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[Galaxy Tab 2 General] DHeffernan:
Just picked up a new galaxy tablet 7.0 (8GB) about a week ago. Great device so far and love it. I just can't stand the preloaded bloatware on the device and the space its taking up. It's currently running version 4.0.4

I've read up a bit up on ROMS and rooting the device. Seem pretty comfortable with it just have a few questions.

1) Do I need an SD card in the device in order to root it?

2) Best rom out there? Appears like the most talked about rom is the Cyanogen Mod 10?
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] Sean_Seany:
No you don't need an SD Card but you may as well get one as you will need it once you start making nandroid back ups. Your tab fill up quickly ! Not to mention media and apps on top of that as well. Bigger the better to be honest.

No such thing as the best ROM, Once you are rooted try them all out and find one that suits your needs. I love AOKP M1( link in my sig) as you can customize it more than CM10 and has better features IMO.

If you dont want to customize it , try a deodexed stock based ROM with all the bloat removed, ROMSWELL makes some cool ROMS. Search the DEV section of this forum.

As i said its a personal choice , so flash them and try them out. Wont cost you anything apart from some time..... If you need help just ask and someone will give you some advice. Don't forget to flash some GApps ( Goggle Applications) as they are not normally included in a ROM due to copyright issues.

Most of all have fun. :laugh:

Oh id go for a JellyBean based ROM , nothing wrong with ICS , just the latest version out (4.2 is around the corner as well with some cool new stuff )
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] DHeffernan:
Thanks for the info! So the 4.0.4 is not jelly bean but its ICS?

How can I not download Jelly bean.. when I try to do an update it says its the most recent one..

I did see that some ROMS allow you to OC the device, so squeezing that extra little juice out of it I wouldn't mind either :)
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] Sean_Seany:
Yeah you're trying to update "stock" and its not been released as yet to the general public.....So flash a custom ROM (once you have root)

Once you root , forget about Samsung updates as they wont work any more, But the XDA community devs do that for us much quicker than Samsung does !

Heres a rough guide from Codeworkx (CM10)

The ROM you are running is Ice Cream Sandwich, comes as a "stock" standard on our tabs, CM10 and AOKP are both JellyBean, Some other customs ROMs are as well. Both are under/over-clockable and both can use custom kernels as well. Both VERY stable and have very good support threads by the devs that compiled them.

How to ROOT your Tab

ClockWorkMod recovery

CM10

AOKP

More ROMs for our Tabs
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] DHeffernan:
Thanks for your help! Great info there. Are any of these ROMS more complex than the other? I just don't want to get into it too deep or too complex and having more of a issue getting things up and running properly or are these all the same complexity when installed? ie.. customization etc..
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] JeramyEggs:
Aokp is very similar to CM based ROMs. They are as easy to set up as a stock ROM, only they allow for more tweaks than a factory ROM. The only thing that you have a to do with a custom rom is flash gapps(Google apps) usually in the rom thread. Read, reread, and grow a pair. The fear will turn into a high that draws you in. There is a reason that the term crack-flashing was born. It is very simple to do it on this tablet. If you have any trouble pm me, or post here, and I will walk you through it. I just did it a couple of days ago for my daughters. Good luck
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] Athhar:
At first try stable roms like AOKP JB milesone 1
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] Sean_Seany:
As JeramyEggs said , just jump in and get wet ! They are all pretty much the same , I just prefer AOKP as I can customize it a little bit more than the others. I really dont like the way CM10 handles the navigation bar , where as AOKP lets you do as you wish to it. And I like the toggles it uses as well.

Dump stock what ever you do, Dont get me wrong I love the Samsung stock ROMs as they look stunning and the widgets are top class.The music/video players are quality. You will also gain some space on your tab as well. Stock ROMs are around 750MB and custom ROMs are normally under 200MB

Stock has no theme engine as such , that means if you want to change the way it looks ( other than wallpapers) you will have to start decompiling some system .apks ( Applications ) and it gets a tad tricky messing with .xmls.and getting it all working again.

With the theme engine in place you have 100s of themes to choose from ( over 500 in fact) and plenty of mods you can flash as well, You can even edit themes either online or on your PC with some XDA made applciations ( I use "tickle my android" personally to make themes / Edit apks like widgets n stuff )

CM10/AOKP are always being updated ( But AOKP has stopped development for the moment as I mentioned above , until 4,2 is ported) CM10 has a preview build out already.Both ROMs have a ROM control option to pimp your device up as well.

If you look through this thread , you can see most of the main ROMs and what we all do with them. :laugh:

I tend to flash most of the new ROMs just to try them out. When I'm done messing around with it all I do is boot into recovery and restore my nandroid back up and I'm back to the way I was .Its kinda like system restore on a Windows PC.

Get stuck on anything , just ask as most of the forum members are all pretty cool and more than willing to help out.

My advice is......GO FOR IT !!11!!!1 What you got to lose ?
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] DHeffernan:
Reading some of this stuff I am overwhelmed. So in order to backup the device up I need to root it first?

I will start with the HOW TO ROOT YOUR TAB thing now and see how far I get..
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] DHeffernan:
So I started last night and let's say didn't get very far. Downloaded the neccessary files but for some stupid reason the Kies software (needed to install this to get the drivers installed for the tablet so I can transfer the contents to it) was not installing.

I left my laptop on during the night and it never finished installing the software. I obtained it right from the Samsung Support website.

Any idea what could be causing this?

Also, once I do get this software installed so that the device shows up under Windows Explorer so I can drag the neccessary .zip files to it. Is there a specific location on the device I should place the files on? I do not currently have a SD card in the tablet.

Oh and my device model is a GT-P3113
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] DHeffernan:
So I managed to install Kies.. Guess it was getting hung up on .NET framework 4. So I just downloaded and installed myself and then tried the Kies thing and it went right through the install.

So now I should be good to actually see the device in Windows Explorer once I plug it in.

My question still remains, any particular spot on the device I need to place the .zip files for rooting?
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] acefsw:
Anywhere you can easily find the tar.md5 file on your windows drive, the*cwm-root-gtab2.zip goes to*/mnt/extSdCard which is the root, don't place in a file. I rooted mine via http://rootzwiki.com/topic/25228-how-to-rooting-gt-p3113-step-by-step-updated-07182012/
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] DHeffernan:
Okay.. so /mnt/extSdCard is if you have a SD card in the device.

But I do not have a SDcard, that is why i am actually asking does it matter where I place the files within the tablet internal storage due to not having a micro sd card.
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] acefsw:
All the methods I've seen require an sd card
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] DHeffernan:
Hmm.. On my first post in this thread I asked if I needed a SD card to root the device and the reply I got back was "no you dont need one"
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] acefsw:
Well, do your own research. There is a table of contents in the 7" dev forum, go read the rooting method there and also in the general section. Also, I'm not responsible for what others post and, you can ask the other guy how he rooted his without an sd. I recommend reading about rooting before doing it. I will say this is the easiest device to root.
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] DHeffernan:
So I managed to root the device. Was pretty straight forward once I got going. I installed AOKP milestone 1 rom as per someones suggestion here saying it's stable. Overall it does look nicer now and smoother only a couple of questions.

1) I took a backup or the stock stuff before doing anything after performing the root. Now I noticed all the data is gone lol.. Is there anyway to get the data back? Mainly the game progress and all the other stuff?

2) I see AOKP has a theme function under it's settings, currently there is only 1 listed. Where does one obtain themes for it? It's not in the Play Store, is it?

3) Saw the overclocking option also, does that mean the overclock can be pumped up to 1200mhz?

Guess my main question now is whether or not I can get that data back lol..
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] mrcreativity:
If you performed a factory reset after flashing your custom ROM, which you should have anyway, I'm sorry to say you have lost your data.
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] DHeffernan:
Sure did.. Oh well now I'll know at least and look into the actual backup apps to backup game progress.

The .zip files I put on the table prior to rooting, like fix-recovery, the clockwork mod file as well as the actual ROM, can those be removed off the tablet now?

I played around a bit last night and I found the THEME Choose on the Play Store and I saw themes.
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] Deztajunior:
1) which app do you use to back up? some apps only back up apk and some other back up the data too

2) you can find aokp/cm theme on playstore, usualy nice theme will cost more

3) yes you can overclock it via ROM control on setting
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] daniel644:
I did mine on the internal storage without issue.
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] DHeffernan:
1) I just installed the Titanium Backup Pro as it allows me to send the backup straight to dropbox. But that has been failing for some reason it wont finish the sync of the backup back to dropbox. I have to constantly run the sync and it does like 1-2megs at a time..

I also choose, app and system files backup under the options in Titanium Backup. Would this backup the in-game progress?

2) Yeap, figured this one out already :)

3) Also did this already, running it at 1350Mhz :) Can I push it further where its going to be stable or is that as far as it will go?

Yea exactly I did the same thing, worked like a charm. Just have to acquire a 16GB external card now for other stuff :)
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] daniel644:
Depends on the app and ROM Jelly Beast ROM lets me set 1.42 GHz and there is a CM10 overclock kernel that will push it to like 1.52 GHz but there are also paid apps that let you overclock the stock ROM or ROMs that don't have the overclock profiles added to the kernel.

16GB come on man surely thats far from enough, 32GB maybe but if you can find a deal go 64GB.

TB will back up in game progress if its set to backup app and app data, but I will caution you that when going to newer ROMs that restoring app data can cause issues (like restoring data from a CM10 ROM to a CM10.1 is a NO GO). going from one version of ICS to another or one version of JB 4.1 to another shouldn't be an issue but bringing app data from an older version of android is generally considered a "do not do" thing, read the install directions they will usually tell you when its not safe to restore app data.
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] mrcreativity:
I've come from 2.3.3 on my S2 to CM10. I've even even imported that data to my tab 2. Most apps work fine. Sure the occasional app does act up at times but most games work fine.

I think it's the system data that shouldn't be restored when moving to a different room and not user data.
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] DHeffernan:
well like i said i dont know what i set on TB. i choose all user apps + system data is that what backs up game peogress?

also i thought the max card i can put in was 16gb?

yah thats sweet but my backup to dropbox keeps failing..

any idea why? like i have to constantly restart it and it does like couple of megs at a time..
[Galaxy Tab 2 General] daniel644:
It's been a while since I've messed with it, see if there is anything about app data as that is where game progress is at.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mest22:
This might of been asked but Ive tried searching and I couldnt find my answer so here is my question?

How do you know a kernel works with your current rom you have ... other than flashing and trying it out ... and how do you know what current kernel u have ? sry if this is a dumb questions

Thanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] thatsupnow:
You read the description for the kernel before you download it. All the info will be there so you know it'll work
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mest22:
Still not fully understanding maybe if I tell you what Rom I am using that would help?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DarthDerron:
You might want to search to find out what a kernel does first ;)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mest22:
I have some what of an understanding after reading up on it ... I am just trying to understand how one works with a rom? or the correct one for a rom? :confused:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Heisenberg420:
+1 on read the op and you should be fine.

You need to know if your ROM is ics/jellybean and if its aosp based or stock based.

Always make a backup before flashing something just to be safe.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mest22:
Thanks? the rom I am using is JB 4.1 based.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Heisenberg420:
aosp/stock based means is it a touch wiz ROM or vanilla android.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mest22:
I believe its a touch wiz... serenity 1.2 series.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1951115
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DarthDerron:
I'm a little confused. Are you asking how it works, or what roms it will work with?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mest22:
I'm asking what kernel will work with my current Rom
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] CamFlawless:
Head over to the development and original development sections to find some kernels. To know whether it is compatible with your phone and ROM, read the opening post thoroughly and do research. All of your questions are common and answers are out there when you search. Reading is the best thing you can do for yourself here on XDA.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mest22:
I mean I have been reading plenty, I just still am not understanding it fully I guess ... but thank you I will just keep reading
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] CamFlawless:
I find this thread useful often.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1369817
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mest22:
Thanks that link sure did help me! :p
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yann68:
Is any chance to get root for this device soon, or sell it ?
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] l33ch0r:
I don't see much activity around here - but I guess root should appear sooner or later ;)
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yann68:
I'm disappointed cause I sell my SGS2 and buy this S3 Mini instead of S3 which is too big for me, and no root solution yet. And so...I miss very much my old S2 !!!

Come one developers...What are you doing ???
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dacc:
I think that someone who have contacts with Chainfire would ask to him...
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yann68:
I don't know what it's happening...for S3 the root solution appears before official launch, but for S3 Mini we have to wait...How much ?
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sholimar:
Unfortunately, it seems that CF-Auto-Root at least won't work on our phones (this is stated by Chainfire himself here).

Let's hope there's another way...
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avicohh:
I managed to root. look here.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2030282
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nightfly89:
Phone not recognized in recovery mode

Whenever i go into recovery mode the phone isn't recognized in Odin. I tried different versions of Odin, i uninstalled kies, i uninstalled and reinstalled the usb drivers but the phone is only recognized in normal mode, whenever i go in recovery mode it doesn't appear in Odin.

Any idea?
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avicohh:
you shold reboot into download mod, not recovery mode. (vol down +home +power)
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nightfly89:
My bad

It's my first Samsung phone, on the previous android devices i had: HTC and LG i had to boot into recovery mode to flash them, also i read about adb reboot recovery in the root thread. It worked now. Thanks a lot
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PEV201078:
Hi! Tell me where to find, very necessary, Firmware GT-I8190 Factory Rescue Rom?
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackknightavalon:
You're looking for the recovery image or the whole ROM?
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PEV201078:
The whole ROM.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tys0n:
Easiest would be to download from Sammobile and flash with Odin.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PEV201078:
This firmware does not help, try, only need a server with 3-5 files.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cheech01:
Look here....i don't now.Not my language

http://darya-gsm.com/showthread.php?tid=9067&page=last&language=english

Only 3 Files PIT,CSC,PDA
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PEV201078:
Thank you! But I do not know the language. There to register, but I do not understand why.

Help please! Who can understand how from this site you can download?

I figured out, there is no link to the firmware, only Odin and a description.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtc276:
I've had it for four days now and I still haven't successfully sent an MMS message. Receiving one seems to be no problem. Here's a screen shot of the APN I'm using if that will be of any help.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mastermind278:
Try disconnecting from WiFi and try to send a MMS after that.

I believe there is some bug that causes this issue.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlastTyrantKM:
I had an MMS problem recently, after switching phones. Calling AT&T and telling them my problem got it fixed. I just needed my SMS/MMS plan reset.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stryder5:
I see you are using GoSMS. I had a problem where GoSMS can't send MMS on the N4. Try sending through the stock SMS app. It worked fine for me.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] co.ag.2005:
Working fine here with that APN and using stock messaging app.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtc276:
And that did the trick. I usually stay away from the normal Messaging app because Go is just better in all aspects. It sucks that there's apparently a problem that won't allow MMS to go through. Hopefully it's fixed in the next update because it's literally my favorite and most used Android app.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stryder5:
Yep, I loved using GoSMS too. But the SMS app with the popup is pretty decent.

Btw, you might want to put [Solved] into your thread title now :)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brockmoreno:
I am using the same APN as OP minus pta. I am using phone. I cannot send nor receive mms. Any suggestions. I am using the stock message app.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iSlanderous:
i am having the same problem, im going to contact ATT now
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phermey:
you need to put in your apn. gimme sec and ill edit with a thread i posted on.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=35600547&postcount=12
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChrisDTC:
I'm having the same problem, Go SMS and Hancent won't send MMS on my N4 on ATT.
[HTC One X] CrazyCypher:
Hy, I copied files from Storage to PC and then formated it..

But it seems that crap that is now on new android phones (doesnt allow you to select mass storage) didnt copy all files to my PC (backup I created of sms messages, etc)

Now, my recovery program on PC doesnt recognise my one x.... Is there any way that Storage can be mounted as SD card?

Thank you very much for answers!
[HTC One X] Mr Hofs:
If you have the latest cwm recovery you can mount Sdcard as USB disk from there
[HTC Titan] berrywr:
I solved the riddle of my interop unlocked Titan I and my wife's interop locked Titan I. Under the HTC Connection Setup app, use "Consumer Cellular" - it is an AT&T MVNO and will input AT&T's MMSC settings with this selection. Everything under settings>>>cellular>>>APN is to remain blank. As many of know with the Titans there is no way to manually make changes to MMS/MMSC settings under the Windows Phone 7.x platform.

Thursday - April 10, 2014: Straight Talk now has new TracFone SIM cards for all their GSM customers that now have added 4G LTE to devices that have that radio in them. The new SIM does change the APN settings and currently working to find a solution that makes MMS impossible once again. This does not apply to Window Phones 8.x devices; these devices have blanks to fill in MMS settings; this is applicable to Windows Phone 7.x.
[HTC Titan] KeepingItCuttingEdge:
BRAVO TO YOU! This was bothering the heck out of me. Didn't think of going the route of using another MVNO's APN settings. THANKS MUCH!
[HTC Titan] berrywr:
You're welcome; I think the real question many of us are wondering is why Microsoft in their infinite wisdom did not make it available in the APN settings to manually input the extra settings in the first place? Even with HSPL and customization, you can't access them.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] xXJay_RXx:
Okay so we achieved root n we are all happy. But its not done yet folks. We still need the boot loader unlocked. N lets be honest, there's only one man that can do this. Adam Outler. A lot of you seem to be coming from the S3. We all know that it was a ***** to unlock the boot loader. Adam was so close to cracking it before someone leaked the unlocked boot loader to him. So Adam said he's down to help us if we can get him a device. Here's the following he said:

"Yeah! I bet we can replace the Samsung Bootloader with U-Boot and then boot custom firmware. We've got plans for this on the similar Galaxy Camera which we are currently working on. I DO need this device.

Here's what I'd like to research:

1. Open-Source bootloader replacement

2. Dual-Boot from SD with Hardware modification

3. Possibly carrier unlock for use on AT&T and others

I need a device to complete this research. I don't have Verizon Wireless service, so, it's likely I will contest this device on XDATV when I am done. I'd hope to come up with a way to carrier unlock for everyone though. If I carrier Unlock it, I will keep it and use it for future projects/personal use.

Thanks for this offer. I would have never asked. If you can make this happen, Rebellos, Ralekdev and myself will get to work designing firmware and hardware mods to bust open security."

Now I just wanted people's opinions on if we should open up a donation thread for Adam. I mean the man is a genius. He was close to cracking the boot loader on the S3. Who knows, maybe we will get lucky enough to get Adam another boot loader leak :p

So what are your thoughts? Should we try to get him a device?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] sasquatch080:
I'm in for 10$ Friday. Not getting the n2 till after Xmas, but definitely stoked about Adam possibly helping out.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] my_handle:
Just a question, but do we need a recovery (twrp or cwm) before bootloader?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] xXJay_RXx:
No we can use kexec (I think that's how its spelled) to flash without an unlocked boot loader. It takes the phone longer to boot up n we can't flash kernels without the unlocked boot loader