yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] camineroga:
I hope that too, how can we get the developers to take a look??
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr_esmit:
Another t-mobile gtab owner.... I have tried every method, but with no luck. Subscribing to this right now for further enlightenment.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Solutions Underway

Hey Guys,

I'm been reverse engineering the TMobile Tab 2 for a minute now. What I'm working on is to get you guys a insecure boot loader. I've tried modifying the original firmware but got stuck. So right now, I'm working on modifying one of the GT-5xxx firmware and modifying firmware from other devices that have SecureBoot.

Keep you guys posted. If anyone has something to suggest or wants to collab. just shoot me message. I'm pretty busy as is, so the development on this could go alot faster if some people could help.

Draque
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr_esmit:
I gave you a thanks just for the effort. The t-mobile gtab2 is faster than the others, so rooted it would really be impressive.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Breakthough

OK,

So I have this somewhat figured out. Took me the better part of the day but I want to say I made some good progress today.

So this is what I have. I managed to get a Unsecured Backup of my Tab. The SecureBoot pretty much locked me out again. And I'm back a few squares. But what I've managed to find out, is that with a little tweaking I can get CWM installed with Heimdall. But as I said as soon I rebooted, it when back to the dark side.

As I'm a Mac user, I'm stuck with Heimdall. I'm installing Win8 (I know shoot me later) hopefully it will help with some further solutions.

If you guys what a copy of the backup I made of my Tab with CWM on Stock Firmware. I'll send you guys a link.

Thanks for all Thanks. You guys rock. I'm still gonna work on it the next few days I have off.

For those of your interested. I used the CWM for the GT-5113. What I think I need to do (of course correct me if I'm wrong) if find a way around SecureBoot all together. At least that the tree I'm barking up right now
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmancl:
any progress on this? anything you need tested?
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matmatics666:
CAN. U SEND MY THE UNSECURED IMAGE matmatics666@gmail.com

Thanks
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Progress

I'm still working on getting CWM to work. I think need to side load the Recovery through the SD Card. I noticed that the they are boot loading through the SD Card.

I don't have an Unsecure.img I have a Nandroid backup of the time my tab got into the CWM.

I think I'm getting closer. But still not close enough.

I've pretty much been working this day and night, won't be giving up yet. Where there's a will there's a way.

Draque.

:cowboy:
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] helfrez:
Another sgh-i497 (ATT) here. If you need any resources link web space or compilers drop me a pm..We need root bad!
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] helfrez:
Can you pm me a link for the backup.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hellation:
Any new updates? I just got one of these tablets from a friend of mine and would love root. No rush as I am enjoying it either way.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zertopa:
Been inactive for a while....sorry about that.

I wanted to be mute for a minute while talking TMO out of another tablet and letting the dust settle.

So I don't think my hard brick was a direct result of my rooting attempt although it may have contributed a bit.

I achieved brick or rather the device decided to achieve brick for me while charging, it was also downloading a movie and additional content for a game...I was eating dinner.

Just before walking away from the device it popped up a low memory warning I didn't think much of this notice as if it doesn't have enough memory it will not finish downloading one of two things that it was at the time or both of them would quit. I noticed the battery had just fallen below 50% so I tossed it on the charger and went to fill my belly.

When I came back from my meal I went to check how things were going and the device was non responsive.

No wake, no reboot, no boot, no download mode, no recovery mode (although I was locked out of this after my first root attempt), no battery charge status, no backlight, just a black screen with my reflection. Once I realized that it wasn't coming back to life I started working on TMO and their many departments of customer neglect. Three days and just shy of eight hours later I had a brand new tablet and all charges from the previous one reversed.

I'm not attempting root with this one until it's been fully documented as working for other folks...I don't think I could talk my way into another one if things should go awry.

When I hit the brick if I plugged it into my computer I got a prompt to install drivers for 'MSM8960' that I had not seen before.

I did a little google time and found a lot of reference to this coming up with HTC devices after their internal memory had gone corrupt, I'm thinking the same thing has happened here. Maybe it was the downloads alone that did it, maybe the attempts to root contributed to the memory failure after it hit capacity; either way it seems that it had gotten into a factory download mode awaiting firmware to be pushed.

I tried some things in windows, I tried some things in ubuntu (documented but not handy ATM) nothing worked.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rvalusa:
hi all, I have got SGH-T779 galaxy tab mode and looking around in the google & in here, but couldn't able to find a solution for rooting my device.

Please some one look into it and provide the root, I am waiting to use my device to the fullest because I own it.

-Thanks
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vltchkr:
Haven't been on in a while and just wanted to see how the owners of Samsungs bastered child Tab 2 is doing? I see there is some progress on Root. Thanks Draque. If there is anything I can help out with let me know.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hellation:
Think our tablet will see any jellybean love?
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superseagulls:
Well, when T-Mobile launched it, they stated that 4.1 was to come soon, to be honest I have doubts,having already been shafted by them on The T-Mobile (LG) G-Slate, which is absolute ****e!

TO be fair with a $200 ETF fee, if there is no official Jellybean, then they can stuff it up their butts, and I will pay up to get something from someone who doesn't keep shafting you... I win with the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 for a net fee of $200, still cheaper than the wifi version...........
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vltchkr:
But 4.1 has indeed rolled out for the wifi only units in the UK. And if the time lines stay on the current trend we should start seeing 4.1 with in the month. When I bought my TMO Note2 on the launch date it was missing multi window, within a month UK was updated and a month later I received the update.

I guess I'm totally spoiled with Jelly Bean as I hardly pic up my Tab. Lets all pray to the electronic gods that we see the update.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hellation:
Hope we get the update, tho I love ics some jellybean would be nice. If not I am sure I will eventually go after a note 10.1 eventually.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vltchkr:
Kicked myself in the ass for not waiting for the Note 10.1 I was really impressed with what Samsung had to offer at CES '13
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rvalusa:
Has anybody unlocked SGH-779 tablet ? I have tried getting the unlock code from cellunlocker.net, but after ordering the code, they mentioned they couldn't able to find the unlock code. Can anybody please suggest any website from where I can buy unlock code. And other query I have is.. there is no phone app listed in the apps. Please let me know how to get the phone app installed in my Samsung galaxy tab 2 SGH-T779..
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vltchkr:
You might have to wait till there's a Root solution for our 779s. Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought carriers could only lock phones for 6 months?

On the phone app all I was able to find was Skype, Tango, Viber. Type apps. Hell Whatsapp is not even compatible.

Well I'm hoping someone can crack this device soon. Mine is already starting to be an oversized paper wieght
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sa-10:
I use Google Voice with grooveIp

I use Google Voice with grooveIp works great with my P 3113
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zertopa:
I also use GV with grooveip never any problems. When you say unlock do you mean root or subsidy unlock? Subsidy unlock is fairly easy to obtain. I would never pay a third party for a code that you can get for free from TMO, just give them a call and tell them you will be traveling abroad and need the code to use a prepaid SIM card. If it's root you be needing then patience will be your best bet as people are working on it but you could always pay $100 to a rooting service.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hellation:
Got my root, check the dev section and you should see it. Worked like a charm for me with no issues. Just posting here in case people just check it for updates.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zertopa:
Glad to hear it, would you be so kind as to share your sauce with the rest of the class?
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] helfrez:
Just go to the tab2 10.1 dev section as stated. :)
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Childofthehorn:
Thanks helfrez,

Yeah I made it, so just look for me as the Thread starter. Its Root and ClockworkMod. All ClockworkMod features work except "mount USB storage" that is more so an issue with Samsung devices not supporting that profile. It isn't supported in the Ramdisk of the boot.img, but is in the drivers and storage.

I.e. CWM mounts it and trys to send it, but the profile isn't present. Yay Samsung?
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zertopa:
Here it is...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2101044

There's the link, I like links they make life easier.

Since this is noted that it might work for the SGH-T779 I am still going to hold out a little while before pushing it to the device although it seems Hellation has already had success.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rvalusa:
I have bought the tablet from craigslist, so i cant tmobile customer care and request for the unlock code. I need to depend on the third party unlock databases. And regarding the phone app, I would like to know whether is it possible to make normal voice phone calls using the gsm sim service provider ? I am not talking about making calls using Skype or other voip service apps.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hellation:
I took the dive on my T-Mobile tab 2 10.1 and it worked amazing. Made a backup, tested su and all. So I can verify it works with our tabs.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rvalusa:
The reason I am asking about stock phone app is because in my apex launcher activities list I see stock related details, but the stock phone app is not available in the apps list.. Please find the screen shot attached for your reference..
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Childofthehorn:
See if they can run the unlock against a Galaxy S3 T-Mobile calculator and try it, but you should be able to do a tethered unlock.

I have access to an Octopus Box, so I can try and see if it works. Need to buy a Samsung smart card for it though...
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zertopa:
Actually you should be able to give TMO a ring and get the unlock code still as they are the only ones that will give it out to you (Samsung will only point the finger back to TMO); the fact that you purchased the device outright should only help matters along. If you were on contract still you would have to do a little wordsmithing to get them to give it out. Pretty much they hold the unlock codes and you own the device, they cannot deny you the code thanks to FCC regulations.

As far as using the device as a phone your only option would be a VoIP solution or compile your own dialer app for the device. To my knowledge it does not have a native dialer.

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Sounds promising, if I can find the time this weekend I will run ahead with it as I am anxious to get root already.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Childofthehorn:
Two people have confirmed and the code shows that the source was written for both in the comments. I assumed it would be, the only diff is the modem code and lack of LTE radio on the T-Mobile version.

Boards are the same and partition layout and sizing seems to be the same too. In fact, the system data block is the same as the SGS3 as well as the flash block and block sizing.

So..... You are fine. Once we get a few system and boot images out there I can make a Odin Complete package with Root System and Boot in one. I only have the boot.img for the ATT one at the moment.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zertopa:
Just found that my stock version has a phone app also (screenshot attached) before I sit down to run root on it this weekend I will inquire with TMO about this and report back.

If it already exists there has to be a way to access it.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Childofthehorn:
Would you mind sharing the output of this command?

On a computer using adb:

adb shell pm list packages -f > package_list.txt

In the Teminal Emulator:

pm list packages -f > /sdcard/package_list.txt

The Phone app does NOT control your data connection based on your carrier typically (its just an app and sometimes they put in an overlay with preferred apns, but that is all).

Telephony is virtualized in Android, so really its a comminucation between TelehonyProvider.apk and STK.apk (sim toolkit) and the SIM as well as some propitiatory bits I don't know about that typically write a new authorized value to your /persist or to your radio. The Phone.apk does control how data is used and connected to, but nothing with autorization. Its a non-intelligent app that only looks for system parameters to work with (like if your phone has GSM/CDMA/LTE/etc).
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rvalusa:
Stock Phone App in SGH-T779

Any update on this after talking to TMOB folks ? What did they mention about the stock phone app available in SGH-T779 ?
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rvalusa:
packages List

Not sure whether anybody has provided these details before or not.. Here is the list of packages available in my SGH-T779 Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1.. Please let me know if I can make normal SIM voice calls using my tab 2..
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rvalusa:
I have provided the package list which from my tab, is there any way we can enable the phone apk to make normal voice calls using my tablet sim. ? Looking forward to hear back from you.. thank you..
[Asus Transformer TF700] rahulunni:
Really appreciate you effort! Why not post this in the developers forum, where you might get some good inputs from other brainy people like yourself. :o
[Asus Transformer TF700] rabits:
I would like to prepare this howto (after stabilization and fixing minor bugs) for general users. But thanx for you response - brainy people do not come here?
[Asus Transformer TF700] danger-rat:
How does this vary from the other Ubuntu effort? Why not combine resources?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1988170
[Asus Transformer TF700] rabits:
That would be great! At the moment I'm trying to run their environment using fastboot and find differences. I already sent message to jaybob413 and we try to combine our resources.
[Asus Transformer TF700] rahulunni:
I am sure they do. Just that the developers forum seemed more appropriate. Anyway, good luck and will wait for your work to finish!
[Asus Transformer TF700] _that:
Good idea to boot via fastboot, that should save the hassle of permanent reflashing the kernel - however it doesn't work for me, at least with the kernel from the other Ubuntu project.

First try: use a raw kernel+ramdisk image (starting with "ANDROID!"):

that@ws ~/android/tf700/ubuntu $ fastboot boot blob.LNX
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 2.829s]
booting...
FAILED (remote: ()
finished. total time: 2.830s

Second try: use the complete blob:

that@ws ~/android/tf700/ubuntu $ fastboot boot blob
creating boot image...
creating boot image - 6281216 bytes
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 7.318s]
booting...
FAILED (remote: ()
finished. total time: 7.319s

Fastboot itself works, because after that I issued "continue" and it booted the installed Android kernel just fine:

that@ws ~/android/tf700/ubuntu $ fastboot continue
resuming boot...
OKAY [ 0.000s]
finished. total time: 0.000s

Any idea?

What's also interesting is that last time I flashed stuff with fastboot some weeks ago, "fastboot devices" used to show all "??????" and I had to use the well-known "-i 0xb05" option. Today "fastboot devices" showed a proper serial number and I could omit the option (also tried specifying it anyway, but it did not make any difference). Maybe that was repaired with a recent bootloader.
[Asus Transformer TF700] danger-rat:
You typically have to include the device ID in the fastboot command for this device... might be worth a try?

For example:

fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash recovery twrp.blob

Not quite sure what the syntax is to boot an image...
[Asus Transformer TF700] _that:
Read my post to the end...
[Asus Transformer TF700] rabits:
I see - you use blob. It's wrong - you need to unpack blob (see the blobunpack on this forum). Fastboot can flash only images. Blob - is used from zip and sdcard.
[Asus Transformer TF700] danger-rat:
Yes, sorry, saw that afterwards...
[Asus Transformer TF700] _that:
blob.LNX is actually the output of blobunpack, and it's a boot image starting with the "ANDROID!" magic. As you can see above, I tried both variants and neither worked.
[Asus Transformer TF700] danger-rat:
I believe you can flash blobs - see my earlier post. I'm pretty sure that's how I flashed recovery...
[Asus Transformer TF700] stanglifemike:
Thank you for your work and this awesome project!! If this becomes stable and usable, I'll be buying the keyboard dock for my Infinity!! Congratulations on your progress thus far, and a big thank you!!! I was just thinking the other day how much I would love to have this capability!! Would give me a Ubuntu system for me to easier work on various Android phones
[Asus Transformer TF700] Heiboe:
Nothing have ever excited me more than this. Thank you so much for all your work! Im not a big linux programmer, but iv been using it for the better part of my life. If i can help in any way, Im in!
[Asus Transformer TF700] rabits:
Thanx for your response - now I prepare rootfs for publication and I'll do this in near time.
[Asus Transformer TF700] stanglifemike:
Awesome!!!!!

Take your time man. We're in no rush and my Infinity will probably never leave me, especially if you get this going!!! Thanks again!!!
[Asus Transformer TF700] 7786:
Looks like you're making good progress :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] maxal:
Great news really looking forward to this. :good:
[Asus Transformer TF700] ostar2:
Nice. Its always good to options when it comes operating systems.

Also, is this bloated at all? Because, Ubuntu for non-embedded systems has been very bloated since 11.04 and got worse with 11.10.
[Asus Transformer TF700] electropantera:
Finally got it working in my tablet.

I installed CleanRom 272m then installed the bootloader.

After that I tried using rootfs SD way but it did not work. It ended up in a reboot of the tablet right before the X server should launch.

rootfs Virtual disk did the trick.

I am surprised on how well and fast this works. Great job!
[Asus Transformer TF700] joechorn:
AW: Native Ubuntu Linux on Infinity tf700

Hey, thank you for your really great work!

Do you think this would also work on tf700 32 gb Version?
[Asus Transformer TF700] rabits:
Yeah, that's right. I see no problems with 32GB version.
[Asus Transformer TF700] singoutout:
Re: Native Ubuntu Linux on Infinity tf700

Hey Rabits :)

What are the plans for the next release ? I heard you said you were working on the eating ram problem ?

I have now been tested your latest release daily for about a week and here are the encountered problems:

- too small DPI (statusbar ...)

- speed problem

- when another DE is installed it works pretty well, except for gnome-shell. It sucks because it is the only DE really tablet oriented. Installing it gives only gnome classic, and after a reboot it breaks the Ubuntu installation. Do you think you couød fix it ?

I was wondering if some of you guys would be interested in opening a gnome-shell thread dedicated to the development and support of gnome-shell Desktop Environment based on Rabits work (if that's okay with you mate :)) ??

Just thank this post if you are interested, to see if it is worth opening such a thread.

ps: if you don't know what gnome-shell is, friendly check it out ASAP on youtube :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] richajf:
Re: Native Ubuntu Linux on Infinity tf700

Mine is a 32gb version and it has worked installed to micro sd, full-sized sd, and virtual disk on the internal memory. ^_^

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I haven't had any issues with Gnome... I just used Gnome-Classic (No Effects) and it works great, doesn't break anything through reboot. I still use lightdm though, not gdm (login screens) Haven't tried the not-classic flavor though.
[Asus Transformer TF700] electropantera:
I have it running on a 32GB too and no problems (but the SD card issue I mentioned before, so I guess it is only me)

I also installed LXDE (this is a personal preference) and the RAM consumption goes down a lot.
[Asus Transformer TF700] joechorn:
AW: Native Ubuntu Linux on Infinity tf700

Thank you for your answers, then i will also install!

BTW is cleanrom as stable and smooth as stock? Have not tried yet!
[Asus Transformer TF700] richajf:
Re: Native Ubuntu Linux on Infinity tf700

CleanROM is as stable as stock... smoother too. I haven't had any issues dualbooting this with CleanROM 3.1 :)

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Has anyone tried using either the virtual storage or Dock SD installs of this with data2sd for android?

I'm wondering what would need to be done to have the dualboot kernel be compatible with data2sd. Wouldn't mind tinkering around with it myself, but I have no clue what I'm doing as far as kernels go (other than just flashing them packaged in .zip files).
[Asus Transformer TF700] _that:
Only some modifications to fstab.cardhu and init.cardhu.rc are needed.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Hundsbuah:
AW: Native Ubuntu Linux on Infinity tf700

Do I need a Dock for the 2nd step with sdcard way?

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[Asus Transformer TF700] saugstauber:
AW: Native Ubuntu Linux on Infinity tf700

No, you can copy the file to internal storage, too.

But to set up Linux you do need the dock for pressing the "i" for installing. I don't know if it works with an external usb keyboard...

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[Asus Transformer TF700] laerowien:
Bootloader question

Hey there, yesterday I've installed the new CROMI 3.2. My previous setup on my TF 700 was the dualboot with CROMI 3.03 and Ubuntu. Everything worked fine. After i flashed the new CROMI 3.2, it replaced the bootloader, so that i only had android available to boot. After the installation of 3.2 i also reflashed the dualbootloader and it worked again without any flaws. But there i had to choose an older Kernel than in the newly installed Android.

My question is now: will there be any further dualboot updates with new versions?

Thanks a lot for your great work transporting Linux on this device and give us the option to choose between systems!