-d850-21r-20f-10d-t3213856.
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Hey man. I wanted to say thanks for pointing me in the right direction. :good: :highfive: I managed to flash it back to stock, and I'll just figure out a different rom to go with. As far as fixing the issue with the recovery not coming up, I have no idea. It was just messed up, I guess. The phone wouldn't go to recovery even after selecting yes both times on the factory reset screen; it would just go black and a red+blue notification light would pop up. Was weird. Managed to get it to stock though, so it's better than it was. Thank you!

Samsung S6 Boot Loop

Hi,
Apologies if this has been asked before, but I've done a relatively thorough search and I can't find a solution to this problem.
I have an S6 (SM-G920F), It was playing up for a few weeks before this, not charging well, and what not, thought it was a cable/hardware issue. Then it stopped working entirely. Initially when it was plugged into the wall it would say it was 91% charged, but if you tried to turn it on it would turn off, and reboot into the charging screen.
I've done quite alot of reading and I've ended up flashing it with Odin (I have a single .md5 file, which i've loaded onto the phone via AP) using the most recent FIrmware UK EE for the SM-G20F. This was successful, however now it only loads the Black screen with white text Samsung S6 powered by android screen and then goes blank and back to the white text screen.
I downloaded an alternative firmware (the one previous version), but this has had the same effect. I've tried to repartition with odin, but this fails.
1.) Is there anyway I can fix this?
2.) If not Is there anyway to remove files whilst in downlod mode?
3.) If I cannot fix it or recover my data, is there anyway to wipe the data securely from my phone so I can sell it for parts?
At present, I can't access recovery mode, only download mode. But whilst Odin communicates with the phone in download mode, I can't seem to access my files from explorer?

1. I would say you'd have to clear cache, immediately after flashing the firmware with Odin, but to do that, you'd have to get to Recovery Mode first...
Why can't you get to it? Does it just start trying to boot nornally? Because if so, it's just a matter of timing it. What I do is... hold power+home+voldown to get to the screen that asks me if I want to get into Download Mode, I press cancel, and immediately start holding power+home+volup until I see the bootsplash screen, and release the power button but keep holding home+volup, and it gets me to Recovery every time, even when I have difficulties such as this.
2. Not that I'm aware of. BUT you could flash TWRP with Odin, and if you then can manage to get to Recovery, you just need to plug your phone into a computer, and your phone will show up in the computer as a device/disk and you can freely remove stuff from it.
If... IF this were to work, I would suggest downloading a stock-based ROM and flashing it. It's far more likely to work properly and bootup without issue than the firmwares you can get, and it's far less much of a headache to do.
3. Nope. There are apps that can wipe data securely (such as Shreddit which does it according to military standards), but it can't be done from Download Mode. There may be some script that could do it in Recovery Mode, but I doubt it.
I mean... technically... you could flash TWRP, go to Recovery, move to your PC all the stuff you want to keep, select the wipe option in TWRP and then transfer randomly generated data from your PC to your phone until it's full - there are many apps that can generate such data. It's not something you could pass off as very very secure, but it should suffice.
I seem to always keep going to trying TWRP - so, you know, give it a shot.

King-V said:
1. I would say you'd have to clear cache, immediately after flashing the firmware with Odin, but to do that, you'd have to get to Recovery Mode first...
Why can't you get to it? Does it just start trying to boot nornally? Because if so, it's just a matter of timing it. What I do is... hold power+home+voldown to get to the screen that asks me if I want to get into Download Mode, I press cancel, and immediately start holding power+home+volup until I see the bootsplash screen, and release the power button but keep holding home+volup, and it gets me to Recovery every time, even when I have difficulties such as this.
2. Not that I'm aware of. BUT you could flash TWRP with Odin, and if you then can manage to get to Recovery, you just need to plug your phone into a computer, and your phone will show up in the computer as a device/disk and you can freely remove stuff from it.
If... IF this were to work, I would suggest downloading a stock-based ROM and flashing it. It's far more likely to work properly and bootup without issue than the firmwares you can get, and it's far less much of a headache to do.
3. Nope. There are apps that can wipe data securely (such as Shreddit which does it according to military standards), but it can't be done from Download Mode. There may be some script that could do it in Recovery Mode, but I doubt it.
I mean... technically... you could flash TWRP, go to Recovery, move to your PC all the stuff you want to keep, select the wipe option in TWRP and then transfer randomly generated data from your PC to your phone until it's full - there are many apps that can generate such data. It's not something you could pass off as very very secure, but it should suffice.
I seem to always keep going to trying TWRP - so, you know, give it a shot.
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Thanks for your reply! So after flashing it goes straight back into the boot loop. Weirdly if its plugged into my laptop it spend about a second or two on the "Samsung Galaxy S6: Powered by Android" screen before plunging into darkness and shortly after repeating the same message. However if I plug it into the wall it spend over twice as long on that screen before repeating the cycle. It never goes any further.
I've tried your suggestion about perhaps its timing for recovery mode, but even if I go straight from cancelling download mode to trying the power, up and home key it doesn't go to recovery. I've tried a variety of timings both plugged into my laptop and plugged into the wall to no avail. If the phone isn't plugged in, it literally won't do anything whatsoever, won't even hint at turning on.
So Next I tried flashing it with TWRP via Odin and nothings changed, exactly the same bootloop and I still can't get into recovery mode.
I'm starting to think that sadly this phone my be beyond repair! Thanks for your help though, much appreciated.

Hi! I usually run out of my bootloops like this:
try this:
1: go to download mode, and press Power + home + volume —
2: As soon as the screen turns black, continue pressing Power and home, quickly release "volume —" and press "volume +". This will get you into recovery mode.
It always worked for me, so I wish the same for you. Good luck! (And sorry for my bad english)

vinicius_guerra said:
Hi! I usually run out of my bootloops like this:
try this:
1: go to download mode, and press Power + home + volume —
2: As soon as the screen turns black, continue pressing Power and home, quickly release "volume —" and press "volume +". This will get you into recovery mode.
It always worked for me, so I wish the same for you. Good luck! (And sorry for my bad english)
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Hi Vinicius,
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately it didn't work, I even tried flashing it back to a standard ROM from TWRP, but it still didn't do anything, just back to the Samsung logo and the loop continues ever more!

Hi, I have this problem as well.
Originally I had TWRP and root flashed into my phone but for reasons I needed to remove root.
So I followed the Odin route stated here "Mobikin how to remove root from android" (I can't post links but this should be the top result when googling)
However I didn't know if the recovery/boot should have went into AP or BL on the Odin menu and googling didn't give me any answers so I may have tried both....
Right now I tried flashing TWRP and I can't seem to boot into TWRP as well.
I was able to get into recovery mode but clearing data/cache didn't fix it for me.
EDIT: I managed to flash in another stock rom and it boots into the SAMSUNG logo but gets stuck there. I already went into recovery mode to delete data and cache partition but it still doesn't boot.

Melioetta Zyguard said:
Hi, I have this problem as well.
Originally I had TWRP and root flashed into my phone but for reasons I needed to remove root.
So I followed the Odin route stated here "Mobikin how to remove root from android" (I can't post links but this should be the top result when googling)
However I didn't know if the recovery/boot should have went into AP or BL on the Odin menu and googling didn't give me any answers so I may have tried both....
Right now I tried flashing TWRP and I can't seem to boot into TWRP as well.
I was able to get into recovery mode but clearing data/cache didn't fix it for me.
EDIT: I managed to flash in another stock rom and it boots into the SAMSUNG logo but gets stuck there. I already went into recovery mode to delete data and cache partition but it still doesn't boot.
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Same experience. For all those 6 years that I used this device, the wifi was okay until now. It (wifi) is very buggy (turning on and off, and sometimes won't turn on at all) so I restarted the device, then bootloop happens. I flashed the stock rom via odin and clear data and cache. But it is still bootlooping. I think this is the sign that I need to replace my phone IF I couldn't find a fix to this.

Complete Guide to Root and Update Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 GT-P5110

Hi folks
following the tutorial I posted many years back, here is my updated instructions for Android upgrade. After much research, I decided to go for Android 6 (Marshmallow) - to be honest, Nougat and others just seem to slow on the device - and anything is better than ICS (the stock).
Note - in all tutorials I have seen, the key combination for the GT P5110 to get into download mode appears to be to press simultaneously, the Power button with the volume rocker closest to the power button (Volume Up). However, with my device (Australian device?) the Volume Up key is FURTHEST away from the power button. So if you are having issues, that could be why and you may need to try reversing which buttons you are pressing!
Here are the tools you need:
1) I did a stock reset for my GT-p5110. The p5110 stock rom I got from here, but any google search will help you - you don't have to take this step as you're going to wipe it anyway, but I wanted to know how to do it so I could revert any time I wanted.
2) To install any newer Android versions, you need TWRP on your p5110 espressowifi .
TWRP will allow you to add custom Android version in future steps and is an easier way to manage the device. I took Common TWRP version from Android Andi from here (I used 3.2.3.0 .tar.md5 - ensure to get the one that is right for your device.). Download it to your PC then flash to device using ODIN (I used ODIN version 3-13-1).
3) After flashing TWRP with ODIN, restart the device using power and volume up - it should boot into TWRP. Once you are in TWRP, do a basic wipe and then you can install lineage 13-0 from Android Andi here annoyingly this seems to overwrite TWRP with cyanmod and I had to reinstall TWRP again via ODIN
4) Reboot device and Lineage13 should now be installed..
5) If you want Google Apps such as playstore etc, you can install from reading the WIKI here - I did it after checking that LOS13 was loading fine. So if you do it that way, you then must launch back into TWRP, do a factory reset, then install GAPPS - I suggest you choose the smallest package (pico).
6) restart device and...... if all goes well, you should be up and running. In my experience Lineage13 is faster and pretty stable than the later versions, but the GAPPS really slows down the machine.
I am still evaluating this set up and will update this thread at some point.

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clappertrap said:
Hi folks
following the tutorial I posted many years back, here is my updated instructions for Android upgrade. After much research, I decided to go for Android 6 (Marshmallow) - to be honest, Nougat and others just seem to slow on the device - and anything is better than ICS (the stock).
Note - in all tutorials I have seen, the key combination for the GT P5110 to get into download mode appears to be to press simultaneously, the Power button with the volume rocker closest to the power button (Volume Up). However, with my device (Australian device?) the Volume Up key is FURTHEST away from the power button. So if you are having issues, that could be why and you may need to try reversing which buttons you are pressing!
Here are the tools you need:
1) I did a stock reset for my GT-p5110. The p5110 stock rom I got from here, but any google search will help you - you don't have to take this step as you're going to wipe it anyway, but I wanted to know how to do it so I could revert any time I wanted.
2) To install any newer Android versions, you need TWRP on your p5110 espressowifi .
TWRP will allow you to add custom Android version in future steps and is an easier way to manage the device. I took Common TWRP version from Android Andi from here (I used 3.2.3.0 .tar.md5 - ensure to get the one that is right for your device.). Download it to your PC then flash to device using ODIN (I used ODIN version 3-13-1).
3) After flashing TWRP with ODIN, restart the device using power and volume up - it should boot into TWRP. Once you are in TWRP, do a basic wipe and then you can install lineage 13-0 from Android Andi here annoyingly this seems to overwrite TWRP with cyanmod and I had to reinstall TWRP again via ODIN
4) Reboot device and Lineage13 should now be installed..
5) If you want Google Apps such as playstore etc, you can install from reading the WIKI here - I did it after checking that LOS13 was loading fine. So if you do it that way, you then must launch back into TWRP, do a factory reset, then install GAPPS - I suggest you choose the smallest package (pico).
6) restart device and...... if all goes well, you should be up and running. In my experience Lineage13 is faster and pretty stable than the later versions, but the GAPPS really slows down the machine.
I am still evaluating this set up and will update this thread at some point.
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thanks for this info, it's all working well. I was just wondering if it's possible to install newer versions of Lineage too please?

mc.dodd said:
thanks for this info, it's all working well. I was just wondering if it's possible to install newer versions of Lineage too please?
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You were able to successfully get your GT-51xx above Android 4?
Granted, It's been years since I've installed any custom Android versions on a device...but I've spent several days trying to get my GT-5110 to anything Above Android 5, as most apps refuse to run on Android 4.x, and I'm hitting snags at every step basically. Just curious to know if you successfully did it, and its working before I keep wasting my time on this tablet.
So frustrating that I have so many expensive devices for their time, that are not useable because Samsung makes it so difficult to keep alive after they move on. The hardware is perfectly capable of doing everything I need...but Samsung wants it to go to the landfill.