yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] esoh:
So I was going to take the plunge to CM9 but then I turned on a month of LTE prepaid through VZW since I was travelling and now will need to wait. In the meantime, two quick questions:

1. I had data off and the tab was screen off for 10 hours and I lost 20% of batt life. Seems like a lot. Any good threads to read on how to slow this discharge rate down? Or is this normal?

2. My screen doesn't register touches very well. Can I use one of the screen touch enhancing apps in the market (any suggestions) or are there any settings that I can change. I'm rooted.

Thanks.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Gilbot:
CHANGES TO OP:

08/09/2012

:

-Updated CWM recovery references and links

-Added CyanogenMod reference links​
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Gilbot:
Groove IP was mentioned early on as a solution for phone capabilities. I don't use that at all, search the forums for more info.

1. Use the latest build by locerra that has LTE modem disabled. build 07/15/2012 and earlier contain massive LTE radio battery drain.

2. I find that having the nexus 7 DPI has made touch responses better, more than likely due to having bigger icons.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] magejubi:
In regards to a phone?

12 emails to Verizon, 3 emails and 2 phone calls to Samsung--and only vague, uneducated answers. Except one. I asked Verizon specifically about ICS, and if it would allow normal modem use in the I815--I was told "Yes". Is this so, or was I fed a load of bovine fecal matter? I've tried all the phone apps in the market, and they just don't cut it. Thanks.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Gilbot:
Unless telephony is enabled in an AOSP or CyanogenMod ROM, this is highly unlikely :(

Mobile data might be enabled once source drops whenever Verizon feels like finally updating the tab :/
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] drummer261982:
I wonder if it's possible to steal the apk's from the 3G version (6800 or whatever it is), do some code modification, and port them into the i815 CM10...Maybe I'll just start learning how to develop!?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] magejubi:
Thanks for the reply. I was kind of afraid of something like that. While I do have a GT-I9000, I have trouble seeing anything on the screen, which is why I opted for a larger screened device.(Moral--wear saftety glasses when grinding steel) Before I bought it (I was actually sitting in front of Verizon), I called Samsung, and asked if their Verizon phone could make regular calls--I was told YES--this was by Samsung! I live way out in the boonies, and being able to make a 911 call when you see smoke in the trees is kind of important. The 3rd party phone apps don't allow 911--that I'm aware of anyway.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] O26Keypunch:
Minimal root

Have just bought SCH-i815. Box stock HC 3.2 & FD01. Original intention was to live w/ it stock until SCH-i815 official firmware(s) were available, but no write access to external SD and control of bloat is driving me nuts. Desire is to do minimal root retaining stock rom.

I’ve always been willing to LOOK dumb to avoid remaining IGNORANT so a few noob type questions since I don’t want to bork this thing!

Per OP:

1. Is KIES loaded onto my desktop, Tab, or both? Never used it.

2. Are the USB drivers for desktop or Tab?

3 Can I transfer the root.zip file to the external sd card w/ card in my desktop then put card into Tab? If can, why are USB drivers even needed?

4. Alternative to 2- Can I drag & drop root.zip from desktop to external sd vis sync cable?

Apologies but I know just enough to be dangerous and not nearly enough to be actually useful…..
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Gilbot:
1&2)Samsung Kies is software for your desktop that has device drivers and can be used to update approved Samsung devices as well as manage device media (photos, videos, etc).

3) You most certainly can transfer without Kies. Kies is only listed in the case that you want to drag and drop directly onto the external SD card while in the tab. You'll need proper drivers that are installed when Kies is.

4) If you have the tab drivers installed you can.

If you just want external SD write access you only need root and need to follow the guide to enable it. No need for custom ROMs. If you plan to remove bloat, make sure to back it up, otherwise the upcoming ICS OTA will probably fail.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] esoh:
I avoided file transfers altogether and just downloaded the root.zip file directly from a link in a browser onto the device (goes into Download folder in SD card and can be moved).

Also, for reason the link at the top downloads a file called root.zip that's 150KB large and that didn't work. When I went to the original post and downloaded, it was 950KB large and that worked. I don't know if it's just me, but you may want to look into that for root.

Otherwise, it couldn't be any easier. Good luck.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Gilbot:
CHANGES TO OP:

09/08/2012

:

-Updated CWM recovery references and links

-Added ODIN Flashable FD01 3e recovery tar file​
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] rayjr13:
That us excellent news on the Odin tar.

Has anyone experienced the exchange activesync accounts just disappearing from time to time. I have one set for hotmail and sometimes I you to look at my mail and notice I have hotmail mail contacts or calendar the whole account is missing. Solution has been to re add the account but can't figure what is deleting it.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Gilbot:
Next goal is to learn how to make an odin flashable stock rom!
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] rspong:
That would be awesome
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] dperez0426:
Hey guys. I came into a problem and im am trying to do a recovery on my 7.7 i downloaded the recovery img and seems it worked but. when it boot it keeps asking me for a password I tried to do a factory reset and pretty much did eveything that I think would help but no matter what i do it just keeps asking for a password.

stupid me i didnt make a back up..

I wanted to install the CM10 Jelly bean but it got stuck on the start up on the cyanogenmod logo. so i tried to restore it. I done if before with all this information but this time i downloaded the files it asked for a password. can you gys help? i cant copy any files into my internal drive to do the two step FD01 recovery on the other link. ill settle with anything that works so i can copy the files to to the factory recovery.

maybe I did the FM10 install wrong im thinkin i did but I have CM6 and i tought by instsalling the CM10 jelly bean it would upgrade my CM but i guess not. any links to the CM10 to install?

Thanks ind advance.

Im sorry if i missed any threads i been looking for an answer for a week already but i had not luck sorry im really blind

David P.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] rayjr13:
if you read up in this thread you will see that I had the same issue. Never figured out what the cause was because Inever tried to recreate it. But I believe it was because I had a pattern lock on my device at the time I tried to install the CWM recovery. Never even got to installing CM9 because all I wanted to accomplish first was a back up. I had to follow the upgrade instructions found in the OP for restoring from earlier firmware to FD01.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=28690390&postcount=12
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] dperez0426:
Oooh.. i had that link but i seen other instructions completely different where I had to copy SCH-I815_FA02c_To_FD01.1.zip into the tablet itself and then install SCH-I815_FA02c_To_FD01.2.zip from the external SD card. ill try it out with Odin. thanks again Ill try it out and will defenetly let you know if it worked.

thanks again.

dave p
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] rayjr13:
what I meant was: yes use the instructions for FA02c to FD01. The recovery will fix itself if you restore the recovery-from.boot.p file. Or you can try to odin the recovery. But fixing the recovery back to stock didn't help me. Try flashing the stock nandroid first, then using the FA02c to FD01 instructions if that doesn't work for you.

Did you have a password, pin or pattern on your device before you began this process? I'm wondering if Gilbot was correct.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] dperez0426:
No I never had one. Never really liked them. I just think who ever did the back up might had had a pin or pass word. I did this process back in June I downloaded the file but I think it was update and when it asked me for a password I freaked out. I just hope I can do it later tonight.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] rayjr13:
I got the enter a password just from flashing locerra's CWM, forget which version number it was now. so I wouldn't think it has anything to do with CWM backups or CM.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] dperez0426:
Have anyone seen this link? Has anyone tried it?

http://www.theandroidsoul.com/update-t-mobile-galaxy-tab-7-7-to-android-4-0-4-officially-with-odin/
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] rayjr13:
No one would ever try that because it's not for this device. Most likely would soft brick it if not hard brick
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] dperez0426:
Your right the reason I asked was because T-Mobile doents have the 7.7 Tab
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Jiggity Janx:
Maybe this will help: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1777579
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] rayjr13:
You mean T-mobile USA doesn't?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Gilbot:
I still have no idea where that password error comes from. I don't think its related to lock screen security. I was recently looking at the new Toshiba excite at a Fry's store nearby and strangely enough the display model had the same password weirdness you had. I was kinda surprised.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Gilbot:
I will look into this. I really wanna find out how to revert to stock with an Odin package. Having no Odin stock tar for a device this expensive worries me. I would hate to end up with a brick.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Gilbot:
CHANGES TO OP:

09/22/2012

:

-Added Gingerbreak UnRoot method​
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] bales3795:
In need of some help. Tried flashing cwm through odin and got the password prompt. Tried fixing it with reflashing cwm then go into recovery and flash the sch-i815.1.1....zip but still have the password prompt even after that. I did not have any security on my lock screen at all.

Just got this tablet today. Any ideas?

---------- Post added at 10:36 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:21 PM ----------

Since it is brand new anyways, I wasnt afraid to wipe data and cache and this fixed me up. Now I am back to bone stock. I willl re-root the device, but not sure what I did wrong with the cwm flash. I am familiar with flashing on the OG galaxy tab and also the vzw galaxy s3, so ive been around the block. Is there a different method for cwm on the vzw 7.7? This honeycomb crap is killing me. Im dying to put CM9 or 10 on this badboy.

Let me know if there is another cwm method or if i may have done something wrong. I followed the odin flash perfectly as described.

Thanks
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] rayjr13:
I know I sound like a broken record but I'll say it again I have the same problem with clock work but if you're using it to flash CM I probably works fine. But I never got cwm to work could never mount data. Maybe you try it again or I suggest reading the responses from locerra to my flash experience.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Gilbot:
I googled this weird issue and it seems other tablets have had this occur and the only way to fix it is a hard/factory reset. I would try flashing CWM again with odin. When your tab reboots after Odin gives you a green "PASS", immediately hold power+volume up to go to recovery mode (when you see the samsung gtab 7.7 logo let go of power while still holding volume up), it should take you to CWM. from there I would wipe cache and dalvik then reboot tab. CWM should give you a warning that rebooting might cause stock recovery to overwrite CWM, choose the option that will fix that and reboot.

Hopefully you'll be good to go.

As for CyanogenMod, CM9 is the most stable. CM10 is very laggy. The tab will probably remain sluggish until the Galaxy note N7000 JB is released by samsung. I'd wait until locerra gets around to making new builds. Godspeed to him too. Without him, we'd still be forced to run honeycomb. Major thanks for his hard work.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] rayjr13:
Just to clarify I was using 7/10 version of CWM by locerra. I never did try the updated versions always said i would but never had a weekend brave enough to play with it.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] bravo261:
I can't get my tab to complete a backup using 6.0.1.1 and am then cautious about going to CM9 (I posted a question in the thread but it got snippy in there and thread sidetracked)

CWM itself installed fine, but the backup freezes. If cm9 out whatever doesn't work out, will the recovery nandroid in the first post save me?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Gilbot:
It should nandroid back to stock. I have not used it because in have my own backup, but I'm sure it works.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] bravo261:
thanks man...trying to conjure up the guts too do it. Problems with this and my N7 kill me, especially if it is already working fine to start with
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Gilbot:
Why not flash stock recovery thru Odin, delete the clockwork folder on sdcard, then reflash cwm. Then try backing up again.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] bravo261:
well bud, tried that and the same results. stuck at Strings or sec_key.kl

sucks...
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] O26Keypunch:
3.2 vs. Titanium Backup ?

Finally had time to root 2 days ago and couldn’t have been easier. Thanks to both Gilbot and esoh for input. Had to decide which .zip file to use, so compared contents. The 950 kb file has all of 150 kb file plus superuser.apk and busybox included. Went with larger file. Stayed with stock 3.2 till Verizon (?Someday?) pushes 4.0.4- I use 4G a lot. Have spent past couple of days getting things up to speed. Bloat is frozen. Platform.xml patch is in place & ES file explorer is writing to external sd correctly, no problems.

Now have situation w/ Titanium Backup that’s more than likely user issue. I want to store backups on external, but when I go to preferences> backup folder location I don’t get a browse button, just a ‘DETECT!’ button. When I try it and select ‘whole device’ it does not see external. Even tried creating folder ‘TitaniumBackup” in root of external, but still not seen.

What am I missing?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] rayjr13:
I had the issue wit TIBU when I first got the tab rooted as well. They had me install OI file manager, not suer what it did or if it helped. But what I did was to put a backup file (*.tibkp or whatever the extension is not the zip or tars mind you) in the backup folder that I wanted and then when I detect it finds the backup in the location and asks if i want to use the location.

That is from memory not from checking the app again but try that and see if it fixes you. I don't know if I'd bother doing the OI installation I'm looking and I don't see it installed anymore on my tab so I must have deleted it after I got all working.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] O26Keypunch:
Thanks for info. Tried a version of it by hooking up USB stick to OTG dongle and copying over my first backup from internal. Then tried another scan for locations and TiBu saw both locations. Will use this for fresh bu as soon as new 64 gb card arrives to replace one fried trying to get sd card write working (expen$ive lesson!).
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Gilbot:
The 7.7 out of the box comes with SD card write issues, is that what you're experiencing ? If so, this post has the answer (it requires root):

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=21590015
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] O26Keypunch:
Many thanks for the attention; note that when I thanked you above I mentioned what I've seen in quite a few posts now referred to as the "platform.xml patch". Just a shorthand way of referring to the one extra line of code addition you linked to above.

Big challenge now is to learn method to go about installing 4.0.4 (that apparently Verizon is starting to push for our i815s :highfive:) while *safely* preserving root!
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] rayjr13:
where did you see or read about the i815 ICS update
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] chefdave12118:
This is where I saw it

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...axy-tab-7-7-should-begin-rolling-out-shortly/
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] rayjr13:
Just saw that. Been searching non stop since I read your post
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] O26Keypunch:
The actual Verizon announcment link

From the horse's mouth:

http://support.verizonwireless.com/system_update/galaxytab7.7.html

Additional pdf links on page
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] chefdave12118:
Cooleagle is going lock happy in this forum. He's locking threads that are from September with no replies lol. Must have just gotten his badge.

Now its fixed thread closed? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1900487

What if people wanted to discuss the issue that person was having? Isn't that why were here?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] esoh:
Do you know if there are any instructions on how to flash stock recovery using Odin?

---------- Post added 9th October 2012 at 12:37 AM ---------- Previous post was 8th October 2012 at 11:59 PM ----------

Sorry, figured it out but still can't get Verizon preload of ics update. Bummer
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] rayjr13:
You can't get the update yet or you can't get the update to install?

As of last night my tab still didn't see it.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] rspong:
I found that by repeatedly clearing Google services framework data, and checking for update, it sees it on the third or fourth try. Not that it does any good in the end. I got the exclamation mark too during the recovery update.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] rayjr13:
Yellow triangle for me as well.

Isnt there a way to look at the script to determine what file it is checking for before it updates? In order to find the one that fails the update. Or is it doing a checksum on the system folder. I think I integrated a few updates into my system using TiBu.

---------- Post added at 10:55 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:53 AM ----------
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Gilbot:
It downloads to the cache folder on the root of your internal sdcard
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] rayjr13:
FH01 Updater script

converted to text

I'm going to dig into the updater script first but then try a manual update by changing the extension on the bin to zip and tossing on the extstorage SDcard.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] rayjr13:
Yea I found it and referenced electrons post but all the updates to the post and i think I overwrote some of the quote. But the update is posted.

---------- Post added at 11:14 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:06 AM ----------

assert(apply_patch_check("/system/app/Aurora.odex", "1059bab9ba6e8396493ce4917fce1db16e3bf5d7", "cbb65276ea572f58826485aa7c272fe4b6909789"));

set_progress(0.009283);

I checked just comparing this line of code.

Using a SHA-1 hash the value on the right in "cbb65276ea572f58826485aa7c272fe4b6909789" matched the SHA-1 hash of the Aurora.odex in my system/app/ folder.

Any thoughts on what the first value is? the: "1059bab9ba6e8396493ce4917fce1db16e3bf5d7" in this case.

---------- Post added at 11:41 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:14 AM ----------

First one I found that does not match is the build.prop

---------- Post added at 11:55 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:41 AM ----------

Kinda found this section interesting:

# ---- start making changes here ----

"ui_print(""Updating CP Modem..."");"
"show_progress(0.300000, 100);"
"assert(package_extract_file(""modem.bin"", ""/tmp/modem.bin""),"
" write_firmware_image(""/tmp/modem.bin""),"
" delete(""/tmp/modem.bin""));"
"ui_print(""Removing unneeded files..."");"
"delete(""/system/app/YouTube.apk"", ""/system/app/YouTube.odex"","
" ""/system/lib/libWVphoneAPI.so"", ""/system/app/YouTubeTablet.apk"","
" ""/system/app/YouTubeTablet.odex"","
" ""/system/recovery.img"");"
"show_progress(0.500000, 300);"
"ui_print(""Patching system files..."");"
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] TonyBigs:
Is it possible to delete the checks at the beginning and leave in the update part?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] rayjr13:
Technically yes I believe so. However, the files included in the update are patch files (*.apk.p) and not full apks. Meaning if you don't have the correct odex, apk in the folder it cannot patch it correctly hence the strict check.

My issue is I'm used to the CWM recovery that when you do an advanced update it scrolled the ui print. Stock recovery 3e does not so I can't figure out where (which line) it's crapping out.

But even if you look further down the script it has the checksum in the apply portion:

"apply_patch(""/system/app/Aurora.odex"", ""-"","
" 1059bab9ba6e8396493ce4917fce1db16e3bf5d7, 40352,"
" cbb65276ea572f58826485aa7c272fe4b6909789, package_extract_file(""patch/system/app/Aurora.odex.p""));"
set_progress(0.022441);

for instance

---------- Post added at 12:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:28 PM ----------

my next thought was going to be pushing the odex and apk from Electrons FD01 zip

but I figured if I were going to do all that I'd just try flashing in stock receovery the two files electron has posted after a wipe and just trying to the stock FH01 after that. Since I don't have my cable for Odin to load up CWM
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] TonyBigs:
What I ended up doing is a CWM recovery of Electron73's nandroid and then using Odin 1.85 to flash the FD_01 update.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] rayjr13:
Something else interesting toward the end. This is directed to you GIlbot:

"ui_print(""Patching LTE image..."");"
"apply_patch(""EMMC:/dev/block/mmcblk0p8:10747904:9fbef8afd71531feaccecc76609197e6e9161b13:10748160:9715aed13686ecf659245857ee5c876d9136d930"","
" ""-"", 9715aed13686ecf659245857ee5c876d9136d930, 10748160,"
" 9fbef8afd71531feaccecc76609197e6e9161b13, package_extract_file(""patch/lte.img.p""));"
set_progress(0.966176);
"ui_print(""Patching boot image..."");"
"apply_patch(""EMMC:/dev/block/mmcblk0p5:8387840:237e9de2a445c1cc251dd477b54487c8683ec21a:8387840:d29e6fd100826203ad8b8e681f723f6f4bc38838"","
" ""-"", d29e6fd100826203ad8b8e681f723f6f4bc38838, 8387840,"
" 237e9de2a445c1cc251dd477b54487c8683ec21a, package_extract_file(""patch/boot.img.p""));"
set_progress(0.995429);
[B][COLOR="Red"]"delete(""/system/recovery-from-boot.p"","
" ""/system/etc/install-recovery.sh"");"[/COLOR][/B]
"show_progress(0.100000, 10);"

---------- Post added at 12:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:49 PM ----------

2012-05-06.22.48.58.ZIP

You mean that nandroid?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] TonyBigs:
Yes
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] rayjr13:
you flashed the FD01 .bin with Odin? and then update to FH01 took on it own?

If so did you try the universal ICS root method? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1849235
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] TonyBigs:
I have an FD_01.tar compiled by Gilbot and posted here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1760587
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] rayjr13:
That file is just the Recovery image from the FD01 update not the entire FD01 firmware update. so did you download a FA02C to FH01 patch or are you not successfully on FH01 yet?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Gilbot:
What's funny is I can't get the 29.3 meg update to work and I have an FA02 nandroid. When I restore it, i am prompted to download the FD01 update. That update works fine with the stock recovery. That's where it ends, lol.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] rayjr13:
Were you able to detect the FH01 update in system settings or did you use what I posted?

Also if you have time and capability I'd love to know what your SHA1 is for "/system/wifi/ar6000.ko" with the series of patches it hard to determine when you get patched to the necessary files.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] TonyBigs:
I've been all over the place, trying different combinations. I am not on FH01 yet.

I suspect (could very well be wrong) there is something not right with Electron73's nandroid. It's missing some files or the presence of Superuser is part of the problem.