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)
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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
Hi,
On sammobile.com it`s new rom open for Europe P7300XWKI1 , date : september 2011 , Android 3.1 , pit -p5.
Yeah, but in this .tar archive, you can find efs, bootloaders... and bootloaders are worrying me...
Many files to flash... strange archive
luminouche said:
Yeah, but in this .tar archive, you can find efs, bootloaders... and bootloaders are worrying me...
Many files to flash... strange archive
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Yes , I now but see in the rom for Arabic P7300JPKI1...it.`s normal , PDA , MODEM , CSC , PIT , Odin 1.85 but this is for Arabic not Europe ? Whay ? this is strange
Did anyone try this rom? is it less laggy in landscape mode?
I'm on this rom, I think she is less laggy than older. But for improve smoothness, I have installed another launcher.
The archive is strange, but i have root my tablet with the same rar for kh5...
My Imei doesn't change and my simlock is "safe".
So, go on !
clecle69000 said:
I'm on this rom, I think she is less laggy than older. But for improve smoothness, I have installed another launcher.
The archive is strange, but i have root my tablet with the same rar for kh5...
My Imei doesn't change and my simlock is "safe".
So, go on !
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So, you did like I said in the other thread? All went smoothly?
I guess it wont fit my SGS2 TM
Pozdrowienia z Florydy!
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Just loaded up this firmware. Looks good so far! No noticeable changes that I can see though. Took a long time to boot up the first time, but that's to be expected. Any lag and/or stuttering issues (scrolling from homescreen to homescreen, webpage zooming etc.) that I experienced in the earlier firmware still seem to be present. If there are any improvements, however slight they may be, they seem to be more of a placebo effect.
Jade Eyed Wolf said:
Just loaded up this firmware. Looks good so far! No noticeable changes that I can see though. Took a long time to boot up the first time, but that's to be expected. Any lag and/or stuttering issues (scrolling from homescreen to homescreen, webpage zooming etc.) that I experienced in the earlier firmware still seem to be present. If there are any improvements, however slight they may be, they seem to be more of a placebo effect.
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Does this rom has gsm dialer??
andyleesy70 said:
Does this rom has gsm dialer??
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Sadly, no.
However, having said that, Tablet Talk is something that I have been using. Basically it synchronizes SMS between your phone and your tablet, so you can read and respond to your phone's SMS, but on your tablet. The Tablet even shows caller ID when your phone rings! Now if only the developer would take it one step further and allow the tablet to answer the call over speakerphone... Of course you could just answer the phone with a bluetooth earpiece anyway.
thanks... i bought the 8.9 as there are conflicting reviews that gsm voice is supported and i was hoping that it would be supported... i guess i have no choice but to sell my 8.9 when the 7.7 is released.
and hope i dont have to wait much longer... some sites indicate that 7.7 would be release in Nov and so far the sites seems to be correct on the Note and i'm hoping that they are correct with 7.7. Note is now available via online retailers.
andyleesy70 said:
thanks... i bought the 8.9 as there are conflicting reviews that gsm voice is supported and i was hoping that it would be supported... i guess i have no choice but to sell my 8.9 when the 7.7 is released.
and hope i dont have to wait much longer... some sites indicate that 7.7 would be release in Nov and so far the sites seems to be correct on the Note and i'm hoping that they are correct with 7.7. Note is now available via online retailers.
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I know how you feel. That said, especially considering how useful the Tablet Talk app is, native GSM calling abilities on the tablet are kind of a moot point for me now, (unless of course I wanted to go out with only one device).
For me, if I were to sell my 8.9 in favour of a 7.7, the biggest selling points of the 7.7 are HD SAMOLED+ screen and 1.4GHZ Exynos processor; the GSM phone abilities come as an added bonus really.
Now, as for the Galaxy Note, I'm sorta undecided on this device. I really want to like this device more, and I think it's really cool. I understand what Samsung is trying to by consolidating the functions of both phone and tablet, and for some people, this will be the perfect match. For me, I'm not so sure, and here's why:
Primarily, I'm already paying for two lines, both of which have grandfathered unlimited data, which are worth more than their weight in gold, so as long as I can hold onto that unlimited data, I'm happy to continue paying. One is data-only, and the other is data+voice. So, it makes sense that I would have two dedicated devices. Otherwise I would be just wasting the other line. This actually happened for a few months while I used the original Tab as my only device; my data-only SIM card just sat neglected and gathering dust...
My other issue with the Note is size. I have the GS2, and I can honestly say without hesitation, this is the best phone I have ever owned. I won't go into all the details why, but for the sake of this argument, the size of the GS2 is absolutely perfect! I have held the 4.5" Infuse before for comparison, and though it has only .2" over the GS2, it feels massive! I can only imagine what a 5.3" behemoth must feel like; not for me...
I already knew that the 10.1" Tab was too big for me. I had the original 7" version, and I loved that form factor. It may have felt a bit chubby compared to the 10.1 and 8.9, but for the most part it was like carrying around a small book; I liked that. Don't get me wrong though, I love the feel of the 8.9, but it doesn't have that "book feel" that the ol' 7 had...
I have a sneaky suspicion that the 7.7" - 4.3" dynamic duo will ultimately be my winning pair.
I know how you feel. I agree having a 7.7 and SGS2 would be the perfect match.
I'm having SGS2 too (for my local line) and I'm holding a BB for my foreign country work line which I'm trying to replace. I thought the 8.9 (if it had gsm voice) would be perfect. Unfortunately, it doesnt. So when I'm travelling, I'm carrying 3 devices now and trying to make it just 2 and very likely I will replace my 8.9 with 7.7 when it is launch.
ah for me the 8.9 is as small as i can go seeing as i do a lot of pdf studying on this device. 7.7 would just kill my eyes.
Saw last week an unbranded P7300 in a French phone store...
Rom was P7300XWKI3, and i'm surprised we can't find this firmware to dl...
luminouche said:
Saw last week an unbranded P7300 in a French phone store...
Rom was P7300XWKI3, and i'm surprised we can't find this firmware to dl...
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I have a European gt8.9 3g with P7300XWKI4 firmware, I can pull the system if developers are interested.
Great idea !
And after, easy to make a flashable cwm rom with your dump ?
Your rom has French language ?
luminouche said:
Great idea !
And after, easy to make a flashable cwm rom with your dump ?
Your rom has French language ?
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It seems to have all european languages, including French yes.
I don't know how easy it is to make a flashable rom from the dump, I'm not a developer.
Well, could you start a thread with your dump, maybe we'll find more help to make something flashable ?
Thx !
I'm looking for an update of my P7300XWKI1, and you've probably got it !
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thanks... i bought the 8.9 as there are conflicting reviews that gsm voice is supported and i was hoping that it would be supported... i guess i have no choice but to sell my 8.9 when the 7.7 is released.
and hope i dont have to wait much longer... some sites indicate that 7.7 would be release in Nov and so far the sites seems to be correct on the Note and i'm hoping that they are correct with 7.7. Note is now available via online retailers.
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Hey, look at ICYXMAS. We are talking about enable calling.Maybe if you wait a while, you might get the call functionality
i was just wondering why is there no work on a501?
there is only one person that dose work for the a501, thats moscow. he dose great work, but i find it hard to believe that no one else has one to work on.
yes i know i can flash a500 roms but i lose some features.
i know that we dont have whats needed for ics on the a501 but there arent any hc roms other than alaxandrea. witch is great im not complaining, but cmon we need some more devs/chefs for this device!!
I think its the same reason there aren't many 3g integrated tablets out there, according to everything I have read, wifi tablets outsell 3g tablets 5 to 1, probably because nobody wants to sign up for yet another contract. So there are considerably less A501 users and therefore considerably less developers.
I have a crippled A501 from ATT and I am running Alexandra III which as a rom I am quite happy with, it actually is the best rom I have ever ran (I have run many on my Nexus One and never found one as stable as Moscow's).
My big issue with my A501 is the lack of bluetooth capabilities, I want to make bluetooth calls with Skype, and better yet have a dialer so I could use my phone sim card to make calls from my A501 over 2g or GSM. I also want bluetooth SPP capabilities so I can control devices...
To that end I downloaded the source and setup an ubuntu environment to compile the kernel source but so far am getting lots of errors and can't figure out which toolchain to use for cross compiling.
At this point I am ready to start a bounty thread....
i guess thats tru.
but even if they are out sold 5-1 there are still thousadns apon thousands of a501's out there and we have only have one guy doing work.....
i love moscows rom too, probably wouldnt switch if there were more. but thats kinda the point the more people working on something, the better the chance better and cool stuff could be made to happen. poor moscow, all alone in this forum lol.
cmon acer and realease us some ics so moscow can hook us up!!
Here in Oz you can bu the A501 without any plan... You can put any simcard in and know you have the carrier working. We don't have CDMA anymore...
I don't know why other countries don't do this too, it certainly generates sales for Acer if the tabs are sold wild to be used on any carrier....
The a501 is actually pretty cheap without contract at an AT&T store. Ultimately most a500 rooms will work fine on the a501 as the only difference is the wireless card. Even with that aspect taken into account all that would need made to include full functionality for the a501 on every a500 ROM is a flashable zip with updated build.prop values and the 3g driver. The kernel base should be nearly identical but would need some slight modification for multiband support. As long as the kernel wasn't compiled before the initial ROM flash any modifications would fall under the original GPL for the a500 kernel.
Sent from a loaf of bread.
After going through many tablets and what not... I decided to go ahead and get the galaxy tab 7.7 P6810 wifi version. I was opted to get the p6800 but I don't think I could carry that around all the time so I will just tether it when I need it to my galaxy note.
I ended up selling my htc evo view, then my asus transformer prime, and now I'm returning my ipad 3. (I really couldn't tell the difference between ipad 2 and ipad 3.. I mean some apps and text was more clear but overall general use, it was the same.)
my tab 7.7 should be here today... what to do first.
So.. is p6810 same as p6800 without the 3g radio? As far as firmware and custom roms go... can you use either or? Or do you have to only used dedicated software for each device?
Firmware is NOT compatable between the two models, except for the a custom cwm recovery thats been ported over you'll find here.
Double check before flashing making sure you have the correct firmware for your model, or else you could be soft or worst case hard bricked.
Im using noob rom and works nicely, had cooked up my own but was having a few issues on implementing sone mods, so happy with this rom until ICS, whenever that comes......
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Hello,
I am currently using a Samsung S4 (sprint network : using Ting; jfltespr) and I have been happily running Cyanogenmod 13.0 (20161218).
I dont tinker; I set it and forget it... once stable nor do I actively follow the tech as I end up longing for an upgrade.
Sadly there is no native support for LineageOS for my variant s4,
I would love to get the latest on the device and not have to spend any money;
I despise all of the funk on new phones and desire to keep it honed down, thus my desire to stick with LineageOS; (that is unless there is something better.... is there?)
I have also purchased a ouraring.com - but have some 2 months prior to receipt. The only reason I really couldn't use it as I am lacking android v7 on my S4 (already has requirement of bluetooth 4 Low energy requirement.
so I have 2 options: new phone or update s4 somehow
if someone has a suggestion for either I would be grateful.
I have started the painful task of spec diving, trying to optimize in the hopes that it will last a long time and be able to have a long support life under LineageOS.
Kinda narrowed down to Samsung S8 or Motorola X2 Play.
I look toward any feedback.
Best regards and Thanks for your time.
qu1nn
You can use jfltexx rooms most of the time, you can get the stable stuff from jdcteam