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[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
Even if you plugged it to the PC it should be good, as long as you don't boot it up, by that I mean you ---wait, 3 months? GOOD LORD JESUS! :D Mine's didn't take that long. Took less than a week!

Then again, as long as you didn't boot it up to the Logo screen, just plug it into the socket, not too long, less than a minute before the battery logo shows up and charges. If you see that then you just need to boot into download mode by Power+ Volume Down, since this menu only appears once per drain ._. on a hard brick. You can however charge it for 2mins or so, just so if you mess up it's faster to drain than a 10min one which may lead to 20% charge :P

If this troubles you that much I'd be glad to help you via PM support as much as possible :) I'll try to reply as much as I can too.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
Bump
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Osbor:
this doesn't work for me, here's the execution order

>plug in

>charging logo pops up, it's the empty battery with the loading wheel (the loading wheel is not animating though, i guess it's unable to fetch the battery level)

>hold down power and volume down (that is, the power button, and the side of the volume rocker closest the power button)

>keep holding it

>the boot logo appears, i let go

>aaaand

>boom, goes to the black screen of death, no android.

for clarification, i did not do the checks to see if the battery was truly drained, but my tablet is incapable of turning off anyway (it just sits at the black screen with the backlight on, and no coaxing of the power button will make it do anything OTHER than reboot)

i just waited until the backlight stopped being on, which i assume means it's dead jim.

i might try again with the checks to see if the battery is dead
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
Which is why you didn't read it properly lol, The back backlight can be seen slightly, that itself means that the tablet is turned on, or if you connect it to the PC and you hear USB sounds, you need to confirm that the tablet is literally battery drained, only then will it work. Saying you tried without checking is like jumping into a well before checking how deep it is.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Osbor:
well i just tried it again, and verified that i have no connection sound with my system, and the results were exactly the same as last time.

i'll let it drain and try again, maybe i need to let the battery icon display the little yellow warning sign and red battery (so far i just start the recovery as soon as i see the battery loading logo)

edit: nope, if i let the battery loading logo go, it just sits there for a few seconds, then flashes the larger boot logo and back to the black screen.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
Once you see the battery icon *after its completely drained* let it charge for a few mins, then unplug it from the charger and boot it directly into Download mode with the 2 button combo. It should start off from there, once you're at the recovery option and into download mode, you need to flash a stock firmware to revive it completely.

As per charging, it normally won't show the boot logo on its own, you shouldn't attempt to turn it on when it's charging.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Inkydink:
What should i do if the screen never turns on and the battery icon does not show up? I plugged it in for about 20 minutes after I let it drain for like 2 weeks and the battery icon did not pop up once. Sigh. Any suggestions at this point? thanx for all your effort!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ps000000:
If someone flash P7500 ROM on his P7100 device

and got blackscreen with backlight

does it call softbrick or hardbrick?

and will this method work?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimh:
My GT 10.1 died which I think was caused by the Samsung case holding down the power button while it was in my bag for several hours. Anyway now it will not boot or show anything on the screen no matter how long I hold any number of buttons for.

I taped over the power button and left it until it stopped registering on my PC when I connected the USB lead. I then plugged it back into the charger but I never got any indication on the screen. I began to wonder if the charger or lead was U/S but when I plugged it back into the PC it was connecting again as the APX device so I'm assuming that the charger had worked. I have now taped over the power button again and I'm waiting for the drain to complete.

I'm wondering why I never saw the battery icon when I plugged the charger in? Perhaps I should leave it longer after it first appears to be drained?

I'm also wondering how long to leave it charging before flashing the new ROM with Odin as I don't want to risk it running out of battery before the flash is completed?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] epictwiglet:
:( my beloved tab is dead

So i have the same problem as the dude above. My tab boots to the bootloader and then dies after 1 second, sometimes less or more. I installed the clockwork recovery mod, but when it asked what phone i had the only option was galaxy tab 10.1 and i have a galaxy tab 8.9, so i clicked it, booted to recovery and it was dead, waaaaaaaa.

I am draining it now but i think no hope? as the guy above didn't get it to work i think neither will i :(
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Caramelslice:
Well they say easy come easy go... pre-ordered the Galaxy S3 and got a free Tab..yaay.. Presumed I would get a 16gb wifi.. however....

I got my Tab 10.1 32GB 3G last week, flashed a few roms.. checked out the overcome HC and the CM9 ICS builds, then wanted to go back to stock.. bad move.. I flashed a 3.1 rom.. it went into a loop and then turned off.. since then I can only get a APX 0X4 issue, implying the locked rootkit malarkey..

It was pretty fully charged and I've had the buttons taped, sending it into a powering loop, confirmed with the nvflash drivers since about 10pm last night.. it's still doing it.. I keep checking every few hours..

Now I could phone carphone warehouse and say it's died with stock firmware onboard within my first week and get a replacement , or wait a week for it to discharge , thus taking me outside my 14 day consumer rights..on the offchance it might go to recovery.. even so I can't find a 3.2 stock rom for a UK 3G 32GB p7500 anywhere, the ones I copied to the SD from samfirmware always aborted before installing from CWM.. no matter which CWM I used.. 4..or 5.. grr

Any suggestions? I'm morally torn here.. I may just call anyway to discover my options..
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Caramelslice:
The shiniest of things

Dammit, grr.. no 3g Tabs in stock in the UK in 16,32 or 64gb.. according to CPW .. they've noted the issue and will get back to me when they are in stock..

I thought they were draining stock for the new Tab2, so it seems unlikely I'll get a straight swapout.. The lass I spoke to said they may even have to give me a Xoom if they don't restock the tabs.. :/

Either way I have a long wait, so the tape remains on the bricked one.. it may yet live again!!

---------- Post added at 03:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:53 PM ----------

After a lot of searching I found this..

"iv been reading all over the web to find a way to use nvflash as you no we need a sbk to use it I found on the web a sbk generate site here

http://vache-android.com/v1/index.php?site=sbk it need a cpuid so I stated to look at ways to get the cpuid number and found this

http://http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1624645 iv got my cpuid code form adb and its

043c708542213517 and with the sbk site I got this

Your SKB : 0x0C8D6F00 0x0433F601 0x6B5C1203 0xD9292103 "

Is this of any use??? How can I get my CPUID without adb??
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Caramelslice:
They took my shiny thing :/

Update: Took into CPW .. they've taken it for repair or replace.. They'll call me when it's ready... :/
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fbloise:
I've got a Tab 10.1 32GB (non 3G) as part of the same offer and I have the same issue.

I took it to CPW, now they say to ring Samsung... Samsung says that I'm on the 28 days warranty so CPW should provide a replacement... getting tired to be treated as a basketball :(

Anyways, came up to these forums. I'm trying to do the "taped-power button" trick to see how it goes.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Caramelslice:
Hmm, that sounds wrong that they are bouncing you..

Did you call customer services recently?

I was told that they still haven't put a service structure in place to deal with the thousand tabs they gave away.. so any advice you got in the last week is purely a managers decision.. so If you are not happy then raise it as a complaint.

There will be no more CPW stock of the Gaaxy Tabs, making room for the new Tab2's.. Samsung are obliged to repair/replace the CPW stock, so under that scheme they should take your device and send it to Samsung, not you having to do so.. It's their problem, considering your rights as a consumer within the first 28 days of your purchase. Otherwise as within the first 14 days, you could threaten to cancel your contract. I did.. and they jumped...

Go girl, kick ass!!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fbloise:
I tried exactly what you advised, even talked to the store manager. He emailed the exchanges manager directly, waiting for a response and yes, they now will proceed to repair or exchange it for me.

Thanks ;)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fbloise:
it works|!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Caramelslice:
Mine hasn't.. they still have it and i'm hitting a wall at CW customer services..

I can't cancel as the sim is orange and the handset is CW.. they tied that down well!! grr
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swiftstealth:
seriously stuck

Bought a p7510 off eBay...came rooted with a BinDroid f

ROM, tried to flash back to stock and did not realize that apparently my boot loader is locked!! Now android will not boot and I have no recovery at all, although download mode works and so does APX mode.

ODIN will attempt to flash anything I try but always gets stuck at boot.img and will not finish. Nvflash gives error 0x4 (usb write failed) . One user suggested formatting /system and trying again....anyone have any ideas? I'm super stuck!!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swiftstealth:
locked bootloader

Bump bump...

Does anyone have an idea how to recover from accidental boot loader/recovery flash on a tab with locked boot loader?

Still stuck, tried everything...nvflash will not write...ODIN will not write...tab will not enter recovery mode...adb shell will not connect...I am in over my head on this one. Open to any and all suggestions, I want to get this thing running as my daily driver so I can get rid of my Xoom!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robilco:
Anyone know if this will fix my issue?

Problem sounds similar ... details are here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1680687

Cheers!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anrichp:
Same problem

Ive had no issues with my 10.1 for nearly a year. Ive been running cyanogenmod 9 since the kang's started releasing. Had no problems until two weeks ago when it DSOD. Not knowing what this was I sent it in and the device was repaired and returned back to stock. A day or so before I got the tab back I got a call from the technician who repaired the device, he informed me that they would allow this to go through under warranty. He did now however state that this will not be allowed if this was to happen again.

To cut a long story short I rooted the tab and loaded CM9 again, and obviously here I am again with a device that's completely dead, only booting into apx mode with nothing on the screen.

Does anyone have any idea how samsung would approach repairing the device when faced with this scenario? would they JTAG or are there other methods?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whitehart:
8.9 black screen of death

I'm hoping this works with my 1 month old 8.9, I have sellataped the on/off for 2 days now, its still makes teh usb noise on the pc :(

the odd thing with mine is i had rooted it a month ago(when i first got it) and it was fine however the issue occured while web browsing. I acidcently clicked onto a pdf file and didnt have a reader, the device locked and went into blank screen. I have been unable to bring it back thus far

I have tried the power on and volume to restart - didnt work, tried pressing down on for ages to see if it would boot

How long should it take to discharge on a 8.9 that was on 70% before this all went wrong?

I'm wondering if i should phone sammy
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whitehart:
well its now saturday and its still not discharged , never hated the usb sound as much as i do right now
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] splinker:
OMG DUDE!!!! Thank you!! I'm so glad I found this post. I've been trying to unbrick my 10.1v for nearly a year on and off. Sometimes I'll spend long night after night trying to figure it out, then give up. For some reason this actually just works.

Thanks again!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] can7:
my tab died about a month ago wouldnt turn on or charge,im trying this method but dont get any battery icon & it never shows up in Device Manager
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whitehart:
How long did it take to drain the battery, i have a 8.9 and have sellataped the on/off since tuesday and its now saturday,I may give it till next tuesday if not i will phone samsung up
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mmankarious:
this seriously blows monkey balls

doesnt work on sch-i905 verizon LTE model.

i dont undstand reallly what a locked bootloader is?

why if my tab only loads in apx i cant push any commands to it (nv flash fails with usb write code error)?!?!?

maybe im totally thingking about this the wrong way.

i dont care if i gotta fromat and repartition the stupid thing . THERE HAS TO BE A WAY .to get an operating system on here
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whitehart:
well not far away from a week now -what a joke the battery isnt flat yet.Man this is rubbish
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swiftstealth:
another attempt

After trying this every night for a couple of weeks, I've waited 5 weeks (and attended to other matters,) and will be reattempting this fix. I know the battery will be dead...will post my results

Those of you in a similar situation, were you working with locked boot loaders ("Error 0x4 USB write failed") or just really stuck in what should have been a normal flashing scenario?

My research indicates I might be screwed regardless of how dead the battery is. If so, will notify you all when my Gtab goes on eBay!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whitehart:
Battery not flat -unreal,im starting the think the 8.9 sammy has a never dying battery 1 and half weeks later still alive
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whitehart:
Any luck/ mine on coming upto 3 weeks still isnt flat :(
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deletethespam:
Nothing anywhere is working!!!

What do you do if you can't enter any mode other than apx? I cant enter fastboot mode or odin download mode, or recovery mode. None of the .bat files anyone has in any of their downloads for stock roms for nvflash work. Any help at all would be appreciated going on a week now without a tablet..
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] can7:
I sent mine back to samsung got a letter from them today saying the usb is faulty and want £200 to fix it.the letter also says they will either destroy it or send it back to me as it is if I don't want to pay heh.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whitehart:
I guess not under warranty anymore? I have reported mine basically after 5 weeks and battery not going flat, I have had enough - its been busted longer than how long i have used it
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
Wow honestly i thought this thread was dead, Anyways the draining part is the hectic part, you need something to drain it completely, it's hard to tell if it's charging or draining. But depends on the battery % of it
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benzoman:
This thread should never die.

It may be the only thing that saves my tab short of sending it in. Luckily still under warranty.

Just Curious:

(not recommending the following)

I know how to remove the battery safely, so I was just wondering if I was not under warranty could I disconnect the battery and plug it into the wall charger and follow the instructions of pressing power & volume down together and get into download mode?

I figure I would have to connect the battery again before disconnecting from the wall charger, after entering download mode (not sure of the result of doing this while plugged into wall charger). Then connect to USB and Odin away.

Sucks the only way to test this is to have a fracked tab with no warranty and not enough money to pay for repairs. Not to mention getting to the battery can frack your tab even more with one wrong move.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djmatt604:
This makes me want to search eBay for busted tabs and try it. :P
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bugs9477:
I messed up! I'm working on something and I wiped everything from within CWM Recovery including the things in mounts and storage, then I rebooted into recovery and started to install Tasks ICS and it hung for an hour so I held the power button and it has not come back on nothing showing on the screen and while connected to my pc it just shows an unknown device APX in the device manager.

I assume I have to drain my battery now and follow these steps? I found an old USB stick that the light stays on while plugged in to the Samsung USB adapter, is there something else that I can do to drain this faster? it was at 80% when this happened!

Edit:

Would the usb stick drain it faster than holding the power button down or should I just tape the power button down?

The usb stick is warm so where there is heat there is power loss but i'm not sure which way would be more effective, with the stick plugged in and the power button held down the light does not come on!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djmatt604:
Uh oh...you wiped everything under mounts and storage? Ooo, I don't know man...

Are you completely incapable of download mode?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bugs9477:
Ya I did man but not SD, No recovery and no download mode just black screen!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bugs9477:
Update: for referance to any one in the same boat as me, I pulled the screen out and unplugged the battery for 20 min and plugged it back in and pressed the volume down and the power button for 1 min and nothing! Unpluged the battery again for 20 min then plugged it back in while holding the power and volume down for 1 min and nothing!

So now I have it back together and a 4 port USB hub\light with a USB 1 thumb drive\light and a USB cable\light connected to the samsung USB adapter to drain the battery!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decatf:
I am currently trying the battery drain process on my device. The longest wait time I've seen in this thread was one user that mentioned they waited 5 weeks and it still wasn't drained. The said they have the Galaxy Tab 8.9 which has a 6100mah battery compared to the 10.1 which has 7000mah.

The last time I was able to check my tablet had over a day of up time when it was at 40% battery. I'm no expert but something tells me that holding down the power button to keep it cycling in a low level state will not use much battery compared to a fully operational power on state.

My tablet was near full charge when this happened so it seems like it may be months before it will be drained.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElBartoME:
Same here, I pulled out the battery and it did nothing. Did you sucessfully restored your tab with draining your battery?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
o__________________o there are times I wonder why all this never when I was still hot on the Tab scene and why only now they come up :P

Yeah apparently the tab stores a cache, I don't really know who's bright idea it was, but the tab stores data on it, basically like a RAM (Volatile) the data only get's erased when it's completely drained, and yes something that drains battery faster would help as (I agree this is a ****ty move by sammy I hope the Gtab 10.2 isn't like this)

It's basically hit and miss. But this method still works wonders for me, 4 tabs as of lately were saved by this method. (Ironically pershoot recommends the same procedure now)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bugs9477:
So I'm Macgyvering the he'll out of this thing to drain faster USB Stick / USB Charge cable for a remote control helicopter that is connected to a laser!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
7000 mAH battery. Would make a kid happy if his plane had the same battery as the tab!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bugs9477:
Ooops picture fixed!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bugs9477:
Ok so with my drain tools the tablets battery is stone dead, i've pluged it in to the wall outlet and the charging symbol has not shown up its been pluged in for the last 10 min should I have seen something by now?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
When it was completely dead, did you plug it into the pc and check with apx mode if it showed up in device manager? When it's drained it won't show up
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bugs9477:
Yes I plugged it in to my pc and APX did not show up i also held the vol down\power and it didn't show up and then just held the power button and it didn't show up!

Any guesses on how much this will cost or would it be cheeper to buy another?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
O______O Repair cost would normally be cheaper. Have you tried plugging it in for 5mins on the wall socket, then trying the button combo again? I know it sounds like a broken record but yeah nightmares occur when I can't fix something :angel:
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decatf:
I remember reading one user said they were quoted for £200 for the repair. That's cutting it pretty close to getting a whole new device altogether.

Something I've wondered is why, under this method, it is required to plug it into the socket charger to show the charging symbol. I mean it normally shows the charging symbol from any USB port that is capable of charging the device.

This makes me wonder if this repair method works only for a specific problem that cause it to be in APX mode while there may be tons of others which exhibit the same symptoms but can't be repaired via this method.

It is a little disconcerting to hear that discharging the battery completely leaving the device powerless may actually exacerbate the problem. Especially considering how hit or miss it seems.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
Well this has worked for me and alot of users as per the previous page's. See I don't intend to lead people into a trap here but I've mentioned before the tab is like a volatile device. It saves crash reports and dumps and all that to the point where the bootloader keeps it all piled up. When you boot up the device it just tends to try and load the previous data, which is now corrupted. Hence causing a fail boot broken bootloader. Draining it clears the cache and just forces it to grab new data. The reason why I've said to drain is because not everyone is willing to open their tab like a cookie box, and hope it closes easily. I know a user who did that and now his tab works. But it's like a bunch of falling pages.