Hi xda-team,
every night I've connected my tablet to the power supply, but one morning I found it unresponsive. I pressed the power button for a longer time and was surprised to see, that the tablet was shut down (the battery loading image was visible). So I pressed power again and it seemed to start up. But unfortunately it kept displaying the Samsung logo for hours. I hold the power again a long time to make a reset and tried again to start up the tablet. Same result.
Now the point is, it would be quiet easy to do a factory reset, wipe all data and I'm sure, it would come back to live. A few years ago I even had to reinstall the original ROM via ODIN to make it work again, but it worked again. So I think I have some experience to get the tablet back to live.
But now the thing is a bit difficult in that way, as I would like to recover two documents and some photos to my PC. This tablet has no SD card, and the images weren't uploaded to Picasa / Google+.
I think I heard about some ROM addon that could be installed onto the tablet, so that is possible to connect the PC to it (even if it isn't booted up) and get all data from the device, but I'm not sure, if this is correct.
My tablet is a Galaxy Tab 10.1 (GT-P7500), 16 GB an it has the Original ROM installed. I remember, the ROM is an european version and initially started up in dutch.
Thanks for all your help in advance
Ralf
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I bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 on September 13 in the USA. It is a 32 GB WiFi model. And it was shipped to India and I opened it on the 1st of October.
This is what happens:
I can switch on the device
The Home screen appears.
And without me doing anything or if I try to explore any of the widgets the screen goes off and then comes back again to the Home Screen itself. All within 15 seconds.
And if I try to press the camera option it say "Please turn off USB storage before using the camera function"
I tried to meddle with the settings( all within 15 the seconds as it again shuts off and goes to the start home screen) but to no avail.
But I'm able to shut down the device.
Buddies it is a brand new device , I did not even register myself , no data loaded , nothing at all. I think it is some software glitch.
Since it is an imported piece they say it cannot be serviced in India.
HELP ME
Can you get into recovery and try a factory reset? If that doesn't help, try to install firmware with Odin.
I tried doing a factory reset....did not work. But what's there to reset it's a brand new piece. And how can I install stuff without being able to even register my google ID?????
Try flashing CWM recovery through Odin and then flash any stock ROM. It may work.
PM me if you want any help in this.
Sent from my GT-P7510
I received a G Tablet which had been used for development work for a few months. The person giving it to me (not the dev who has left) said the tablet was working fine, but had just become frozen at a reboot after he had tried to erase personal data from the tablet. I asked him if he had erased the sd card and he said "maybe" but that he couldn't remember. I powered the tablet on and sure enough it displayed two lines on a black background, one of which said something like loading kernel.
Now, these tablets were all rooted, and had Android 2.3 on them, via one of the ROMs discussed here. I don't know which one however.
So, I tried using NVflash to flash the tablet back to a stock ROM. Tablet then got stuck in a boot loop; I would see the Viewsonic logo, then the G Tablet logo, and then this would go on forever.
So I shut it down and tried again. This time Nvflash failed almost at the last step after having written most of the image.
And so here I am now, with a totally dead tablet. I cannot power it on. No combination of power or volume up/down buttons work. The only sign of life is when I plug it into its charger, and see the charging light come on.
I confirmed again with the person who gave me the tablet that the device was working just fine before it froze at a reboot after his erasing attempts.
Is there a way out of this? I hope so. Please help!
Thanks very much
Paul
texnote said:
I received a G Tablet which had been used for development work for a few months. The person giving it to me (not the dev who has left) said the tablet was working fine, but had just become frozen at a reboot after he had tried to erase personal data from the tablet. I asked him if he had erased the sd card and he said "maybe" but that he couldn't remember. I powered the tablet on and sure enough it displayed two lines on a black background, one of which said something like loading kernel.
Now, these tablets were all rooted, and had Android 2.3 on them, via one of the ROMs discussed here. I don't know which one however.
So, I tried using NVflash to flash the tablet back to a stock ROM. Tablet then got stuck in a boot loop; I would see the Viewsonic logo, then the G Tablet logo, and then this would go on forever.
So I shut it down and tried again. This time Nvflash failed almost at the last step after having written most of the image.
And so here I am now, with a totally dead tablet. I cannot power it on. No combination of power or volume up/down buttons work. The only sign of life is when I plug it into its charger, and see the charging light come on.
I confirmed again with the person who gave me the tablet that the device was working just fine before it froze at a reboot after his erasing attempts.
Is there a way out of this? I hope so. Please help!
Thanks very much
Paul
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I would try popping it open and unplugging the internal battery then plugging it back in. Also hit the internal reset button while you're in there. It's pretty hard to actually kill one of these tablets. PM me if you need any other help.
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Started my own thread, didnt mean to hijack. =)
Thanks, I will try removing the battery and let you know.
As for NVflash, I believe the latest version is here:
http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/171...-using-either-11-or-12-based-images-g-tablet/
However in my case I have no idea whether I have 1.1 or 1.2 and there is no way to determine this. Which one should I choose?
Paul
Doesn't matter for NVFlash, just download all of the flash files again because it might be that you have a bad download. Also make sure you have the right drivers installed since the drivers that automatically install when you plug it in sometimes don't work.
I'm pretty sure that if it boots past the birds, the hardware is working okay, so you should run the FORMAT version for NVFlash and then I'd run just a CWM flash setup and see if you can get into CWM and delete the partitions from within that.
The best thing to flash as far as ROMs would be Bekit's 1105 which is stock OTB with a few key changes. If you can't get the 1105 to play nice, you might really have some hardware problems.
I would go with the 1.2 BL, it will give you access to the newer roms as it appears that dev for the 1.1 BL seems to be dwindeling. I upgraded mine to 1.2 the other day and it worked great.
I'll start from the beginining.. Okay so since i bought my tab (3 months ago) i had a battery problem, but it wasnt a bad battery problem. Once it got to 95% battery it stopped charging. Anyway, about a week after that i was unhappy with the performace of touchwiz on my tab so i decided to root it and install the cyanogenmod 12 nightlies. I was happy with cm for a while but eventually i got bored of all the bugs and instabilities so i decided to switch to a touchwiz rom.. This touchwiz rom was a vast improvement from the stock touchwiz so i decided to keep it. However i still wanted to improve the performace so i researched online for apk's/zip's that could improve my tabs performace. I came across crossbreeder and people said it was really good so i decided to install crossbreeder through TWRP. Once installed i rebooted my device and i instantly found many more battery problems. For example my battery would go from 50% to 20% in 5 mins/my battery would run out and i would reboot it and it would have had 40% etc. I downloaded some battery calibrating apps and calibrated my tab. After all that, that battery wasnt so bad. It was still dodgy but no where near as bad as it was straight after installing crossbreeder. Anyway, this was about 1 month ago. Since then, no new problems had occured with the battery until last night. Last night, my battery ent don to 1% then turned off like it should. I put my tab on charge and rebooted however when it rebooted nothing would work. My touchscreen didnt work, my home button didnt work, none of the keys next to the home button didnt work. So i thought that this was no problem and i could just boot into TWRP, factory reset and install the backup that i made. When i tried this, i booted into TWRP successfully however i couldnt press any of the TWRP buttons, again, i thought that this could be solved by flashing the stock firmware through odin. I put my tab into download mode and connected it to my pc, then flashed the stock rom. Once finished it showed a 'pass' and i thought everything was sorted.. When my tab booted up, it again, didnt let me press anything and none of the buttons would work. This is when i panicked. I then went into the stock recovery to factory reset my tab to see if that would work however, when i went into stock recovery, i couldnt go up or down using the volume keys.. So my volume keys didnt work either. I next put my tab in download mode and connected it to my pc. I opened odin and checked the 'Nand erase all' box thinking this would fully reset my whole tab. I then researched the 'nand erase all' function to find that everyone said that it breakes your device and puts it in bootloop etc. After reading this i instantly disconnected the usb from my computer to my tab. I tried rebooting my tab to see if it still booted and it didnt.. (i waited 20 mins). I then ran odin with 'clear efs' box ticked on. Again it didnt boot. I went into stock recovery again to see if the volume keys would work.. they didnt.. Infact when i opened stock recovery it had 3 errors showing (which it didnt last time i opened stock recovery). They all started with 'failed to mount /data'. Now i am here.. Sorry it was such a long read, i thought it would be better if i explained in detail. Thanks to anyone that replies/helps me.
Hi everybody,
Got directed to this site for being my best chance of getting my Tab 3 10.1 (GT-P5210) back up and running. Worked on plenty of computers but haven't done much in the way of tablets.
The issue I'm having goes like this:
-When connected to a charger I get the battery icon with the circle. It does not reflect that it is charging. I have gotten a new battery for it and it still does the same thing.
-When the tablet is powered on it gets as far as the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 screen.
-I went into the recovery menu (volume up & power) and did a factory reset on it. The background shows the Android laying down with No Command underneath and then shows Error!
-Downloaded the recovery firmware (I believe that's what it is) from Sammobile. 2.28 GB file unzipped, titled P5210XXUBNK2_P5210XACBNK2_Home.tar.md5. Copied it to a microSD card and tried the update from external option. Basically got the same result as before.
-It was suggested that I root the device, so I downloaded Odin and used TWRP (I think I got the right one). It did it's thing and restarted but I'm still no further ahead.
Is there another step I should be taking? Or other files I should be using?
I haven't found and clear tutorials on this so far, a lot of the ones I've come across have links to other forums that are about as clear as mud or have dead links.
My goal is just to have a functioning tablet at the end that works basically the way it did when I first got it.
Thanks in advance!
Quiet bunch
Hello all,
I have a soft-bricked Galaxy S3. I have no idea why it soft-bricked. I was using Google Maps to find a place and put it in my pocket. When I got there and took the phone out, I was greeted with a black screen with the white Galaxy S3 I-9300 logo that wouldn't go away. Tried taking the battery out then putting it back in and powering on: no dice.
I cannot access Recovery Mode with the Volume Up shortcut; the device bootloops. I can only access Download Mode with Volume Down shortcut. Even stranger, plugging the phone into the charger causes the battery icon to appear, then freeze.
Now, most advice I've searched for says to flash firmware or a custom ROM or do a factory reset to get the phone working again. I'm worried about doing this because it will probably delete the data on the phone. I don't really care about the phone anymore having bought a new one; I just want to get the data. Please let me know what I can do to recover it. Again, the phone doesn't matter. If your method requires me to break the phone in half, so be it as long as the data remains intact and I can retrieve it.
Thanks very much for reading!