Hi guys
Hoping you can help here, or point me to to relevant thread.
I have a N8010 that I want to upgrade to KitKat via Kies.
the firmware downloads perfectly fine to my Laptop.
But, When the tablet says "Downloading Do not switch off target" Kies does not move the firmware file from the laptop to the PC. It hangs there for hours.
there is about 5GB of space on the tablet and about 10gb on the SD card.
Perhaps there's a way to manually move the firmware to the tablet and manually start a firmware upgrade?
Please ask questions if you need more info. Thanks in advance for your help.
Gene
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Hi.
I hope i'm not screwed now. I tried to root my tab to ics yesterday, but it hang during installation. Now the sd is completely empty, not one file, and the cache partition is also empty. No single file at all.
So how do i do now, the computer won't recognize my tab with KIES. I know how to root an use Odin.
Can i install ICS with Odin? It seems it only accepts, tar, md5 and smd files. All roms i have found are zips and wont be openable with Odin.
So now i really need your help guys..
Thank you.
First of all, sorry for violating the forum rules, but i can't help this guy without posting a link ;/
Look at this thread dude, i guess it should help you: forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410752
Greetings and good luck to you
english is not my first language so please bear with me.
i have a samsung galaxy tab 2 p5100.
i was in CWM-based recovery v6.0.1.0>mounts and storage menu
then i don't know why i choose format all of them.
now when i open my tab it's stock on samsung logo.
can someone help me what to do? also when i connect my tab to the computer the storage won't open.
i'm kinda new to this and i'm sorry if this is the wrong thread but can you lead me to the right direction before punishing me?
Install a ROM, any ROM. You can use my guide (link in signature).
Posted from my Galaxy Tab with CM10
the problem is if i connect my tablet to my computer it won't read the tablet.
i already downloaded a rom but how in the world can i put it on my tablet?
thanks for the reply!
Try loading the ROM onto an SD card and then installing it from the card. Unless the tab doesn't have an SD card slot. Then, you may have to use ODIN to restore or something. Not sure.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda app-developers app
yeah i got that part and hate it, i have to go to my gf house to borrow her sdcard reader.
anyway it seems this one is solve. thanks!
hope the rom works
I'm using international model and tried to upgrade my deivce since most of the apps don't suport the old android version the device was using. So I tried flashing it with ODIN and after restart it lost the connection to ODIN, and now it happens every time I'm trying to re-flash it. Any ideas/help/solutions?
Thank you in advance. (Also I'm sorry if this doesn't belong here)
Hi,
A few things. Try another cable. Another USB port on computer. Another computer even if possible. Another Odin version maybe. It could be a bad download of the firmware file. And lastly, make sure you end any process of Kies running in your computer task manager.
If none of that helps, you need to ask for help here,
> Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0 > Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0 Q&A
Good luck!
Thank you. Thread closed.
Let me first explain the thought process that went on before this all happened:
I wanted to stream my Spotify from Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 GT-P5100 to my smart TV via BubbleUPNP. But I couldn't do this for a number of reasons: my tablet wasn't a rooted device or running Android 4.1+ or had the Xposed framework. So I set to work trying to root my device and upgrade it to 4.1 in the process.
I used Odin to root my device and install the Xposed framework. This all went very smoothly and was impressed.
But the biggest error of all came when I tried to upgrade my Android version by Odin to about 4.1
+.
I managed to get what I thought was the correct ".tar" file. But part way through I was faced with an error message saying "firmware upgrade encountered an issue" so I tried using Samsungs own "Kies" to recover my device. But I soon found out this would be no help because "gt-p5100 does not support initializing." so this application was useless. I then done a bit more digging around on the internet and found out that I can simply restore my device with the correct file on Odin again.
I don't quite know exactly what happened next but I'm presuming I made a ridiculously stupid error and downloaded and loaded the wrong file onto my device. My device now thinks it's a 7" "GT-P3100."
With the tablet being completely useless because the touch screen no longer works because of the confusion between the models and I cannot find the correct files to load onto Odin for it to work either, mainly because I've given up on things to even search.
I am asking this because I've tried for hours with no luck and need help restoring my tablet back to a "GT-5100" so I can then root it on Odin and upgrade the OS to 4.1+.
Please also note I could not simply upgrade my OS by going into setting/about device/etc.
I can see how this stupidity can being funny to others but my simple accident has cost me dearly and I would appreciate some help from other.
Thanks,
Mike.
Hi,
Normally flashing firmware from another device that's not yours is a brick, especially with Samsung.... But hopefully because it's another tab 2 firmware, you can fix yours. But definitely exercise caution in the future.
The place most are getting Samsung firmware, especially older models is sammobile website.
Other than that, any links I found on XDA for it are dead.
You obviously know how to flash with Odin, so try sammobile and find your correct firmware.
If you have further issues, you should ask for help in your device section, here,
> Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 > Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Good luck!
Okay I was worried it could be bricked, but if I managed to get an error message on an install to then be able to simply change the model with the wrong file, I hoped I could almost mess up an install to get back to that stage to then be able to completely re-install my original correct files.
Thank you I will try Sammobile. I think that might've even been where I got the wrong file from in the first place.
Thanks a lot for your reply it fills me with hope knowing there might be a way to rectify my mistake.
Recently i downloaded an app from a torrent site and installed thinking it was virus free but somehow it managed to infect my device i quickly turned it off and tried to put it in safe mode but it showed me a menu saying android was upgrading when i switched it on it started constantly spamming me it got to the point where i had to format it,it was installing apps on it's own so directly after the format it did the same thing as soon as i connected to the internet so i figured i need to just install a new(custom) rom on the device it is an Galaxy S4 i9500 the model is a South African one and i need to get a rom that would work for it i just want it up and running again so i can use it again. Any help with a walk through and advice on what rom to download and how to go about flashing it would be much appreciated.
thanks in advance for any help offered.
DylanOneill said:
Recently i downloaded an app from a torrent site and installed thinking it was virus free but somehow it managed to infect my device i quickly turned it off and tried to put it in safe mode but it showed me a menu saying android was upgrading when i switched it on it started constantly spamming me it got to the point where i had to format it,it was installing apps on it's own so directly after the format it did the same thing as soon as i connected to the internet so i figured i need to just install a new(custom) rom on the device it is an Galaxy S4 i9500 the model is a South African one and i need to get a rom that would work for it i just want it up and running again so i can use it again. Any help with a walk through and advice on what rom to download and how to go about flashing it would be much appreciated.
thanks in advance for any help offered.
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Hi and thank you for using XDA Assist
If you're new to this i would suggest you first to read this thread and watch a bit the links in thread mentioned . For the ROMs well i can't tell you anything because i don't know the Galaxy S4 variant so if you can tell me that i can specify more from where you can search.
Regards