yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] gazjglusk:
Thanks Ozren, It seems you have something else wrong; when I did it, I remember after 'NAND Write Start' it kept going and wrote all the required files and then said flashing successfull or something similar. I could do it all again if you want and take more notes this time. I am a bit of a beginner too ! where did you get a copy of the Odin message from, so I can see if I can find mine. (Its after midnight here and I have been roofing all day, so I need bed badly.) Tomorrow hey !!

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Pardon my ignorance Adinis78 ...Is OTA update something similar to when I use Kies and it tells me there is an update. My problem after doing the Austrian rom was that Kies would not recognise the Tab for updates. Obviously the Austrian rom from samfirmware is not official.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] davp:
I think Kies might work with the 7.7 similar to the Galaxy S2 phones: there is a product code for the phone/tab which is used by kies as well as the firmware/csc details to determine update. Once you have flashed firmware from a different country, the full set of values wont match with kies anymore. Eg, I have a Panama product code and a European firmware in my phone (And an Australian product code and Australian firmware in my 7.7). If I ever want to use kies again for updating the phone, I will need to flash the stock Panama firmware. If you have a look at checkfus website, you will get the idea. There are approx 6 parameters - if not exactly right, no match for firmware available.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] adinis78:
Its the over the air update nit sure if its the right descriptiom i am using so thats what i was trying to say. I know another user updated theirs over the air.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] adinis78:
Ok so just received my tab and ohhhh my God its nice. So leta get down to the important part i want to do the update but i want to back up the original sofware how do i go about doing that, thanks :-)
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] adinis78:
Ok so i am tryi!g to use the tab with a tmob8le sim to test amd see if it possible to get 3g+voice since tmobile presumebly upgraded their network to work on 1900mhz, well unfortunatly still stuck on edge+voice, guess no surprice there. So with in m8nd i am trying to access the service menu to see if i can change the frequency but do not know the codes. I have tried *#2263# from original tab and no luck also tried *#0011# to see what current frequency its p9vkimg up but again no luck, does anyone know where i can get the service menu code or will have to wait since its still a new tab?? Other than that phone option works and web surfing works as well excetp only on edge.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Jade Eyed Wolf:
Try *#*#197328640#*#*
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] adinis78:
thanks tried that and this is what i get:

If i select option 6 i get this:

If i try to select 5, nothing there so this is not the code i am looking for i would actually need a code that would get me to to somethimg like this (these are from original samsung tab)

guess will just have to wait
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] ilkin1982:
I have absolutely same problem. Even now system refuses to start properly and shows the following message: "During firmware update occurred some problem. Please recover through Kies recovery tool"

Anybody can help me with that issue?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] davp:
Something to try:

It may be kies interfering with odin. Use the Task Manager to make sure ALL kies processes are stopped before using odin.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] ilkin1982:
Tried but same story. No chance to update to Austrian ROM through ODIN 1.85 :(
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] ozren:
Still no luck for me!
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] gazjglusk:
Hi Ozren and Ilkin1982, From memory each time I changed from Odin to Kies and vice versa, I closed the PC app and disconnected the Tab. Only reconnected Tab when the new pc app was open.

Hi davp, Thanks for the info; After looking at check fus site and also the @SamKiesUpdates site mentioned on check fus, I think you are right about all the parameters. I ran check fus on my Tab and it shows four items. If I remember right, after flashing the Austrian rom, Odin mentioned that the last item in checkfus ie CSC was missing or not accessible. This would explain why Kies then did not recognise the Tab for updates.

just looking back through thread and I see there was concern about pit file. When I downloaded Odin3 1.85 zip; I extracted this to a folder 'Odin3-v1.85'. In this folder is an ini file , a pit file and the exe. I have always started Odin from within this folder.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] hic87:
tahnks a lot for your info guys
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] mohlin:
LCD density issue

I changed my density to 180 and saved. The launcher then would not work so I had to install new launcher. Now tab wont root and my market wont work because of the density change. Is there a way to change density without root. I need to change those.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] davp:
I just used my existing odin3 v 1.85 (installed months ago for my phone) to flash my 7.7 with matching Australian firmware (successfully I think). I also did factory restore/data wipe after.

I have no pit in my odin directory (or anywhere else to my knowledge).
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] gazjglusk:
I just flashed P6800ZSKL2 rom again (see my post 659 on page 66) using Odin exe from within extracted folder .....Odin message ...........

<ID:0/004> Added!!

<ID:0/004> Removed!!

<ID:0/004> Added!!

<ID:0/004> Removed!!

<ID:0/008> Added!!

<ID:0/008> Odin v.3 engine (ID:8)..

<ID:0/008> File analysis..

<ID:0/008> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/008> Initialzation..

<ID:0/008> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/008> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/008> boot.bin

<ID:0/008> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/008> cache.img

<ID:0/008> factoryfs.img

<ID:0/008> hidden.img

<ID:0/008> modem.bin

<ID:0/008> param.lfs

<ID:0/008> recovery.img

<ID:0/008> Sbl.bin

<ID:0/008> zImage

<ID:0/008> RQT_CLOSE !!

<ID:0/008> RES OK !!

<ID:0/008> Completed..

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 1 / failed 0)

<ID:0/008> Removed!!

<ID:0/004> Added!!

<ID:0/004> Removed!!

Closed Odin ....Unplugged Tab. ..... Open Kies .... plugin Tab .... -> update available ... proceed with update ....Kies started downloading .....when download had finished and before update began and although told not to on Tab, I unplugged, and searched my hidden PC files (Win7x64) and found the downloaded file 'tmpxxxx.tmp' being 555mb. I assume this is the P6800ZSLA2 rom/update. I as yet have not found a way to open this ...any suggestions ??

Because I unplugged , I had to run the Kies proccess again and this time watched the download in the pc temp folder (the same 555mb) and let let the process complete. I am now back to 'normal' P6800ZSLA2 rom, the current up-to-date firmware according to Kies. Rerooted and working fine.

I have copied the tmpxxxx.tmp 555mb file and any help extracting to a 'rom' file would be appreciated. Cheers

davp, attached my download of Odin two days ago with .pit inside. What is the Australian rom you refer to (or is it the Austrian rom)?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] bedwa:
Try renaming the ending (.tmp) to .tar. then use 7zip or another compression software to extract the partitions. Mount in Linux or use a partition program like ultraISO to read. Let me know if it works.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] gazjglusk:
Hi Bedwa, both your options and a couple of others have failed. however a little googling just found this (which is where I found the .tmp file)

by spacks » Fri Apr 08, 2011 6:29 pm

I have read lots of queries from users in many forums asking how can they extract firmware files from kies while kies is upgrading their phones. In all, I found no answers but questions. I thus decided to provide a simple answer to this long asked question.

I first downgraded my phone by flashing it with S8500XXJF4_Full firmware so that kies will detect an upgrade for me. Yes, when I connected the phone kies detected a firmware upgrade to S8500XXJL2.

Now read on to see how to save the firmware files during kies upgrade process.

1. On your pc, windows explorer, check the option "Show hidden files, folders, and drivers".

2. Now connect your phone to pc via kies to begin the firmware upgrade.

3. Kies will begin to download the firmware files...

a. The files will be saved under a tmp file called "tmp****.tmp"

(NB: **** can be any letters or numbers, e.g. In my two times of upgrade via kies,

first timethe tmp files was "tmpA4CE.tmp", and on the second it was "tmpD900.tmp"

b. In Windows 7, this tmp file is located at, C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Temp

(NB: * is the pc user session name, e.g. C:\Users\Spacks\AppData\Local\Temp)

4. When download is complete, kies decompresses this tmp file into a folder called

"tmp****.tmp.zipfolder" and begins the firmware upgrading process.

a. The folder has same name as the tmp file but now with an extention of .zipfolder.

(So scroll through the folders in the same directory to locate it).

b. When kies begins the upgrade process starting from 1% until it reaches 100%,

quickly copy the "tmp****.tmp.zipfolder" to your desktop.

You have about 2 to 3 minutes to do this. Kies will delete the folder once upgrade is 100% (completed).

5. The "tmp****.tmp.zipfolder" contains all the firmware files kies has used to upgrade your phone.

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I will have to do the whole process again to get this (and I have run out of download, so a visit to daughter is necessary !!! to use her U'LTD)
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] bedwa:
Urg...... easier step IMO is to ctrl-c the folder and ctrl-v in the same folder. It'll make a copy of the folder and then you can do what you want with the copied folder without loss. ;)
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] davp:
Last modified:2011-12-23Latest firmware:P6810DTKL5/P6810XSAKL2/P6810DTKL5/P6810DTKL5File name:GT-P6810_XSA_1_20111223142207.zip.enc2

As reported by checkfus, website...

Click in the list of models at bottom of page

P6810, then select australia, then cick the button.

I used checfus downloader program to actually retrieve it
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] gazjglusk:
Ok davp, GT-P6810 is the wifi only version available here in Australia. I have a 3G +wifi version GT-P6800 which I don't think is available here in Australia yet. My Tab came from Singapore and I am pretty sure uses a Honk Kong rom. I suspect the roms are different due to region difference. If you look at the country codes on the sammobile->Kies page you see the TD in your rom name denotes Australia, whereas in my P6800ZZHLA2_P6800XXLA1_P6800ZSLA2 rom denotes Hong Kong. I don't think they should be flashed on the wrong version Tab.

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Sorry yours is DT not TD
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] davp:
Totally agree.

Flash different region on same device.......just break kies

Flash wrong firmware on device......break device
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] kazuni:
I live in Hong Kong and now using the HK version of the p6800. Works fine after flashing all three variants of from from Odin, can even receive updates on OTA. It does not break anything .
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] gazjglusk:
Further to my post no 679 on page 68, I have used 'spacks' method (first flashing back to P6800ZSKL2) and exactly as described I obtained the file "tmp****.tmp.zipfolder"

and it contained the files P6800ZZHLA2_P6800XXLA1_P6800ZSLA2_HOME.tar.md5 and SS_DL.dll.

I again flashed back to P6800ZSKL2 and then in Odin flashed P6800ZZHLA2_P6800XXLA1_P6800ZSLA2_HOME.tar.md5 . .....-> Rerooted -> Tab is now back to normal again ...running perfectly ..and all my downloaded apps data and settings have been retained even though I now have flashed this thing well over 10 times !!

Checked using Kies and this the latest firmware. I now have a backup of this latest firmware.

Ozren, how are we going to fix your Tab ? ...two thoughts ...

1. Find the right area and product code rom for you. (Using Check Fus, my product code is GT-6800LSATGY) How to do this , I'm not sure.

2. Sometime during the last few days, I remember seeing a post about a different Samsung phone that had a flashing failure and at the end the phone produced a 'recovery code'.

If you open Kies and hit Tools you will see 'Firmware emergency recovery' ..hit this, then 'Emergency recovery using the recovery code' and you have to enter the code.

Do you recall seeing a code like this after one of your attempted flashings. If you could generate one .....who knows ?? Good Luck.

keep trying
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] davp:
Did you try a kies update when you had a different region flashed? Others, have reported problems? Returning to firmware of the same region as the device product code corrects the problem.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] ozren:
All I know about my device is that it is basband version P6800XXKJ1, kernel version was 2.6.36-P6800XXKJ2-CL557991-se.infra@sep-51 #3

Build number was: HTJ85B.XXKJ2 P6800XXKJ2

I don't know which region it belongs.

I bricked my device using Titanium backup when trying to separate Dalvik from ROM (that was the name of the feature I last clicked) and ever since it is in boot loop. So no way for me to start kies update or OTA for that matter! Can anyone know for sure for what region this device is. (it had working IR, WiFi, 3G and 16gb of internal memory) I never saw any code written anywhere. And I have been told before that is actually pre-release test device!
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] gazjglusk:
Here is country codes from samfirmware

Code

Country

AW

Hungary

AZ

France

BD

Cyprus, Greece

BY

Greece

CB

Poland

CE

Benelux

CP

Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden

DB

Vietnam

DC

Thailand

DD

India

DT

Australia

DX

Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam

DZ

Malaysia, Singapore

JA

South Africa

JC

Algeria, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia

JP

Arabic

JR

Arabic

JV

Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia,South Africa, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey

JW

West Africa

JX

Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia,South Africa, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey

KA

Turkey

ME

France

MK

Serbia

MS

France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, UK

MT

Switserland

MY

Italy

NH

Latvia

PO

France

PU

Russia

UB

Brazil

XA

Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom

XB

Denmark, Norway, Sweden

XC

Portugal, Spain

XD

Croatia, Czech, Hungary, Slovakia

XE

Bulgaria, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine

XF

Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania

XP

UK, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Poland, Portuguese, Turkey

XX

Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom

XW

Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom

ZC

China, Hong Kong

ZH

Hong Kong

ZS

China, Hong Kong

ZT

Taiwan

My build no. is HTJ85B.

ZS

LA2 P6800

ZS

LA2

The ZS indicates Hong Kong.

Your equivalent digits are XX which would indicate Austria ...........Hungary ....etc. This makes sense ..pretty close to where you are.

So maybe the 'Austrian" rom is worth another try.

Also what happens if you unplug Tab ..open Kies ..then start Tab ..no matter what happens then plug in ...what happens in Kies ...especially if you go to Tools -> Firmware Emergency Recovery -> is there a code in the box 'List of devices ....' ???????????
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] ozren:
I tried that but kies start connetcting and that is it, tab is not shown i devices list in firmware emergency recovery!

But let me ask you this, when you start download mode, what does it write in upper right corner of the screen? My tab writes:

Odin mode

Product name: GT-P6800

Custom binary download: NO

Current binary: SAMSUNG OFFICIAL

BTW I tried once again Austrian rom... no luck and this is odin message:

<ID:0/040> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> P6800OXALA3_P6800XXLA3_P6800XXLA3_HOME.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/040> Odin v.3 engine (ID:40)..

<ID:0/040> File analysis..

<ID:0/040> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/040> Initialzation..

<ID:0/040> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/040> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/040> boot.bin

<ID:0/040> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/040>

<ID:0/040> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] gazjglusk:
When I start with Volume down and power, I get what you say 'Odin Mode ..'

When I start with Volume UP and power , I get 'Manual Mode' .....(in yellow I think,I'm colour blind !!!!!) then also Android system recovery <3e> in blue (?? ha ha)

When I just press Power It starts normally

I reckon you must be so close ..what the hell is it ??? !!!!!

When you open Kies then start Tab.. power ONLY ..then plugin ..is this what you did?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] davp:
ozren, this might be worth a try:

pulser_g2 shows where kies keeps its device info these tabs are in there as well

If you ever successfully connected to kies before your troubles started,

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1089874

for example, my 7.7 details are under (regedit)

HKLM\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Samsung\Kies\DeviceDB\4

you can get the product code and HIDSWVER from there.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] gazjglusk:
Try starting every which way !!!!
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] ozren:
HIDSWVER: P6800XXKJ2/P6800OXAKJ2/P6800XXKJ1/P6800XXKJ2

This is what I have found in regedit.

I have never used heimdal but I will try that! Thanks!

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Below Odin Mode do you get

Product name: GT-P6800

Custom binary download: NO (this is something in particular that I want to know)

Current binary: SAMSUNG OFFICIAL
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] mitoradeS:
What firmware versions do you have? And what is the latest?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] ezynow:
Ozren

I should say I havent used heimdall to flash anything yet on the gt-6800 so i would say be very careful and better to get some confirmation of it working first.

Nevertheless, you can get some useful info from it.

As long as your boot loaders are not corrupt - if you can get to power on, get to recovery mode or flash/download mode you should be able to get it going.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] kazuni:
As far as I know, Kies do not detect your device as your original firmware's device if you have updated through odin (it flashes a full set, including CSC, which determines the region of the services of your device. My device is ZS, which is Hong Kong, by the way).

As far as OTA is concerned it works...
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] ozren:
I will just play with heimdal for a few days. I will not dare to flash untill I know I will not brake my tab more. For now I can go into recovery and download mode, and device powers on, but it is stuck in boot loop.

Now when I start heimdall and try to load a firmware in it, it starts decompressing but at the end it says it is missing firmware.xml from package.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] bedwa:
As I do not have the device yet, could someone get me a partition layout for the device so I can look into possible recovery options? Thanks. ;)
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] ozren:
I would do that if only I knew how! :)
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] adinis78:
I posted this earlier on but maybe got overlooked, i just received my tab yesterday and i have a software update notification, anyway to back up my current firmware just in case i want to revert back to it, anf ifthere is a way to back it up how would i go about restorin git? Also im not sure if i will be flashimg any custom roms, ill just root it, i find that sometimes they are not compatible with certain things so ill probably just do official updates. Also i see there are a lot of people trying to install certain updates, ie. australian, austrain, and that many people are having issues with it, is there really a diffeferenve form the hong kong version? Bellow is a screen grab of my current software and such.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] kazuni:
Just make sure you grabbed the Odin tar file of your firmware version. In a few posts earlier someone mentioned that there is a ufile host having the official rom backup, make sure you download it and keep it in a safe place.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] adinis78:
Ahh ok, good looking out.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] bedwa:
Just read through the steps. Gonna need to have the dedone device in hand before doing unfortunately. But I AM looking forward to doing it when I get one (if not already done.)
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] adinis78:
Dedone device?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] adinis78:
So i was going to do the update but asks for country but china is not listed unless it is bu ti can read chinesse so which do i choose
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] bedwa:
That's a herpderp on my part. Meant to type "the" device. Stupid arrow keys.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] gazjglusk:
Below Odin Mode do you get

Product name: GT-P6800

Custom binary download: NO (this is something in particular that I want to know)

Current binary: SAMSUNG OFFICIAL[/QUOTE]

Hi Ozren , Yes this is identical to me (sorry I needed bed again before you posted this) Cheers

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Just found this in another phone thread ..it's been said before ..but worth again

Please ensure that KIES is closed and not running in the system tray! Kies doesn't like Odin, it's like the big brother who's always jealous that his little brother is getting to flash all the phones so he starts to flash block.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] gazjglusk:
WARNING

In my post #677 ..page 68, I attached file Odin3 v1.85zip.

It's come to my attention this file contains a .pit file FOR AN UNKNOWN PHONE. ...... IT SHOULD NOT BE USED.

A .pit file is a repartioning file NEVER USE ONE WHEN FLASHING WITH ODIN !!
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Wizard8125:
Has anyone tried the original galaxy tab rca cable? Im curious about this for getting sound and video in the car...
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Wizard8125:
Could remove or modify the file so that people who dont see this post dont make that mistake before its too late
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Raziel_Sicily:
boys i will have my p6800 in 5 days, until that day...

Can you explayn me what is all this allarm? i am italian and dont understand good all your posts.

I will have problem with my tablet when i tray to install the p6800 update?

i read in this topyc of some user that have brick his tablet. they have broke the p6800 becouse tray to install the update in the hon kong version of the p6800? why all want to flash the p6800? it is for rooting it? there are some problem on rooting?

in few words i risk to brick my tablet if i tray to update or root it? thanks
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] ezynow:
If you update through Kies - no problem as it downloads the correct version for you. Where you bought your tab does not matter.

Root is ok and works.

You should be good to go :)

Regarding this:

As far as i know there is not a .pit file specifically for our tabs available yet so the .pit file in the download is not to be used.

However, you can use one with ODIN, thats why its there but for most occassions you will never use it.

Some devs like to change partition sizes to free up space for apps in custom roms and then you will need to re-partition with a .pit file. Also in the very rare case after a bad flash with corrupted partitions you might need to re-partition.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] gazjglusk:
Hi Raziel_Sicily,

I agree totally with ezynow ....update with Kies and rooting is simple and no problem.

Cheers, It is a great Tab !!
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Raziel_Sicily:
thanks so much ezinow and gazjglusk, now i am more quiete ^^

still dont understand why all users tray to flash their devices XD

it dont matter ^^ updating and rooting is enought for me :) thx
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] burhanistan:
Mine updated over WiFi without needing Kies. Just check for updates in the system info and there should be one for 11 MBs ready. Anytime you can avoid using Kies is good!