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[Q] Official Samsung Galaxy tab forum?

Hi I have to admit I'm a newby but this forum is great for the tab support. I was however wondering, if I want to complain directly to Samsung about bugs/issues with the galaxy tab, do they also have an official galaxy tab forum where I could post?
(the video player is a bit buggy with certain file formats)

[Q] Just bought a new Samsung Galaxy Tab GT-P1000

Ok i've recently bought a new samsung galaxy tab GT-P1000 in england, its unlocked to all networks, running froyo xwjj3, i absolutely love it, it meets all my needs perfectly,
now i'm fairly new to the android world, ive been a devout iphone owner for years but figured it was time for a change, i had a good understanding of the "jailbreaking" world of the iphone but i'll be honest and say the android world of ROMs totally throws me off, like for instance is there a ROM which will make tab any better or faster? themes that maybe make use of its larger screen?
basically what i'm asking for is any type of help that u think would be useful to a rookie, apps and games, anything that can make full use of my lovely new machine?
also on a side note, i have an Orange Livebox router in my house and my samsung connects with it fine only after i press the wifi button on the box and then suddenly drops the signal at any specific time, what could be the cause of this?
thanks so much for any help

Congatulations and welcome to the family
A lot of us share your love to the Tab and motivated to make it even better.
If Tab meets your current needs you might not need any modifications. The easy way is just following Samsung notifications about available updates and simply enjoy your Tab.
If you want to be on the edge of XDA development and ready to take risk of testing latest releases of firmware you need to go through reading of the Development forum.
It might be a lot of reading but it would save your from frustration when something goes wrong.
Luckly, development is in very good state right now and your can choose fast firmware that is tested enough for everyday use.

to update the tab you will need kies (which sucks)
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA App

Just read a few threads in the development section here , I was a complete novice not long ago , I now have a custom kernal + rom and my device is rooted. Some of the roms are better but jj7 is just fine - you can update officially from jj3 using kies as its genuine samsung software
For nice themes grab adw launcher from the market and then add some themes for it... google is your friend

roy8846 said:
Just read a few threads in the development section here , I was a complete novice not long ago , I now have a custom kernal + rom and my device is rooted. Some of the roms are better but jj7 is just fine - you can update officially from jj3 using kies as its genuine samsung software
For nice themes grab adw launcher from the market and then add some themes for it... google is your friend
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thats the thing tho, i have been reading up and looking, from what i can gather 90% of the customs roms on the samung galaxy tab are for non UK users who want to make phone calls from there device, we can already do that in the UK so what types of ROMs are beneficial to us?
also ive heard launcher pro is better for the galaxy tab rather adw launcher, is that true?
thanks for the help by the way

[Q] What is best device ROM (CM9) to port from for 7.7 Tab?

i'm wondering what would be the best choice of CM9 from other devices to get the port from?
SGSII? NOTE?
please advice.

Seems note has the near the same hardware spec with 7.7, but s2 has the official 4.03 from samsung
Sent from my GT-P6800 using XDA Premium HD app

I started from the s2 source (see the thread in the dev-section), unfortunately I have gotten really busy with work so I won't really be able to put much time into it right now. If you are interested in working on it, go look at the repos I posted in that thread. I've most recently been trying to get the touch to work properly, however, the driver for it in the 7.7 source code is a complete mess, and more complicated than other drivers that have been fixed for ics.

I have GT-P6800, does same repository apply to it?

All but the android_device_samsung_p6810 should, and that last one should be easy to convert. If you are interested in working on it, I would suggest forking the common ones so that we can share our work easily.

I'm interested in working on a P6800 too.

[Q] Where is the P7500 (3G-version) love?

Hi there.
Running an old KANG for my P7500 Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 3G P7500. Looking forward to the day when Samsung or other party involved will release relevant code for getting everything working properly.
But until then I would love to run an up to date KANG without fully functioning camera and such.
But, where has all the love for the P7500 gone? I cant see any updates beyond end of March or beginning of April. What am I missing, or is there just no current development going on right now that has been released?
All help will in showing me the right path to take will be greatly appriciated
Thanks
// Kaherdin
Sweden

Look here: http://droidbasement.com/galaxy/roms/cm9/p4/
It is updated regularly. Just keep an eye on mabalito's thread in development section. And don't mind the date on the title...
Sent from my amazing 10.1 galaxy tab

Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.4 LTE Support

I am thinking of buying a Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 LTE and I was wondering if you will officially support this device for your custom ROM?

I have one..., i'm looking forward to a custom rom !

vivalamoza said:
I am thinking of buying a Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 LTE and I was wondering if you will officially support this device for your custom ROM?
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Standard answer here:
Find a maintainer in your device's own forums.
Projects like this are done by volunteers. As such, people choose to work on devices they want to work on. Some of us will take on devices upon request in special circumstances, but only if we've got some initial interest in them. (For example, most of the core team love Oppo because they've been so nice to us, so when they send us a device, we go out of our way to support it. Within limits, though - being MTK-based has really killed the R819.)
In the case of Samsung devices - many of us worked with Samsungs in the past and never want to touch them again. So if you want such an oddball/niche device supported, you'll need to find someone in that device's forums that's interested in doing the bringup.